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Sitecore User Group (SUG) BELUX #3 - WFFM (The What, How, When and Why)

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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 !

Sitecore bug solution: Media Library item Title meta info field not working

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...

Sitecore Hidden Gems: Admin Pages (based on Sitecore 8)

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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...

ASP.NET and MVC / Let's combine with Sitecore

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#.VI...