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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
It's a permission issue that started on Sitecore 9. You have to add this section to your Web.config.
<location path="sitecore/shell/WebService">
<system.web>
<authorization&...
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Sitecore Rocks Package Installation Error - "Could not find configuration node: databases/database[@id='live']"
As Geoff already pointed out; the package seems to contain content for a database called "live".
You can see (and remove, if you want) this by opening the package file. I'm using WinRAR for this ...
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Updating Workflow for all the Items in Sitecore Instance
You can use below powershell script (https://gist.github.com/marcduiker/950e0358bb4752ed5b047931a8c958c1) :
# This is the ID of the workflow that will be set on the content items.
$script:...
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How to connect Sitecore Rock to sitecore instance on docker?
I haven't personally used it yet, but I was able to connect successfully Sitecore Rocks with a Sitecore instance running on a cm service container following these steps:
1) If not done yet, add a ...
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How to get Sitecore Explorer to show the Display Name for an item
Short answer is no.
But you can update the code of Sitecore Rocks on GitHub. I have investigated a bit and saw that Sitecore Rocks only uses the item name.
At the namespace Sitecore.Rocks....
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Sitecore Rocks Installation seems corrupted. What to do?
You need to set your Sitecore Rocks connection up using the Hard Rock Service:
This will then give access to additional features and options, including the "Design Template" option:
By comparison, ...
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Why does the Habitat sample solution have a Sitecore rocks connection for each project
This is actually done by design. If you read http://helix.sitecore.net/principles/visual-studio/index.html. You will see that by having one Sitecore Rocks reference, it would create one huge reference,...
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How to increase request timeout for rocks connection?
You can find the connection xml under
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Sitecore\Sitecore.Rocks.VisualStudio\Connections
Open the xml file and edit the timeout attributes as needed.
<binding ...
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How do I format the value shown in a ColumnField using Sitecore Rocks?
The Formatter field is really only for date formatting, which is good since that is what you are looking for.
The options for formatting the dates include the following list. Scroll to the bottom to ...
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Sitecore Rocks always disabled after installation
Your solution can be found here: https://blog.mastykarz.nl/installed-visual-studio-extension-doesnt-work/
The reason for your problem is the setting of Visual Studio which disallows loading per user ...
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Folder Sync option disabled
You probably didn't connect your Visual Studio project to the Sitecore instance. You can do this via: right click on your Visual Studio project in the Solution Explorer -> Sitecore -> Project ...
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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
Faced the same issue in Sitecore 9.3, permissions changing did not help.
Resolved it by adding "https://" before my host name.
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Sitecore Rocks 2.1.89.0 connection error to Sitecore 9.1.0
You need to make sure that:
you able to rich out your sitecore instance by http protocol
site https binding "Require Server Name Indication" setting is unchecked
you don't have any URL Rewrite rules ...
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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
My sitecore instance had redirects to https and allowed https only. Change your Host Name to https://events.tac.local:433
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Sitecore Rocks 2.1, where are "renderings and placeholders"
Select the item and press CTRL+Return.
This shortcut is shown in the context menu as well.
UPDATE:
To edit tab layout located here core > sitecore > client > Applications > Experience ...
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Using Sitecore Rocks for Solr Search Enabled Sitecore instance
Please look on changelog of Sitecore Rocks Github Repository. Looks like you don't need on this version ‘Sitecore.Rocks.Lucene*.dlls. Please make a new install of the module and see if you still have ...
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Cannot open Master Design Layout
Reproducable Issue
I have been able to reproduce your issue in Sitecore Rocks, using your setup. The problem that you are experiencing is that the "Sample Item" template is missing from your ...
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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
For me, it worked after following below steps:
http://rockpapersitecore.com/2017/10/sitecore-rocks-with-sitecore-9/
used https://hostname
Created new user with Admin or any content author role. (...
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Sitecore Tab is not appearing after installing sitecore rocks
I found the solution
uninstall Rocks
delete C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_c2d19173\privateregistry.bin and privateregistry.user.bin file (please backup them first)
reinstall ...
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Cannot open Master Design Layout
My gut is that it's something to do with this ID reported in your logs:
{76036F5E-CBCE-46D1-AF0A-4143F9B557AA}
You should be able to search for this data template in your master database using the ...
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Updating Workflow for all the Items in Sitecore Instance
Here is a powershell script to update all templates standard values. Just update the guid and the path to your templates.
Note that you can easily enhance this script to adapt for existing items on ...
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Sitecore Rocks fails when creating new rendering
Sitecore Rocks have deprecated support for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012. Currently, the minimum version Sitecore Rocks integrates with is Visual Studio 2015.
Sitecore Rocks no longer supports Visual ...
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Sitecore, placeholders, sitecore Rocks
Sitecore placeholder is an object to add the presentation rendering on the predefined positions. In your example "Head" is a placeholder key which works same as ID for a html element so when sitecore ...
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How should we update our .gitignore when using Sitecore Rocks?
According to the GitHub repository for Sitecore.Rocks, the only files installed into Sitecore by the Sitecore.Rocks extension are these:
Browse.aspx
Service2.asmx
Service2.asmx.cs (codefile, ...
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Sitecore and TDS Local development strategy
I do not believe that is right. The TDS projects will only deploy TDS to your website if you select Deploy Solution from the solution menu. In that can you can remove the deploy column checkbox from ...
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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
This should no longer be an issue as of Sitecore Rocks 2.1.126, which is now available on the Visual Studio Marketplace, if you install the latest Hard Rocks service. It now includes a local Web....
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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
One of my colleagues helped to find a solution! Press right button of the mouse on connection -> Connections -> Edit connection properties and then uncheck "UseDefaultWebProxy". In some reason it was ...
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Sitecore rocks timeout error
Have you tried to change the authorization of your website as described in this blogpost by Rob Ahnemann?
XHTML
<location path="sitecore/shell/WebService">
<system.web>
<...
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Disabling the "Loading many items" dialog in Sitecore Rocks
Confirmed that this is hardcoded in a couple locations of Rocks:
ItemTreeViewItem
MyItemsTreeViewItemBase
It's a rather unfriendly message though and with proper use of async I would think that we ...
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Create Connection for Sitecore 9 instance with Sitecore Rocks
<location path="sitecore/shell/WebService">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="?,*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
&...
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