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How we won the Hackathon
September 5, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 0
The famous Sitecore Hackathon is an annual programming contest, where teams should put together, within 24 hours, a piece of software for Sitecore in one of the available categories. At this fourth edition in 2017, there were four categories: Azure PaaS Module, Sitecore Experience Accelerator, Habitat Module and Data Exchange Framework – this last the […]
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WFFM - Sitecore Context Item NULL inside a Save Action
August 6, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 0
Business requirements There is a use case in one of our clients at Nish Tech, where a WFFM form, with a Submit E-mail Save Action, is supposed to be reused at several different parts of the website. It should have the same fields and look & feel at every place we want to reuse it, […]
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Corey Peplau wrote this - WFFM conflict with Unity DI and a lesson on how Sitecore community is so amazing
July 24, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 1
This blog was since the beginning, a space to share my own experiences with Sitecore development, always trying to bring that something new, not easily seen, or showing my interpretation of common problems. But this time I need to break my own rule and bring a story starred by another person. I’m talking about my […]
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PhantomJS Screenshots not being generated with Windows Authentication turned on
March 26, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 0
It has been observed with several versions of Sitecore 8 and above (empty versions) – including 8.2 Update 2 – that the screenshot generation is broken when the site has Windows Authentication turned ON. Symptoms When attempting to start up a test in any level, the Test Start dialog will show screenshots of your website to demonstrate […]
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Richtext Editor - Table Properties adds cells to the table
February 23, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 0
When you edit the properties of a table in the content editor of most page types, extra cells are added. Check the following animation to see the issue: This issue has been reproduced in empty (clean) instances of Sitecore 8.1 rev 160302, 160519 and Sitecore 8.2 rev 161221, and has been registered by Sitecore as […]
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Language specific MediaProvider breaking icons at Media Library
February 14, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 2
UPDATE: Kamruz Jaman has contributed with a comment for a simpler, less intrusive and more generalist solution: Inside the GetMediaUrl method of your custom MediaProvider, check for the “Thumbnail” property of your MediaUrlOptions parameter. If it is true, make your code fall back to the base, such as: if (mediaOptions.Thumbnail) return base.GetMediaUrl(mediaItem, mediaOptions); During an upgrade from […]
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ERROR [Content Testing]: Cannot find PhantomJS executable at ' (...) /data/tools/phantomjs/phantomjs.exe'. Aborting screenshot generation.
February 7, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 2
In Sitecore 8 and above, while starting a Multivariate Tests, you may see broken thumbnails and popups with warnings such as below, and your Sitecore Log showing the error at this blog title. According to what Sitecore Development Team announced at this community post for why Sitecore adopted PhantomJS: Content Testing in Sitecore uses the Phantom JS tool for generation of the screenshot […]
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Workflow not starting (state field is empty) when Versions.AddVersion after Sitecore upgrade from 6.5 to 8.1
November 23, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 2
UPDATE: A ticket at Sitecore Helpdesk demonstrated the issue happened to be something else. During the upgrade, the site definition we’re using got the attribute “enableWorkflow” removed, which in turn made the default value “false” take over, and that was causing ALL WORKFLOWS to be simply ignored. If your site does have enableWorlflow=”true” then you don’t need […]
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Developers working in parallel with Continuous Integration builds for Dev and QA
November 20, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0
When multiple developers are working in parallel (at the same build, but working in different parts) it is very common to use branches at source control, to keep each developer working in isolation and eliminating any chance that one developer’s work interferes with the work of another. Of course one day their work will have […]
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Health Check builds with Continuous Integration - How big and how often these needs to be?
November 10, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0
Background While refactoring the TFS and Continuous Integration struture of a couple projects, one thing toke my attention: Health Check builds were stealing most of the building times, which for me was representing long build queues to wait. The reason they were crowding the queue is because they were taking a long time to complete […]
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