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LINQPad and Sitecore 7

By Adam Conn, May 15, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

LINQPad and Sitecore

This post explains how to use LINQPad to test and debug LINQ statements with Sitecore 7.

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Tags: API, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 7 - Capturing and Reporting Indexing Information Introduction

By Adam Conn, May 08, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (2)

This is the seventh post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7. The team responsible for Sitecore 7 has a lot of Sitecore implementation experience. That experience is reflected in the content search API, especially when it comes to the features that are helpful when it comes to troubleshooting, debugging and understanding what is going on when a search is performed or when content is indexed.

But these features are only useful if your search provider takes advantage of them. This post covers some of the features related to capturing and reporting information that describes the index and the process of building the index.

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Tags: API, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 6 - Controlling Which Values Get Indexed

By Adam Conn, May 06, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This is the sixth post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7. This post describes how the search provider determines the precise values that get indexed.

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Tags: API, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 5 - Controlling Which Fields Get Indexed

By Adam Conn, May 03, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This is the fifth post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7. This post describes how the search provider determines which fields get indexed, and how those fields are composed into a format the search engine can read.

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Tags: API, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 4 - Controlling Which Items Get Indexed

By Adam Conn, May 01, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This is the fourth post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7. This post describes how the search provider determines which items get indexed.

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Tags: API, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 3 - Rebuilding Indexes

By Adam Conn, April 28, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This is the third post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7. This post describes the objects used to rebuild the index.

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Tags: API, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 2 - Lifecycle Event Triggered Indexing

By Adam Conn, April 23, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This is the second post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7. The first post described how to create the basic components needed to refresh the index. This post describes how to update and delete from the index when Sitecore item lifecycle events occur.

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Tags: API, Integration, Sitecore 7

Sitecore 7 Search Provider Part 1 - Manually Triggered Indexing

By Adam Conn, April 19, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Leave a comment

This is the first post in a series that explains how to build a search provider for Sitecore 7.

A search provider is used to drive search inside the Sitecore client and on published sites. By default, Sitecore 7 uses a Lucene search provider. A Solr search provider is also available. But you can integrate any search engine you want. Explaining how to do this is the goal of this series.

I have to start somewhere, so I'm going to start with manually triggered indexing.

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Tags: API, Sitecore 7, Integration

Brightcove Video Cloud Connect 6.x Released

By Adam Conn, February 12, 2013 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (2)

Sitecore and Brightcove

An updated version of the Brightcove Video Cloud Connect module is now available. This module provides the ability to manage and use videos and playlists from Brightcove in your Sitecore sites. The main goals of this release were to fix as many bugs as possible and to provide support for CMS 6.6. This blog post covers some technical details about how the module works. Even if you are not using video in your site, this post may be interesting to you because it includes information on how providers and pipelines can be used to make a more flexible and adaptable module.

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Tags: Integration

Hidden Secrets of Page Editor Solution 9: Displaying Field Info

By Adam Conn, October 30, 2012 | Permalink | Rating:  | Comments (1)

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This blog post describes how to use custom buttons to display field information. When the content author clicks an image in Page Editor, a custom button will be available. When clicked this button will display a list of places where the image is used. 

This is the last of my posts explaining how to implement the solutions demonstrated in my Hidden Secrets of Page Editor presentation at Sitecore Symposium 2012. The other posts are:

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Tags: API, Content Authoring, Sheer UI

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