Sitecore 9.1 Plain instance installation Checklist points

Dear Sitecore Community, In case you missed two of my posts on Sitecore 9.1 here they are: Sitecore 9.1 Failed to start Marketing Automation Service Sitecore 9.1 – Sitecore Analytics is not working As mentioned in my last post, here is a list of checkpoints that we had for checking whether the Plain Sitecore 9.1 …

Custom Experience Editor Buttons

Dear Readers, We as Sitecore Developers have always been very keen on making our End User's life easy by creating components and adding in options. Our focus, always remains on ease of the users of the system. We all know that usually we use Field Renderer while using the Sitecore API or Editable while using …

Page Editor Experience – Select Associated Content after adding a Presentation Component on Page

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …