Questions tagged [experience-editor]
Use for all Sitecore 8+ page editing questions specifically using the Experience Editor.
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How to set final layout renderings to shared layout [duplicate]
We have assembled pages in the final layout of the Item (In Experience Editor, unfortunately, we didn't switch into shared layout).
We need that renderings copied into the shared layout also.
Is ...
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Preview mode opens blank page
I am facing an issue that whenever I preview any page from the Sitecore content tree, it displays a blank page. Although the pages have the page design set correctly and are displayed correctly on the ...
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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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Can't switch between Final Layout and Shared Layout
I'm encountering a problem where I can't switch between Final Layout and Shared Layout in the Experience Editor. The button is not grayed out though. It just doesn't make the switch when selected.
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Show Multiple Validation Failures Of The Same Type In Experience Editor
I have created a few custom field validators in Sitecore and I'm running into an issue when testing them in the experience editor. For each error, I only see one banner at a time showing a failed ...
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Preview mode in Experience Editor is broken
Whenever I change to Preview mode in experience editor, some SXA components are throwing exceptions:
Error Rendering Controller: Sitecore.XA.Feature.Navigation.Controllers.LinkController,Sitecore.XA....
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Modifying renderings programatically - can update the Shared Layout and Final Layout together but can't seem to only update the Final Layout?
I'm working on a script to modify rendering parameters. I noticed that I seem to only be able to modify the Shared Layout and not the Final Layout. I can retrieve the Final Layout field and work based ...
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Partial design and page design not adding in home page
I have just started working with sxa. I installed sxa 1.8 with sitecore 9.1. I have created one header partial design and one landing page design. I have selected this page design into home page of my ...
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Integrated GraphQL is not executed in Experience Editor
We use Sitecore 9.2, SXA 1.9 + JSS 12.0. As for the JSS, we are using Sitecore First approach. Some JSON renderings have integrated GraphQL queries.
The Jss site was created trough JSS Tenant/JSS ...
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Sitecore throws error on Experience Editor if page name is same as any folder name under webroot
Recently, we had an issue when an item has 2 languages and multiple versions available, if you try to change language on Experience Editor, it returned 500 error.
Normally when you click Experience ...
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Rendering page after the sitecore ribbon in EE
i want to preview changes to the header, but the Sitecore Ribbon is overlapping the page's header in edit or preview Mode of the page.
Is there some configuration I can do to start rendering the ...
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Custom Field Type - WebEdit Buttons not showing in Experience Editor
I've created a custom Field Type that's very similar to Rich Text (a Duplicate, in fact) and want to use it with a custom HTML Editor Profile that's similar to Rich Text XA (you guessed it, also a ...
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Experience Editor issue after upgrading to Sitecore 9.3
After upgrading to Sitecore 9.3 getting below error in Experience Editor:-
sitecore Method not found: 'Void Sitecore.Pipelines.GetChromeData.GetChromeDataProcessor
We are using Glass Mapper
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Edit frame in a page with synonyms fields [duplicate]
I'm new to experience editor in sitecore.
I'm writing an edit frame in razor page using as datasource the page item ID. The edit frame should modify some fields read by a rendering in the page.
But ...
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How to apply rendering to child items
Assume I have a menu with menu sections.
The menu has a title, opening paragraph, and a list of menu sections.
content
title - Single line text
paragraph - Rich text
sections - Multilist
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page template and his base template instance items
I have an Item in Sitecore, and I know it's derived from a certain base template. I have that base template ID, but I want to get the instance of this base template that is part of my page. I want it ...
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HTML Support for Experience Editor Info Notifications
I'm trying to add simple html such as bullets, underline, bold inside an Custom Experience Editor Notification.
I have followed the example outlined by Marek Below (and looked at many other examples ...
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Experience Editor is not loading theme style sheets
Application is running Sitecore v9 Update 1 with SXA v1.6. I have cloned a site and I have added a new language to this site. I'm trying to edit a page in Experience Editor in new language version but,...
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Experience editor always opens another site in a multi-site instance
I have a multi-site instance having site1, site2, site3,... and the instance name is Mysite.
Each site has its own SiteDefinition.config
When I try to open a site2 or site3 page in the experience ...
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Experience Editor error when adding element to placeholder in a JSS component that doesn't by default render its placeholder
I'm using sitecore JSS, I have a component with a placeholder and I am trying to add a child component into that placeholder. I'm getting an unhelpful popup error saying An error occurred and then in ...
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String not geting rendered in Experience Editor
Environment: Sitecore 9.0.2 + Glass mapper
I have a model class like this:
public class SingleStack
{
public Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image Logo { get; set; }
public string ...
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Glassmapper | Cannot save a class that does not contain a property that represents the item ID
Environment: Sitecore 9.0.2 + Glass Mapper
I have a class like this:
public class Sample
{
public Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image Logo { get; set; }
public string Destination_Name { get; set; }...
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How does Sitecore Experience Editor deal with component items on a page when a new version of a page is created?
