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Sitecore 7: Troubleshooting Search Queries

By John West, May 24, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

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

Resolving InvalidOperationException: Field in Rendering Parameters with Sitecore

By John West, May 24, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

screen capture of server error working with rendering parameters

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).

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Tags: Infrastructure, Integration

Add Commands to Edit Templates and Fields in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, May 23, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (1)

screen capture of field definition command above field

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).

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration

Sitecore 7: Use Computed Index Fields to Store DMS or Other External Data

By John West, May 22, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

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).

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Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Scalability, Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, Sitecore 7

Object State with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, May 20, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (2)

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).

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration

Information Architecture with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, May 17, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (2)

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.

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Tags: Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure

Sitecore 7: Rule-Based Index Commit Policy

By John West, May 17, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

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.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Big data, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Scalability, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7: Enable Default Computed Index Fields

By John West, May 16, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

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.

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Tags: Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7: Data Sources, Part 6: Access Multiple Data Source Items from MVC Views

By John West, May 16, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

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.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, MVC, Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, Scalability, Sitecore 7, User Experience

Set MVC Model Properties from Rendering Parameters with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, May 15, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (2)

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).

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, MVC

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