SXA Archives - Maarten Willebrands

October 5, 2021November 11, 2021

Sitecore SXA – Creating a proper fallback for the og:title element

SXA is a great product and comes with opengraph support out of the box, you can define the following opengraph fields on every page: Title Description Image Type Site name Admins App Id All opengraph fields will not be outputted as HTML tags when they’re empty, except for the Title field. Sitecore uses the Sitecore.XA.Feature.SiteMetadata.Repositories.OpenGraphMetadata.OpenGraphMetadataRepository …

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July 6, 2021July 8, 2021

Sitecore SXA/JSS – Invariant language versions and access denied exceptions

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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June 4, 2021June 4, 2021

Sitecore SXA – Using responsive images in Scriban

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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May 10, 2021May 14, 2021

Sitecore SXA – Sort by title does not work

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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May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

Sitecore – Hide the primary language from a multilingual site.

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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April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

Sitecore SXA – Faceted search on a GUID field

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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February 23, 2021February 25, 2021

Sitecore – SXA Scriban Includes

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 …

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