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Sitecore Content Anonymizer
I was tasked to create a sales demo from an existing Sitecore training site. The existing training site was completely functional and had a good amount of data. There were a couple items that I needed to address to convert the training site into a sales demo. First, I needed to update the look and feel of it so it wouldn’t resemble the training site. Secondly, and most importantly, I needed to scramble the data so it was unrecognizable.
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Site Context, Computed Fields and Live Mode in Sitecore 8.1
We ran into an issue with code that worked in Sitecore 8.0 but not in Sitecore 8.1. It took us a while to determine the root cause of the issue and how to fix it, so I thought I would share what we found to help anyone else that might run into this issue.
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Sitecore: Item Fallback with Glass.Mapper
If you’re building sites with a global presence and multiple languages/regions, you may need some kind of language fallback functionality. Language fallback is the process of determining what language to serve when the content has not been translated in the requested language. In Sitecore, language fallback can occur at the item level and the field level. At the item level, if there is no version in the requested language, a fallback language version can be served instead. At the field level, if a field does not have content for the requested language, content for that field can be pulled from the fallback language version of the item.
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Handling Last Name Changes in Sitecore
I wanted to share with you an approach for handling Last Name changes for items that represent people in Sitecore. The problem you usually face when changing a person’s name is what to do with their record after you’ve changed the name. An example of this is a maiden name change from Jane Smith to Jane Doe. Typically, the item name represents the name of the person. Jane Smith could have an item name of “Smith Jane.” The item names are used as part of the URL. To get to Jane Smith’s information on the public site, the URL may look like http://www.site.com/people/s/smith_jane.
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#1NWebinar: Explorations in Sitecore
In this webinar, One North technologists Ethel Crosby (Head of Technology Operations) and Mike Skutta (Architect) pair up with Sitecore Product Marketing Director Patrick Schweizer to discuss the impressive customer experience platform of Sitecore. Learn how you can get the most out of this advanced digital marketing tool.
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Sitecore Update and Zip Package Installer Web Service
I am in the process of automating Sitecore deployments using Octopus Deploy. As part of this process, I need to install .update packages that are generated by TDS and also .zip packages generated by developers. Out of the box, Sitecore provides a way to manually upload these packages through the backend GUI. They also provide an API to upload the packages. Octopus Deploy has the ability to run PowerShell scripts as part of its deployment process. I need a way to install the packages through a PowerShell script. One way to achieve this is to create a custom web service that uses the Sitecore API to install the packages. The PowerShell script can then call the web service. Using a blocking web service, Octopus Deploy will wait until the installation of the packages completes.
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