Questions tagged [experience-editor]
Use for all Sitecore 8+ page editing questions specifically using the Experience Editor.
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A rendering snippets in Web Forms
I would like to add a rendering that also has some other rendering added to its own place holder ahead of time. An example is to add a striped rendering and place a 1 column grid rendering in the ...
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Could not find the rendering in the HTML loaded from server. Sitecore experience editor issue
We recently moved from Sitecore 7.2 to 9.0.2 and since then we have started getting following error when we try to add a control(by clicking "Add here") with datasource from the experience editor. ...
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How to create a custom button for experience editor that creates a new rendering?
Right now I'm in the process of expanding our experience editor functionality. I've followed these articles for adding chrome around renderings and placeholders, and now I'm trying to extend this ...
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Component disappears when another component is added and the page was not saved
We're having an issue where a user adds a component to a page, and then adds another component to the first component. But when they add the second component the page reloads and since the content ...
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Experience Editor overwriting items edited elsewhere
I have an interesting problem. On my home page I have multiple controls that link to items (articles). The controls are in the Final Rendering of the home page and the data source for the control is ...
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Gzip causing an error in the experience editor
Just set up a new machine, so...
I have a site running locally Sitecore 8.1.160519,
The site has GZip enabled. I see the appropriate header if I just browse to the site. But if I go to the ...
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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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Experience Editor - "" is not a valid number
I am currently facing an error with the Experience Editor and integer field.
So I have a Datasource template that has a field of integer type (without validation - meaning not required). Through the ...
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Switch Renderings In Placeholder
Is it possible to build a command button that swaps all renderings in one placeholder with another? I'd expect this button to show up when the placeholder itself is selected but I'm not sure how I ...
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How can a previously removed component be fully restored from standard values?
When a component coming from a template has been removed from a page item, it can be restored by resetting layouts from standard values. However, if changes are made to the component at the template ...
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Publishing Related Items from Experience editor
We are using Sitecore 9.0.2 and SXA and we are allowing Authors to create and publish pages using Experience editor. A component takes Datasource of "Datasource-Folder" with X numbers of "Datasource-...
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Sitecore components added in random order
Our setup is like this -
layout
left side placeholder
left component 1
left component 2
left component 3
right side placeholder
component 2
component 3
component 1 (added onto standard values)
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Google bot is not able to trigger personalization rule?
The task is to determine if there is a possible solution to allow Sitecore editors to apply date-based and traffic-eligibility-based rules to content items which are visible to Bots such as Googlebot.
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Experience editor ribbon disappear
When I open a site in experience editor mode, I see the editor ribbon, but after I navigate on the site, the ribbon disappears.
Everything is fine in the local environment, but the error occurs in ...
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Ordering of field data source
I have filter which filters content on a field e.g. 'topic' (art, sport, food). I display this as an horizontal accordion which slides out and the user can select a topic to narrow the search results.
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A rendering error occurred: Cannot read property 'fields' of undefined
Trying to add RouteType item (as provided in samples on creating a new JSS app).
Once I add in experience editor, it appears fine like below
But as soon as I click save, I got below error message. ...
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Explore mode GeoIP data not available
In Sitecore Experience Editor Explore view I am facing one issue in which I am not getting any country list in GeoIP section under Visitor information. Below is the screenshot of my page.
Please ...
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Create new content missing when adding a component in experience editor
I'm using Sitecore 9.3 with JSS 13.
When I try to use the add here and select one of my components I get the Select the associated Content dialog box. This box is missing the create new content ...
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"Database name is null or empty" in experience editor once I click on language version button
We are getting the error once we click on version and the language. This is happening only the first time. The second time I am clicking it is working fine. error is mentioned herewith image Database ...
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Run Validation Item on Save in Experience Editor
I have created a custom Rule in /sitecore/system/Settings/Validation Rules/Item Rules
When I press the validate button, I can see the Rule and its result, so far so good. But the Validation Button is ...
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CreateCyclePreventer throwing NullReferenceException with final rendering details
I'm running into a weird issue with Sitecore 8.2 Update-6 where after I modify an item (with MVC controls) using the Sitecore Experience Editor I start getting NullReferenceExceptions when I view the ...
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Sitecore experience editor throws error when saving datasource number field
I've created a config item with a number field (without validation rules), I've added a rendering to my page with this config as datasource. When I edit the item in the Content Editor, everything is ...
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Combine Default Experience Editor Buttons and Custom Buttons
When rendering an image field inside of a link field the experience editor buttons for the two fields collapse into one toolbar. Is it possible to do something similar with an edit frame rendered ...
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Get Renderings for page currently being edited
I'm trying to get the renderings of the current item being edited. So, when components are added to a placeholder in the Experience Editor, I want to be able to get those renderings.
