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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 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 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

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