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How to handle xDB during a Sitecore upgrade?
This may be a vague question or too broad for Stack Exchange, but I will try it anyway.
We are doing an upgrade from v7.5 to v8.1-3. We are using a hosted instance of Mongo called ObjectRocket from ...
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Sitecore MVC - Controller Rendering - Output Image
I am trying to output an image in the following code. But, I am not sure of the syntax in the View. I can type @item.ImageLarge and some intellisense pops up, but it is not clear how to get the image ...
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Behavioral personalization?
We currently have a site that uses some simple personalization based on some "if/then" conditions. For instance, we have one component that is personalized based on date. Another is based on whether ...
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Cannot save a Sitecore item. The error message says the parent item was not serialized
I have a really odd problem when saving a Sitecore item. Locally, everything is fine. However, when deployed to our dev environment (which uses the same db and SOLR instance), I get:
The parent item ...
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How to request a specific variation of an A/B or Multivariate testing?
For legal requirements we need to archive each variation of a page that will be served. Is there a way - via query string or a cookie or request headers - to request a specific variation of an A/B or ...
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Datasource Subitems Items not being published in Sitecore 7.2
I am working on a Sitecore 7.2 instance, and I have noticed some peculiar behaviour.
I have a large collection of pages and datasources. When I create a folder to contain a certain type of datasource,...
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How to delete a Sitecore module?
Is there any simple way to remove a Sitecore module from an instance? I am trying to remove WFFM and ECM from a 7.5 instance. The guidance I got from a Sitecore engineer was to look at the ...
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Sitecore MVC - Controller Renderings - View Model for Custom Item
How do I bind a Custom Item generated with "Custom Item Generator" to my view model for a controller rendering? There is a data source that is returning a list of the Custom Items. Also, one of the ...
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Disabling the Glass lambda cache
I believe an issue we're running into might be related to the lambda cache in Glass - I'm also concerned about the performance ramifications if we were to disable it. Has anyone done this and ...
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Can I create "Other customers also bought..." recommendations using Sitecore xDB?
I've been trying to figure out, whether or not I can use Sitecore's xDB related functionalities to create a "other customers also bought" recommendation system.
The use case would be something like ...
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Reusing a set of personalization rules?
I am a marketer responsible for setting up a new campaign on our Sitecore website. We have content which we want to target at a very specific customer segment -- customers from a specific Geo on ...
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Best practice for mobile optimization for content-driven site?
We are creating a new website using Sitecore, and it seems that we have several options for mobile optimization:
Responsive design (like on any CMS)
Mobile device/presentation layer with device ...
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Sitecore 8: Item Being Skipped During Publish
I am having trouble publishing an item. The item is not in a workflow state.
Publishing.log:
12448 08:19:11 INFO [Publishing]: Starting to process 26 publishing options
12448 08:19:11 INFO [...
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Duplicate Sitecore ID's found in files when using TDS
I'm currently having some issues with some of my TDS item files, where I get the following error:
Duplicate Sitecore ID's found in files sitecore\templates\xxx\Data.item and sitecore\templates\xxx\...
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Is it possible to use conditional renderings with Sitecore MVC
I have problems using conditional renderings with MVC (on Sitecore 8.0 rev. 150121)
I've created a condition and assigned it to the controller rendering but this condition never gets called.
From ...
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How is the FXM bundle beacon constructed?
I am trying to implement FXM for a customer, with the purpose of collecting data from a bunch of WordPress based sites into a single repository.
An example of such a site is http://dev.verum.se/test/...
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Why Sitecore does not allow to use special characters in Name Value List field as a key?
I would like to use special characters as a key in a Name Value List field. Any idea why Sitecore doesn't allow this? Is there any nice way to disallow this validation?
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Custom field type in Sitecore 8. After completing the command successfully, I'd like to enable the save button
I have a custom field type in Sitecore 8.
I use the Context.ClientPage.SendMessage to call the contenteditor:save command.
This works, but forces the page to reload producing a warning dialogue to ...
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Sync issues when Serialization (Unicorn 2.0.4) + Git + WFFM
We are using Unicorn 2.0.4 to serialize our forms (and other content). These files are then saved into our VSO Git repository. After editing several forms, with similar fields (The forms were ...
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Can GlassMapper caching be disabled at a site level?
Sitecore's HTML caching can be disabled through the cacheHtml parameter on the website's definition. This is handy for a preview site that directly reads from the Master database.
Can the same be ...
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Enabling Sitecore Device Detection
When trying to run the following code on my local machine
var _deviceCache = new DeviceDetectionCache();
var device = _deviceCache.GetDeviceInformation(Request.UserAgent)
I am getting the following ...
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Helix deployment - How to use msdeploy
Currently we have a setup where we have a single Sitecore solution (not Helix) and we use msdeploy for deployment. This works great as we have the exact same package that is deployed on all ...
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What is the difference between an index and a search index
What is the difference between a regular index (e.g. sitecore_master_index) and a "search index"?
Why do I see certain indexes under the Indexing Manager in Control Panel, yet different ones under ...
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Can the ViewState be encrypted on the Content Management server?
For a webforms website, running on a few content deliveries and a content management server, we got a request from a security audit. The request is to encrypt the viewstate (adding <machineKey ...
