by Bhavik Patel | Nov 16, 2015 | Sitecore
In versions of Sitecore prior to 7.5, many of us have used parameters in Sitecore’s controls (i.e. sc:image) to alter the size of an image. All works well if you use this strategy for image resizing. However, in some cases, we request the URL to a media item...
by Xing Liu | Nov 13, 2015 | Sitecore
This blog post will describe the steps on how to create controller rendering in Sitecore MVC. One of the benefits of using controller rendering is to set aside the complex logic in the MVC controller. First, you need to create a definition item in the Sitecore tree....
by Bhavik Patel | Sep 15, 2015 | Sitecore
While performing a large Sitecore upgrade, we ran across an issue during the step that required us to rebuild the search indexes. It seemed that after a few minutes of working as it should, the index rebuilding process would stop abruptly. Initially, we didn’t even...
by Bhavik Patel | Sep 8, 2015 | Sitecore
For those of you who have been using our SymCal Event Calendar Module for Sitecore 6 and 7, we have recently uploaded a new version of the module that supports Sitecore 8. We also understand that Sitecore’s support for both ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC developers means...
by Bhavik Patel | Aug 7, 2015 | Sitecore
If you’re using Sitecore 7.2 (or 7.5), you’ll notice that the traditional interface for browsing through media items has been improved. What was once the traditional SHEER version of the media browse/upload user interface has now become a more attractive SPEAK version...
by Bhavik Patel | Jul 3, 2015 | Sitecore
When you install a default Sitecore 7 instance, you will notice that there is a “Sample Workflow” already configured for you. The final step of this workflow has an “Auto Publish” action, which automatically publishes an item once it reaches the final step of...
by Bhavik Patel | May 11, 2015 | Sitecore
One of the most important aspects of maintaining a WYSIWYG editing experience is to make sure that the CSS that is used for your website is the same CSS that is used for your rich text editor. In Sitecore, this is pretty easy to accomplish through configuration....
by Xing Liu | Feb 3, 2015 | Sitecore
In Sitecore, since it handles the media items through media url, there are query string parameters to control the media item’s properties. Below are some of them for images: w: Width in pixels h: Height in pixels mw: Maximum width in pixels mh: Maximum height in...
by Xing Liu | Jan 5, 2015 | Sitecore
We all know that placeholders are an integral part of Sitecore, allowing us to add various components on a page that we have developed. You can even nest placeholders, so that a component placed in one placeholder can offer another placeholder that can house even more...
by Bhavik Patel | Dec 23, 2014 | Sitecore
It is often an expensive task to manually publish both code and content for a Sitecore site manually to an integration environment. Usually, a person is assigned to be a “build master”, responsible for checking out and compiling code, making sure that everything works...
