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That is right, our third User Group is comming ! Next year, on the 29th of January ! Short intro : The SUG board members would like to welcome you to the third Sitecore User Group event (BeLux). This third session is meant as a mix of a both Developer and Product information on WFFM. Webforms for marketers is the Form generation module offered by Sitecore. During the sessions we will explain the value of using the WFFM module for marketers, the flexibility it offers and the limitations the product has. And to sweaten the deal, we'll go into detail on how you can work around the limitations, show the code that drives this and zoom in on what capabilities the module has. Optionally, the differences between the versions of WFFM can be looked at in more detail as well as the roadmap from Sitecore on this module. For the full agenda: http://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Belgium/events/219021476/ Feel free to contact me with questions, or agenda requests !

The problem We have found that a number of Sitecore versions (at minimum up to 7.2) have a problem with defining the Title field (used for onhover's) of Media items such as images. Even though Sitecore has a Title field on media library items (metadata), it is not rendered correctly. We tested this on multiple sitecore environments with these scenarios: using the sc:image fieldrenderer rich text field using an inclosed image from the media library I opened up a ticket with Sitecore and they acknowledged the problem as a bug and will take this up with their patching and version releases. In the meanwhile you can As a workaround, you can do the following: To resolve this issue in the <sc:image> XSL Extension Control You can override the <processor type="Sitecore.Pipelines.RenderField.GetImageFieldValue, Sitecore.Kernel" /> processor in the <renderField> pipeline. You should create your own class. For example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Introduction This page is meant to provide insight into what tools are available in an ootb installation of Sitecore with regards to specific administrative tools decoupled from the actual Sitecore Content Management System. * Update * - When you read through this document be sure to check out the update on more recent versions of Sitecore here:  http://kverheire.blogspot.be/2016/02/sitecore-hidden-gems-updated-admin.html These can obviously be expanded upon by installing additional modules and/or related tooling that creates new functionality in this Admin section. The pages described below are made available under the webserver that provides access to the "/sitecore/admin" URL. In other words : "http://company.domain/sitecore/admin/tool.aspx". Make sure that the aforementioned URL is protected and not accessible from the web or at least correctly shielded through authentication with Sitecore since a number of the tools described below can divu

Ok, I have been delaying this too long. It's time to get onto the bandwagon and join all you guys out there with MVC and Sitecore. And since I recently heard a Sitecore representative say that Sitecore is embracing and enforcing the MVC approach I find it high time. So, lets try to find all information I possibly can to make sure I get a good start on this. First off, I found this information : -            http://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/documentation/Sitecore%20MVC/index.html  - Very up to date, thank you Martina Wehlander ! -            www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2012/06/Sitecore-MVC-Playground-Part-1-Enable-MVC.aspx  - Sitecore John, our hero... -            http://www.robertgray.net.au/posts/getting-started-with-sitecore-mvc-as-an-aspnet-mvc-developer#.VIAf-CiNqC4  – Getting started with Sitecore MVC -            http://www.alen.me.uk/2012/08/learning-sitecore-mvc-part-1.html  - Learning Sitecore MVC and

Yesterday's Sitecore User Group presentation was a success. It was hard to get everything crammed into one presentation but I pulled it off in the end. It is a hard task to get the correct feeling and bring it across correctly but I gave it my best shot Download the information and slideware here: http://files.meetup.com/14353282/Sitecore%20symposium%202014-SUG-BELUX.pptx If you have any more questions or want me to give more detailed information feel free to contact me directly. Kind regards.

Case We experienced a problem last week on a number of servers that steadily kept on using up memory. After inspection it turned out that each and every page request was creating up-to 7 new caches for BlobId's. Since we saw the following in our logs: As you can see, each of these caches took up 500KB and in our case (since 7 caches were created) this resulted in a 3,5MB of consumed memory on the server for each page request. Furthermore, it turned out that these caches were not accessed or used at all but only kept on consuming valuable memory. Find the problem and solution below so you never make the same mistake and don't have to embark on a wild goose-hunt to solve this one. Okay, how did we fix this and what was causing it !? First off, our sincerest thanks to the intervention of Sitecore support which helped us pinpoint the problem directly and made for a quick resolve. Sitecore informed us that the creation of these cache entries is done when a new instan

That's right, I'm working on the last preparations for the presentation on the next SUG-BELUX event hosted in Ghent. http://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Belgium/events/197698722/ The following are the two sessions that will be presented at this meetup: Session 1 : Sitecore Symposium Highlights - Kris Verheire Session 2 :  How-to (e-)CRM - Johan Becue Afterwards there will be plenty of time to mingle and do some of your best networking. Hope to see sou all there on October 23 in Ghent !

The Sitecore Symposium Party in the Maritime museum of Barcelona, combined with some recaps and brainstorms on the sessions of the first day after a few drinks, made us enter the second session-filled Symposium day with too little sleep. The same seemed true for the bulk of the audience that trickled into the various interesting sessions this second day had to offer. This second day had to become a mix for me where I could follow up on the sessions as well as getting through 8 more Partner booths to make sure I captured all information and contacts that were available there too. Since I want to cover the Partner information in seperate posts, I'll skip this and might have some holes in my timeline and continuity. Let's do this: Product track -  Developers aren't marketers, but can we coexist   A good track to open with since it helps spot one of the tricky parts of developing a full-fledged CXP implemented website presented by Mike Edwards and Mike Shaw.

The Sitecore Symposium at Barcelona featured an impressive 12+ partner booths that were each and every one worth a visit. As a perfect Sitecorian (or what was the name again) I went over to each booth and visited them all. Which was hard and took up all my spare time between sessions and even kept me out of some of the first minutes of some sessions. But I think it was worth it. Because you do not build a Sitecore solution alone. Sitecore is a platform that lends itself to co-operation and integration. In the comming blog posts I'll try to make an post for nearly each of the Partners there. And as proof that i visited every one of them, here is my Passport with every partner stamp on it: First one to do: ADAM, full-fledged data asset management tool that now integrates perfectly with Sitecore. ADAM was Signature sponsor of the Symposium and the Sitecore Symposium Party.

Now that the Sitecore Symposium in Barcelona is behind us, I finally find the time to reflect on everything that was transferred and imprinted into our mind there.  The two main days of the Symposium were on Tuesday and Wednesday, the two days were a good mix between Business, Product and Developer tracks were given. All of these fueled by inspiring keynotes from Michael Seifert, Dietmar Dahmen and XX This first post is mainly meant to give an insight on what tracks I followed the first day and to provide a short summary of the other important sessions that came along. Followup posts will elaborate in more detail on specific topics that were presented on the Symposium. Putting day 1 and day 2 into one blog post would not do the Symposium honor. Each of the presentations given there were lengthy, relevant and important. Enjoy the first day below as I experienced it. Let's kick it off with the first day: Opening keynote from Michael Seifert (Sitecore CEO) The