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Suppress Most Sitecore Wizard Cancel Confirmation Prompts
By default, clicking the ‘Cancel’ button on most wizard forms in Sitecore yields the following confirmation dialog: Have you ever said to yourself “Yes, I’m sure I’m sure” after seeing this, and...
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Display Content Management Server Information in the Sitecore CMS
The other day I cogitated over potential uses for the getAboutInformation pipeline. Found at /configuration/sitecore/pipelines/getAboutInformation in the Web.config, it can be leveraged to display...
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Replace Proxies With Clones in the Sitecore CMS
The other day I stumbled upon a thread in the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN) forums that briefly touched upon replacing proxies with clones, and I wondered whether anyone had built any sort of tool...
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Tailor Sitecore Item Web API Field Values On Read
Last week Sitecore MVP Kamruz Jaman asked me in this tweet if I could answer this question on Stack Overflow. The person asking the question wanted to know why alt text for images aren’t returned in...
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Add Additional Item Properties in Sitecore Item Web API Responses
The other day I was exploring pipelines of the Sitecore Item Web API, and took note of the itemWebApiGetProperties pipeline. This pipeline adds information about an item in the response returned by the...
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Go Green: Put Items in the Recycle Bin When Deleting Via the Sitecore Item...
This morning I discovered that items are permanently deleted by the Sitecore Item Web API during a delete action. This is probably called out somewhere in its developer’s guide but I don’t recall...
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Enforce Password Expiration in the Sitecore CMS
I recently worked on a project that called for a feature to expire Sitecore users’ passwords after an elapsed period of time since their passwords were last changed. The idea behind this is to lessen...
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Expand Your Scope: Add Additional Axes Via a Custom Sitecore Item Web API...
The Sitecore Item Web API offers client code the choice of retrieving an Item’s parent, the Item itself, all of its children, or any combination of these by simply setting the scope query string...
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Publish Items With the Sitecore Item Web API Using a Custom ResolveAction...
At the end of last week, when many people were probably thinking about what to do over the weekend, or were making plans with family and/or friends, I started thinking about what I might need to do...
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Encrypt Web Forms For Marketers Fields in Sitecore
In an earlier post, I walked you through how I experimented with data encryption of field values in Sitecore, and alluded to how I had done a similar thing for the Web Forms For Marketers (WFFM) module...
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Change the Data Serialization Format in the Sitecore Item Web API
I had a major urge yesterday to continue my tinkering of the Sitecore Item Web API, and wondered how one would go about changing the serialization format of its response. Without re-reading the...
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Set New Media Library Item Fields Via the Sitecore Item Web API
On a recent project, I found the need to set field data on new media library items using the Sitecore Item Web API — a feature that is not supported “out of the box”. After digging through...
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Add JavaScript to the Client OnClick Event of the Sitecore WFFM Submit Button
A SDN forum thread popped up a week and a half ago asking whether it were possible to attach a Google Analytics event to the WFFM submit button — such would involve adding a snippet of JavaScript to...
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Delete An Item Across Multiple Databases in Sitecore
Have you ever thought “wouldn’t it be handy to have the ability to delete an item across multiple databases in Sitecore?” In other words, wouldn’t it be nice to not have to publish the parent of an...
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Content Manage Links to File System Favicons for Multiple Sites Managed in...
Earlier today someone started a thread in one of the SDN forums asking how to go about adding the ability to have a different favicon for each website managed in the same instance of Sitecore. I had...
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Navigate to Base Templates of a Template using a Sitecore Command
Have you ever said to yourself when looking at base templates of a template in its Content tab “wouldn’t it be great if I could easily navigate to one of these?” I have had this thought more than once...
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Delete Associated Files on the Filesystem of Sitecore Items Deleted From the...
Last week a question was asked in one of the SDN forums on how one should go about deleting files on the filesystem that are associated with Items that are permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin — I...
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Shortcodes in Sitecore: A Proof of Concept
Today I stumbled upon a post in one of the SDN forums asking whether anyone had ever implemented shortcodes in Sitecore. I have not seen an implementation of this for Sitecore — if you know of one,...
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Expand Tokens on Sitecore Items Using a PowerShell Function in Sitecore...
During my Sitecore from the Command Line presentation at the Sitecore User Group – New England, I had briefly showcased a custom PowerShell function that expands Sitecore tokens in fields of a supplied...
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Unlock Sitecore Users’ Items During Logout
The other day I saw a post in one of the SDN forums asking how one could go about building a solution to unlock items locked by a user when he/she logs out of Sitecore. What immediately came to mind...
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