by Bhavik Patel | Jun 20, 2017 | Sitecore
As many of you know, Sitecore’s Content Search API does a great job of hiding the complexities of Lucene, thus providing a quick way for implementers to provide search functionality to their end users when building Sitecore websites. Wrapping search in this way also...
by Bhavik Patel | May 3, 2017 | Sitecore
This blog post is a little bit high-level, but provides some ideas for capturing context data when filling out Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM) forms. When I say context data, I mean certain things related to the user’s current context on the website (like the User ID,...
by Bhavik Patel | Feb 9, 2017 | Sitecore
With Sitecore’s Search API, boosting by date range may seem like a simple a straightforward thing to do. Well, it is if you choose the right (or, rather, suggested) way to do it. Let’s start with the way in which it will not work: dateBoostPredicate =...
by Bhavik Patel | Dec 28, 2016 | Sitecore
I’m sure that many of you have worked with Experience Editor and have used Sitecore’s built-in functionality to spawn a “Field Editor” modal window in order to allow users to edit more complex fields (such as Multilist or Treelist fields). This is a simple and...
by Bhavik Patel | Dec 27, 2016 | Sitecore
As I was working on a project recently, I realized that when using GlassMapper in events that are triggered remotely (in my case, the publish:end:remote event), I was getting a fairly odd error that looked like this: Failed to map to property ‘<Property...
by Bhavik Patel | Sep 1, 2016 | Sitecore
UPDATE: As of July 2016, Amazon RDS fully supports backup and restoration of MS SQL Server backup files. See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-support-for-native-backuprestore-to-amazon-s3/ for more information about that. Considering this,...
by Bhavik Patel | Apr 8, 2016 | Sitecore
How do you turn off analytics in Sitecore 8.1? I’ve been asked this question many times now, so I’ll write a quick post about it. In previous versions of Sitecore 8 (prior to 8.1), this setting was in Sitecore.Analytics.config and was called “Analytics.Enabled”. In...
by Bhavik Patel | Mar 25, 2016 | Sitecore
Sitecore’s Links database is actually a very useful tool when you are dealing with a lot of data and have to come up with creative ways to get information from Sitecore quickly. In one of our recent encounters, we had to present a list of items that were related to...
by Xing Liu | Feb 19, 2016 | Sitecore
In our previous Sitecore application, we sometimes need to have a custom computed index field based on the business requirements. For example, we might need an extra field for faceting purpose of certain data template. In order to have a custom index field, you need...
by Bhavik Patel | Nov 23, 2015 | Sitecore
If you’re an avid Sitecore developer, you’ll quickly realize that the initial load times for Sitecore 8 are a bit longer than in previous versions of Sitecore. This is primarily due to a new addition to Sitecore’s “initialize” pipeline, namely “PrecompileSpeakViews”....