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What happens if i remove Mongo server from a Sitecore 8 site
A client wants to cut down on servers and since they do not use the Experience Platform I am wondering if i could just eliminate the Mongo server. There is as of now absolutely no data in the Mongo ...
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How do I construct a reasonable JS implementation of canExecute() for an Experience Editor Button?
I am trying to run a field editor for editing some meta data (tagging, description, title, image selection) in Experience editor.
My starting point was https://blog.istern.dk/2015/03/02/running-...
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How to get list of all the renderings that has been configured to use data source
We are almost complete with a large project.
I am trying to find out which rendering in the page has been configured to use data source using a Powershell script. So that we can run in both UAT and ...
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How do I create an NSubstitute Sitecore item?
Is it possible to create a mock Sitecore (using Sitecore 8.2) item using NSubstitute? I would like to write a unit test to cover the following pipeline processor code, which adds a child folder item ...
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Is there a recommended approach to handling navigable Items with no layout defined?
I have a scenario in a site we're building where there are groups of pages organized into folders for organizational purposes. However, the folders aren't pages themselves. Here's an example:
If ...
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How to delete data templates?
I am trying to delete a large number of data templates - an entire section. However I have some content items that use those data templates and also there seems to be a lot of template inheritance ...
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Content does not show after publishing
I have a site running Sitecore 8.0 (Win Forms) with some problems publishing. What steps should be taken to troubleshoot this?
The site has problems both on a local development environment and in the ...
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Sitecore MVC - Images Inside foreach Loop & RenderingModel for Strongly Typed Views
I have a couple follow-up questions for this question: Sitecore MVC - Accessing the Data Source of a Control
In the foreach loop, how do I output an image?
Since the model for the view is now ...
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List of built-in Sitecore Field Types
Sitecore provides a large number of fields out of the box, and while some of them are obvious (Checkbox, Single Line Text, ...) some fields are not obvious by name alone (eg. What is Droplist vs ...
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Minimizing and Maximizing Profile Key Values Programmatically
Background:
One of our clients has contracted us to create a "siloing" feature on their site, using personalization. Basically, a visitor would come to the site and optionally self-identify as a ...
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Export does not include an index.html file
When exporting a site for agencies, the resulting zip file does not contain an index.html.
Versions:
Sitecore 8.2 (rev. 160729)
Sitecore Experience Accelerator 1.0.0 for 8.2
Sitecore PowerShell ...
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Unable to check 'Ignore Additional Registrations' for any Outcomes
I am currently unable to check the 'Ignore Additional Registrations' checkbox for any of the Outcomes in the Marketing Control Panel.
The following error is written to the logs when I try to save the ...
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Does Sitecore licensing affect API calls? [closed]
As I understand it, your Sitecore license limits how many content authors can be logged into Sitecore concurrently. If I were to write a web application that uses the Sitecore ItemService API to allow ...
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Accessing the Data Source of a Control
I have a control property with a data source pointing to a folder with items with fields.
Is there a way to loop through the children of the item in the data source and display them on my view?
In ...
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Validator bar not appearing for general link field
I am working with Sitecore 8.1 and I am having a strange issue.
I have a General Link field called 'Login Link' on which I am trying set required field validation. I have selected 'Required' for all ...
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How much memory does the JVM for Solr need?
My website went down last night and as we were looking through the log files on one of the CD instances we found this error:
> 6684 23:20:21 ERROR <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <...
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How to automate adding renderings for a branched item added to a page through Experience Editor?
We have a Sitecore branch with a number of items being created, e.g. Gallery + 4 Gallery items.
We have created a rendering for the Gallery with a placeholder, and a rendering for the Gallery items (...
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Should indexes folder in data folder be removed every now and then?
We had some issue with Lucene not indexing properly. Usually with the removal of the indexes folder within data folder and rebuilding the indexes through Control Panel's Indexing Manager helps; ...
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Component not showing as an option to add to a placeholder?
All my other components display as options to add when I click on my main placeholder in Experience Editor.
However one component is not shown in the list and I can't see why. I've added it to the ...
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How to default the media browser to tree view
This is a really minor issue. But is it possible to have the "Select Media" browser default to the tree view as opposed to list view? I imagine there would be a config setting somewhere. I just feel ...
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Has anyone made WFFM forms use responsive design?
We are looking to use wffm on a responsive site and need to make wffm forms responsive. We are looking for advice or tips on how to go about this or any issues you have had regarding this.
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Campaign Creator loading problem
I'm researching the Campaign Creator functionality introduced in Sitecore 8.1 and have been able to successfully create campaigns and associate with content items.
The issue I'm experiencing is that ...
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GeoIP-related error in my log files, but GeoIP not enabled
I have the following error showing up in my log file:
> ManagedPoolThread #8 16:51:28 WARN Authentication on CES Discovery service failed.
Exception: System.Net.WebException
Message: The remote ...
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Can I register an event or goal through an API from Javascript?
I have found that I can assign a goal or a page event to get triggered when a user hits a given page. So, we have a thank you page a user is redirected to after submitting a form and that ...
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How do I change the email address used in my Sitecore Community profiles? [closed]
I need to change the email address I use to log into SDN, SPN, http://support.sitecore.net, dev.sitecore.net, and the rest of the community sites.
How do I do this?
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Links menu item Throws Server 500 error
I am trying to view items linked to a template in the master database but nothing is ever shown.
Looking at the Request / Response in developer tools gives the following stacktrace
[...
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