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How do you setup a 404 and 500 error page for missing files and media items?
When navigating to a url such as www.website.com/missing.pdf and www.website.com/-/media/missing.pdf you will either receive the IIS 404 Server Error message or a Sitecore document not found page.
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How can I connect with the Sitecore Community?
I'm looking to get more involved in the Sitecore community. I'm interested in any local, regional or global Sitecore User Groups, events, online resources, anywhere where the community is active and ...
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How can I get started learning Sitecore?
I'm about to start on a Sitecore project in 6-8 weeks time. I have extensive ASP.NET MVC experience (4 years) and know the ins-and-outs of web development fairly well.
I am scheduled for official ...
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Sitecore IP Geo location Service-Personalization with Geo-based conditions does not work
Sitecore Personalization using GEO IP is not executed .
I have activated "Sitecore IP Geo location Service" and followed all steps needed to activate the service for Sitecore instance (8.1 update 1)
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xConnect The HTTP response was not successful: Unauthorized
I'm trying to initialize a connection between a .NET Core application and an xConnect installation.
I ran into the following error:
An unhandled exception of type 'Sitecore.XConnect....
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Is it possible to use any personalisation rules without xDB
Is it possible to make use of any of the component personalisation rules without xDB being enabled? e.g. to swap/hide a component depending on the current date? I'm not interested in tracking the ...
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Global.asax Application_Start not hit after upgrade to Sitecore 8.2
We noticed the Application_Start in the Global asax is no longer hit after the upgrade to Sitecore 8.2.
Does anyone have an idea what may have caused this?
My global.asax.cs:
public class Global : ...
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Analytics "Tracker.Current is not initialized"
I set up my analytics tracker code as someone noted to me in another question, but when I went through my site and did a login, then some stuff, then logged out (causing a session abandon), the ...
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Issue elevating SPE Console in 9.1 Azure PaaS
I have a relatively clean install of Sitecore PowerShell Extensions v 5.0 in my environment, which is running Sitecore 9.1 on Azure PaaS. As far as I can tell, everything in the install seems to be ...
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Workflow without lock and edit option
Is it possible to have workflow without lock and edit option.
Also the item version should increment only it had reached the final workflow state.
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What should I expect in the MVP nomination or first-time application process?
There has been a considerable amount of traffic on Sitecore Slack Chat, Sitecore Stack Exchange, and even Twitter as to what should people experience when submitting applications or nominations for ...
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What does the "Publish related items" checkbox do in Sitecore?
When you publish an item in Sitecore through the Publish item dialog, you are offered several options. You can choose between Smart publish or Republish, you can also choose whether to Publish ...
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Disable xDB tracking for single requests
I am using our own Sitecore Error Manager in a Sitecore 8.2 project. If an item is not found or an error occurs, our error page is called within the current client request. This error handler calls a ...
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Create controller rendering in SXA
As a test, I wanted to create a rendering for an SXA site. It had to be added to the toolbox and have a controller, model, and view.
I read this Creating new renderings that are compatible with SXA ...
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XP Scaled (XP1) how to validate installed application in each server are correct?
I am trying to install Sitecore 9.1 in distributed (on premises) architecture, I have 4 servers:
1-cd
1-cm
1-solr
1-sql,reporting and processing
I tweaked the script to install each separately ...
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Creating custom data attribute for Sitecore form fields
How to implement html data attribute for Sitecore forms? For example in the styling section, I would like to add custom input for data attribute.
Any help is much appreciated.
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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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Sitecore 9.3 Installation failing - 'Failed to start the Marketing Automation Engine service
I am trying to set up Sitecore 9.3 XP0 locally in a VM using SIA and it is failing at Step 67 of 92 with an error failed to start the marketing Automation Engine Service.
System....
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Installing 9.1 XP0 - Sorry, there was an error : unauthorized_client
After installing 9.1 I see the following error on the login screen:
Steps I followed:
Updated XP0-SingleDeveloper with ".dev.sc.local" to the site names
Ran the installation using XP0-...
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How can I disable xDB?
If I don't have a working connection to MongoDB and I don't want to use xDB functionality. Currently, my logs are being filled with errors.
What is the configuration needed to disable xDB?
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Engagement Plans: Why is a user not added to an engagement plan until the session of a user is timed out?
In short my question is: Why is a user not added to an engagement plan until the session of a user is timed out?
My setup:
I am running Sitecore 8.1.3 and I have created a simple engagement plan, ...
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Rebuilding Sitecore Core Index on Azure search throwing exceeding index limitation exception
I am using Azure search service (Pricing Tier: Standard with 15 Million docs/partition) connected to Sitecore 8.2 instance. It is throwing me an error when I try to build Sitecore core index:
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Filter (Checklist) component shows ids of facets not values in SXA
Introduction
We are using Sitecore 9 Update 2 with SXA 1.7.1.
We have implemented "Download Center" using OOTB search components from SXA.
We would like to show "Title" value of Checklist field ...
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No contact created in MongoDB when session is closed
8.2 update 0. I have changed session to be 1 minute instead of the default 20 minutes. When I log into the site, in incognito, surf around and close the browser. No contact is ever created in the ...
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Solr Cores Locking. v 9.0.2
We have our SOLR server running on an Azure App Service. Occasionally the cores will lock. This can be resolved by a restart but I am hoping that there is some configuration that can help to prevent ...
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How do I reference Sitecore binaries from NuGet?
