When talking to business users (people that actually work with Sitecore on a day to day base) I created a small list of minor custom changes that would help the business users with there day to day work. One of the items on this list is the condition for User Profile fields, by default the input of this field is a manual typed String. Which is a painful process for the business user They are not sure of the fieldname and go More Info »

Hi there, First of all, let me introduce myself on the Newguid.net Sitecore blog. My name is Robbert Hock and I’m a freelance and passionate Sitecore developer living in The Netherlands. I’m running my own business called Kayee Internet & Software Oplossingen and am specialized in Sitecore and Umbraco implementations. In 2011 I was awarded the Sitecore MVP award. On a regular basis I will be blogging on the Newguid.net blog on things that reflect Sitecore and I think are worth mentioning. More Info »

In Sitecore you can personalize your website with conditions and actions using the Rules Engine (so called Conditional Rendering rules).  In Sitecore 6.5 the interface for defining conditional rendering rules is integrated in to the page-editor, this way it´s easier for the marketeer to create and maintain pesonalization rules. But as a developer you want to create predefined rules and activate them on the template standard values, the same way personalisation was working in Sitecore 6.4. This is still posible with 6.5 only by default the More Info »

With this test we want to check what Sitecore DMS does with Wildcards. How are Wildcard URL’s and shown on the Analytics Reports? Wildcard items in Sitecore are a convenient way to handle dynamic URLs. They let you pass data through the URL instead of relying on query string values that are appended to the URL. More information about the Wildcards and a introduction to the Wildcard Shared Source Module can be found in this article (written by Adam Conn). Creating a More Info »

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule EngineYou can automatically add a insert option using a insert option rule in the Sitecore Rule Engine. The ‘case’: In our Sitecore content tree we have a Meta-Data folder where we store al our meta-data information. The Meta-Data folder is organized in folders which contains meta-data items based on a template called Standard Text. What we want to achieve is that when a new folder is created within the More Info »

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule EngineWhen 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 More Info »

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule EngineIn 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’: More Info »