Dear Sitecore Family, A very small yet useful post today. Sometime back, we saw how to add a Component with a DataSource. In case you missed it, here's how we do it. Configure a DataSource in a Presentation Component Add a Datasource in Presentation Component When we add a presentation Component from Page Editor which…Read more Page Editor Experience – Select Associated Content after adding a Presentation Component on Page
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Setup Visual Studio Project with Post Build Script
Dear Sitecore Family, This post is in continuation to the post Setup Sitecore Developer Box in less than 5 minutes. Here, we will discuss another way of Setting up the Visual Studio project in such a way that we do not need to use Visual Studio Publish . Challenge: A Developer needs to Publish the Changes everytime…Read more Setup Visual Studio Project with Post Build Script
Page Editor Experience – Configure a Datasource in a Presentation Component
Dear Sitecore Family, Hope you are doing good? Sorry for being away from my blog for a long time, been busy with some personal responsibilities. As it was weekend, so thought why not write a post today! In the previous post on Page Editor Experience, we saw how adding a thumbnail image to a presentation component,…Read more Page Editor Experience – Configure a Datasource in a Presentation Component
Global Placeholder Settings – Why a unique Placeholder Key is important
Ever got a warning on saving a Global PlaceholderSetting with the same Placeholder Key? Introduction: We had discussed about Global and Data-Template specific Placeholder Settings in the following articles: https://varunvns.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/placeholder-settings-empower-your-page-editor-users/ https://varunvns.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/placeholder-settings-empower-your-page-editor-users-part-2/ Here, lets discuss a challenge which we might face, when configuring a Global Placeholder Setting and how to overcome that. Challenge: As we know, a Global…Read more Global Placeholder Settings – Why a unique Placeholder Key is important
Adding Help Text and ToolTip for Sitecore Item Fields in Content Tree
Hello Sitecore Enthusiasts, Hope you are enjoying the posts on Sitecore Endeavor blog? Today's post is about helping the Content Authors on our Client Side and making their jobs easy. Generally, we developers do the Templating stuff and categorize various fields into different sections. And we know, that sometimes while creating fields, we give them names…Read more Adding Help Text and ToolTip for Sitecore Item Fields in Content Tree
Page Editor Experience – Add a Thumbail Image to our Presentation Component
This tip, was given to me by my senior and colleague Nilesh Thakkar. He blogs about his Sitecore Journey, at http://sitecorejourney.nileshthakkar.com/ He said, some things are not compulsory to be done, but good if they are done to make it easy for the client. Like say add a thumbnail image to your presentation component. How? Lets have…Read more Page Editor Experience – Add a Thumbail Image to our Presentation Component
Placeholder Settings – Empower your Page Editor Users – Part – 2
In the part one of this post, we saw what a Placeholder Setting is and why is it good to use Placeholder Settings in architecturing of our Sitecore Projects. In case you missed it, have a look at it here - Placeholder Settings – Empower your Page Editor Users How to Setup Placeholder Settings? Suppose we are…Read more Placeholder Settings – Empower your Page Editor Users – Part – 2
