Tag: Configuration
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Patch delete Sitecore elements based on element content
Recently, I wrote about patching Sitecore instances for specific roles. During my research on how to do this, I was able to use a manner of Sitecore patching I had not previously known about. With a patch:instead, instead of targeting an attribute of the element you can actually target the contents of…
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Sitecore DevOps: Deploying instance role configurations with solution
Those of you who have installed Sitecore in a scaled environment (i.e. multiple instances) know that the process can be somewhat tedious. To configure an instance to use a specific role, you need to manually enable/disable/modify config files to make the instance act as a delivery, authoring, or processing instance. Oh, do…
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Sixth day of Christmas… Keystone config tips!
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. There are a lot of configurations that come with the Keystone for Sitecore development accelerator,…
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Sitecore 7: Ensuring IQueryable ordering with string fields
I hadn’t had the chance to really play around with the indexing options in Sitecore 7 until this past week when I needed to build a listing page from an index and sort it by the page title. At first, I just couldn’t get it to work. The ordering never seemed…
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Source-controlling Sitecore: TDS Project Configuration Basics
Your Sitecore content changes are just as important as the code you are writing for your solution, and that means you should be tracking those changes in source control. Your team will be making a lot of changes to fields, templates, presentation details, and various other elements for which you…
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