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Chandra Sekaran Venkataraman

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MVP 2025

Technology

United States
MVP 2024

Technology

United States

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2025

31/Jan

Technology 2025

Technology 2025

2024

19/Nov

Tackling Tech Debt: Strategies for Success in a Composable Digital World

Presented on the topic at the Baltimore Sitecore User Group meeting, received positive feedback and appreciation from the attendees.

Meetup screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18POoLCGnJi87_4K5HI8Au4PFnEWcvHlc/view?usp=sharing

In the rapidly shifting composable digital landscape, technical debt is often overlooked. However, effectively managing it is key to unlocking greater business advantages and minimizing costs. Join the session to discover essential tools and methodologie...

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

3/Oct

Stack Exchange - October - Moderated and commented on the listed questions

Moderated the following questions to make it more readable, follows the community guidelines. The moderations were all accepted and reflected in the questions.

  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38623/how-to-use-http-instead-of-https-for-identity-server (October 1)
  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38641/sxa-language-emabedding (October 3)
  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38656/getting-the-children-of-a-specific-path-in-sitecore (October 7)
  • https://...

2024

1/Oct

Slack - October - Replied and answered chats

Replied and answered the following chats, provided guidance and solutions in Slack Content Hub channel

  1. Content Hub Upload v2.0 issue (October 1)
  • Chat link: https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/CQAA9BWDT/p1727706029600649
  • Chat screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mabOppKCmrY6pCpgS65f2aG0Qn5ECqc/view?usp=sharing
  1. Content Hub Bynder integration (October 2)
  • Chat link: https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/CQAA9BWDT/p1727727364796949
  • Chat screenshot link: htt...

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

30/Sep

Stack Exchange - Answered Question - Renewing your application certificate in Microsoft Entra ID

Answered the question with documentation link, screenshots and suggestions about certificate issue when trying to renew Microsoft Entra ID certificate with Sitecore Content Hub. The answer was upvoted once.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

10/Sep

Stack Exchange - Answered Question - Error while Docker setup version is obsolete error during connect

Provided answer for the user who was running into issue trying to setup and run Docker with Sitecore.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

5/Sep

Stack Exchange - September - Commented on the listed questions

Commented in the following questions asking for clarification, more details, provided tips, suggestions and potential solutions

  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38415/experience-editor-issue-in-sitecore-headless (September 5)
  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38461/404-redirections-for-valid-pages (September 13)
  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38527/any-suggestion-for-way-to-build-search-component-in-sitecore-jss (September 18)

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

4/Sep

Slack - September - Replied and answered chats

Replied and answered the following chats, provided guidance and solutions in Slack Content Hub, JSS channels

  1. Taxonomy value name (September 4)
  • Chat link: https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/CQAA9BWDT/p1725474847820049
  • Chat screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1og_FAJjPJNuk45Z6ekRsEY31bAxPoBH_/view?usp=sharing
  1. Content Hub schema export (September 9)
  • Chat link: https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/CQAA9BWDT/p1725884344220789
  • Chat screenshot link: https:/...

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

20/Aug

Provided documentation feedback

Provided feedback about removing duplicate bullet points in https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/hd/21/sitecore-headless-development/walkthrough--creating-a-new-component-in-a-jss-next-js-app-using-the-sitecore-first-development-workflow.html#fill-out-values-in-the-experience-editor doc page.

Link to documentation feedback comment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fJmI8lRS3lJSt7a4uQV-WHBCiQszI84Q/view?usp=sharing

Sitecore XP

2024

19/Aug

How to display watermark images when you create public links in Sitecore Content Hub

I wrote this blog article as part of the community knowledge sharing on the best practices and the solution for how to create watermarked public links in Sitecore Content Hub. The question was raised in Slack Content Hub channel where I answered it with the steps outlined in the blog.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

15/Aug

Slack - August - Replied and answered chats

Replied and answered the following chats, provided guidance and solutions in Slack Content Hub channel

  1. Item link resolving in headless application (August 15)
  • Chat link: https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/C7JT0NRQW/p1723684261170359
  • Chat screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12A8Lznlp0VS0s-4_2kCoRPEDF8VbNsSQ/view?usp=drive_link
  1. Watermarked public links in Content Hub (August 19)
  • Chat link: https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/CQAA9BWDT/p172382210217642...

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

15/Aug

Stack Exchange - Answered Question - My script that creates public links on approval doesn't set the url path as the file name

Answered the question with a clear answer and snippets and it was upvoted 2 times

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

15/Aug

Stack Exchange - August - Moderated the questions to make it readable and follows guidelines

Moderated the following questions to make it more readable, follows the community guidelines. The moderations were all accepted and reflected in the questions.

  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38319/my-script-that-creates-public-links-on-approval-doesnt-set-the-url-path-as-the (August 15)
  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38339/what-servers-are-considered-processing-by-the-sitecore-rebuild-process (August 19)
  • https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38342/mult...

2024

14/Aug

How to setup user group policies and users in Sitecore Content Hub to filter and show assets with specific taxonomy values

Wrote a blog article about setting up group policies and permissions based on taxonomy values correctly in Content Hub as the other blog articles that were previously written did not cover the full answer.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

14/Jun

Slack - Content Hub

Answered a question in the Content Hub slack channel offering tips, suggestions, and potential solutions.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

28/May

Stack Exchange - May - Commented on the following questions

Commented in the following questions asking for clarification, more details, provided tips, suggestions and potential solutions

  1. https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/37833/add-new-member-option-disappear-on-the-schema-page-in-content-hub (May 28)
  2. https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/37867/incorporating-inline-or-external-javascript-in-content-hubs-ootb-html-component (May 31)
  3. https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/37886/exporting-of-data-is-failing-in-sitecore-...

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

23/May

Slack - Content Hub

Answered a question in the Content Hub slack channel offering tips, suggestions, and potential solutions.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

21/May

Stack Exchange - Answered question - Assign Different Taxonomies values to Different Language Versions of a Product in Sitecore Content Hub PCM

Answered the question, explained the Content Hub entity schema and how things are setup, brainstormed ideas on how to resolve the issue. It was also upvoted by the community.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

29/Apr

Sitecore XM Cloud preview publishing target

Wrote a blog article about the potential issues with setting up preview publishing targets in XM Cloud, references to Sitecore support ticket and the registered feature request.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

22/Feb

Slack: Answered Content Hub XP connector issue

In the Sitecore Slack Content Hub channel, answered a question about Content Hub XP Connector does not unpublish content from XP when they are deleted in Content Hub.

Link to the Sitecore slack chat link - https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/CQAA9BWDT/p1708624504523869

Link to the Sitecore slack chat screenshot - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Q_ppWx8CdhimnBn7_lSsFyhEX4LquTC/view?usp=drive_link

Sitecore XP Sitecore Content Hub

2024

31/Jan

Technology 2024

Technology 2024