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How do you create a site modeled after the Habitat solution when starting from scratch?
I recently discovered Habitat and I really like the modular design and how it provides an end-to-end sort of pattern and process for organizing your Sitecore site, but the Habitat solution includes so ...
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An item name must satisfy the pattern: ^[\w\*\$][\w\s\-\$]*(\(\d{1,}\)){0,1}$ (controlled by the setting ItemNameValidation)
While installing a content package from my production environment (Sitecore 8.1) into my development environment (Sitecore 8.2), I'm seeing this error message in my Sitecore log:
ManagedPoolThread #...
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Field StandardValue vs DefaultValue vs FallbackValue vs InheritValue vs InnerValue
The parameters of the GetValue methods of the Sitecore.Data.Fields.Field class enable developers to restrict the origin of the returned value to the Fields:
StandardValue
DefaultValue
FallbackValue
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An item name lenght should be less or equal to 100 while installing a content package
I've got a vanilla instance of Sitecore 8.2 installed on my sandbox and I'm getting this error (taken from the logs):
Exception: Sitecore.Exceptions.InvalidItemNameException Message: An
item name ...
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How to get the correct SiteContext for an Item when you only have the Item
You only have an instance of Item.
How do you get it's "official" site, assuming there are multiple Sites defined in configuration?
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How can I prevent an outcome from being registered multiple times?
What is the accepted method of preventing a contact from registering an outcome multiple times? For example, if they become a "Marketing Lead", how do I prevent that Outcome from firing again for that ...
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Sitecore site configuration requireLogin not working
If I wanted to force users to go through a login for the entire site. I would previously add requireLogin and loginPage attributes to my site configuration.
In 8.2 I am unable to do this. However in ...
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Error when loading config: Reader in incorrect state
I have an include file to remove the annoying Commerce License Warning on 8.1 update 3. But the patch file fails to load in. The log files show the following error:
"860 10:07:58 ERROR Could not ...
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Sitecore 7.1 IIS workers fighting with each other
Has anyone had an issue that you have multiple worker processes under application pool which are trying to write the data under the data/index folder and that are colliding with each other?
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Broken external links encoding
There's an issue in our EXM when referring to external links. When we insert these links in EXM message editor:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/rock-climbing-cat_n_5380069.html?utm_hp_ref=...
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Editing Content in Experience Editor in Multi-site configuration
We have a multi-site setup and have the following sites defined in config:
<sites>
<site name="mysite1" patch:before="*[@name='website']" rootPath="/sitecore/content/mysite1" startItem="...
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How to link to a different language version
I need to create a link to an item in a different version than the currently active.
Is this possible through the General Link field or the RTE Sitecore Link?
Example
I am currently viewing http://...
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Requests stop being served due to Lucene Deadlock
I'm currently running into an issue in production Content Delivery where every now and then (2 hours to 2 days), all requests will stop being served. Via memory dump we've been able to track down the ...
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Sitecore Page - First request on every page slow
We have been noticing that the first request to any of the Sitecore pages seems to be loaded slow. Every subsequent request is ok.
Note that we can't use output cache as is a transaction based member ...
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Rendering Caches not working
I have a problem with my HTML cache always being empty when I look at the cache report screens in Sitecore I have done the following:
Enabled Cacheable and Vary By Data on each rendering in Sitecore (...
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What's the best migration strategy for 6.5 to 8.2?
In a few weeks, I'll start a migration project of a Sitecore 6.5 site to an 8.2 site.
At that time the Express Migration Tool will only support 7.2 to 8.2, so the rest will be a manual process.
I ...
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Personalizing components with Analytics disabled in Sitecore 7.2
I've just come across an issue with missing personalization options on a Sitecore 7.2 website.
Analytics was recently disabled.
I found an article explaining that disabling Analytics hides all ...
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Optimizing Sitecore Media Items
We're currently trying to optimize our site so the end users get fast response times. One of the areas we are looking at moment is the media served from the Sitecore Media Library.
What settings are ...
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How to speed up rebuilding the link database?
I'm rebuilding a link database with more than 10 millions of rows. It is taking 16 hours per database, but the web server and SQL server are almost idle, even when new rows are generated slowly in the ...
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Hiding items in the Content Editor for certain users / roles
The content editors want to divide up their roles so that some editors of the site only have access to edit and change a certain area of the site (e.g. /news and all its descendants). These editors ...
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What is the difference between the item, prefetch and html caches?
It is my understanding that there are various different caches in Sitecore.
What are they for?
I know there is an item cache, a html cache and a prefetch cache, but I don't understand how they ...
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How to add helpful text to a Sitecore field
In other peoples Sitecore installations, I have seen fields with a bit of descriptive text next to the field name to help the user input the correct information.
I would like to use this in my ...
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Can bucketing strategy be controlled per template?
Bucketing is a nice feature for organizing a large amount of items in the Sitecore content tree, however the default bucketing strategy based on item creation date is mostly useful for content where ...
