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This blog post contains information about troubleshooting search queries in version 7 of the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS) and Customer Engagement Platform (CEP). This information should apply to the Lucene and SOLR providers shipped with Sitecore, though I have not yet worked with SOLR.
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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Sitecore 7
This blog post provides one solution for resolving InvalidOperationException that may appear when working with rendering parameters in the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS) and Customer Engagement Platform (CEP).
Tags: Infrastructure, Integration
This blog post provides a prototype for a solution that adds commands to open the definition item for each field that appears in the Content Editor in the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS).
Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration
This blog post explains how you can add data from an external system to a search index in version 7 of the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS). Specifically, this approach indexes the number of page hits recorded by the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS).
Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Scalability, Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, Sitecore 7
This blog post contains important information for developers about managing object state in pipeline processors, rules engine conditions, rules engine actions, and potentially other components in the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS).
This blog post introduces various concepts related to implementing information architecture in the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System. Information architecture defines the structures, types, relations, and other aspects of the data under management, including the content under management but additional metadata and even system configuration information. Due to its potential effect on SEO, its long life (to avoid breaking links), and because presentation components often depend on it, the information architecture design can be as significant as the coding of a CMS solution.
Tags: Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure
This blog post explains how you can implement a commit policy in version 7 of the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System. Commit policies can improve indexing performance by reducing disk-based operations. The example provided uses the rules engine to determine whether to commit. Before you read this post, please read the first two posts linked in the Resources section at the end of this page.
Tags: API, Architecture, Big data, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Scalability, Sitecore 7
This blog post explains the purposes of the some computed index fields that are disabled by default in version 7 of the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS), and describes how you can enable those fields.
Tags: Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Sitecore 7
You can use the information in this blog post to easily access data source items in solutions using version 7 of the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS). Before you read this, see at least the first two blog posts linked in the Resources section at the end of this page. The solution presented in this blog post depends on the second of those two pages.
Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, MVC, Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, Scalability, Sitecore 7, User Experience
This blog post explains how you can apply parameters passed to MVC renderings to corresponding properties in the model using the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management Solution (CMS).
Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, MVC
John has over ten years of experience in the CMS industry. His areas of focus include the Sitecore community, Web industry research, Sitecore technical documentation, and product management.
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