Sitecore Why my custom submit action doesn't work? When creating a custom submit action in Sitecore Forms, all you need to do is to inherit the SubmitActionBase base class and override the Execute method, right? Wrong! In this article, I want to share some gotchas when creating a custom submit action in the Sitecore Experience Forms. Sitecore Forms,
Most Valuable Professional (MVP) João Neto Wins Sitecore “Most Valuable Professional” Award João Neto Wins Sitecore “Most Valuable Professional” Award Elite distinction awarded for exceptional contributions to the Sitecore ecosystem Amsterdam, The Netherlands — January, 31, 2018 João Neto has been named a “Most Valuable Professional (MVP)” in the Technology category by Sitecore® , the global leader in experience management software. João Neto was
Sitecore Make Sitecore Forms more secure In this blog post, I will talk about two approaches on how to make Sitecore Forms more secure. First I will cover the encryption of data at rest (data storage) by enabling Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on SQL Server. Then I will walk you through on how to encrypt data
Sitecore Is it time to migrate my WFFM forms to Sitecore Forms? You have probably heard about the new Sitecore Forms, announced in the Sitecore Symposium 2017 and available at the Sitecore Experience Platform 9.0 Initial Release. Now, there is a question that comes to mind. Is it time to migrate your WFFM forms to Sitecore Forms? What is WFFM? Available
Sitecore How to disable TDS file deployment in a Gulp task If you are using a Helix-based solution with TDS for serialization and have the TDS file deployment enabled, every time you run a Gulp task for building and publishing the solution, TDS will deploy files and items in the process. How do you disable that? By default, Habitat uses Unicorn
Sitecore How to patch Sitecore Database Prefetch Caches Much was said about Sitecore Database Prefetch Caches, but there is something that I missed in most of the articles I read. How to add custom prefetches without changing the default Sitecore prefetch files (Common.config, Core.config, Master.config and Webdb.config). In this article, I’ll be sharing
Sitecore How to evaluate a Condition Rendering Rule from the code In this post, I'll be covering how to list the Personalization Rules on a given page from a Rendering Controller. In order achieve it, I'll be talking about how to get only the renderings that contain personalization rules and how to evaluate the personalization rule as well. Recently, I was
Sitecore Use Elasticsearch with Sitecore - Part II Continuing with my article on how to add Elasticsearch to your Sitecore, today I'll be demonstrating how to index documents using NEST, a .NET client of Elasticsearch. Next, I demonstrate how to add two buttons to the Developer tab in Sitecore that triggers an Index re-creation and an indexation of
Sitecore Use Elasticsearch on Sitecore - Part I Always wanted to add full-text search with highlighted search snippets, and search-as-you-type and did-you-mean suggestions to your Sitecore site? Elasticsearch is the right search engine for you and it is free! Sitecore does not provide native support for Elasticsearch. Having said that there is some code that needs to be
Sitecore How to use Sitecore Mobile SDK SSC for Xamarin In a few of our previous articles, we used Sitecore Mobile SDK (WebAPI) for Xamarin to create apps that use and serve content that is managed by Sitecore. Sitecore Mobile SDK (WebAPI) for Xamarin relies on the Sitecore Item Web API, which is the legacy framework. The Sitecore Item Web
Sitecore Setup single sign-on (SSO) from Sitecore 8 to Telligent Community Telligent Community is a free commercial community platform that includes a suite of social applications (forums, wikis, blogs, etc.) and social services (likes, ratings, reviews, comments) that you can use to create communities. You can run Telligent Community side-by-side with Sitecore. Telligent Community is designed to easily integrate with 3rd
Sitecore Creating a secure Android login screen with Sitecore and Xamarin While mobile devices offer us increased internet connectivity and day-to-day convenience (such as containing books, notes and information), they also carry considerable security risks. The importance of application security has emerged as a leading factor impacting a company's brand perception and even its bottom line. Unfortunately, most of the time
Sitecore How to use Xamarin and Sitecore to create a music app - Part 4 In this series of articles, I'll explore some of the resources available in Sitecore Mobile SDK and show you how to create a cool app that you can use as the base for future mobile apps that interact with Sitecore. This is a blog post that I wrote for Nonlinear
Sitecore How to use Xamarin and Sitecore to create a music app - Part 3 In this series of articles, I'll explore some of the resources available in Sitecore Mobile SDK and show you how to create a cool app that you can use as the base for future mobile apps that interact with Sitecore. This is a blog post that I wrote for Nonlinear
Sitecore How to use Xamarin and Sitecore to create a music app - Part 2 In this series of articles, I'll explore some of the resources available in Sitecore Mobile SDK and show you how to create a cool app that you can use as the base for future mobile apps that interact with Sitecore. This is a blog post that I wrote for Nonlinear
Sitecore How to use Xamarin and Sitecore to create a music app - Part 1 Sitecore Mobile SDK is a framework that is designed to help the developer produce native mobile applications that use and serve content managed by Sitecore. It lets mobile app developers access the familiar Sitecore environment and, through Xamarin, deploy compiled native apps to all major mobile platforms in a streamlined
Getting Started Getting started with Xamarin and Sitecore Mobile SDK So you've just installed Visual Studio 2015 along with Xamarin, downloaded your targeted Android API through the Android SDK Manager, installed a fresh new Sitecore instance in your local IIS and are willing to dig deep into the Sitecore Mobile SDK. Now what? There are some "hidden" steps that need
