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Working with Commerce Connect - Getting Started
IntroductionWe recently started work on a Sitecore 7.5 commerce solution for a large client of ours where we would implement the shiny, new Commerce Connect 7.5 (Connect) module. As a good architect /...
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Sitecore 8 - Taking the Leap
We made the decision to upgrade one of our current projects from Sitecore 7.5 to the newly released 8. As the architect, it was my job to make sure that all that we had built so far, transitioned...
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Configuring Sitecore xDB using Rackspace's ObjectRocket platform
As all of us in the Sitecore community are aware, one of the major changes in Sitecore 7.5 and 8 is MongoDB, the new architectural component in Sitecore’s xDB.If you are starting to work with these...
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My Upgrade Experience from Sitecore 7.5 to 8.0 Update-1
I was assigned the task of upgrading an existing client's large, multisite Sitecore 7.5 rev. 141003 instance to the shiny new Sitecore 8 rev.150121 (Update-1). Having performed several version...
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Frustrated by hidden buttons when adding links in Sitecore 8?
Is anyone else constantly frustrated by the above picture?In your site’s wwwroot folder, go to /Website/Sitecore/shell/client/speak/Assets/css/ and find the speak-default-theme.css file.Edit the file...
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Enable HTML tags in Single-line or Multi-line text fields - an oldie but a...
This comes up time and time again. When upgrading older 6.x Sitecore solutions to 7 and now 8, some content areas seem to be broken because html tags start being rendered on pages.Why?The...
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Syncing xDB Experience Profiles with Dynamics CRM
Intro and PrerequisitesLike other Sitecore enthusiasts, I have been extremely impressed with the new technology and architecture behind xDBAs Nick Wesselman puts it: "The Experience Database provides...
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xDB Dataset Growth and Purging
Is there anything we can do about the tremendous growth of our Mongo database?This question comes up pretty often lately when working with the new versions of Sitecore.The bad news is that there is...
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Sitecore xDB Cloud Edition: What you need to know
I have been very fortunate to be involved in almost all of the cutting edge Sitecore implementations at Arke, and have had the privilege to work with several awesome members of the Sitecore team.In one...
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Managing Countries and Regions within the same site (Part 1) : Getting Started
BackgroundIn one of the projects that I am working on, we are re-platforming a United States and Canada website from Drupal to Sitecore. During the early phases of the project, there was a lot of talk...
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Schedule Full and Incremental Content Backups using PowerShell Extensions
During my studies in University, and working for a smaller company in the past where I was involved in the hardware side of the IT world, I discovered the power of command-line scripts when automating...
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How to Reset All Values for a Field using PowerShell
Today I ran into a situation where we had a Multilist with Search field for a bunch of items that had values set to items that no longer existed in our instance. This is often the case when you are in...
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Managing Countries and Regions within the same site (Part 2) : The Region...
With the content in place, the next step was to be able to tie the specific site instances to their respective countries or regions. We wanted to keep things nice and clean, and decided to add 2...
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FXM Experience Editor - Cleaning Up Problematic External Content
BackgroundI have been using Federated Experience Manager (FXM) a lot, and it has worked extremely well in almost all of our client deployments.I recently ran into an issue with one of our client's...
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Mastering Sitecore MVC Forms : CRUD that works on both Management and...
The Use CaseThis is a very common scenario; you need to build a form that has the ability to create or update items in Sitecore after a user has input data and clicked the submit button.This sounds...
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Setting up Sitecore's Geolocation Lookup Services in a Production Environment
BackgroundWe have been working with Sitecore’s Business Optimization Services (SBOS) team for quite some time, helping one of our client's stretch the legs of the Experience Platform.One of the tasks...
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How to Fix Missing Conditions in Engagement Plan Designer After Upgrading to...
Then and NowOver the course of the last year, we upgraded a client's Sitecore instance from 6.6 to 8.0 Update-2. I am pretty sure that we were probably the first in the country, if not the world, to...
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Sharing Razl Connections between User Profiles
BackgroundThis is a quick post to demonstrate how you can share your Hedgehog Razl connections between various users who are logging into the same machine to sync content between environments.I have...
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Fix for Multiple Versions of Items being indexed from the Master Database
BackgroundThis reared it's head on a project a couple months back - we were finding multiple versions of items that where being indexed from the Master Database.After looking around on the web for a...
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Official Fork of the Improved 301 Redirect Module
After chatting with Chris Adams about my recent contributions to the improved version of the 301 redirect module (Original version was created by Chris Castle, available on the Marketplace), and the...
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