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Friday, May 16, 2014 , Sitecore, Sitecore 7, API, Config, Pipeline, Sitecore API

Creating and utilizing your own Pipelines

Sitecore comes with an awesome pipeline system, the system enables Sitecore to add all run and handle code for all sorts of stuff, the code that should be run in each pipeline, can be configured via…

Saturday, April 26, 2014 , Sitecore, API, Util Class, Sitecore API, Sitecore, Debug

Show all editors currently logged in

This is one of our old tools that has been implemented for many of our larger customers.It is possible to get a list of all the current sessions in the Sitecore backend. You get a lot of info on the…

Saturday, October 12, 2013 , Sitecore 7, API, Config, ContentSearch, Sitecore 7, Sitecore, Sitecore API

Defining a custom index in Sitecore 7, and utilizing it

Last week I upgraded a Sitecore 6.0.2 solution to a Sitecore 7.0. There’s quite a leap between the two, but all in all the upgrade was no problem at all. The biggest task in the upgrade was to rewrite…

Sunday, September 08, 2013 , Sitecore, API, C#, Config, Sitecore, Sitecore API, Web Forms for Marketers

Improving the Insert form button on the Webforms for Marketers module

These days I got a few customers who all needed to get a form module installed in their Sitecore installation. Therefore there might be a few blog post on the Official Sitecore forms module, Webforms…

Sunday, August 11, 2013 , Sitecore, Sitecore, Sitecore API, Rules Engine

Utilizing the Rules Engine in custom code

So this might not be the most official solution for using the rules engine, but it just fitted in to the solution I’m currently working on. I got some elements that should be evaluated at runtime,…

Saturday, July 06, 2013 , Sitecore, C#, Customizing Sitecore, Config, Sitecore, Sitecore API, Override, Responsive Web Design

Removing width and height tags from FieldRenderer and sc:image

Best practice when displaying values of Sitecore fields in your markup is currently to use FieldRenderer. When using FieldRenderer, Sitecore renders the fields as they are intended, and adds all the…

Sunday, June 02, 2013 , Sitecore 7, Sitecore 7, Sitecore API, ContentSearch, Lucene

Searching with the new Sitecore 7 API

This is just a simple post, showing how to do a search against an index using the new Sitecore.ContentSearch API. This is so simple that I just wanted to write a little blog on it. In the old days, we…

Saturday, April 20, 2013 , Sitecore 7, Sitecore 7, .NET 4.5, API, C#, Sitecore API, xpath, Lucene

Sitecore 7.... almost there

So just a quick blog post on Sitecore 7. Its currently only released in a MVP edition, which is an early release, which MVPs with some time to spare, can install, and start playing around with…

Sunday, March 03, 2013 , Sitecore, Sitecore Intranet Portal, Sitecore, Sitecore API, Javascript, Customizing Sitecore, Sheer UI

Adding custom tool to Rich Text Editor, without Sheer UI

This article is directed at the Sitecore Intranet Portal, version 3.3, who currently runs on Sitecore 6.3.1. This means that the same functionality would be able to implement on any Sitecore 6.3.1…

Saturday, February 09, 2013 , Sitecore, C#, Sitecore, Images, Sitecore API

Resizing images outside of the media library using Sitecore

In my current project, we are having a lot of images, that aren’t apart of the media library, but who still has to be resized and served to the browser. The project was started outside of Sitecore,…

Thursday, August 09, 2012 , Sitecore, Sitecore, Sitecore API, Publishing, Extension method

Publish Sitecore item by API

So this is primary a little code sniplet that will enable you to da a publish on a item. The method will probably exist in each of your Sitecore projects, as its a fundamental method to use. In the…

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