I've heard through the grapevine that Sitecore DLL's can be referenced through the use of NuGet Packages. I found Sitecore.NuGet, but I don't think that's the right option. I also found this blog ...
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How to change item templates and retain existing data
We are refactoring our project and are trying to clean up the usages of templates throughout the project. There are a number of templates that are very similar that could all be using the same data ...
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Sitecore Content deliveries and Solr with High availability
I'm trying to find a recommendation from Sitecore in terms of configuring Solr for high availability and how to use it properly with Sitecore. Does anybody know where I can find it?
If not, I'm ...
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Configuring Sitecore to display PDFs in browser
Currently, when a user clicks on a PDF link on my site (served from the Media Library), the browser will download the PDF file. I'd like to change the behavior from downloading to opening in browser (...
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Server role config with ContentManagement,Processing,Reporting not working
We wanted to setup a server as ContentManagement,Processing and Reporting instance. As we can combine roles, we changed the config accordingly.
<add key="role:define" value="ContentManagement,...
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How to rebuild the analytics index without rebuilding the entire reporting database?
In Sitecore 8.1.3, is it possible to rebuild the analytics index without rebuilding the entire reporting database as specified in doc.sitecore.net?
I have an analytics index that is more or less ...
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Image not published in data source item (Sitecore 8.1)
Sitecore 8.1 update 2: Our content authors noticed that in a certain constellation newly uploaded images would not get published.
So the content author is in Experience Editor, adds a component which ...
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What class indexes the _content index field
Until I answered a question wrong yesterday, I didn't know that the field _content in the index had the content of all indexable fields in Sitecore. You would have thought that would be the first ...
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MediaRequestProtection: An invalid/missing hash value was encountered
My Sitecore error logs contain messages such as:
ERROR MediaRequestProtection: An invalid/missing hash value was encountered. The expected hash value...
What would be causing this? This is only ...
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502 - Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server
I've noticed the 502 error after deployment to Azure question, but it appears to be related to a failed deployment and rollback of databases - not what we're seeing here.
I am getting the above
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Sitecore Publishing Service does not show the languages and seeing 404 errors
After installing the Sitecore Publishing Service 2.0 and the associated module, I'm receiving a number of 404 errors in the browser console and the languages are missing from the publishing dialog.
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Azure Web App Redis timeout exceptions when under load
We are performance testing our Sitecore hosted in azure web apps (2 CD S3) which uses Premium Redis.
There are no error during normal UAT and SIT. However, on performance testing there are quiet a ...
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How do I set up my Sitecore MVC Post form and receive a confirmation page
I have not ever had to submit a form in Sitecore before, in my previous experience I used WFFM, thus I didn't have to create or process forms.
My form is simply to take in some information and ...
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Is it possible to get page rendering result programmatically ?
I need to get all HTML page content that sitecore generate for an page item. But I need to do it programmatically just for some special tests.
I can of course just use URL but it is not good for me.
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How to get Sitecore.Context.User after redirect from Azure ADb2c login?
I am on Sitecore 9.1 Initial Release and SXA 1.8. Implemented a custom processor for Azure ADB2C Login. I can login perfectly and fetch the claims and stuff. But on redirect to /myaccount page , I ...
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SIF Installation throwing Password Validation Failed exception
We are trying to install Sitecore 9.0.1 rev 171219 (XP0) on-premise.
Everything goes fine until it tries to create Sitecore.Messaging Database. As the installation have already created ...
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'sqlcmd' is not recognized at CreateShardApplicationDatabaseServerLoginSqlCmd step
I'm trying to install Sitecore 9 Update 1 XP0 topology and everything looks great until the step
CreateShardApplicationDatabaseServerLoginSqlCmd
The server I am running the installation was ...
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Sitecore multisite cross links not resolved with proper hostname
I've multisite solution setup, and sites config looks like below:
<sites>
<site name="localhost" hostName="local.com" scheme="http" notFoundItem="not-found" enableTracking="true" ...
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Sitecore PowerShell extensions module compatibility with Sitecore 9.2
I am trying to install the Sitecore PowerShell extensions module in Sitecore 9.2. While installing this module, I received a w3wp crash error as:
When I try to run any script, I am receiving "...
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How to check Sitecore.xDB.base in license file?
I am upgrading Sitecore 8.0 to 8.1. In Sitecore 8.1 Sitecore.xDB.base key is required.
So how can i check that Sitecore.xDB.base key is exists in license file?
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Reading a value from an WFFM Upload file field
I'm having trouble reading the value from a Web Forms For Marketeers Upload File field within my Custom Save Action. As I understand it I should just be able to do this in the Save action Execute ...
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How to change the source from an image field programmatically?
I am trying to find a way to change the source from an image field when an user clicks the "Choose an image" button (webedit:chooseimage command) from Experience Editor, and points to ...
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How to add rich text to Sitecore Forms?
I'm using Sitecore 9, which has Sitecore Forms built-in out of the box. In the "Form Elements" tools panel on the right, there's a list of elements you can use to build the form. For example: Text, ...
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How to achieve SXA styling button and styling option on custom component?
We are trying to create custom component using SXA 1.6 on Sitecore 9.0.1.
Component is finally also shown on toolbox but we are struggling to have SXA Styling button on it.
Something similar to this ...
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Is there a way to reset Sitecore admin password from database level?
I forgot my Sitecore admin password and was thinking a way to reset from database level.
Is there a SQL query to reset Sitecore admin password ?
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