If I use Context....
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Disable Media.RequestProtection when page is in preview mode
I have Media.RequestProtection enabled in my Sitecore 10.0 instance.
Is there way to disable this only for preview and experience editor mode.
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Cd url is going to 404
I have downloaded Sitecore Next JS containers setup and installed XP1 in our local instance. But the default CD url is going to 404. The CM Sitecore url including Experience Editor & Preview and ...
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Custom Ribbon Button Error: Failed to call scGetFrameValue in IFrame tag
I'm creating some custom ribbon buttons for the experience editor in version 10.1. I have set them up using a combination of the below guides...
https://sitecorebaek.wordpress.com/tag/speak/
https://...
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Sitecore Connect for Content Hub Culture is required for culture sensitive properties
I am running Sitecore Connect for Content Hub in my local instance of Sitecore 10.2. I am currently working through creating an action in Content Hub that sends my custom content from Content Hub to ...
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How to get current page item inside uiReturnFieldEditorValues pipeline
I have an EditFrame on a component and I need to make some changes on some fields, and it depends on some factors.
I catch the events when the edit frame fields are saved like on this blogpost: https:/...
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Removing width and height attributes using JSS <Image/>
I was wondering whether there is a way to suppress rendering the width and height attributes when using the Image component from @sitecore-jss/sitecore-jss-react? Or under the hood, it basically uses ...
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SXA Media Link Component - Value cannot be null. Parameter name: name in Experience Editor
I am working with SXA Sitecore 10 where I used Media Link Component to attach a file.
Everything is working fine except attaching a file in Experience Editor.
I always get
Value cannot be null. ...
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Post condition failed when trying to open personalization
We have a Tabs rendering which is a composite, when I clicked the personalization button on the rendering's toolbar it threw an exception:
[InvalidOperationException: Post condition failed]
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Field Compatibility in Experience Editor
I have a Custom Time field that inherits the the IContentField of namespace Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor. I am trying to edit this field in Experience Editor using Edit Frame. But the ...
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Field of "CustomType" Not working properly in Experience Editor
I have a date field which is "CustomType". It has validation in the 'Validation' field with this Regex ^(?!\s*$).+
I need to edit this field in Item through Experience Editor.
I have ...
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Experience editor missing Workflow
When I edit the content on the content editor the workflow is triggering and showing Request for approval command option under the Review tab, whereas when I edit the content through Experience editor ...
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Experience Editor - An error occurred. [Log message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source]
I have a new Sitecore 9 vanilla install. I created a JSS site and entered the connected mode. Immediately I'm getting an error in the Experience Editor. On-screen I see:
An error occurred. [Log ...
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Experience Editor disabled on local machine
I am facing a weird issue where experience editor (sitecore 9) is not getting enabled on my local system while it works fine on all the dev environment as well as other developers machine.
I have ...
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How to programmatically refresh a Sitecore screen?
I have an Event firing on item:saved, that ends up modifying some fields on the same item being saved. This of course is not immediately reflected on the Sitecore interface, causing a misleading ...
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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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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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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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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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403 Forbidden error on saving form after opening experience editor
A few days ago I posted this question:- 403 Forbidden when saving form
I was facing an issue where whenever I tried to save the form,I would get the 403 forbidden error in the console. After ...
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"Forbidden" error when attempting to create test through Experience Editor
I need some help on creating Content level testing in my pages through Experience Editor. I get a "Forbidden" message when trying to create a test on a page on my website page through Experience ...
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Experience Editor always asks to save after adding workflow comments
When I add comment to the workflow transitioning from one state to another. Experience editor always asks to save the page as shown below:
Is there a way not to show this pop-up?
Or Can this be ...
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HttpAntiForgeryException (0x80004005)
The Experience Editor is showing the following message:
A serious error occurred please contact the administrator
Sitecore logs are displaying the following information:
6732 11:46:21 ERROR Error ...
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Experience Editor not working properly in 8.2
We upgraded to 8.2 back in August and haven't had issues on the front or the back end for the most part. However we don't use the Experience Editor very much. Our client might but hasn't reported ...
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Custom Experience Editor Ribbon Button: error in FieldEditor.aspx
I'm trying to add a custom button to the ribbon in the Experience Editor (Sitecore 8.2). I've been following this blogpost: http://reyrahadian.com/2015/04/15/sitecore-8-adding-edit-meta-data-button-in-...
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Move renderings issue
Sitecore 8.0 (150812)
It looks like move rendering button in the Experience Editor isn't working for me.
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disable move/add/delete component for specific placeholder in Experience Editor via code
In my NextJS/JSS/TS site, I am rendering the same placeholder twice within a single component. I would like to make one of the placeholders read only in the sense that components within it cannot be ...
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