Category Archives: Sitecore

Sitecore Quick Tips – Device Fallback

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Rick Matherly

I needed a print version of a page that was different enough to make using CSS print styles impractical, so I decided to use the Print device in Sitecore. I setup the Print device to detect the query string “p=1″, then setup the layout for the Print device.  
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Preventing Cross-Site Links in Sitecore

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Rick Matherly

I have multiple sites setup in one Sitecore instance; and host names are used in the web.config “sites” section to manage this:

<site name=”site1″ hostName=”www.site1.com” rootPath=”/sitecore/content/site1″ … >
<site name=”site2″ hostName=”www.site2.com” rootPath=”/sitecore/content/site2″ … >  
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Sitecore Media Security

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Rick Matherly

I recently had a request to provide custom security for Sitecore media items.  Basically, I needed to provide a way to intercept the media requests, redirect to the login page (if needed), and redirect to an access denied page if the user did not have proper rights.  
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Sitecore Layouts and Code Blocks

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Rick Matherly

One problem I recently ran into is that you cannot put ASP.NET code blocks in a Sitecore Layout.  The page will work perfectly fine in Content Editor and on the live site, but if you try to use Preview or Page Editor, you will see something like this:  
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Sitecore Include Files – Part 2

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Rick Matherly

In an earlier blog post, I discussed using Sitecore include config files and gave some real world examples.  This post will highlight more features of include files and provide additional examples.  
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Sitecore Rich-Text Field Rendering and GUID Links

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Rick Matherly

There are several situations where you might need to get the content of a Rich-Text field programmatically and display it on a page. You could have a field with branding text that is displayed on every page (in the header or footer), so you put it in a site-level configuration item and access it from every page. You could have a variable number of child items whose content needs to be displayed dynamically on the parent item.  
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Using the Sitecore Link Database

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Rick Matherly

The Sitecore Link database has many uses.  If you are unfamiliar with the Link database, it stores references between Sitecore items.

A few examples include:  
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  • The template for an item
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Sitecore Include Files – Part 1

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Rick Matherly

Starting with Sitecore 6, settings in the configuration/sitecore section of the web.config can be placed in separate files under the App_Config\Include folder and they will be automatically merged at runtime.  You can check out this link on SDN or this link on Brian Pedersen’s blog for more information.  I won’t duplicate what is already posted, but I would like to provide additional information based on my experiences as well as some “real world” examples.  
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