Questions tagged [sitecore-api]
For questions related to Sitecore's API, covering questions about how to access, create, update or or delete data, as well as questions about how the Sitecore code-base is or can be used for custom or native logic, etc.
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Sitecore ProcessMediaRequest is giving 404 for restricted media
I recently had a requirement to restrict secure media items to download so that only certain logged in users could download them. So to achieve that I have remove read access from the extranet\...
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Sitecore 9 forms redirecting to formbuilder link on submit
I am having an issue when submitting a form when there is no redirect. Basically i have a contact us form and eventually will implement a email action. But every time i click the submit button even ...
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Exception stack trace suggests exception occurred in line with calls to ID.TryParse
On our UAT environment, I am getting an exception on certain page types with a stacktrace pointing to a specific class and line number. The problem, is that the line in question should not be able to ...
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Sitecore IP Geo location Service-Personalization with Geo-based conditions does not work in sitecore 9.1.0 [duplicate]
Sitecore Personalization using GEO IP is not working.
Geoip service is working fine but default sitecore rule for geoip based is not working.
Any help would be appreciated..
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Order of Items in GetChildren method [duplicate]
I have Sitecore 9.3. I am using GetChildren() method to read all the children under a folder.
I tried to identify a pattern in the sequencing of items but was unable to do so.
I did saw the post at ...
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clean up draft items in workbox
I have a requirement where I have to clean up the draft items in sitecore workbox which are there for more than two years in workbox. Can anybody tell me from where/how to start and how to access ...
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Sitecore Item URL with Custom Domain in Azure PaaS
I have Sitecore 8.2 update 5 site deployed in Azure PaaS as an App Service. I have created a custom domain (e.g. abc.com) in the App Service. This custom domain is kept behind F5 firewall. I am facing ...
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Looking for sitecore WF comment pipeline
I am looking to see if there a way to pre-fill the fields in the comment template, just wondering if there is a pipeline to do this?
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Where are the Sitecore workflow comments stored?
I am looking for the Sitecore path where the WorkFlow comments are stored.
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Editing Field In Save Event Handler Requires Two Saves to Populate Field Or In Lower Environment Requires A Different Field To Be Changed
For a Sitecore 8.2 solution I have a save event handler that populates a field on an item of several different templates based upon items that refer to its child items via the Link Database. That ...
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GetItem() method returns null or outdated state of the item
We faced a problem with getting item data from DB. GetItem() method behaves in non deterministic way. We have two instances of Sitecore: clients instance 9.0 and our local instance 9.1.
On clients ...
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Return Sitecore item as list of Model
I am trying to return sitecore items list from my controller as list of model type
eg. public List<PageContent> Results { get; set; }
I need to get the list of items in Results.
Using ...
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Get Item in Code behind while security is applied on item
We need to show some items to some particular users on our website based on some security roles applied and need to show lock icons to other users. But in code behind we are getting null items, on ...
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How can I know by code if the current sitecore instance is an XP or XM?
I want to be able to determine in code if the current Sitecore instance is an XP or XM. As far I can see there is no direct way to do this, am I correct? If so, would it be advised to check if xdb is ...
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Sitecore support for async controller renderings
I am planning to use ASP.NET async pattern in my Sitecore project, but I'm getting the error:
Asynchronous method which returns task as result cannot be executed synchronously
Is there a way to ...
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How to identify new entries in core databases
we have got an existing sitecore 8.1 instance complete database. Now we need to identify what are the entries available in the database. in master db we have identified easily by looking into all the ...
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Basic Authentication in Sitecore and IIS
I want to give basic IIS authentication to a website build in Sitecore. I tried with the given code, however, it is creating the number of spaces in the return URL and not rendering the authentication ...
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Making config settings configurable for user
I am using Sitecore 9.3, SXA. I want to make some of the current config settings configurable from within Sitecore. I have created a template with all of the fields (e.g. MediaResponse single text ...
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Item disappeared from Content Tree while renaming but appearing in Search
Recently a very strange issue happened with me. I renamed an item and after that it got disappeared from Content Tree but its still appearing in Sitecore Search.
I checked in Standard fields and its ...
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How to get General Link Field in RenderFieldArgs?
I have made a custom processor to add custom code to General Link Field and Rich Text Field.
But in the (RenderFieldArgs args) I am only getting rich text field, the General Link Field is not coming. ...
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How to allow only 1 role to have read access to an item?
I want specific website users to have access to the "Secret" pages of the website.
I have created a new role in the Extranet domain i.e. Extranet/SecretPageRole.
Now, how do I assign roles ...
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Logging API Response from Entity Services
I've read through the developer's guide to Sitecore.Services.Client and I've successfully implemented a solution using REST against the Sitecore Entity Service. All of it works as expected.
We're now ...
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Is it possible to access "/sitecore/api/ssc/auth/login" API from Content Delivery?
We want to have token based authentication for the API set up in Sitecore Content Delivery (CD). Can we access /sitecore/api/ssc/auth/login API from Content Delivery?
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Json Reference field in Json Variant return Error when the Reference Field Is empty
I am using SXA Json Content to create API. In the JSON Variant, I used Reference Field to display Drop Link Field in the data.
But when the DropLink field is empty, the API returns error. So I need to ...
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Any Performance bottlenecks in Sitecore (9.x) Security Feature in CD [closed]
We are working on oauth login with external IDP and we will create the virtual users after validation (Sitecore 9.3). Based on the claims, we will set certain (extranet) roles and custom profile ...
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In MediaManager, how to get image's full url with specifed site's domain included?
The reason why I want to change the domain of an image url is because I'm providing an API to a third party. And the regulation is all media url and internal link url, needs to replace the default ...
