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What is the fastest way to delete thousands of items in the content tree?
When I was working on Sitecore 7.2 project long time ago, the fastest way was to serialize the single root item and then clicking Revert Tree on that item. All the descendants were gone and I had to ...
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How do I get my section icons in the Content Editor to show again?
Sitecore supports two ways to render the Content Editor.
Standard Sitecore Render
Themed XML Skin Rendering
The pipeline you want to focus on is <renderContentEditor>.
You'll find the ...
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What is the fastest way to delete thousands of items in the content tree?
This is another option you have if you want to use Sitecore PowerShell Extensions. Delete the items in a BulkUpdateContext - this disables events etc... an so makes the delete run a lot faster. To do ...
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Is it possible to get a list of all locked items?
Sitecore Powershell Extensions is always the answer. There is a standard report available. More info here.
But just in case you might want to try something else:
Sitecore query : /sitecore//*[@...
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Enable Content Editor button depending on template type
In your command there is a QueryState method where you can hide or disable buttons.
Return:
CommandState.Hidden to hide the button
CommandState.Disabled to disable the button
CommandState.Enabled to ...
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Deleting an Item with a null Template
A safer method would be to use the DbBrowser. You can find this by going to <yoursiteurl>/sitecore/admin/dbbrowser.aspx. You will get a screen where the content tree loads up on the left and you ...
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Is there any easter egg in Sitecore?
Maybe not an easter egg, but MainUtil class contains some "useful" methods like:
My favorites:
/// <summary>Returns false.</summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public static ...
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How to delete data templates?
This seems like a perfect taks for Sitecore Powershell Extensions
First of all I would get a list of template IDs to remove
$templateIds = Get-ChildItem /sitecore/templates/you/better/know/where/to/...
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Is there any easter egg in Sitecore?
I have previously found 2 secret CLI commands in Sitecore JSS:
elephant-in-the-room:
> jss elephant-in-the-room
JSS CLI is running in global mode because it was not installed in the local ...
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How can I find all usages of template in insert options?
In my humble Opinion 3 is the best as it works out of the box, no modules required, no code required and what is more important you do not rely on LinkDatabase which can be sometimes outdated.
Option ...
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List of built-in Sitecore Field Types
I found an older post on Sitecore fieldtypes and the way they are rendered in a blogpost. It's not the complete list, but a starting point:
http://www.mtelligent.com/home/2014/8/29/sitecore-field-...
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GeneralLink field breaks in CE when using ampersand (&) in description
This is a known bug. I've seen it fixed in the 8.2 release notes.
https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Sitecore%20Experience%20Platform/82/Sitecore%20Experience%20Platform%2082%20Initial%20Release/...
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What is the Use of Heartbeat.aspx in Sitecore
You can access Heartbeat.aspx via /sitecore/service/heartbeat.aspx url.
Heartbeat.aspx checks if all your SQL databases configured in your connectionStrings config are accessible.
I they are ...
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Creating Custom Content Editor Warning Bar
Intro
I'll be answering my own question here, since I know how to do this, but I wanted to share.
Sitecore has an out of the box solution for creating custom notifications in the content editor. ...
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What is this mysterious *green square* on my Content Editor?
That is an indicator of the outcome of any field or item validators on the currently-loaded item.
Green = All validators are valid
Yellow = At least one validator is in warning state
Red = At least ...
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Adding a new child item to a datasource for a rendering
There's a straight-forward way to add an Insert button to the Edit Frame of components.
Set Experience Editor Buttons
Sitecore comes with some Custom Experience Buttons which can be added to ...
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Set File datasource property to restrict start folder
You don't need to set in this way DataSource,
you just need to set DataSource on template field to : media library path (ex: "/sitecore/media library/Images/Social/Connector")
When you will open ...
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How do I display an error dialog from content editor command?
As far as I remember, Sitecore 8 support for Sheer has been dropped in favour of SPEAK.
Here you can find more information on how to convert a button from Sheer to SPEAK.
In essence you have to use ...
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Enable Content Editor button depending on template type
Here is an alternative answer if you want to or are using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions for your context menu.
You can create a Context Menu script item in your SPE module and then using the Show ...
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Why Sitecore does not allow to use special characters in Name Value List field as a key?
The Name Value List (and Name Value Lookup List which also inherits from it) only allows keys containing letters and numbers due to the Validate() method in Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor....
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Is it possible to get a list of all locked items?
If the users just want to see their own locked items then they can see a list of all the items and unlock them all via the My Items options in the Ribbon:
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Exception thrown when trying to set General Link value
The issue you reported was fixed in Sitecore Experience Platform 8.0 rev. 150621 (8.0 Update-4) and you can upgrade your solution to address the problem.
Please take a look at the reference number ...
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In the "Select Media" dialog, where are the search facets defined at in Sitecore?
I've researched this a bit myself and come up with the following answer. If there's a better, more general way of answering this for every dialog, or if anyone has more specific information about how ...
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Setting the target on an internal link field
This is a known issue with the General Link Field. To fix it open the Core database and navigate too:
/sitecore/client/Applications/Dialogs/InsertLinkViaTreeDialog/PageSettings/...
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What is the fastest way to delete thousands of items in the content tree?
Another way to increase the speed of removing items is to skip the recycling bin. Here is an example in combination with using bulk update.
New-UsingBlock (New-Object Sitecore.Data.BulkUpdateContext) ...
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Is there a way to reference another database in Multilist with Search
Yes - in the source property of your field item, you can use the parameter DatabaseName to set the name.
So you might have something like:
DataSource=/Sitecore/Content/MySite/Subscriptions&...
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Stop user from saving and publishing when a field is Empty
1) Publishing
To stop publishing when field is empty, there is no OOTB functionality. One option how you can achieve it with minimal effort is to put item (template) under workflow and use below ...
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Config patch/hack to temporarily disable index update
You could create a patch file that sets all the indexes strategies to manual, that would effectively disable any automated updates that might happen as a result of installing a package or other ...
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Validator bar not appearing for general link field
The question update is your answer. That's standard behaviour of Sitecore. You should also see red squares on the right top.
There you can see all invalid fields as squares. It is not really visible ...
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GeneralLink field breaks in CE when using ampersand (&) in description
For those who can't upgrade to 8.2, sitecore support has provided a solution. I'll post the code here as I don't know a better way of sharing the library.
As a reference
Ticket number: 471609 | ...
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