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  • Consulting Process

    Consulting Process

    These are my notes on the consulting process. In general, the following rules apply to the consulting process: A consulting practice creates a process that wraps around all their work. This process is a value-add for their engagements. This process should not be deviated from, even if the client wants a different process. Your Consulting Read more

  • Sitecore Search: Using a Third-Party Date Picker to Filter Results with a Date Range

    Sitecore Search: Using a Third-Party Date Picker to Filter Results with a Date Range

    If you have attributes with dates as Timestamps in your Sitecore Search you may notice that it is difficult to filter by dates as Timestamp with custom controls. With some help from the Sitecore Slack Channel, I was able to use dates as Integers in Sitecore Search and make them facets to use with the Read more

  • Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day Three

    Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day Three

    Notes from Sitecore Symposium 2024 Day Three Read more

  • Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day Two

    Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day Two

    Notes from Sitecore Symposium 2024 Day Two Read more

  • Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day One

    Sitecore Symposium 2024: Day One

    Notes from Sitecore Symposium 2024 Day One Read more

  • Using the Sitecore Search Push API with a Sitecore Webhook and an Azure Function App

    Using the Sitecore Search Push API with a Sitecore Webhook and an Azure Function App

    If you want to use Sitecore Search functions, like facets, on items smaller than pages, like products, services or courses offered, you may want to add a webhook to their creation in XM Cloud. The webhook can push the data from changed items into the Sitecore Search index using an Azure Function App. This blog Read more

  • Facet with Custom Component in Sitecore Search

    Facet with Custom Component in Sitecore Search

    I want to create a facet using Sitecore Search with blog tags and I want each blog post to have many tags and each tag to belong to many blog posts. I did this by creating an out-of-the-box facet in Sitecore Search Customer Engagement Console utilizing a string array and manipulating the array with custom Read more

  • Sorting in Sitecore Search

    Sorting in Sitecore Search

    Here are the steps I took to add a date sort to my Sitecore Search results page. Date Attribute To start, I added a new Attribute for date to store my date value. I went to Sitecore Search Customer Engagement Console, went into the Administration tab and clicked on Domain Settings. In the Attributes card, Read more

  • Sitecore Search with XM Cloud Quick Start

    Sitecore Search with XM Cloud Quick Start

    This is a quick-start blog to use Sitecore Search with XM Cloud. Set Up Search Assuming a local development Docker environment is up and running for XM Cloud, and the Search app has been added to your Sitecore Cloud Portal, log into Sitecore Cloud Portal and click on the Search app and then Sources. Create Read more

  • Fix for Serialized Items Not Showing in Content Tree for XM Cloud

    Fix for Serialized Items Not Showing in Content Tree for XM Cloud

    If serialized items are not showing up in the XM Cloud Content Tree, it may be that the items added are all IAR items and do not have an item in the database as a parent. When deploying code and serialized items to XM Cloud, the process creates an items.master.xmcloudinit.dat file for the serialized items. If you Read more

  • Sending Multiple Field Values from Component GraphQL Query into React

    Sending Multiple Field Values from Component GraphQL Query into React

    I could not find any examples of using the Component GraphQL Query field to pass multiple values into React. Here is an the “results” section of a GraphQL Query passing multiple values into React: Read more

  • Component GraphQL Query Field in Json Rendering

    Component GraphQL Query Field in Json Rendering

    In Sitecore XM Cloud, there are not many examples of queries utilizing the Component GraphQL Query field in the GraphQL section of the Json Rendering for React components. Here is an example that does not flatten the tree, but delivers a nested JSON object to React. Creating the Menu from a Data Source The out Read more