Questions tagged [experience-editor]
Use for all Sitecore 8+ page editing questions specifically using the Experience Editor.
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Sitecore EE Ctrl+Click equivalent for Mac
In the Sitecore EE on a Windows machine you can hold the ctrl key and then click on a link to force Sitecore to navigate to the link.
What is the equivalent on Mac? We have tried "CMD+click", "ctrl+...
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Experience Editor Error - ExperienceEditor.getPageEditingWindow is not a function
When I try to use the experience editor I get an error that causes the loading sign to just keep spinning and it also prevents the Ribbon menu at the top from displaying.
Heres where the error is ...
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Best practice for local data source content with bucketed items
We are developing a multi-tenant website using Sitecore 9. For the news articles we decided to bucket them therefore making the content editors unable to go check the children (local content) of a ...
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URL redirection breaks Experience Editor
I have updated a redirection rule for my site,
<rule name="main mysitecom redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{...
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SXA Issue displaying fields with new rendering
Environment details: Sitecore 9.0.2 + SXA 1.7.1
What I have done till now:
I followed the steps provided at https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/sxa/17/sitecore-experience-accelerator/en/copy-and-...
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Dynamically Generated Rendering not displaying in experience editor in SXA Multi Tenant Solution [closed]
When working with with SXA inside of a multi-tenant solution, we are building a component to generate an HTML sitemap.
We have implemented a recursive function to generate the html sitemap ...
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How to add Help Text to placeholder “Add Here” button in Experience Editor in Sitecore 8.2?
Before upgrading to Sitecore 8.2, our experience editors were able to see help text when hovering over an "Add Here" button in Sitecore. This was helpful because it is not always clear which ...
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Creating footer and header components in SXA using Page and Partial Designs from Shared site
I am trying to create a footer component in SXA 1.8, Sitecore 9.0.2.
The current solution setup consists of one tenant, one shared site ('Site A') and multiple regular (not shared) sites (let's call ...
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Experience Editor Support in JSS (headless)?
We're using Sitecore 9 for a greenfield project. One of the topics of discussion is whether or not we want to use EE vs. Headless. I'm not going to ask the pros vs cons of using one over the other, I ...
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Set CDN Media.AlwaysIncludeServerUrl to FALSE when user is in Experience Editor mode
I use the following configuration for setting the CDN prefix for media files in my sitecore. But when viewing a page within the experience editor, none of the images can be reached by the CMS as the ...
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What dll I need for Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders
Where I can find information what dll install for certain namespace or class?
I'm not able to find Sitecore.Mvc.ExperienceEditor.Pipelines.RenderPageExtenders.
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How to call javascript for custom Web Edit Button of RTE in Experience Editor
I need to add custom button of template /sitecore/templates/System/WebEdit/WebEdit Button to RTE in Experience Editor. And invoke my custom js function on click. How I can implement that?
I've ...
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Multiple “Add here” buttons due to multiple tabs
In one specific layout, I have multiple tabs and each tab shows different content/placeholders.
When I'm in Experience Editor mode, Sitecore shows all the "Add here" buttons even for the placeholders ...
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How to change Glassmapper's BeginEditFrame enclosing html element
I am using Glassmapper's BeginEditFrame method to make a treelist editable in Experience Editor. I am using
<%using (BeginEditFrame(Model, "Edit Location", x => x.Locations)) {%>
<% if (...
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Deleting item from Experience Editor throws exception for null ContentDatabase
Sitecore version: 8.1 update 3.
Whenever I try to delete an item in the Experience Editor, I get a browser prompt in the page ("Leave site? Changes you made may not be saved.") and if I confirm it, I ...
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Sitecore MVC FieldRenderer.Render - Add and persist inline styles & classes to links in the Experience Editor
I am trying to add custom classes & inline styles to a rendered link field in the experience editor without using Glass.
I have a model the looks like this:
public class Header
{
public ...
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Workflow recursive submission from experience editor
Sitecore 8.2.
We have a "Data" folder under each page item in which components which are on the page are stored.
We currently have only 1 workflow which we use called "Simple workflow".
When a ...
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Experience Editor edit mode doesn't work if “website” site node is not present [duplicate]
We are using a custom patch into Sitecore.config to define our own site node. It has pretty much the exact same settings as the default "website" site node except for the name, hostname and rootpath. ...
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Is there any easter egg in Sitecore?
I am just curious whether there is an easter egg - inside joke, hidden message (image) or secret feature - that you have found in Sitecore in various versions.
Are there any?
Easter egg -> https://...
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DatePicker displays incorrect format in Experience Editor
We have a date field on an item in Sitecore (version 8.1 Update 3). When that field is rendered in the Content Editor, the correct date formatting is used (US, in our case: MM/DD/YYYY):
However, when ...
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How do you render EditFrame programmatically in C#?
I am working on an inherited project that was built with minimal support for editing with the Experience Editor (Sitecore 8.2.4). In particular, I need to retrofit EditFrames (documentation link).
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Settings panel missing from Explore Mode
In Experience Editor, when I switch a page to Explore mode, I do not see the Settings panel that is referenced in all of Sitecore's documentation on the subject.
https://doc.sitecore.net/...
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Experience Editor not working: Error while rendering sitecore shell cshtml files, null reference exception
I'm working on a site that I've just inherited from another agency, which was recently upgraded from Sitecore 6.5 to 8.2. I just discovered that the page editor is not working. When I try to load the ...
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experience editor check in cshtml if editing or designing is enabled
I've created some controler views where I add some special styles to my controls and I want to disable these extra styles when the "Editing" or "Designing" or "controls" Button is disabled is it ...
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Using Experience Editor on a multisite solution. Custom linkProvider to solve problems?
We have multiple sites in sitecore but all are edited by the same editors and they want to be able to edit it all in one place. The majority of our editors use EE.
