Do you want to change the way Sitecore Forms generates ids or any attributes? Then follow through this short post.
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João Neto is a Sitecore MVP, 2x Sitecore Hackathon champion, and a Certified Sitecore Developer. The views he expresses are his own and not in any official capacity for Sitecore or any other companies/clients he works for.
Tutorial: Send email based on field value using EXM, Forms, and Marketing Automation
I had some clients asking me how to send an e-mail based on a value selected in a field using the Sitecore Forms. Let us say, you have a field named “Topic” and if the visitor selects the option named “Gifts” he gets an email offering a free voucher for a Gift. If this same visitor selects the option “Books”, he gets a totally different email.
In this tutorial, I share how you can achieve this by using EXM, Forms, and Marketing Automation.
Continue reading “Tutorial: Send email based on field value using EXM, Forms, and Marketing Automation”Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 3: Sitecore version, assemblies, environment and scheduler
Continuing with my series of blogs describing what each line in the Sitecore logs mean, today I want to talk about Sitecore version, Assemblies, Environment information and Scheduler.
In this post, we are still examining the log file. In future posts, we will explore Client, Crawling, Eds, Exm, Fxm, Search, Publishing, Aggregation and WebDAV logs.
Continue reading “Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 3: Sitecore version, assemblies, environment and scheduler”Upgrade finished? Remember to check the Database Compatibility Level in SQL Server
When you finish upgrading Sitecore from a 8.x to a 9.1 version for example, you might want to restore the upgraded databases into the latest supported SQL Server version according to the Sitecore compatibility table. Once restored, the upgraded databases are still configured to be compatible with the lowest SQL Server version supported, which can decrease the performance of your site.
Continue reading “Upgrade finished? Remember to check the Database Compatibility Level in SQL Server”Visual Studio Live Share lets you also share your local Sitecore installation with your colleague
You’ve probably heard the fuzz about Visual Studio Live Share, but did you know you can also make a site installed locally in your machine available to your colleagues through Live Share as well?
Continue reading “Visual Studio Live Share lets you also share your local Sitecore installation with your colleague”Copy items from one database to another
In this short blog post, I want to share a code to copy items from one database to another. You usually use Sitecore publishing to transfer items. For example, from master to web database. Still, in some scenarios you might need to move items from web to master database like when you have a form that uploads files.
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Recently, we had a client that wanted to extract data from xConnect using Power BI. One option available was through the built-in OData service – https://site-prefix.xconnect/odata endpoint. The challenge was that Power BI (among other tools) doesn’t support the kind of authentication that xConnect implements.
Continue reading “Enable different authentication methods to xConnect OData”Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 2: Caches and XML configuration load
Continuing with my series of blogs describing what each line in the Sitecore logs mean, today I want to talk about Caches and XML Configuration load.
In this post, we are still examining the log file. In future posts, we will explore Client, Crawling, Eds, Exm, Fxm, Search, Publishing, Aggregation and WebDAV logs. Phew… sounds like a lot of work.
Continue reading “Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 2: Caches and XML configuration load”Create a dropdown list with external data in Sitecore Forms
Sitecore Forms comes with an out-of-the-box dropdown list field that allows you to choose between a static or a dynamic data source. In today’s blog post I am sharing a simple way to create a custom dropdown list that displays external data from systems such as Salesforce.
Continue reading “Create a dropdown list with external data in Sitecore Forms”Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 1: xDB, Tracking, License, Path Analyzer and Memory Monitor
I want to start a series of blogs describing what each line in the Sitecore logs mean. I am basing my research on the log information extracted from Sitecore 9.1 Update-1 with the log priority level set to “INFO”.
Let’s start with the log file.
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