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Unicorn how to serialize parent folder and only specific children
Unicorn 3 and above has an option to exclude child items under parent item. In your case you can use as below:
<include database="master" name="WFFMSaveActions" path="/sitecore/system/Modules/Web ...
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Is the new Sitecore 9.2 serialization the same as Rainbow serialization?
As you know Rainbow is an open source advanced serialization and comparison system for Sitecore which is using a YAML format.
In Sitecore 9.2 there is a new serialization implemented in a YAML format....
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TDS: Sync Project with Sitecore for entire solution
TDS Classic 5.7 (released after this question was initially posted) now has a 'Sync all projects with Sitecore' feature. This is a context menu option on the solution (under the Team Development for ...
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Unicorn how to serialize parent folder and only specific children
One way to do this using Unicorn 3 is with <exclude> and <except> elements. This can be done like so:
<include name="xxxxxx.Foundation.CustomWffmFieldTypes.SaveActions"
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How to clean up date field values migrated from old Sitecore versions
Here is a prototype for you to test with in your non-production instance.
Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
$items = @(Get-Item -Path "master:\content\home") + @(Get-ChildItem -Path "master:\content\...
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Is Unicorn obsolete with Sitecore 10?
This question is very close to being opinion based, but I think we can answer the differences more factually here.
tl/dr: No, Unicorn is not obsolete with Sitecore 10. Unicorn is not compatible with ...
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Slow build performance using TDS (Helix-inspired)
TL;DR
Some possible solutions to reduce build/deployment time:-
Reduce the number of projects in your solution by 'compacting' projects.
Reduce the number of projects in your solution by having a ...
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Where can I find my serialized Sitecore items?
The previous answer is correct for default configuration on Sitecore 8 or 9.
The serialization folder path can be set using next setting .
<!-- SERIALIZATION FOLDER
Points to the ...
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Can Sitecore 10 Content Serialization serialize users and roles?
No, this is not yet supported but is in the roadmap. (I am the Product Manager for the Sitecore CLI.)
The documentation for the CLI and Sitecore Content Serialization is found here:
https://doc....
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Sitecore10 CLI Error "Unrecognized command or argument 'ser','push' in PowerShell window
You need to add the serialization plugins.
dotnet sitecore plugin add -n Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.Serialization
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Sitecore 10 Content Serialization With Visual Studio
While I can't find this listed anywhere in the documentation, Visual Studio 2017 is not supported for this Visual Studio Plugin.
If you rename the downloaded VSIX file to .zip and open it, inside you ...
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Where are the access rights stored for security roles in serialized files?
Security stored on items
Access rights (security) are stored on the item itself, in the __Security field. You can see the contents of this field in a few ways:
Security Details tab
In the Content ...
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How does Sitecore handle serialization with TDS?
Sitecore does not automatically do anything with serialization files from TDS out of the box.
Now this doesn't rule out a custom schedule task that someone may have put into the system, but that doesn'...
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Does Unicorn pick up database cleanup process and reserialize?
I asked a similar question a little while back, about the interop between Sitecore and Unicorn on disk files.
If you have Transparent-Sync on or have your Unicorn.DataProvider.config file configured, ...
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TypeLoadExceptionHolder cannot be converted to type Sitecore.Analytics.Model.Framework.IFacet
Remove all data from your shared session database and the errors will go away.
Your custom types have changed, but at the same time, old facet objects remain binary-serialized in your shared session ...
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TDS Not Deploying Template Changes
The issue is inherent with the way Sitecore handles checkbox fields and how it serializes items.
Checkbox Field
Checkbox fields in Sitecore can have 3 values:
Blank (not set)
0 (unchecked)
1 (...
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TDS classic 5.7 'Sync all projects with Sitecore' feature warning
You should set up a Global Config file as per the documentation. You can then set the URL and path as follows:
<SitecoreWebUrl>http://your.url</SitecoreWebUrl>
<SitecoreDeployFolder>...
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"String was not recognized as a valid DateTime" error
The issue may be related to your other question where it appears that you have some invalid date formats. From the StackTrace it looks like the issue is related to one of the Media facets. I would try ...
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Unicorn (2.0.4) issue when renaming items
This is hard to answer because it's really several questions at once. To start with, YES Unicorn 3 handles things much better because it has more control over its serialization system. Unicorn 2 is a ...
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Re-serializing on unicorn is not undoing changes
Actually; Reserialize means "Delete local files and take whatever is in Sitecore and serialize that to local files".
Sounds to me like you may have been getting the terms mixed up. If you want to set ...
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How do I use the Sitecore CLI with Sitecore Cloud to serialize content?
Add https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/xmcloud-preview/package/nuget/Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.XMCloud reference:
dotnet sitecore plugin add -n Sitecore.DevEx.Extensibility.XMCloud
Then you should be ...
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Sitecore serialization package installation removes custom roles
We encountered a problem very similar to your question. We started experiencing the issue once upgrading to 10.3 and CLI 5.1.25. In our case, the problem was caused by using a relative file path in ...
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Do not colocate serialized items and serialized roles in the same folder
You can choose any folder. Just not one that is being used for anything else.
The reason being; the Unicorn default datastore expects YML files of Items. Roles and Users are not items - the two ...
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Unicorn Sync configuration for Sitecore SXA site
You can't do that in a single file. Once you exclude children of root item you cannot, later on, include it back.
You separate files for this, e.g.:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<...
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Unicorn Sync for Sitecore SXA site adding only new items
You can do this by using the NewItemsOnly evaluator in your configuration. You would need to setup multiple configurations for this tho as you can only use one evaluator per configuration.
<...
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Where are the access rights stored for security roles in serialized files?
Security informations are stored on the item and stored in the __Security Field. This is a shared field and you should find it in SharedFields table.
To get the value from database, you can trigger ...
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Run serialize command from outside the Sitecore as a service
Sitecore PowerShell Extensions - Web API
As pointed out by Richard, SPE comes with some ways to do this.
You can find more details about the latest version of SPE Remoting here.
For now we will stick ...
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Run serialize command from outside the Sitecore as a service
There isn't anything OOTB that will allow you to hit a rest service. You have a couple of options:
Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
You could use Sitecore PowerShell Extensions remoting to do that ...
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"Not configured to allow writing data" error in Sitecore CLI (Sitecore 10.0)
This usually means that your .\sitecore\user.json file is not yet in your folder structure. I had this happen to me when I initially downloaded a project and tried to get things up and running from ...
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IAR Items Invisible in Content Tree But Exist
After a moderate deep-dive, this appears to be a bug in the IAR implementation. The short answer is that you need overlap between the database items and IAR items. Long answer below...
The problem is ...
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