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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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Prevent orphan components in Experience Editor when deleting composed components
September 29, 2017 Rodrigo Peplau 0
If an editor deletes a component in Experience Editor and that component has inner components, only the outer component will be actually deleted from the page rendering. Inner components will not show anymore (and often Content Editors will be happy), so why would that be a problem? The problem Take for instance this set of renderings […]
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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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Slowness with Custom Properties on .NET Security Provider
August 22, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 1
If you ever used the standard .NET Security Provider with Sitecore, you may love how easy it is to create and use Custom Profile Properties, where data can be easily saved at user profiles. But a huge issue can emerge if you attempt to retrieve users at your database by one of these custom properties. The Problem Let’s say you have a […]
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Faster Sitecore for Development - All in a single include
July 14, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0
Since Sitecore 8, load times after builds are getting slower due to the high usage of Speak at the new UI. There is a great post by Kam Figy that summarizes reasons and how to improve this performance. Tired of having to get back to his article repeating the steps for all my project, I decided to isolate everything in a single […]
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SPEAK: ItemTreeView with multiple Roots
April 22, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0
I’ve being studying SPEAK recently for a module I’m building, and it’s being a lot of fun so far. Of course, when learning anything that imposes a different paradigm, it’s common to get stuck with “simple” things that, in another programming realities, are easy to accomplish. And then it happened to me: the ItemTreeView component offers exactly the UI experience […]
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Using Rules to replace spaces by dashes in Sitecore 7.5 in 3 simple steps
April 28, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 2
In this article I show how to use rules to rename items so, every time an item is saved, spaces gets replaced by dashes. Advantage of using rules is that you can visually setup different kind of conditions, without having to hardcode them at your code. 1) Create the Action that triggers the item renaming In your master […]
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Visual Studio Solution at Sitecore Projects - Avoiding IIS restarts with Robocopy in a Post Build event
April 11, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 2
As very well described by Sean Kearney at this great post, there are two ways to setup a Sitecore solution on Visual Studio for development: 1) Your solution, and code, is fully immersed in the Sitecore web site; 2) Your solution, and code, is outside of Sitecore’s web site and you use some post build process to deploy. […]
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Best way to setup Active Directory Module in a Sitecore Solution
March 23, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 1
Connecting Sitecore with an LDAP Server is pretty easy with Sitecore’s Active Directory Module. Setting up the module is not hard, but if you follow the official documentation you’ll end up updating a lot of your Web.config file, which may be a problem for several reasons: You can easily lose track on your customizations; Upgrading Sitecore for a newer version may become […]
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How would you do it: 2 levels menu
February 9, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 1
One of our clients has a development team that will take over the project as soon as we finish our part. They have great developers with no Sitecore experience, and some of their questions are pretty valuable for those starting in the Sitecore world. My answer that follows has a consultancy approach, providing explanations and advises at a higher level. […]
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