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Sitecore Webinar: Pipelines and Processors

This article is based on a Dutch webinar that I presented august 2012 and will refer to the video recording, slides, the How to documentation and used resources.

The video

You can watch the recording on Youtube.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV57kWzUHAc[/youtube]

The slides

The slides of the webinar are in English and are posted on Slideshare

How to

The code used in the webinar is from the Sitecore how to series; How to Track External Links with DMS.

In the webinar I explain how the processor is build, this is explained in step 2 of the How to: Track all External links with a custom Renderfield processor. But the How To also covers the creation of the Link.aspx page and building the report outgoing link report.

Resources

I selected the following resources where you can find more information about pipelines:

Please add a comment if you have more useful links about Sitecore Pipelines (I will update the post).

Contact

If you have any questions about the webinar, code or the how to please leave a comment.

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Webinar: Sitecore and Continuous Integration

webinar sitecore continuous integration

Today Lucas Bol gave the first Dutch Sitecore guest Webinar. The subject of this webinar was continuous integration with Sitecore based on open source products. The video is in Dutch and posted below.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd__rUJtLq0[/youtube]

In the next few days Lucas will post his documentation and explanation of the webinar in English. Follow us on Twitter @new_guid or subscribe to our RSS feed if you want an update when this is posted.

 

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Sitecore Webinar: Using Sitecore Rocks

Last month I gave a (Dutch) webinar about developing for Sitecore with the Visual Studio 2010 plugin Sitecore Rocks. You can watch the webinar on Youtube.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQ5dlAG-kg[/youtube]

In this webinar I builded a website from scratch in 30 minutes only using Sitecore Rocks

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Sitecore ECM: How to create a e-mail template from Scratch – Part II

In this post I will extend the basic e-mail template for Sitecore ECM with a title and text listing. With this e-mail template the business user can create new Title and Text items within the page-editor (Sitecore 6.4 and higher) or the content-editor (all versions of Sitecore). This article is a follow-up article of the Sitecore ECM: How to create a Email template from Scratch – Part I.

Create the Newsletter Text template

Create a template Newsletter Text with the following fields: Message Title and Message Text.

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Add standard values for the Message Title and Message Text fields.

Add Newsletter Text folder to the Branche Template

Go to the Basic Newletter branche template and create a folder Newsletter Text. Assign the Newsletter Text template as Insert option.

Create Newsletter Text rendering

Create a new layout called Newsletter Text and copy the following code.

[code language=”html”]

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Update the Newsletter Text Rendering properties

Go to the content tab of the Newsletter Text rendering and add the Insert button to the Page editor Buttons field. Continue reading “Sitecore ECM: How to create a e-mail template from Scratch – Part II”

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Sitecore Rules Engine: How to remove conditions and actions

When using the Sitecore Rules Engine you don’t want your business user to see all the Conditions and Actions. Conditions and Actions are also items (everything is a Item ;-)) so you can apply security on them. Deny a user Read access on a Condition or Action and the user will not see them in the Rule Set Editor.

Create the role Deny Conditions

Open the Role Editor and create a new Role called Deny Conditions. Click Members and Add the business users to the role. Close the Role Manager.

Open the Security Editor en select the created role Deny Conditions. Go to SystemSettingsRulesConditional RenderingsConditions and deny read rights on the conditions (or folder) you want to hide for the business user. Repeat this for conditions in SystemSettingsRulesCommonConditions.

Sitecore rule engine disable and hide conditions

Login as the business user and open the Rule Set Editor

Now test the settings and log-in as the business user, go to the Marketing Center and create a new conditional rendering rule. All the condition where the read access is denied are not in the Rule Set Editor.

Sitecore rule engine disable and hide conditions result

At this point the business user will only see condition he/she can understand.

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Sitecore Rules Engine: How to create a custom condition

In this How to I will build a custom condition for the Sitecore Rules Enginge. This How To is a proof of concepts based on a webinar (in Dutch)  about the Rules Engine. I presented this webinar earlier this year and you can watch the webinar on Youtube by clicking this link.

Before we start writing code I’ll explain the business case we are trying to resolve.

The ‘case’:
The business user want to personalize the website based on the website the visitor comes from (the http referrer).  For now he is only interested in Facebook and Twitter.
If the visitor visits our site from Facebook the Facebook Like button of our own Facebook page must be visible on the homepage.
If the visitor visits our site from Twitter our Twitter Tweet stream must be visible on the homepage.

Oke, Now start building it!

Create templates

Create a template called Sidebar Text, this template has two field; a Sidebar Title (Single-Line Text field) and a Sidebar Text (Rich Text field).

Create a template called Standaard Text, this template one field called Text (Multi-line Text).

Set up the content tree

Create a folder called Sidebars  and add two Sidebar Text items with the following values:

Create a folder called Http Referrers and add the following items:

  • Item name: Twitter
    • Text: twitter.com
  • Item name: Facebook
    • Text: facebook.com

Create presentation component

Create the Sidebar Text rendering for displaying the Sidebar Title and Sidebar Text.

Open development center and click Create a New XSLT rendering and name the rendering Sidebar Text. Add the following code to the rendering template:
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