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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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Display custom facets in Sitecore Experience Profile version 9 or later
I do this using Experience Profile Express Tab code. It allows you to add a custom tab to the contact in experience profile. Then you just load your facet into it.
You can put anything in the model. ...
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Using SPEAK ItemTreeView with an external data source
Yeah, you are right, ItemTreeView doesn't support external source. I ran into this during imlementing a module where I've overrided a the defoult select rendering dialog but the "TreeViewEx" control ...
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Sitecore 8.0 Preview Mode not rendering all the way
This is a common issue with the Sitecore Preview mode when the website site definition has gone missing.
In versions of Sitecore through 8.0 and lower (I'll edit with exact revision number), the ...
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How do I construct a reasonable JS implementation of canExecute() for an Experience Editor Button?
You would have to perform request to the server to check whether your current template meet certain criteria.
Request class:
using Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.Speak.Server.Contexts;
using Sitecore....
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Purpose of IsProductionMode in SPEAK
In the Sitecore.Configuration.SpeakSettings I found:
public static bool IsProductionMode
{
get
{
return Settings.GetBoolSetting("IsProductionMode", false);
}
}
and above propery is used ...
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Add custom redirect on SPEAK logout
EDIT: Update based on comments
If you check the definition of LogoutArgs used in the processor, there is a property called RedirectUrl that is of type: Sitecore.Text.UrlString - if you set this ...
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How do I trigger Sitecore SPEAK alerts programatically?
As you already noticed Experience Editor utilizes SPEAK, but Content Editor "is not there yet".
I am not sure whether you can have single code to handle both locations.
I would go partially SPEAK ...
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How do I get my section icons in the Content Editor to show again?
The simple answer is that when Sitecore redesigned the content editor for 8.0, they removed icons from the sections, probably to keep the design cleaner.
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I'm looking to implement a better UI Solution for managing content
To start off, I would always recommend training for someone who needs to make use of a WCMS platform before they go in. There is always going to be so much involved.
One option is using the sitecore ...
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How to open the content editor from SPEAK?
If you know what is the ID of an item you click on you can simply redirect user using this url:
http://domain/sitecore/shell/Applications/Content%20Editor.aspx?sc_bw=1&fo=ID,
where
ID value ...
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A serious error occurred please contact the administrator
with in Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.Speak.Server.RequestArgs class the method name to execute defaults to Process. Check the last line in below method.
public RequestArgs(string commandPath, ...
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Open Speak Dialog In Experience Editor Mode
I found something to go off of with the validation button in the Experience Editor's ribbon which also opens a modal. Copied that item that represented the validation button and edited some fields in ...
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Speak Upload CSV File "can uploader be restricted to allowing a single file to be uploaded?"
You can easily achieve this by using Sitecore Powershell. If Sitecore Powershell is an option, you can easily create a dialog with SPE and also perform an upload of files. The below script will allow ...
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Open Content Editor From Speak Dialog with Specific Item Selected
You can make use of the below command in the Javascript file to open the Content Editor.
window.top.scForm.postRequest('','','','RunShortcut("{E28353A0-FB68-455B-9B2E-99AD280EF64E}")');
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Sitecore 9.0.1 Datepicker displaying wrong format
I'm glad that Sitecore is now aware of the bug and it will provide a official fix
I made a blog about this a couple months ago with the detailed Discussion and the research of the issue
https://...
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While viewing rendering attached to an item in Core DB, Sitecore is throwing server error
As @MarekMusielak mentions in his comment, you will need to use Sitecore Rocks to edit the presentation details of core database items.
Open an item's presentation details
Edit the presentation ...
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SPEAK application for non Sitecore items
Answer
The direct answer to this question is that there is no way to build a SPEAK application without using Sitecore items. This is because using items out of the core database is the foundation ...
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Open Content Editor From Speak Dialog with Specific Item Selected
Here's what I ended up doing. I'm sure there's a way to do it in one step though (somehow emulate a shortcut pointing to an item?). If that ever gets posted I'll accept that answer. This does it in ...
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How do a open a Speak Dialog (or Dashboard Application) from within code?
You can open a SPEAK dialog using the SheerResponse.ShowModalDialog command.
Example:
SheerResponse.ShowModalDialog(new ModalDialogOptions(url)
{
Width = "100",
Height = "200",
Response = true,...
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Initialize custom JS attached to Small Checkbox button on Experience Editor page load
The reason why on Page Load it does not trigger the JavaScript is because you need to set the PostponedCall value to false
Using Sitecore Rocks, on the rendering SmallCheckButton, view the Properties ...
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Speak Upload CSV File "can uploader be restricted to allowing a single file to be uploaded?"
I was able to get this off the ground as a speak application but I had to use FormData to pass it off to a controller. Here are the steps I took:
I added a UploaderInfo rendering to my speak ...
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General Link Dialog "InsertLinkViaTreeDialog" misses InsertLinkRules after Upgrade to 8.2u2
Sitecore 8.2u1
Previously InsertLinkButton values were populated with InsertLinkButtonRule (rule item id: {CEDD4633-193B-4D79-8DCC-C49B3C8D0F53}). Where TargetControl of this rule is InsertLinkButton ...
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Passing a Value From an Experience Editor Button to PipelineProcessorControlStateRequest<ItemContext>
This feels like a ton of hacking to pass some parameters. I opted to pass the ribbon id instead of individual field values because I ended up needing more parameters.
Adding the id of the ribbon ...
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Sitecore 9.0.1 Datepicker displaying wrong format
According to the help desk, yes you still have to edit the file.
\sitecore\shell\client\Business Component Library\Layouts\Renderings\Common\DatePickers\DatePicker.js
But instead of fixing the hard-...
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How to trigger upload event for Uploader control?
I found the cause of the problem.
In the UploadButton rendering, the click event needs to be set to "javascript:app.Uploader.viewModel.upload()" (where "Uploader" is the ID of the uploader rendering). ...
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How to add functionality or data to Sitecore Launchpad
The way to do this is to create a rendering in the Core database and add it to the Launchpad application's presentation details using Sitecore Rocks.
Note: this has only been tested on Sitecore 8.1 ...
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Dates side by side in Sitecore content editor
Sitecore doesn't have such a functionality OOTB .
You can have 2 different DateTime fields and you can add them in a single section of the template or you can build your own custom field to look ...
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How to configure horizontal scroll bar for Sitecore SPEAK 2.0 ListControl Component?
I believe this is not possible in Speak 2 based on documentation from Sitecore. It is stated here that ListControl control supports a number of behaviors: EndlessPageScroll, MultiSelectList, and ...
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Passing a Value From an Experience Editor Button to PipelineProcessorControlStateRequest<ItemContext>
As far as I see this is not really supported without hacking Sitecore.
The LargeButton has his own .js and .cshtml which is collecting the properties from the core database. Exactly in the following ...
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