Category Archives: Sitecore
Nested wildcard item resolution issue
(Observed on Sitecore 9.3 & 10.2) The Problem We use nested wildcard items of the form: /* (year) /* (month) /* (article) We use these to handle news syndication between our websites. So we handle requests like: These requests are … Continue reading
Sharing unpublished content with anonymous reviewers
Our Sitecore content authors sometimes have the need to share a page with a non-Sitecore user for review. There is no out-of-the-box way to do this. The recommended solution for this from Sitecore Support is: … setup an additional publishing … Continue reading
Remove orphaned data source items on page save
This post started out as a draft question to sitecore.stackexchange.com because WOW… raising a dialog from Experience Editor (SPEAK) is NOT TRIVIAL. At least not when compared with the simplicity of the old Sheer mechanism I was somewhat familiar with. … Continue reading
DefaultTicketManager choking on bad Auth Tickets
Encountered a strange issue today where a single user suddenly could not login to the system. This was after an update had been deployed so naturally we looked at all manner of things that proved to NOT be the problem … Continue reading
Posted in Authentication, Powershell, Sitecore
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Custom FieldType metadata voodoo
When you create a custom field type in Sitecore, often times you want to have access to the context Item on which the field is currently being displayed. Or even more tricky, perhaps you want to know the Field ID or … Continue reading
Posted in Field Editor, Field Types, Sitecore
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LowerCaseKeywordAnalyzer not lowercasing… or is it?
I recently ran into an issue where it appeared that the LowerCaseKeywordAnalyzer was NOT making a custom field’s value lower case in our Lucene index. (Sitecore 7.5) My custom field was defined as follows: When viewing the field value in LUKE (lucene index viewer), … Continue reading
How to fix that burning smell coming from your Sitecore Search Index
A few weeks ago, we decided to go through our Sitecore log files to clean up small bugs and unnecessary logging. After quite successfully eliminating a lot of the “noise” entries in our log files, we noticed that there were A … Continue reading
IndexSearchContext.Search converts TermQuery to PrefixQuery
As part of upgrading our sites to Sitecore 6.6, I had to update our search/indexing code because 6.6 uses a newer version of Lucene.NET. I took this as an opportunity to switch over to using Sitecore.Search instead of native Lucene.NET. … Continue reading
showModalDialog returnValue is undefined in Google Chrome.. in Sitecore
I have a custom field type which has its own custom editor dialog window (much like the Rich Text editor window). When users want to edit the field, they click “Show Editor” button above the field. The modal dialog editor window opens.. … Continue reading
Execute a Sitecore Scheduled Task from the ribbon
A few weeks ago I deployed the “Sitecore Shell Wax” shared source module to the Marketplace. This week, I’ve added a little more wax to that shell! Currently, if you want to run a Scheduled Task immediately (not waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Module, Shared Source, Sitecore, Tasks
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