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Sitecore OrderCloud Certification Tips and Tricks

Sitecore OrderCloud Certification Tips and Tricks

The Sitecore OrderCloud Certification Exam will test your knowledge regarding the development for Sitecore OrderCloud. I am not a commerce developer and I wanted to learn this platform and I started exploring. Plan Planning is important set a goal date to get the certification and work towards it. In my

Sitecore Technology MVP 2022

Sitecore Technology MVP 2022

About the Award Recognizing professionals within the Sitecore community who actively apply their talent and expertise to help others best utilize Sitecore products to deliver premier customer experiences, the MVP program is now in its 16th year. Of more than 16,000 certified developers and over 30,000 active community

Sitecore.20211128.160143.log

Sitecore.20211128.160143.log

2021 year started slow later picked up the pace. Lot of learning this year with new technology stack, headless, JSS, ReactJS, Docker and AKS. Ordercloud and moosend in the pipeline for 2022. I wish I had more time to write about my JSS journey. But I will do a series

Sitecore 10 Certification Tips and Tricks

Sitecore 10 Certification Tips and Tricks

Plan Planning is important set a goal date to get the certification and work towards it. In my case I set a couple of weeks time-line and tracked it every week about the progress. Be accountable to someone you trust. I have seen my friends even book the date and

Sitecore 10 Identity Azure AD ExternalUserBuilder No matching constructor was found - Error Fix

Sitecore 10 Identity Azure AD ExternalUserBuilder No matching constructor was found - Error Fix

Issue While building a custom external user builder for Sitecore 10 with Azure AD integration for Sitecore Identity server. I stumpled upon this issue that was new with Sitecore 10. Thank you Derek for the detailed post that I used with Sitecore 9 that worked like a breeze. Ref: https:

Sitecore TDS Common Errors and Fixes

Sitecore TDS Common Errors and Fixes

Common Errors I have curated a list of common errors that, I have faced while working with TDS also added some from the community. Quick Debug Tips Visual Studio Output * Use the VS output window for more information on the error when you do a sync or any operation with

Docker Engine failed to start - Fix

Docker Engine failed to start - Fix

Issue Docker Desktop will not start after Install or an upgrade with an error Docker engine failed to start. Docker Desktop version: 3.5.1 (66501) Windows Version: Windows 10 20H2 Opening Docker Desktop will start with this state After sometime it will get into this state Error Details The

Sitecore Development with Windows Terminal

Sitecore Development with Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal The new windows terminal is more modern, productive and comes with powerful options. Its like a Chrome browser in the terminal world. Create multiple tabs with a new look and feel. No more boring black background or blue color on a powershell window. Sitecore Development In the latest

Sitecore TDS Tips and Tricks

Sitecore TDS Tips and Tricks

What's New? * Developer friendly brings Sitecore items into Visual Studio while reducing developer's deployment time to almost zero. * YAML Serialization compatibility with Sitecore 9.2+ * Xml Serialization for older version * WDP Deployment Sitecore TDS https://www.teamdevelopmentforsitecore.com/ Download link https://www.teamdevelopmentforsitecore.com/Download/TDS-Classic

Sitecore 503 Service Unavailable Error Fix

Issue Sitecore websites will not start after a server reboot. We faced this issue across all our environments and trying to figure out why would this happen. We didnt have deployments during that time and wierd issue was only sitecore sites broke not regular IIS sites. Error Details w3p.exe

Sitecore Experience Forms - The anti-forgery cookie token and form field token do not match.

Sitecore Experience Forms - The anti-forgery cookie token and form field token do not match.

