Adventures of a Sitecore Newbie
With Sitecore 9, we have a brand new Marketing Automation UI which replaces the old interface for engagement plans which still used Microsoft’s Silverlight. The new interface is very streamlined and easy to use for marketers. However, adding a custom activity action to Sitecore 9 … Continue readingREGISTERING A CUSTOM ACTIVITY ACTION IN THE MARKETING AUTOMATION UI
In part 1 and 2, we learned how to use a custom health monitor page to keep an eye on all important aspects of our Sitecore servers and take them out of a load balancer in case something is wrong. In the final part of … Continue readingCREATING A SMART HEALTH MONITOR FOR SITECORE IN LOAD BALANCED SERVERS- PART 3
The Email Experience Manager (EXM) is one of the most important and used tools by marketers. It allows them to create email campaigns, manage recipient lists, view analytics reports, etc to better engage with their users: As a developer, whether we are developing custom email … Continue readingTesting Sitecore EXM Locally Using Papercut
One of the best features in Sitecore 9 is the concept of xConnect. A unified and more robust set of APIs to interact with xDB. As part of this suite, we have the Automation Engine which is in charge of processing contacts, interactions, etc in … Continue readingDEBUGGING SITECORE AUTOMATION ENGINE
Time for a quick Sitecore 9 tip! A couple of days ago, we experienced some weird behaviour with the Automation Apps in a fresh install of Sitecore 9.1.1. For instance, we had an issue while testing the new Automation Plans in Sitecore 9. For some … Continue readingSITECORE 9 – XCONNECT INSTABILITY ISSUES
As a former Computer Science student (a very long time ago 🙁 ), the notion of web development seemed like a simple concept. Even the idea of “systems” (CMS’) that allowed a user to manage content seemed like a very straight forward concept. However, as … Continue readingSITECORE IN COLLEGE!
Probably one of the most overloocked features included in Sitecore RTF field is the ability to add a CSS class to an element. We can find this dropdown within the RTF editor in the left side: However, did you know Sitecore allows us to customize … Continue readingADDING CUSTOM STYLESHEETS TO SITECORE RICH TEXT EDITOR IN MULTISITE SOLUTIONS
One of the most common requirements in the world of web development and support is the ability to monitor a website health. This is usually done through some kind of “tool” that will ping/try to reach our site or load some specific content from the … Continue readingCREATING A SMART HEALTH MONITOR FOR SITECORE IN LOAD BALANCED SERVERS- PART 1
Sitecore provides out of the box protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery. While very helpful, this feature sometimes can cause problems with internal Sitecore API calls. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, a client had issues loading engagement plans within a WFFM save action. When … Continue readingFIXING CSRF ISSUES IN SITECORE
While Sitecore provides an easy way to export contact reports from WFFM forms through the dashboard, sometimes we need to export this data programmatically for marketing consumption, etc. In this mini tutorial we are going to learn to create a Sitecore Scheduled task that will … Continue readingEXPORTING WFFM REPORTS ON A SCHEDULE