How to decrease front end development time in a company/team environment? My company is asking to suggest idea to make front end development process faster? Some points I realized main problem is client never provide right information at first time and many front end developer works on same project on same CSS so everyone makes his ow...
I am trying to use the "Serialize Item" ribbon button in Sitecore but it does not seem to work. There is not anything written in the serialization folder. What might be causing this? ...
In Sitecore is it possible to have a workflow set up such that changing some field of an item does not cause the item to go to approval states? We would like to have several fields editable and immediately publishable, while enforcing workflow for a change to one specific field. This field if edited would pass the item to the 'Awaiting...
I am rather new to Sitecore and would like to know a bit more about the regular approach to a new project. I'm therefore willing to listen and try out some of the experienced Sitecore developers solutions. I have alot of questions, i won't ask them all. I am just very curious to the approach other people have. What would be the best app...
Can anyone explain why it comes? it makes source code lengthy and it will affect to site SEo also. Site is using Sitecore CMS Is this fault of .net framework? or Sitecore CMS? is PHP and other technology better to produce clean, semantic and W3C valid code? these extra info in header (what is the use of these) <head> <meta name=...
I am new to Sitecore and am building my first site using Sitecore 6. I have created a layout and a sublayout and created a new template based off the layout. I have also created a content item based off the template. I have published everything and have got an error when I attempt to acces the site. The error is: The layout for the re...
What are pros to use extension-less url? in any terms. like http://yoursite.com/mypage.html http://yoursite.com/mypage.php http://yoursite.com/mypage.aspx to http://yoursite.com/mypage and is it possible to have extension-less url for every page? Update: Is extension less url better for site security? ...
Has anyone ever tried to integrate AspDotNetStorefront and Sitecore? I've been trying for the past couple of days to come up with a way to get the two systems to play nicely together, but it doesn't seem feasible from what I can tell. A couple issues I've run across so far: Authentication between the two (AspDotNetStorefront has its ow...
I have a field in item (multi-line text) which i output in my xslt rendering. The problem is that carrigae return are not shown in my output - what do i need to do to make my xslt output show the carrigae returns? ...
how to load css classes from my own project specfic css in Sitecore's RAD editor? I want to give option to client to add predefined css class to any needed element. ...
I have the current structure; Item 1 - Subitem 1 - Subitem 2 - Subitem 3 - - Sub subitem 1 - - Sub subitem 2 - - Sub subitem 3 - - etc I have a field that is only defined on "Item 1". Let's call it 'Header'. When i am on "Item 1" its easy enough to extract this value, but what about when i am on the other items? Is there a way...
Hi We're having issues inserting links into rich text in Sitecore 6.1.0. When a link to a sitecore item is inserted, it is outputted as: http://domain/~/link.aspx?_id=8A035DC067A64E2CBBE2662F6DB53BC5&_z=z Rather than the actual resolved url: http://domain/path/to/page.aspx This article confirms that this should be resolved in th...
I have the following for-each select; "sc:item($myFolder,.)/descendant::item [@template='myTemplate']". According to Sitecore's own profiler this returns crawls through 16.000 items, although there are only approx 1700 items with the mentioned template. Could this be optimized - if so, how? ...
How to give option to add css classes/IDs to content to in CMS's content WYSIWYG builder/editor to non- technical client who doesn't know html, css but knows MS Word. some time to make content according to design XHTML tags not enough. use of css classes needed. Should we give only css .classes to user or #Id can be given also? and ...
I have an Item that I archived that is still visible on the front end but is not appearing in the content editor. Is there any way to restore archived items? ...
I have to rebuild a website. The website has a custom build CMS and this CMS has different modules. All modules should be taken to a Sitecore project since the website has to be rebuild in this CMS. I am finding it hard to write a good Technical Design document for a project in Sitecore. This is because this is the first project that I w...
In my content tree, I have a tree of content items which represent cities. For each of those I want to have logical connections to a set of... let's say... National Parks that are within 2 hours driving distance. So a city will have multiple parks... and each set will be different... but of course a park will also be associated with mo...
Is it ok to hide any thing temporarily or forever using display:none? in dynamic site where many component of page coming from different plugins etc and many time if client doesn't want any thing on page then i use dispaly:none to hide things from page . I do not remove thing from actual source because client can come back ask to enable ...
Is it in usercontrols / xslt renderings possible to check wheter an item has it's publishing restricted or is not publishable in the Sitecore CMS? We get some situations where we explain users of the CMS how to set publishing restrictions and get back questions about items showing standard values on the website. For example: I have an ...
How to keep back-up of any item in sitecore. If any item can be needed in future again and i want to revert all setting and content of old items. ...