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 »

This entry is part 5 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis article is part 3 of Sitecore How To: Track Exteral links with DMS series. Before starting with this step you need to be finished with Step 2. Otherwise you don’t have any report data. Show the outgoing links in a report The easiest way to generate a report is find a report that matches your needs, copy the report and change the datasource and layout. For this POC More Info »

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis article is part of Sitecore How To: Track Exteral links with DMS series. Before starting with this step you need to be finished with Step 1: Save outgoing click to the DMS analytics database. For this solution I want to measure all the outgoing link using the Analytics Database of Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS). Based on this data I want to create a report in the Sitecore Engagement More Info »

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis step is the first of the series: How to track External Links with Sitecore DMS. In this step we are going to create a page (link.aspx) that will register the outgoing traffic into the Sitecore Analytics database and redirects the visitor to the external website. Save the outgoing click information to the Analytics database Create the custom page event Open the content editor, go to /sitecore/system/Settings/Analytics/Page Events and More Info »

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSIn this How To I’ll show you how to extend Sitecore to track outgoing links trough the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS). First of we start with creating a sublayout that saves the outgoing link clicks to the Analytics database. Next step is creating a solution for tracking the outgoing link. There are multiple solutions of tracking external links but in this series we are creating the More Info »

In this article I’m going to explain how to convert .mrt reports from the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite (Sitecore 6.4) to the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (Sitecore 6.5). Report related changes between OMS and DMS Both the OMS and the DMS use .mrt reports for Analitics reporting. There are two mayor changes between the OMS and DMS reporting; a full redesign of the datamodel and the location of the SQL query for the report data. Mapping the datamodel of the OMS with More Info »

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratchCheck the default subscriber profile by clicking the E-Mail Campaign node and go to the content folder. In the Implementation Details section check the selected profile in the Default Subsciber Profile field. By default this will be Profiles/Subscriber: You can find the different profiles in the Profiles folder located at /sitecore/system/Settings/Security/Profiles/Subscriber in the Core database. The Subscriber profile item is based on the Subscriber template. Open More Info »

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratchIn 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 – More Info »

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratchIn this post I will create a e-mail template for ECM from scratch. This article is based on a Webinar (in Dutch) I did about the Email Campaign Manager (ECM) you can see the Webinar on YouTube.       We build a custom template the same way that we build a page. First we will create the templates, than we will create the presentation components More Info »

To disable the plugin compatibility check for Firefox 3.6 follow these steps: Open Firefox In the address bar type “about:config” On the page click I’ll be careful, I promise! Right click and select new –> Boolean Enter the preference name: extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and press OK Select False and press OK Now you can install plugins that aren’t compatible anymore (but might still work).

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 »