Adventures of a Sitecore Newbie
While 2021 was a year full of ups and downs, full of hope that the pandemic would be over and the prospect of adapting to a new reality with this virus, we still managed to keep our community strong and saw it grow more than … Continue readingSitecore Ambassador MVP 2022!
We have been a little late this year; but we are back! In SUGEC session #14 we had the amazing opportunity to talk with Akshay Sura, who doesn’t need an introduction in the world of Sitecore. Akshay is a eight-time Sitecore MVP who has spent … Continue readingSITECORE USER GROUP ECUADOR SESSION #14
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 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
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
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
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!
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