Tag: Keystone
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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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Second day of Christmas… Keystone merge tips!
On the second day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Let’s check out those merge tips!
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First day of Christmas… Rules for nested placeholders!
On the first day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: a placeholder rule in the content tree! One of the nice things that comes with Keystone for Sitecore are some built-in rules that let you set placeholder settings via the rules engine. We’ve done things like create re-usable groupings…
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Keystone: Errors with syncMaster strategy in hardened delivery instance
If you are using Keystone 4.6 or earlier, you may receive this index-related error message after hardening the Sitecore content delivery instance: Could not find configuration node: contentSearch/indexConfigurations/indexUpdateStrategies/syncMaster Even if you have followed the SwitchMasterToWeb workarounds from Sitecore’s KB article, the error will not be fully resolved as the standard SwitchMasterToWeb…
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Creating interactive wireframes using Keystone
This past week I was onsite with a client to review their site requirements and visual designs that had been created. My biggest focus was to try to determine how much additional effort would be required beyond what we could accomplish by implementing Keystone out of the box. Having talked through…
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Keystone: Considerations when upgrading to Sitecore 7.5 or Sitecore 8
With the releases of Sitecore 7.5 and Sitecore 8 in the last 6 months, there has been a lot of interest from clients in upgrading from their current 6.x versions to the latest and greatest Sitecore platform version. This upgrade process always entails an examination of the modules involved in…
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Keystone License – Error “No valid Keystone license can be found”
In addition to keeping up with your Sitecore license, any Sitecore installation running Keystone must also have an active Keystone license present in the web root folder. Otherwise, you will get an error like the following: Keystone License – Error No valid Keystone license can be found. Please ensure the…
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Keystone: Adding an MVC view to an existing component
Some Keystone components, like the Accordion and Tabs components, have multiple views. This allows developers to have a different markup for different states. For example, you can present a Page Editor view or a specific view if certain pieces of data are missing. Use the following steps to extend Keystone…
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Keystone for Sitecore: Extending template entities
The Keystone for Sitecore business layer provides generated template entities for each page and component template. These entities provide properties to access each field with a strongly-typed value, as well as properties for template identifiers, field identifiers, and field names. As you extend the Keystone templates and add new fields, you will…
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Introducing the Keystone resource category!
Have you just started with Keystone for Sitecore? Getting your feet wet and have questions? As one of the architects involved in the building of the Keystone development accelerator, I am starting up a new section of this site to provide regular posts on areas of interest, hidden nuggets, and…
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Sitecore Symposium 2014: Time to Keystone!
With just 8 hours of flights between myself and Vegas, the excitement was starting to build. Our team was coming out in full force this year to watch some great sessions, meet awesome people, and show off Keystone at our booth! After years of building up an accelerator internally to deliver our…
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