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How do I clear the HTML cache for a specific user?
You can do this by making sure that your renderings are set to Vary by User. This adds the user to the cacheKey string like this "_#user:" + Context.GetUserName();
You can then use the following code ...
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What is the difference between a Layout, Sublayout, and Rendering?
Layouts
Provide the outermost HTML structure of a page.
There is one layout (per device) per page.
Apply to WebForms (.aspx) and MVC (.cshtml)
Comprise of Layout definition item and aspx page (...
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How do I implement Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) with Sitecore?
Because Sitecore supports server-side responsive rendering, it's very easy to use the Device feature of the CMS to support AMP.
AMP Layout (using Razor)
This example is adapted from Google's example ...
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Possible to copy the presentation details of one item to another?
Yes, the presentation values of Item A are stored as an XML construct in the raw values of the Renderings field.
You can see that field here:
If you follow the blue arrows and click on Raw Values ...
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Is there any alternative to @Html.RenderAction in Sitecore?
If you simply want to render out a partial view (either view rendering or controller rendering), from another view or layout, you could use the Sitecore MVC extension methods:
Render view rendering:
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SXA Page Design vs Page Standard Values vs Page Branch Template
With Sitecore Experience Accelerator you can forget about previous methods, however, there is nothing that will block you from using them.
Before - NO SXA:
you had to decide how your page will look ...
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Sitecore media ashx not resizing the image (version 7.2)
As of Sitecore 7.5+ (applies to the latest 7.2 versions as well), Sitecore introduced a media request protection for image resizing (to make sure an attacker can't overload your server with image ...
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Relative rendering DataSource Locations
DataSource Location inside rendering parameters has different context.
You could achieve your goal by extending resolveRenderingDatasource pipeline.
Allows developers to override the default logic ...
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Possible to copy the presentation details of one item to another?
Yes. Open the presentation details of the item you want to copy from. you will see a link "Copy To" beside "Edit". You can pick which target devices you want and to which item you want to copy the ...
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What's the Placeholder field used for in a Rendering?
It is a default, used when no placeholder key is given upon inserting the rendering onto the page. This can happen both when editing via Content Editor/Presentation Details or as a result of a ...
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Multilist With Search in Rendering Parameters is empty
This is a known bug at Sitecore. We had the same problem and created a Sitecore ticket. Please use the reference number 106439 if you contact them.
This is the solution though:
I was able to ...
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Get amount of components on final layout programmatically
This can be done by parsing the layout XML for each field (renderings and final renderings). The key is to use Sitecore.Data.Fields.LayoutField.GetFieldValue in order to obtain the XML value, ...
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Is it possible to get page rendering result programmatically ?
I think AlokBhatt's method is a good start, though I would make use of pipelines throughout. I think this is a better solution because it doesn't involve trying to parse presentation details, and ...
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Is there any alternative to @Html.RenderAction in Sitecore?
Although .ViewRendering and .Controller will work, there are performance issues with both of those methods.
Both methods will bypass Sitecore's output caching mechanism completely, so every page on ...
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Is it possible to use conditional renderings with Sitecore MVC
Conditional renderings work fine with MVC. For version 8, you must have Analytics.Enabled set to true so you can get to the personalization section of the presentation.
"Global" conditional ...
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"Replace Rendering" in Experience Editor disabled
The replace button doesn't appear on Experience Editor in 2 cases :
When rendering doesn't have any renderings or sublayouts in Complatible Renderings field.
When Renderings or sublayouts are not ...
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I need to reorder renderings in Presentation Details on all pages
The following example uses Sitecore PowerShell Extensions to change the order of two renderings. The renderings are next to each other, and essentially swap positions.
Script
# Home Page
$item = Get-...
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Item not found when saving page in Experience Editor
So it's took me all of yesterday and most of today to figure this out. In the end it was nothing to do with my code or configuration at all. The log files showing some errors were a Red-Herring and ...
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Possible to copy the presentation details of one item to another?
If you have Sitecore Powershell Extensions installed then there is an OOTB module available to copy/paste renderings between items.
Simply right click the item, then select Scripts > Layout > ...
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How can I programmatically list all personalization in my page?
You can get the personalization from the renderings field.
If you open an item that contains personalization you will notice on the renderings field in Raw mode something like this:
<rls><...
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Edit a Sitecore item in memory only
Don't overwrite the Sitecore.Context item with the one you are fetching for the wildcard. Keep the wildcard item as the context item.
Instead, put the product item in a sort of wildcard context. You ...
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Programmatically add log information in all renderings (controller, view) HTML
Yes, you can do it by the following way.
Configuration:
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
<sitecore>
<pipelines>
<mvc.renderRendering&...
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How can I edit rendering parameters programatically?
Got the answer, here is the complete code. In my case I'm updating the Display Subtitle field but you can change this field or make the field name a variable if you want to:
public void ...
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Which Sitecore fields can be rendered using a FieldRenderer
You could create a function that checks the fieldtypes.. based on the renderField pipeline, which is executed in the fieldRenderer you should include these types:
rich text
single-line text
text
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Which Sitecore fields can be rendered using a FieldRenderer
Every field can be passed through FieldRenderer. The <sc:FieldRenderer> control makes use of the FieldRenderer.Render static method, which can be used on any field.
FieldRenderer.Render passes ...
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How can you get a unique ID for a rendering on a specific Sitecore item?
The solution that ended up working for me was to use the DeviceDefinition.GetRenderingByUniqueId method with the RenderingReference.UniqueID object:
foreach (RenderingReference renderingReference in ...
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Benefits of static vs dynamic binding of renderings
What is static- and dynamic bindings in general?
Static binding means adding a rendering to a page in a raw way, e.g. in an mvc view:
@Html().RenderAction("Controller", "Action");
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Is it possible to show the website for a given device?
The Experience Editor (previously Page Editor) allows you to switch between devices. Also for the Preview mode.
Ribbon > Experience > Click on current device > Select preferred device
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Force shared layout in experience editor
http://jockstothecore.com/defaulting-shared-layout-editing-sitecore-8-1/
A simple setting is not available, but in the blog post above you can find code for a custom processor for the loggedin ...
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Yellow screen (YSOD) and unhelpful errors when trying to edit the renderings/presentation details on a page
I have been able to replicate the error you are having. The reason is because the placeholder are left blank.
For example, I have this xml for the Shared Layout:
<r xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/...
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