• (Bug-free) Custom Form IDs in Sitecore Forms

  July 6, 2020 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  Some time ago I was challenged by one requirement need from the marketing team, related to the Sitecore Forms that we put together for them. In order to do a better event tracking with Google Tag Manager, we had to give the power for Content Editor to customize the form ID. Instead of a hard to read string, composed […]

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• Malformed querystring breaks Sitecore Experience Forms (Value cannot be null. Parameter name: key)

  February 5, 2020 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  We noticed a bug in Sitecore Experience Forms 9.0.2: when you access a page that has a form passing wrong query string parameters, the system responds with a Runtime Error. The Error… For instance, the following url: ==> http://local.myclient.com/myform?good=1&bad Because the query string parameter “bad” does not have a corresponding value, accessing this page will result in a error […]

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• Custom rule condition to find Top-N Profile Key

  September 9, 2019 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  Here we are for another simple yet useful tip from the Smart Bookshelf Demo. Although we are now improving it with some Artificial Intelligence, the first version has Sitecore Rules-based Personalization in the hearth of the recommendation mechanism. Our desired behavior is to light-up LED strips from the top 3 Book Genres, such as seen below: The books you see on […]

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• Programmatically "Visit" a page (and all xDB-related)

  September 5, 2019 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  Yesterday during my presentation at the SUG-Quebec (check video here), my host and good friend Jeff L’Heureux asked if I could share the multiple challenges involved in the Smart Bookshelf for Sitecore Demo. In response to that, I’m putting together a number of articles, modules and other resources, to share how each of these things works. The present article […]

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• Index Searching - Find-Item using custom fields with Sitecore Powershell

  July 5, 2019 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  UPDATE: Michael West likes this solution and confirmed that it will be part of the next release of SPE (6.0), becoming my first contribution to SPE! Here is the ticket where this implementation is being tracked. If you are a big fan of Sitecore Powershell Extensions like me, you probably know the Find-Item command, which allows searching your search […]

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• Part 2 - XConnect Avatar Facet breaking Experience Profile (Follow Up)

  April 18, 2019 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  If you read my last post – or if you just passing by got interested in the subject, here are a few follow-ups: When you create your custom Facet to store the bigger version of the image, make sure to decorate it with [DoNoIndex] as we don’t need the image to be indexed [FacetKey(DefaultFacetKey)] public class UserPicture : […]

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• XConnect Avatar Facet breaking Experience Profile

  March 13, 2019 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  During the last Sitecore Hackathon, I’ve been through a very strange and annoying issue with my Contacts, while developing our Face Login module. This happens in Sitecore 9.1, but previous versions should also be affected. When the issue starts, your Experience Profile gets “frozen” with the contacts that you already have. Any new contact will not […]

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• Powershell script to find TDS files with length error

  December 17, 2018 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  

  A very well described problem with TDS is the File Name length error. This article from Hedgehog brings everything you need to know about the issue itself, and how to work it out. The solution is to use the “Alias” TDS feature to cut down the file path length. For instance, if you have an item with a very long […]

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• Custom Reset Layout in Content and Experience Editor Modes

  February 9, 2018 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  

  Recently I had to customize the code that triggers when a Reset Layout is executed. If you ever had to attach any code to it, this post is for you! You know, that sympathetic prompt: The first thing you need to know is that Content Editor and Experience Editor does that differently, so let’s go for them: Round 1 […]

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• Sitecore 9 Update 1 - Bug saving Shared Layout in Experience Editor

  February 1, 2018 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  

  A few weeks ago, while upgrading one of at Nish Tech’s early-stages projects into Sitecore 9 Update 1, a very strange behavior when you try to do a very simple task: edit a Shared Layout of a page in Experience Editor. When you try to do that, the infamous screen “Layout not Set” shows right […]

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