I've come across an instance where a client was using the Experience Editor to create a new version of a landing page and the components on the page did not increment the version number.
Is this ...
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webforms editable sc: fields not rendering
I'm working in a webforms project and I'm trying to add fields that are editable in Experience Editor but they're not showing up on the page. I'm basing this off of other pages that currently ...
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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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Datasource Location not working as expected
I created a rendering for my form and linked the datasource location to sitecore/forms (which should be correct).
The mysterious thing about this is that when I select my rendering in the experience ...
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Sitecore Context User issue with Preview mode via Sitecore Identity Server
We have an issue with Sitecore 9.1 context user on Preview mode.
Sitecore.Context.User is showing as "extranet\Anonymous" in preview mode when Sitecore CM is authenticating via Identity Server. ...
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Rendering causing error in experience editor only on some pages?
I have a rendering that displays fine on our CD servers, and in Experience Editor on some pages, but not on one page, where it's throwing an error. When I check the logs I see the following error:
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Experience Editor editing not working empty edit fields
I've some problems in the experience editor. As you can see in the screenshot I can edit the picture and headline, but the text I can't directly edit. Only the small empty field and when I click in ...
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HTML content in Multi-Line Text Field misbehaving in Experience Editor
We have a requirement to add HTML in multi-line text field. For example, content author can add a Bold text in the field-
"test <b>sample text<b>"
now we are having an issue in ...
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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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Content and Experience Editor custom buttons - only show for certain roles
I've added a couple of custom buttons on the Publish Chunks of the Content and Experience Editors Publish Strips. Right now, these custom buttons show for everyone, but I only want them to show up for ...
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How to add Workflows->Submit button to Experience Editor Ribbon
I have a requirement to add the workflow submit button to the Experience Editor same as it appears in Content Editor.
I am aware that Sitecore displays Submit as a link in the message notification ...
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JSS connected mode enters experience editor mode
When I'm working with the local web server (jss start:connected) and at the same time I log into the actual instance of Sitecore (dev.test.com) and go to the experience editor. The local version get's ...
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Unable to add or move components in Experience Editor
After an upgrade from 7.2 to 9.0.2, we are facing a weird issue in Experience Editor with few of our components.
On few of the pages we are unable to add/move/delete components using experience ...
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Single line text for Headlines with auto hyphens
We have a lot Headlines and a lot of long words. And on mobile devices we got some problems that the words are too long and it would be nice if we could use
­
to break the words around
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How to make experience editor editable If List of data inside the map
I am retrieving the date from the service and I am mapping and displaying the details of what service gives in that what are the common text details which need to come from Sitecore it displays it's ...
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Add component "Select a rendering popup" in grouped format
In my local instance experience editor add component showing a popup "Select a rendering" like below
In My higher environment this popup showing differently like, its showing with the grouped format ...
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Using SPEAK (or an alternative) to edit popup modal renderings in Experience Editor?
I've been tasked with building Experience Editor support for a popup modal rendering for a site.
It was recommended by the architect on the project that we use the DialogWindow component of SPEAK to ...
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Unable to add component in Sitecore SXA using Experience Editor
I have just installed the vanilla Sitecore 9.1.1 and SXA 1.8
on the local machine.
Created the demo website.
Upon adding any component in experience editor it throws below error.
Error:
9188 09:38:...
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Sitecore 9.1 Experience editor throwing JS errors
we recently migrated to Sitecore 9.1 from 8.1 and we see a bunch of JS errors on the page only in experience editor mode. I dont see them happening in the normal mode.
I tried replacing the Sitecore ...
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Sitecore Experience Editor Ribbon not loading- InvalidOperationException: SpriteStorageNode
I have a sitecore 9 project. When i load the Experience Editor the Ribbon iframe has a Server Error:
System.InvalidOperationException: SpriteStorageNode
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Branch Template $name item gives error in experience editor
I am using the below version of Sitecore:
Sitecore.NET 9.0.1 (rev. 171219)
When I am trying to access branch template $item which also have a presentation that leads error instead of open in editor ...
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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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Personalization conditions switching doesn`t work in Experience Editor
We are on 9.1.0, Initial Release
We personalize one particular rendering on page item. There are some different conditions that have different datasource item for this rendering.
Personalization ...
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Error in adding rendering from experience editor
I am using Sitecore 9.1.1 and recently started getting error while adding any rendering from experience editor to any page/item on Site.
Adding rendering on placeholder is opening a model window to ...
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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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How to Render @Html.Sitecore().Field using custom Model Item in Sitecore MVC
I have a model ArticleItem which has some fields that I populate with some Business Logic.
Now on the view where I return ArticleItem I want to render a RTE content so that it is Page Editor friendly
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Cache of links - error
I have a strange problem with links. On the website I have many components added (one have one link and the other many links). In Experience Editor everything works correctly in Edit mode. After ...
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Auto save after EditFrame
We are on Sitecore version 9.1.
Is it possible to disable automatic save and reloading the page to the experience editor after editing the component parameter in EditFrame?