Sitecore EXM (Email Experience Manager) currently lets you specify you the following fields in the Sender Details part of an email campaign: From name From email Reply to Unfortunately, neither of the above fields allow you to use the personalization tokens, that can be set for example when sending an email campaign through a Sitecore …
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For a specific scenario i wanted to be able to pass HTML through a personalization token to be used from within an EXM email. Unfortunately (due to security) personalization tokens are HTML encoded and this behaviour isn’t configurable. The token replacement is done from within the Sitecore.Modules.EmailCampaign.Core.Personalization.PersonalizationManager class, which is mostly static, private, and totally …
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TLDR; Sitecore Forms is vulnerable for overposting which enables end-users to disable field validations. I’ve noticed that Sitecore Forms uses the default ASP.NET MVC model binding, and it binds the posted model to the FieldViewModel. As there is no validation on which properties of the FieldViewModel can be bound, we can post fields that should not …
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Within a new implementation running on Sitecore 10.1 with SXA, we ran into a problem where we saw Invariant Language versions being created on certain items or recieving access denied exceptions, when saving an item. After a long time i’ve managed to reproduce the issue and pinpoint it to a new handler that was introduced …
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With the Sitecore CLI you can choose to login in with a non-interactive login, meaning that you specify a ClientId and ClientSecret, which is then used to log in. Interactive login means that you log in using a username and password, for a pre-existing user. Today a user on Slack had some issues using the …
Yesterday a question on slack on how to use the alt text with Responsive Images in scriban triggered my quriosity. The way that the Responsive Image was used, was by using the sc_execute function, which renders a Variant Field that is located underneath the Scriban template. I was wondering if there was a way to …
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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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