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Conditional Pages – Part 2

Over the weekend, I posted part 1 of a discussion of this thing I created that I’m calling “conditional pages”. I promised to elaborate on the technical details, so here I am with some code samples and instructions that hopefully will allow others...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2012 12:42 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore, DMS, Conditional Pages, Rules Engine

Conditional Pages – Part 1

A few days ago, I posed a question here (and on Twitter and on the SDN forum and some other places) regarding accessing visitor profile data from the HttpRequestBegin pipeline. I promised to post about why I needed to do that once I had everything...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2012 2:18 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore, DMS, Conditional Pages

Visitor Profiles in HttpRequestBegin Pipeline?

Sorry that this isn't a tutorial-style post today, but I promise if I get all of this working that I will post the full story in a few days. For now, I'm having a Sitecore problem... I have an HttpRequestBegin pipeline processor that runs right...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2012 11:51 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore, DMS, analytics, pipeline

Opening the Field Editor From the Page Editor Ribbon (aka the Metadata Button Module)

A while back, I wrote about opening Sitecore’s media library browser from a button in the Content Editor ribbon. Recently, I decided it would be really useful to do something similar with the Field Editor dialog – only this time, from the Page Editor...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2012 5:05 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore

Folder Tab in Sitecore Content Editor

Something I have wanted to know how to do for years, but hadn’t bothered to put any thought into… You know that “Folder” tab that appears in the content editor when you create a new folder (using the /Templates/Common/Folder template)? Here...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2011 3:11 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore, Content Editor

Building the Thumbnail Button Module

When I set out to create an easier way to set thumbnails in Sitecore, I had a picture in my mind of how I wanted it to work, but I didn’t really know where to start! I hadn’t built a custom ribbon button before. I hadn’t created a modal dialog...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2011 7:04 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore

Thumbnails and Sitecore’s Page Editor - Part 2 (The Ribbon Button)

Once I discovered how helpful it was to present thumbnails to content authors in the Page Editor, I started adding them to all of the templates and renderings that I created. Very quickly, I started to get frustrated with the process (see my part...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2011 9:57 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore

Thumbnails and Sitecore’s Page Editor - Part 1 (The Hard Way)

With Sitecore 6.4 and 6.5, the new unified Page Editor is wonderful for giving content authors a friendlier experience and more control over their page layouts. I was never a fan of the page designer in previous 6.x releases, so I was thrilled to...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2011 6:16 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Sitecore, Page Editor

Checking Out WeBlog for Sitecore

So the next release of EviBlog for Sitecore is going to be called WeBlog… The new trac page and SVN have been set up - you can see for yourself here http://trac.sitecore.net/WeBlog/ Being the curious soul that I am, I decided to grab the latest code from...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2011 2:08 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: WeBlog, eviblog, Sitecore

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Conditional Pages – Part 2

Conditional Pages – Part 1

Visitor Profiles in HttpRequestBegin Pipeline?

Opening the Field Editor From the Page Editor Ribbon (aka the Metadata Button Module)

Folder Tab in Sitecore Content Editor

Building the Thumbnail Button Module

Thumbnails and Sitecore’s Page Editor - Part 2 (The Ribbon Button)

Thumbnails and Sitecore’s Page Editor - Part 1 (The Hard Way)

Checking Out WeBlog for Sitecore