November | 2016 | Sitecore Xperiences

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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