Problems: When you follow a link (...
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Sitecore query customization doesn't display the correct datasource on Experience Editor
I'm using customization to allow Sitecore query on dataSource fields of components, by adding a custom pipeline processor to mvc.renderRendering pipeline.
(was following the http://sitecorepro....
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How to change icons in the experience editor for placeholder and edit frames in component navigation tree
I want to change the icons used in the component hierarchy navigation in the experience editor, so that editors can clearly see if they are selecting a component, placeholder or edit frame.
I did ...
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Experience Editor rendering context
We are creating some custom buttons on the ribbon of a rendering in the experience editor that when clicked will trigger custom events listed in the commands.config.
The command executes just fine, ...
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Occasional error on glass 4.5.0.4 on sitecore 9 “Page editing error. Could not find property”
Getting occasional error on glass 4.5.0.4 on Sitecore 9.
"Page editing error. Could not find property ****
on type ****BaseItemModel at Glass.Mapper.Utilities.GetGlassProperty.... at
Glass.Mapper....
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Experience editor error: An error occurred. [Log message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: version]
In one of our environments (doesn't happen locally) we are seeing the following error in the experience editor.
The error only appears once the item has been approved in workflow.
The stack trace ...
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Testing Personalization rules with Explore Mode presets
I am very new to Sitecore (8.2) and was given an assignment to have a possibility to view pages with different users (member, registered, etc) in the Explore Mode.
The goal is when I select a ...
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Open Content Editor in Modal in the Experience Editor
I have a component that is a list of content managed links, and I'm trying to figure out what the best way is to make this experience editor friendly.
Currently the component has a "list" datasource, ...
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Sitecore 9 Platform Essentials Module 7 - Error Rendering Controller: Related Events when using an Edit Frame
I am working through the training for Sitecore 9 Platform Essentials. I am on Module 7 where they have you work on the Related Events controller and show you how to make a complex field editable in ...
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Sitecore placeholder is not visible on experience editor
I have applied few placeholder in view rendering and also created placeholder in placeholder setting in Sitecore. In placeholder settings "Editable" is true but placeholder is not getting visible on ...
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Disable inline editing of rich text fields in Experience Editor
How can I disable inline editing of rich text fields in Experience Editor?
I still want the users to be able to click the edit icon in the toolbar popup (leftmost icon in the attached screenshot) so ...
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Some files/functionality missing in one of the Sitecore 9 setup
I have sitecore 9 installed on a couple of environments. On just 1 of the environments, the ribbon icons are visible in the XP editor.
In the other environments, no icons are appearing in the ribbon ...
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Lock the item in Experience Editor
We have upgraded from Sitecore 6.6 to Sitecore 8.2
We are getting a weird issue when user opens a page in the Experience Editor and locks page to edit it. We expected to get edit options but we are ...
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How can I adjust the size of popup dialog in Experience Editor?
I have just started to use Sitecore a few months ago and I would like to change the size of the popup dialog in the Experience Editor as shown below.
How and where can I change the size of this popup ...
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Getting a HTTP 500 upon opening the Experience Editor in Sitecore 8.1
On a long running site a certain user always gets an HTTP 500 when opening the Experience Editor in Sitecore 8.1. This also persists if I create a new user with the same roles, leading me to believe ...
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Experience Explorer 403 forbidden on sitecore api ajax call
I'm encountering an issue which I can't resolve : using explore mode in the experience editor, I get 403 errors when trying to see any of the data from the current visit (the tabs and accordions are ...
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Getting ClientSide Piplines to fire
I am on Sitecore.NET 8.0 (rev. 160115)
January 15, 2016
.NET Framework 4.0.30319.42000.
I am trying to follow these instructions on how to fix a fixed position navigation
So, I created the Js file &...
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Modifying redirect URL after inserting page in Experience Editor
When using "Insert page" in Experience Editor you get redirected to the newly created page/item (after choosing the template and the item name).
How can I modify this redirect URL so that I can add a ...
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Create item through ItemService REST API fails with InternalServerError (500)
I'm trying to create an item through the ItemService RESTful API, but when I call this I get an InternalServerError (500), and in the log file there's this error:
ERROR [Sitecore Services]: System....
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How to add / view component items to / in a route
I have some questions about adding items on Sitecore route.
Here is an example :
I created MyCarrousel item that display images.
My Sitecore tree :
Content (directory)
MyCarrousel (item)
Home (...
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jQuery not working properly with Experience Editor
I'm struggling to get jQuery to work properly in Experience Editor.
I found this question and tried all the answers on that page, but none of those work for me.
So basically I have a clean page in ...
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How to reuse component data item in Experience editor
I created an item TestComponent-1 under my Test route.
This is the display of my TestComponent-1
Now I navigate to my Test2 route through experience editor and add TestComponent-1 item. This is the ...
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Experience Editor Button Field Editor Button with Image Field Uploading in Client Language
I have a field editor button made from the template in core /sitecore/templates/System/WebEdit/Field Editor Button which has an image field id in the field Fields. When a user clicks on the edit frame,...
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Sitecore Commerce Demo Site not Rendered on Experience Editor
I installed the Sitecore Commerce 9 update 1. I followed steps from this site
https://buoctrenmay.com/2018/03/24/step-by-step-guide-for-sitecore-xc9-update-1-installation-on-your-machine/
After ...
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Images disappear from the Rich Text Fields when the text is removed in the Sitecore Experience Editor
We have several content modules that include a rich text field. We are able to add images to these fields in the experience editor. However...
If an image is added using the insert image button ...
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Components showing as Items in the content tree
Quite new to Sitecore and I have come across something I have not seen before which I hope someone can explain.
I have noticed in a site that I have inherited that any components added to a page ...
