Tag: Template

User friendly development in Sitecore

User friendly development in Sitecore

Sitecore is an ideal product to manage complex websites. Editors which don’t have a technical vision but oriented in marketing only – it’s a little bit tricky to understand the custom made things.

Here I will show a few examples of how to implement things on a user friendly manner. That is also nice for the tester and other developers to find quickly the way in the created page templates and components.

It takes some time to make a beautiful and user-friendly Sitecore CMS environment. But at the end a user friendly Sitecore implementation save time and makes it fun to work with. Be nice to the editors, the user friendly cms implementation help to use thethings as they are intended.

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How to remove Template Language Version

Few days ago I have faced with the situation when some of my templates had had language versions that differs from en.

Firstly I opened Template Manager and navigated to desired template. Then I clicked on Versions tab and was very surprised. There was no button to remove version! There is possibility to save, to switch and to reset, on this tab. Fortunately, Sitecore is a very powerful tool with a lots of different helpful utility pages. One of them saved my life.

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Sitecore MVC – Custom Vary By Cache Options

Sitecore, by default, provides varies options like Vary by Data, Vary by Query String to enable HTML cache (more information about Sitecore caching could be found here). Sometimes none of these options (based on component built type) help the component to get cached by Sitecore cache.

In this article I will describe how to introduce custom VaryByCache option. It’s pretty simple.

First of all, let’s create a new template where all custom VaryByCache options will be presented.

varybycache-template-example
Sitecore VaryByCache template

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