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Extract Sitecore Media Library Items

Extract Sitecore Media Library Items

I recently came across a requirement to set up a DAM for a Sitecore instance. The ask is to move existing media library items to the DAM. Plan * Extract all the images and documents using PowerShell scripts. * The extract will also generate an Excel sheet with the path and other

Sitecore Stream Setup Debugging Tips and Tricks

Sitecore Stream Setup Debugging Tips and Tricks

When I was setting up the Sitecore Stream, I ran into a few issues. I would like to share some tips and tricks that helped me resolve issues. Unknown connection string 'sitecore.aiclient.stream' Once the Sitecore stream package is installed, this error occurs if you try to

Debugging Tips and Best Practices of Coveo Custom Computed Fields in Sitecore

Debugging Tips and Best Practices of Coveo Custom Computed Fields in Sitecore

Debugging Tips Log Browser Navigate to the Coveo cloud platform and select Log Browser in the content section, which is essential for troubleshooting indexing issues. Each log in the Log Browser represents an item at a stage of the indexing pipeline. Coveo Logs Coveo for Sitecore uses log4net and generates

Deploy Sitecore Solution to Docker and Kubernetes - Sitecore VDD

Deploy Sitecore Solution to Docker and Kubernetes - Sitecore VDD

Azure CDN for Sitecore

Azure CDN for Sitecore

What is CDN? Definition In simple words the website and assets are cached in multiple servers across the world. When a user visits the site they are served from the nearest server to their location to reduce latency and improve load times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

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 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

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-

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-

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