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Displaying Custom 404 error page for urls with unallowed file extension in sitecore

Hey , there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about displaying custom 404 page for unallowed file extension requests. In Sitecore, we have an option to allow required file extensions and only the allowed file extensions are processed by Sitecore. (Not Sure? How to configure file extensions? Refer my previous post on allowing or blocking specific file extensions in Sitecore) When the custom 404 page is configured, Sitecore will process the URL and maps it with the associated file in webroot or item in Sitecore and displays it. If the file/item is not available, then it will display a custom 404 page. In case of unallowed file extensions, Sitecore will not process the request. Request is directly handled by IIS and redirects to default error page. Oh no! user is seeing default error page, not a good user experience.  Want to know how to configure a custom error page in this scenario? Yeah, this post is for you.   Refer below for the solution: Existing custom 404 page c...
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Sitecore - Task Schedulers and how to schedule a task

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Hey ,  there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about sharing the details about "Sitecore Schedulers and how to create and use Schedulers". There are scenarios, where we want a particular task to be executed after some time intervals like for each 15 mins or for each 3 hrs etc.., Below are some sample scenarios: 1) To create a items in CMS tree after reading it from feed. 2) To rebuild/refresh a solr index in specified intervals. 3) To send an email in specified intervals. 4) To clean up items in database. To achieve this, Sitecore provides a feature called scheduler. Where it will allow us to schedule a task to be executed in the specified intervals. Want to know about scheduler creation and how to configure it?  Let's check below steps : 1) Task Creation 2) Configuring a Task in CMS 3) Scheduling a Task. 1) Creating a Task: using Sitecore.Data.Items; using Sitecore.Diagnostics; using Sitecore.Tasks; namespace Testing.Foundation.Testing.Scheduler { ...
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Accessing Items from Sitecore Database in different scenarios

Hey ,  there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about sharing the details about "Accessing items from Databases and about Sitecore.Context.Database in different scenarios". Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem() returning null even the items exists in the Database? Want to know more details why this is not returning any results or null? You are on right place, check below for details. Let's dig into different scenarios and ways to access database to understand more about this: Different ways to access Databases: 1) Sitecore.Data.Database database = Sitecore.Context.Database; 2) Sitecore.Data.Database database = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master"); 3) Sitecore.Data.Database database = Sitecore.Data.Database.GetDatabase("master"); Last 2 approaches works as expected, but the issue here is we have hardcoded the database values. In the 2&3 approaches, if the piece of code is executed from CD site it will throw an error...
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How to disable database switching in Sitecore

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Hey ,  there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about sharing the details about database switching in Sitecore and how to disable the database switching for few users or roles. In Sitecore when we login, the default database is set to the master and at the right-bottom corner we have an option to switch to specific data bases like Core database or to Web database. In specific scenarios, we may want to disable the database switching for various security reasons and to provide right access to the right user. Giving extra access for an content author is not recommended, as there may be chances of performing unintended actions by accessing the databases and it's content. So one of the option to provide right access to some content authors is disabling database switch option in Sitecore. In Sitecore, the editor and all the options we are seeing in master database are configured in Core database. Database switch option is also one of them. For disabling database switch o...
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How to rebuild custom solr index programmatically in Sitecore

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Hey ,  there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about sharing the details regarding custom index rebuild through code. Sitecore rebuilds indexes data but it does not rebuild indexes very frequently, all depends on the indexing strategies specified for that index. In Sitecore, we have an option to rebuild indexes under control panel and the index rebuild can be performed manually but if we want the index to be rebuild after some operation is done or after some time span? Let's achieve this through scheduler. Create a scheduler to perform index rebuild operation.  1) scheduler : using Sitecore.Data.Items; using Sitecore.Diagnostics; using Sitecore.Tasks; namespace Testing.Feature.Testing.Scheduler { public class TestIndexRunScheduler { public void Execute(Item[] items, CommandItem command, ScheduleItem scheduleItem) { try { //Rebuild Index //Fetch the index to perform rebuild opera...
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How to specify custom richtext menu as default richtext field setting when no source is specified for richtext field in sitecore

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  Hey ,  there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about sharing the details about "Richtext field setting in templates and setting custom menu or adding a new menu as default setting to display a different menu in richtext editor" While creating template fields, if the field type is richtext then we have an option to specify the setting item in the source. Based on the setting item, richtext menu will be displayed.  Below are the different settings provided by sitecore: 1) /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Full 2) /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text IDE 3) /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Limited 4) /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Medium 5) /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Default Based on the setting provided, richtext menu options will vary. If "Rich Text Full" setting is specified, richtext menu contains several options and if ...
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Rendering Parameters and Rendering Parameter Templates in Sitecore

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Hey ,  there! Welcome to "Sitecore Series" Post is all about sharing the details about rendering parameters and accessing rendering parameters in code. What are rendering parameters? Rendering parameters are used to pass some extra data to a rendering and to give some control to content author on rendering display. Scenarios: 1) To handle a requirement , where the rendering to be displayed with different background colors. 2) To display a component in different ways based on the value selection. 3) Applying different css classes to the rendering. 1) How to Create Rendering Parameters: Let's take a look at below steps to understand the rendering parameters creation. As we all know the data templates are created from "standard template" but for rendering parameters the template to be created from  "Standard Rendering Parameters Template" Here is the path for the Standard Rendering Parameters Template: Templates/System/Layout/Rendering Parameters/Standard...
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