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Sitecore Transfer items from one database to another
In this article I will describe how to transfer items from one Sitecore database to another. Usually you transfer content by publishing. But in rare cases this is not an option: You are not moving...
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Sitecore 8 ServerTimeZone – my dates are all wrong
This issue appeared when I upgraded from Sitecore 7.5 to Sitecore 8. Suddenly my dates on the website were 2 hours behind – on my development server it was one hour behind. In Sitecore, my date-time...
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Sitecore 8 EXM Get the email recipient from a Sublayout
The Sitecore 8 Email Experience Manager (EXM) is not only about sending bulk emails. It can be used to send one-time messages like “Thank you for signing up” or “forgot your password?” directly from...
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Extend the Sitecore FieldRenderer
The Sitecore FieldRenderer is the render controls used to render fields from Sitecore in a way that makes them page editable from the Page Editor (or Experience Editor as it is called in Sitecore 8)....
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Sitecore 8 and Tracker.Current.Session.Identify – Overriding expired contact...
The new Sitecore 8 Experience Profile is a vital part, yes almost a cornerstone of the new xDB concept. In xDB, you store information about the current user, anonymous or named, as a Contact in the...
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Sitecore contact facets – Create your own facet
This article describes how to create a simple Sitecore facet consisting of a DateTime and a list of strings. A contact is made up of facets. Here are all the facets Sitecore uses (you will find the...
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Sitecore locating sublayouts on your webpage
This is a followup from the post, Get Sitecore placeholders and rendering hierarchy from a Sitecore item, where I adress one of the difficulties when working with pages in Sitecore, that they tend to...
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Sitecore register page events
A Page Event in Sitecore is a way of tracking when a user have reached a goal by executing a call to action on a specific page, for example: Downloaded a brochure Clicked your banner Done a search A...
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Sitecore Contacts – Create and save contacts to and from xDB (MongoDB)
The Sitecore Contact is the cornerstone of the Sitecore Experience Platform and is the place where you store every data you know about any contact, named and anonymous. This library was made by my...
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Sitecore Virtual Users – authenticate users from external systems
One of the very old Sitecore features popped up yesterday. My team and I are working on moving our 550.000+ users from the .NET Membership Provider to an external system, possibly .NET Identity. .NET...
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Sitecore List Manager – Add Contacts to EXM Lists
This is yet another post on the focal point of Sitecore 8: Contacts. The contact repository is a multi-usage storage of user information, from visitors (named and anonymous) to imported email addresses...
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Azure CloudQueue, Get and Set Json using Newtonsoft.Json and...
The Microsoft Azure Cloud have a nice simple Queue mechanism in their Azure Storage where you can store up to 64 kb of data for up to 7 days. The queue is very easy to set up and very easy to work with...
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Sitecore sublayout caching vary by cookie
In Sitecore you can control the caching of your sublayouts in many different ways. Caching parameters Checking the “Cacheable” box allows you you vary the cache by data (data source), device, login...
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Why is session NULL in BeginRequest()? (httpRequestBegin)
Have you ever wondered why the session is NULL when a request begins? The answer is simple: The Application_BeginRequest() event is fired before the Session_Start() event. The BeginRequest() event is...
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Sitecore xDB – flush data to MongoDB
When debugging Sitecore xDB issues, it is a pain that data is not written to MongoDB directly, but you have to wait for your session to end. The legend said that you could either set the session...
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Sitecore 8 EXM: Failed to enroll a contact in the engagement plan
In Sitecore 8.1 update 1, you might experience the following error when trying to send an email: ERROR Failed to enroll a contact in the engagement plan. Exception: System.Net.WebException Message: The...
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Sitecore EXM: Send an email from code
The Sitecore Email Experience Manager is your way to send personalized emails to Sitecore users. You do not need to send bulk emails, you can easily send single emails with contents like “Here is...
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Sitecore SVG files
In Sitecore 8.1, there is a tiny but annoying glitch in the matrix, where SVG files are not allowed in the Media Library. But do not worry, the fix is easy. Go to your /App_Config/Sitecore.config, find...
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Sitecore EXM keeps reloading
Have you experienced that in Sitecore, the EXM Email Experience Manager window keeps reloading? Email Experience Manager In my solution, the problem was that I have a cookie with a “:” (colon) in the...
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Sitecore get host name from a different context
Ohno, you are running in one context, say the “shell” context, and all of your URL’s have to point to the “website” context. The hustler will obviously hard-code the domain name of the “website” into...
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