Issue Sitecore experience form submission will throw an error on submit and not complete. When you investigate the log if you see the following error "The anti-forgery cookie token and form field token do not match in the error logs". The solution mentioned will help you fix the

Sitecore Experience Forms Export not working or slow

Sitecore Experience Forms Export not working or slow

Issue The forms with more entries fails on data export to csv * Form export fails with no message. * Export too slow if it works. In my case I had a form that had close to 25k records and the export was not working or neither showing any errors. I found

Sitecore.20201118.100449.log

Sitecore.20201118.100449.log

2020 a year we want to be over. Wish everything was well with you and your family during this tough times. Let's look at the positive things for a moment. Virtual became the new normal, which helped to make virtual meetups. The virtual Meetups opened up people to

Sitecore Experience Forms - Bad JSON escape sequence

Sitecore Experience Forms - Bad JSON escape sequence

Description Sitecore on form submission, submit action fails. We had multiple submit action. Save action worked and rest of all the actions failed. We also had a custom submit action that was failing too. The issue occurred only on Content Delivery but worked on Content Authoring. Exception Details ERROR [Experience

Spice up Sitecore Performance with IIS

Spice up Sitecore Performance with IIS

Let's walk through quick and easy ways to improve Sitecore Performance at the IIS level. The tips and tricks are mostly used when we setup a new environment. The changes mentioned will need IIS reset to take effect use with caution. Compression Compression helps in reducing the payload

Sitecore 9 - An error occurred when trying to Log-in

Sitecore 9 - An error occurred when trying to Log-in

Description When you try to login to Sitecore backend you would get an error occured message. When a session expires in Sitecore the information is logged in the properties table as "SC_TICKET". The "SC_TICKET" records corresponding to expired sessions are automatically deleted by Sitecore.

Sitecore Experience Forms - Add to a webpage without layouts

Sitecore Experience Forms - Add to a webpage without layouts

How it works ? Lets understand the way it works. The Sitecore recommended way of adding forms to a web page is to create a new layout and add the forms html helpers and refer that in existing layout. Ref: https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/91/sitecore-experience-manager/en/add-a-form-to-a-webpage.html RenderForm

Secret recipe of Sitecore Device Detection

Secret recipe of Sitecore Device Detection

What is Device Detection? Device detection is a technology that recognizes the devices being used to access the website. This will include detailed information about the device like model, processing power, browser type, resolution of the scree and lot more. Sitecore 9.0 and later, Sitecore Device Detection is provided

Sitecore 9.3 Certification Tips and Tricks

Sitecore 9.3 Certification Tips and Tricks

Plan Planning is important set a goal date to get the certification and work towards it. In my case I set a month time-line and tracked it every week about the progress. Be accountable to someone you trust. I have seen my friends even book the date and start preparing.

Sitecore 9.1 Experience Editor Performance Issue

Sitecore 9.1 Experience Editor Performance Issue

Issue Experience editor mode the performance is slow. It takes more than a minute to load the page before we can use it. Site loads in 5 seconds and editing is working after 35 seconds it varies. If there are more editors at the same time. We would get page

Remote Debugging Sitecore with Visual Studio

Remote Debugging Sitecore with Visual Studio

Why is this needed? * Can't reproduce the issue in the Sitecore instance available in developer machine * No Visual Studio on the server (Mostly Stage and Prod) * Additional logging hasn't helped or discrepancies between environments * Deployment of additional logging is not allowed as we need * Issue seen

Sitecore Admin Password Hacks

Sitecore Admin Password Hacks

The presented hack expects you to have access to the SQL core db. I didn’t use this a lot before exploring Sitecore 9 that’s when I realized to make this post. The default password for sitecore\Admin is not b anymore with the new installation 9.0+ the

Sitecore Desktop Database selection shows duplicate or non-existent database

Sitecore Desktop Database selection shows duplicate or non-existent database

Do you see multiple instance of db listed in the database switcher on Sitecore Desktop after migrating to Sitecore 9. Hope I am not alone with this issue. After some search, I came to know that's a common issue, if you dont take care of the config files

My SQL Password Reset

My SQL Password Reset

I was in a situation where we need to backup of a MySql database that was created a long time ago and no one was aware of the password and we need to reset it. Please follow the following steps, the MySql version is 5.5 on windows server 2012

Sitecore 9 - Could not create instance of type

Sitecore 9 - Could not create instance of type

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: Sitecore.Exceptions.ConfigurationException: Could not create instance of type: Sitecore.Data.Database. No matching constructor was found.