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One of the most unknown but very useful feature in Sitecore is the Subitem Sorting. Often there’s a need to sort a group of Items in a particular order. Either to create a good navigation or to help the content editor find their content.
So let’s have a look how this functionality is working. I’ve [...]

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Sometimes when you’re updating item in hooks, you’ll receive strange error messages in the client. The reason for this is quite clear. Sitecore has an event system divided in 2 parts: the regular events such as item:created. The other one is the NotificationContext. This particular class is used by the Sitecore client to get notified [...]

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My last entry about serializing items and whole databases was kind of more an introduction. Today I’m going to explain in detail what the ribbon buttons do. I’ll finish this series tomorrow by showing how to do this from code.

Serialize Item: This option let’s you serialize the currently selected item to disk. This means [...]

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I’ven’t been posting a lot lately. Generally because of I’ve broken my arm during wintersport.
It’s my third week now at Sitecore and although I’ve got this unpleasant, really annoying handicap, I’m having a great time. It’s really nice to visit all the different partners and customers. All of them are friendly and real pleasant [...]

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This is post 1 out of 4 about one of my new projects. At a local government organization I’m currently working on a new solution which is all about separating and sharing content. I thought this might become interesting as lots of you guys will struggle with similar questions and problems during your projects.
So what [...]

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In this comment, Sander - of eFocus, a dutch Sitecore partner - is pointing me on a bug in my pipeline processor. I’ve to confirm his bug. It could be resolved by adding the following line after the retrieving of the original item and around the start and reject edit:

                //Retrieve the last saved version [...]

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The days around Easter are always wonderfull to make up your mind, get over the busy start of the year and become prepared for a just another shiny summer . And to start blogging again as I’ve been very busy without having the change to share my thoughts. Peter already did an excellent job on describing what is [...]

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In this topic on SDN forum, we came to the conslusion that every use who can access the User Manager, also canmake himself and any other user Administrator.This problems is caused by the User Editor where all fields, the user contains, are readen and displayed. This allows you add additional fields which are aditable, really quickly(you [...]

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Thursday is the day, I normally go to school, but as schools are closed the first week of January, I had a day off. As the boys @ work know it’s allowed to disturb me, they regarly will . They are so kind to ask if it’s allowed, so I can do something about it if [...]

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Because of the GMail vulnerability the XML vs JSON discussion has started again. And as you might know, Jakob has implemented JSON in the last version of the Sitecore version because of it’s lots of quicker and it saved him expanding the codebase. Now lots of discussions have started what’s the best and most secure solution.
Full number [...]

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