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Manage Publication of Deletions with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, September 19, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (3)

This blog post describes how the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS publishes items that you delete from the Master database used for content management to the publishing target database(s) supporting content delivery. The Publish deleted items thread and many other threads on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDNforums prompted me to write this blog post. For more information about publishing and publishing targets, see my blog post All About Publishing Targets in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS.

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Tags: Architecture, Infrastructure

Programmatically Update Layout Details with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, September 18, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (2)

The How to programmatically change settings listed under the presentation tab (eg, Layout Details) thread on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDNforums prompted me to write this blog post about updating layout details using the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS.

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Tags: API, Architecture

Use Wildcards to Expose User Profiles with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, September 07, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (1)

The Userneme in url thread on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDNforums prompted me to write this blog post that explains how you can use wildcards to implement URLs that expose user profiles using the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS.

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Tags: Architecture, Integration, Infrastructure, Information Architecture

Error Management with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, September 07, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (1)

This blog post provides an overview of options for managing exceptions and errors using the Sitecore ASP.NET.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure

Customize URLs in Public RSS Feeds with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, September 01, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

The RSS Item should not point to itself thread on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN) forums prompted me to write this blog post that explains how you can override the URLs used in public RSS feeds by the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS. For more information about RSS features with Sitecore, see the Presentation Component Cookbook on SDN.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration

Using the Debugger in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, September 01, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

Screen capture of debugging an XSL rendering

This blog post describes the oft-overlooked browser-based debugger available in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS, and how you can use it to diagnose performance issues and other problems with Sitecore solutions.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure

How the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS Caches Output

By John West, September 01, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This blog post describes how the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS caches the output of individual presentation components. For more information about presentation components, see the Presentation Component Reference Manual on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN). For more information about caching with Sitecore, see the Cache Configuration Reference on SDN.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration

Update: Trap Sublayout Exceptions in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, August 31, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

The Unhandled exceptions in user controls - alternative behaviour? thread on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN) forums prompted me to write this update to my existing blog post Trap Sublayout Exceptions in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS, which explains how you can manage exceptions in sublayouts using the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS. I highly recommend that you read that blog post first, as well as the Custom Caching Criteria with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS post to which it refers.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Infrastructure

Schedule Expiration for Output Cache Entries with the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

By John West, August 31, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (1)

The Sitecore Cache Expiration Setting thread on the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN) forums prompted me to write this blog post that describes how you can set an expiration time frame for each presentation control using the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS. I have to thank Christopher Giddings for pointing me towards the relevant information in the original forum thread Sitecore Caching for SSL + non-SSL sublayout.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration

Sitecore Digital Marketing System SQL Query to Populate Excel Funnel

By John West, August 29, 2011 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This blog post describes my experience writing an SQL query against the database tables in the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS) to support an analytics funnel created using Microsoft Excel. You can access a diagram of the DMS database schema in my dreamcore 2011 presentation, DMS Under the Hood.

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Tags: API, Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration

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