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How does the Sitecore event queue work? [closed]
There's an EventQueue table in every Sitecore database. It contains both the local and remote events of Sitecore instances.
I would like to know how the event queue works, exactly.
Why are some ...
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What is the difference between republish, smart publish and incremental publishes?
Does anyone know what the difference between the 3 main types of publishing in Sitecore are?
I have the option to do a republish, incremental publish and a smart publish
My understanding is that a ...
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Is a multi-role Sitecore server ok in production?
The architecture guidance from Sitecore suggests that multi-role servers - e.g. combining Content Management / Processing / Reporting - should only be done in development and not in production.
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Automating server role configuration
When configuring server instances in a distributed environment, a range of config files must be enabled or disabled based on the instance role (e.g. CD, CM, Processing, Aggregation), referencing the "...
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What is the usage of "physicalFolder" and "virtualFolder" attributes in a Sitecore site defintion
<site name="xxx" inherits="website" hostName="xxx.local"
virtualFolder="/"
physicalFolder="/"
targetHostName="xxx.local"
scheme="https"
rootPath="/sitecore/content/xxx"
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Consistent GUIDs for custom data provider
I am creating a custom data provider to integration news articles from an external API into a Sitecore solution.
The external data source use simple integers as ID for the news articles though.
I ...
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Custom Data Provider with bucketed items
I am creating a custom data provider to integration news articles from an external API into a Sitecore solution.
The external data source has a large amount of news articles though, so I would like ...
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Does Page Editor run on master or web database?
If I open a Sitecore content item in Sitecore Page Editor, does it run on the master database or on web database?
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Override the source of a template field
If I have a template that is inheriting a field from a base template, Is there any way to override the source of that field?
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Developer access to Komfo
Beginning with Sitecore 8.0, the Social Connected module became part of the main platform, and it now requires access to the third-party Komfo service. When a user clicks on the Social button on the ...
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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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What is Sitecore IDTable usage?
There is a table called IDTable that comes by default with Sitecore installations.
What is the usage of this table ?
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How does xDB track individual visits?
With Sitecore 8.x, there is no longer a cookie associated with the individual visit (though of course the visitor cookie, SC_GLOBAL_ANALYTICS_COOKIE is still there). How does xDB track individual ...
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What are the ways to find the Sitecore version on Sitecore installations?
For the existing Sitecore instances, what are the different ways to find the version of the Sitecore CMS ?
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How to make Experience Editor placeholders editable without placeholder settings?
Normally, we need to define placeholders with allowed renderings in placeholder settings, to allow Experience Editor to support.
What is the way to configure placeholders editable in the Experience ...
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How to run Sitecore in Live Mode?
I need to run my front-end website by pointing to master database, temporarily.
What settings should I change to achieve this?
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What is Sitecore Live Mode?
Sitecore CMS normally uses web database content to display in fornt-end website.
What is the way to run Sitecore front-end website pointing to master database.
Does that mean running Sitecore ...
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Is there anyway to find packages installed into Sitecore instance
In Sitecore, there is a facility to install Sitecore packages.
Is there a way to view what packages are installed into our Sitecore instance and when they got installed ?
Are there any modules ...
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How to generate information needed for Sitecore support when creating a ticket
When contacting Sitecore official support, they are requesting some basic information about our solution.
What is the best and easy way to create these information ?
What tools/modules can we used ...
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How to get Sitecore Official Support help [closed]
Sitecore has there own Official Support process where we can create tickets/issues and get help from them.
i.e. http://support.sitecore.net
What is the criteria to be eligible to create tickets/...
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What is the place to view Sitecore module compatibilities
Sitecore comes with lot of official modules. These modules has there own versions while core Sitecore CMS has its own version.
What is the best place to view all these modules and there ...
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What is the usage of startItem Property in Site Configuration node
In the sitecore configuration, we use site configuration nodes to define websites and its properties.
When checked in site configuration nodes, there is startItem property with values to sitecore ...
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Usage of rootPath property of Site configuration node
In the sitecore configuration, we use site configuration nodes to define websites.
In that configuration node, there is rootPath property with values to sitecore content item.
What is the usage ...
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Sitecore User Group Directory [duplicate]
Around the world, there are lot of Sitecore User Groups created/maintained/organized by sitecore community.
What is the website which contains all the Sitecore User Groups listed in same place ?
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Experience Editor changes force refresh
When in Experience Editor making changes to some fields, such as a multilist that could control a rendering of items to show, do not reflect on the page until it is saved. This can be confusing and ...
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what is the usage of AllowDuplicateItemNamesOnSameLevel setting in sitecore 8.1. update 2
Sitecore 8.1 Update-2 has introduced a new setting called AllowDuplicateItemNamesOnSameLevel
What is the usaged of this setting ?
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Does Sitecore support xamarin mobile app development
Does sitecore has mobile api for Xamarin forms mobile app development ?
If yes, please provide links to the resources.
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