Was fortunate to attend the webinar hosted by Sitecore User Group Bangalore and presented by Ankit Joshi on 3/26/2017. Webinar was well organized and content presented by Ankit was also crisp and clear. I found it very helpful for people who are new to Sitecore xDB using MongoDB. The webinar was recorded and you can…
Sitecore MongoDB with SSL Customization
Worked on client requirement on Sitecore 8.1 to integrate MongDB with SSL client certificate. Client had their own SHA-2 SSL certificate and wanted to integrate Mongo with Sitecore using that. Customized MongoDB Pipeline Customize the MongoDB pipeline by defining a new “updateMongoDriverSettings” pipeline in the Sitecore.Analytics.MongoDB.Config: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <configuration> <sitecore> <!–MongoDB settings node….
Historical analytics data conversion to MongoDB for Sitecore 8.x – Batch Aggregation
Are you currently using Sitecore Analytics without MongoDB? Are you planning to upgrade Sitecore to 7.5 or upper version with MongoDB? If yes, its time to decide whether you want to convert the historical data or want to go with a fresh MongoDB setup. Cause if you want the historical analytics data, you need to go…
Sitecore ShowConfig for Content Delivery
On lower environments if we want to view the ShowConfig we follow the URL mentioned below: /sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx To access this URL the Sitecore and underneath folders should be accessible. But on Content Delivery most of the Client wants the Sitecore pages to be blocked, specially the Login and other Admin Pages. May be I am…
Sitecore Upgrade Wizard not finishing. Stucks on the last step
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Versioned Layouts in Sitecore 8x
Versioned layouts make it possible to specify different layouts for different versions and languages of the same item. You use versioned layouts when you want to: Have different layouts for different languages. Publish a specific version with its own layout for a specific period. Sitecore uses versioned layouts internally for various content-testing features, for example,…
Accelerating Content Tree Performance
Let talk about few tiny tips to accelerate the performance of content tree. Sometimes we experience that the content tree is taking longer than expected to open. It may be because of various reasons but there are few tips which can help us to speed up the content tree opening time. Avoid opening the entire…
Playing with WFFM in Sitecore
You use web forms to collect information from website visitors. You can then view and analyze this information in the Web Forms for Marketers reports. You can create a web form in the Experience Editor directly on your website. There are two ways to create a form: Insert a ready-made web form Create a blank…
How to Set Reminders in Sitecore
Did you ever realize the necessity of setting up a reminder for “Content Editors” in sitecore to make their life easy? In Sitecore these reminder can be used in below conditions – Release a certain piece of content on a specific day? To update an item? To launch a campaign within Sitecore? To remind someone…
Multi-Site in Sitecore and LiveMode.config
If you don’t want to bother publishing your local Sitecore site every time you make a change (especially when developing). There’s a nifty file named LiveMode.config.example, located in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\yoursitecoresite\Website\App_Config\Include\ . It comes with the sitecore install, and for a normal single-site Sitecore instance, simply removing the “.example” from the filename will let you view your…
Sitecore Competencies 