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OData Item service Support in Sitecore 8.2
For one of our new application[non-sitecore] we need some data from Sitecore Instance which is on version 8.2.
We are looking for the available API options, Is OData Item Service is supportable with ...
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How do I resolve 404 error returned by request.GetResponse() when trying to create a media library item via Sitecore Web API?
I am trying to create items in my Sitecore Media libary via Sitecore Web API. Our version of Sitecore is 8.2. My main concern is if I am formulating the request properly and if there is a place like ...
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Is there a way to load multiple renderings in homepage/dashboard parallel in Sitecore 9.1?
Home page has about 15 renderings with each controller rendering calling different API for analytical data (external systems for graph,charts ,summarized data) hosted on Sitecore 9.1
Average max time ...
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Item statistic "CreatedBy" returning empty string
I'm trying to get the creator of an item, but when I access the CreatedBy property, it returns an empty string. When I debugged I could see the all the other fields were populated, but not the ...
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How to unlock sitecore items programmatically
The best practice for content editors is to check in Sitecore item after editiing is done.But they often don't follow this practice. So when some other Content editor comes to that item, he manually ...
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Read Sitecore Item ID on user control on html tag
I created an Accordion component in Sitecore(web-forms) and it's working fine. But if I add multiple accordions on the same page it's opening up the first accordion even though if I click on the ...
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How to remove 'route' object in Sitecore jss layout service api response?
When I get the data from http://{domain.name}/sitecore/api/layout/render/jss?item=/&sc_apikey=[api-key]
Then response is like {sitecore: {context:{something}, route:{something}}
But I don't want ...
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The selected link Target value is not displayed after customising the Hyperlink Manager
Following on from a previous question on how to make customisations of the RTE upgrade safe, we have:
1) Customised the LinkManager.ascx to add a new property for the 'rel' attribute on the link. ...
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How can I solve Server Error in '/' Application Index has not been initialized? [duplicate]
If I access my home page, show error like this :
Server Error in '/' Application.
Index has not been initialized.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred.
Exception Details: System....
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.Net SDK Wrapper for Sitecore SSC REST API Item Service
As we know, Sitecore provides the ItemService [link] for developers to have a REST API interface for interacting with Sitecore items.
What I am trying to achieve is to consume this REST Api from the ...
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SXA retrieve SiteInfo for another site (not the context site)
In order to render alternate URL metadata, I need to get a SiteInfo object (Sitecore.Web.SiteInfo) for other sites apart from the context site.
I have tried to use
var otherSiteInfo = ...
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Updating Item media field with specific media Sitecore powershell script
I have 400 product items. Previously, we have a common thumbnail image for all products. Now, I added a new image field (thumbnail image), all products I need to assign a common specific thumbnail ...
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Retrieving Sitecore attachments/files via API
I’m a newbie to Sitecore. My client is using Sitecore as a document storage tool to store files in form of pdf, word, etc. The requirement is to fetch the files through Sitecore’s API from an external ...
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Injecting dependencies into custom ServicesApiController without using ServiceLocator
I am injecting a dependency into a custom API controller I've created that is inheriting from ServicesApiController. I have found that I need to use our service locator class to do this as otherwise, ...
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How can i get children Item from Item using Sitecore ItemService?
How can I get Children item using the Item service API?
I retrieved parent item and fields using Item service API
I got the result like below Json
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"ItemID": "25a40733-babf-4f16-a025-...
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Are there any JSS deploy events to which I can tap my custom code?
Just looking if there are any events that are triggered while doing jss deploy?Similar to the other events
item:copied
packageinstall:ended ...etc
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Use Sitecore service Client Get Item or Item Id based on the Search term using fields
Is there any way to get Item or Item id using Sitecore Service client based on the fields in the master database.
Search term:
http://{host}/sitecore/api/ssc/item/search?term=12345&...
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Setting up a basic contact form with Sitecore JSS (not using Sitecore Forms)
I'm building a JSS App and need to set up a basic contact form (sends an email). Since I'm using Sitecore 9.1, Sitecore Forms is unavailable in JSS.
How do I set up an endpoint in Sitecore to send ...
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How do we get Sellable or varient images through commerce api?
I have added the images in sitecore sellable item but in not getting the Images Detail in Sellable Api.
{{ServiceHost}}/{{ShopsApi}}/SellableItems('NYRR Catalog,20001,20003')?$expand=Components($...
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Making customisations of Sitecores Rich Text Editor dialogs upgrade safe
Looking at this: awareweb.com/blog/customizing-sitecores-rich-text-editor-dialogs and this Unable to customize HyperLink Manager in Rich Text Editor in Sitecore, if we want to override EditorPage.aspx,...
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Unable to customize HyperLink Manager in Rich Text Editor in Sitecore
I am trying to customize the HyperLink Manager in Rich Text Editor to add some extra fields.
Sitecore version: 9.2
I followed these two articles:
https://www.awareweb.com/blog/customizing-sitecores-...
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How to copy an item to multiple locations
What is the easiest and quickest way to copy an item to various locations?
I have about 100 multisites in a solution and I have created a new template. I need to create a new item inheriting this ...
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redirect to error page if requested language in URL not configured [duplicate]
we have multilingual (FR / EN ) website .the issue is if we test with others language in URL like www/mydomain.com/dE empty site will disply our requirement is to redirect to error page in case if ...
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Password type field of Sitecore Item getting exposed on Version compare popup Window
I am facing a very strange issue in Sitecore 8.1 update2 instance.
There is a field of Password type. Though in content Editor its value appears in dots format but on clicking Version-> Compare button,...
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