With Sitecore making the shift to containers, the concept of init containers has also popped up. At this time of writing, there are currently two init containers; one for MSSQL and one for SOLR. A big mystery is what those containers do, as unfortunatetly the dockerfiles of the Sitecore containers are not publicilly accessible. The …
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Update: this functionality is now available in the Sitecore CLI and in Sitecore TDS With the release of Sitecore 10.1, Sitecore introduced the concept where Sitecore items are taken from the filesystem, instead of the database. A blog post by Martin Miles and a blog post by Jeremy Davis, explains this a bit more. Unfortunately, …
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Please note that my suggested solution isn’t specific for SXA. You can use this without SXA, as it introduces a new computed field. The SXA Sort Results component lets you sort your search results based on the Sortings that you define within /sitecore/content/Your Tenant/Your Site/Data/Search/Sort Results.This functionality will make use of the default Solr sorting, …
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For one of our projects, we have a multilingual site, which contains content in Dutch and in English. To make sure that the language of the site isn’t determined just based on a cookie value, we’ve set LanguageEmbedding to Always on our LinkManager. By default, this will lead to the following:https://www.testdomain.com/nl-NL/mypagehttps://www.testdomain.com/en/mypage Looks great doesn’t it? …
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Within SXA it’s really easy to add a new facet, however this will only work on fields that contain string values. If the field contains a GUID value, it will just display the GUID’s as the facet value, which renders it pretty much useless. If we want to make the facet output the string values …
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With Sitecore CLI 3.0 a few new features have popped up, and for me, the most important one for me, is being able to publish changed items automatically when using Sitecore Content Serialization. In CLI 2.0 you had the option to run sitecore publish which would just do a full publish to the WEB database. …
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When you’re working with Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA), there’s a big chance that you’re using Scriban. Scriban is a lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET, and is used when you define a Template Variant field in any Rendering Variant. Within plain Scriban it is possible to use includes, which allows you to render another …
When a contact is merged with another contact, only facets that do not exist on the target contact will be copied. This means that when both the Source and Target contact have a value set in their Marketing Preferences facet, only the Marketing Prefences from the Target contact will be kept. This can cause unwanted …
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A while ago i’ve noticed that for one of our instances the memory usage of the XConnect Search Indexer was extremly high and would not go down. In addition to that, I also saw that changes on XDB related data were not reflected within Solr. Rescaling the webapp to a higher plan would just result …
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It is of course sad to see a contact unsubscribing from all email communcation on your website, but what if you could send him a nice confirmation email that might change his mind? The Sitecore Email Experience Manager is capable of sending confirmation mails to the contact when a few actions happen: Subscription confirmationThis happens …