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How do you create a site modeled after the Habitat solution when starting from scratch?
Habitat is intended to inspire your solutions; you should never start with the Habitat solution and add to it when creating a new site. Habitat is not an accelerator, it is an example of the Helix ...
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Sitecore 9 and Habitat
I don't really see any. Keep in mind that Habitat is just an example site that demonstrates the Helix principles. So really the requirement should be to build a Helix implementation on Sitecore 9.
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Should Habitat be used as a starter kit?
A Resounding No
Think of Sitecore Habitat as the result of an assess and plan project phase where requirements and business objectives were already described for a ficticous client and developed.
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Should Habitat be used as a starter kit?
Every single answer you will receive will be a no, Habitat is not mean to be used as a starter kit. Unless of course your client wanted a website that was exactly like the Habitat (standard, legal or ...
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Habitat TDS Version - Sync Items to Sitecore
Right click on your Solution tab and check the Project Dependencies. Ensure that the Build Order reflects the proper dependency order:
Foundation
Feature
Project
... and that in general, templates ...
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Is there any way to avoid duplicated TDS files/items in Helix based solution?
TDS always serializes data from the root item, there are no settings that allow you to only serialise a part of a tree. Logically speaking, this makes a lot of sense for a Helix based solution where ...
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Working on Habitat with VS 2017
You need to change 2 things to get the gulp script to use v15.0 tools for MSBuild.
First, in the gulp.js file, you need to change everywhere you see this toolsVersion: 14.0 to toolsVersion: 15.0. ...
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Sitecore Habitat Performance
Habitat is an example implementation of the Helix guidelines and shouldn't be used as a starter kit.
With that said, you should review what you will need now and remove what you can. It can always ...
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Sitecore 9 and Habitat
Having taken the path of building a project using Habitat (in Sitecore 8.2, not 9) I can give you the following points:
Benefits
Good example of how to structure a Helix solution.
Some useful ...
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Helix Feature references to Feature(s)
That blog post from Alan covers the scenarios nicely. The problem is that you are looking for Feature to Feature dependencies and if you follow Helix guidelines, that is expressly forbidden:
A strict ...
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Habitat TDS version with Sitecore 8.1.151003
I believe that the version you are looking for is Commit 1ab932d of the Hedgehog Development Fork For Sitecore 8.1 Initial (151003)
Release History of Habitat
I've taken a nose dive into both the ...
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How do you create a site modeled after the Habitat solution when starting from scratch?
As mention in @Anicho's comment, you should start by looking at helix.sitecore.net to get you started with understanding the modular architecture pattern and principles that Habitat was built around.
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Habitat multisite solution structure example
When I was setting up our project layer based upon the Helix architecture principles for the project layer, this bit stood out to me:
Typically, in a single tenant solution there will only be a ...
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Error setting up Habitat instance of Sitecore with "Could not instantiate event handler." error
There is a mismatch between your Sitecore binaries and Sitecore configuration.
The OnPackageInstallStartingRemoteHandler method was only added to PackagingEventHandler in Sitecore 8.2 Update 1. It ...
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Publish single Habitat project
You can publish a single project by right clicking on the project and selecting the Publish option in Visual Studio. Or if you have Click Once publishing toolbar open, you can select the project and ...
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Language locale not getting added to URL
This is controlled by the languageEmbedding attribute on your linkManager.
By default, Sitecore adds the language code to your URLs asNeeded. Which is a bit fuzzy; but essentially Sitecore should add ...
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Excluding files like web.config when using publishing in VS 2017
You could also add a property group called ExcludeFilesFromDeployment to your profile.pubxml publishing profile. I have mine setup like this:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas....
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Excluding files like web.config when using publishing in VS 2017
Although this is off-topic, this is a common issue in Sitecore for those who are experimenting with Helix/Habitat. Anyway, you can also achieve this on the VS UI which essentially results to the ...
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Unable to resolve serialized item error during Unicorn sync task while setting up Habitat
Make sure you have updated the Habitat.Dev.config and set the sourceFolder to the src directory of your habitat solution.
The default location is C:\Projects\Habitat and you would expect that to be ...
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Habitat setup host name confusion
The hostname should be habitat.dev.local on your Sim installation.
In the site definition you have:
<site name="habitat" patch:after="site[@name='modules_website']"
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Benefit of dynamic binding for components like header and footer
This is more of an opinion based question. But I will list the positives and negatives below. A lot of these depend on your preference. I have personally gone with both approaches, so I know that ...
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Install Sitecore 9.0 update 2 encountered warnings
If this is the first time you are installing then those warnings are fine to ignore. Those warnings are stating that those services could not be stopped/found because they wouldn't exist yet.
If you ...
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Sync.ps1 is not digitally signed. You cannot run this script on the current system
Looks like you're running a non-admin Powershell console. Try running it as an admin user.
If that is not an option, you may need to unblock the script. Locate it in File Explorer and Unblock it.
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How to set workflows in a Sitecore environment with SXA and Helix?
My two cents
If to go strictly after the Helix documentation it seems like both the workflows and the datasources should belong to the project layer:
https://helix.sitecore.net/principles/templates/...
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PopulateManagedSchema during installation returns error 500
I am getting the same issue while installing the Sitecore 10.2 XM Developer Workstation (XM Scaled) on new machine.
I have installed all the prerequisite but I was missing URL Rewrite Module in my new ...
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Does the package.xml file in Habitat project help to deploy to server and how?
After reading @jflheureux's answer and little bit digging around Habitat release package.
First Aha!, it is a Sitecore package definition file which contains everything - content items, security ...
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Does the package.xml file in Habitat project help to deploy to server and how?
I believe the use of this package is internal to Sitecore employees who maintain and publish the demo on GitHub: https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat/releases
They update the file, upload it to ...
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Site definition for multi-site in Sitecore habitat
In the SiteDefinition.config file each site should contain a hostName attribute. Sitecore will match the correct site based on the incoming url and matching hostName.
Check out the SDN page for ...
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Benefit of dynamic binding for components like header and footer
The real benefit is to allow your editors to change the header to meet their needs without needing a specific template. Example is a landing page for a campaign that requires a smaller header/menu. ...
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Habitat Gulpfile.js error in Visual Studio but OK on Cmd Line
It's basically a Node version issue. Assuming that you've downloaded the latest NodeJS and installed it (which means its location should be one of your system's environment variable PATH), just move ...
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