sitecore

IIS7 Custom Error URL Redirects Not Working with non-physical files

So here's the issue. We run Sitecore, which does URL rewriting, and allows for something like example.com/Folder/Page.aspx to be a proper URL. Now, "Folder" doesn't actually exist on the file system, and neither does "Page.aspx". But those URL's work, because ASP.NET does what it's supposed to. Okay, so now say I try to go to a web p...

Rebuild Sitecore Search index and link database in a background process

We have a staged environment with 1 CMS and 3 Slave servers I want to create a page on the slave server, which will be called by the staging module on a successful publish, that will rebuild all indexes and the links database. I know I can use: Globals.LinkDatabase.Rebuild(Factory.GetDatabase("web")); to rebuild the link database. ...

Any experience on Sitecore CMS using Windows Sharepoint Services?

Hi guys, I plan to develop a solution based on Sitecore CMS which would allow the client company to manage their documents in a Sharepoint-fashion (versioning, diffs??). Of course, we're after limiting the number of licences required for the project, and the client doesn't yet have licences for MOSS, so we couldn't simply use the Siteco...

System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: ownerType

Hi, We keep getting this exception "Application_Error: Unhandled exception has been occured while requesting:/~/media/Flash Movies/nameoftheItem.ashx System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: ownerType while requesting a media item." We've lots of media items and they're all working fine. We get this exceptio...

Is there any way to get publishing queue in sitecore?

Problem is that I use a 5.2 Sitecore, and when I start to publish something, it only shows the publishing window and a "Queued" message. There is a chance that some people full published several times(that means 15000 items and 4 slaves), and the publishing queue is stuck. The restart of the webserver/app pool is not an option. Any exper...

Sitecore best practices.

We are setting up our first migration to sitecore. We have multiple multi-lingual sites with content stored in database fields with LCID. User controls make database calls to show different language content. we are migrating our content to sitecore items and would like to leverage the sitecore API to get the content from our User control...

SiteCore Xpress and Cassini

Hi all: Has anyone successfully set up SiteCore Express with Cassini? Thanks. ...

Sitecore role hierarchy

Is there any way to implement role hierarchy in 5.2/5.3 sitecore? ...

How to publish an item in Sitecore 5.3 using the API

Using Sitecore 5.3, what API calls would be necessary to publish a given item? If there are multiple publication targets configured, how would you specify which target to publish to? ...

Sitecore and ASP.net MVC

We are starting off a new project with sitecore as our CMS. I was thinking of using Sitecore as the Content Authoring Tool and use ASP.net MVC as in the Content delivery(CDA) Side along with Sitecore. Would love to hear your ideas and thoughts on this. Have anybody tried this? Is sitecore and MVC competing or Complementing technologies...

Tweak Content Editor treeview in Sitecore

Today I saw a demonstration of the episerver cms and it had a few features that I really liked. One was that items in the treview on the left that had no version for the current language was shown in an italic font. It shouldn't be to hard to implement this into Sitecore, anyone got any ideas? BR Larre ...

Sitecore Publishing application is missing in the start menu

I'm a beginner to sitecore. I created my first basic web site. When I tried to publish my site, the publish item is missing from the start menu. I'm using the sitecore xpress edition. I use the admin login to do my sample web site. Please help me to publish my sample web site I created. ...

SiteCore Caching

Hi, could you please explain what's happening here, i see this entries in my log file but i am unable to make out what's happening. Thanks Hardeep 9160 13:18:33 INFO Cache created: 'master[data]' (max size: 30MB, running total: 82MB) 9160 13:18:33 INFO Cache created: 'master[items]' (max size: 20MB, running total: 102MB) 9160 13:18:...

Faster restart times for Sitecore (developer environments)

Our team has just started developing for the Sitecore CMS. We find that after every code change (.cs file) the app needs to restart and sitecore's restarting takes us up to 2.5 or 3 minutes. Our local pc's dev env communicates with a distant database. Aside from increasing our bandwidth to the database, are there ways speed up a siteco...

How do I use Google Analytics with Sitecore 6?

I know that I need to add the tracking code snippet at the bottom of all my pages, but is there a central location to do this? Or do I need to add this tracking code to all of my templates? I guess that I could wrap the snippet in a user control, or external .js file, and reference it on each page, but is there a global footer somewher...

Sitecore - Multiple websites and making "cross-site" requests illegal

I have two IIS sites pointing to diffent physical folders. This is to be able to differentiate the web.config and the files and assemblies used for the sites Database is set to point to the same instance for both sites In web.config are configured to start from different parts The stucture is like this: /sitecore/content/home/default ...

How to redirect a parent page to a child page in Sitecore 6?

I have this Newsletter page, that has the actual newsletters nested underneath it for each month of the year. I want to be able to have the parent page redirect to the latest published page. What would be the best way to do that? I don't really have any idea of where to start with this one... Should I make a sub layout user control an...

From where to download sitecore 6 starter kit

From where to download sitecore 6 starter kit. link of SDN site does not work ? ...

Sitecore values -- Template > Standard Values > Branch > Item

OK, here's the process I took... create a new template "Mail Message" create a "__Standard Values" item for the template edit the "Subject" field in the standard values item: "Monthly email newsletter" create a branch for the template do NOT set the Subject field in the branch item create an item from the branch I would expect the...

SiteCore Error: AddFromTemplate - Add access required

Hello, I am trying to add an image item to the content tree - but I get an access denied error at the following point: item.Add("New Node1"... The complete code of my method is: Sitecore.Data.Database master; master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master"); Item item = master.Items["/sitecore/Co...