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Off the Cuff Thoughts About Symposium Day 1 Morning
So, this is just off the cuff as I sit eating lunch in my hotel room at the Disney Dolphin, where Sitecore Symposium is taking place today and tomorrow (I miss the Thursday half-day already, if only for a good reason to stay for the attendee party). This is my personal opinion on what I heard, and there's three major things.
The Recycle Bin search in XM Cloud doesn't work. Try this instead!
I had someone ask me to restore an item from the recycle bin in XM Cloud today. Generally not a difficult task, assuming it hasn't been 30 days since the deletion when it should get flushed. But, I've come to find that the recycle bin in XM Cloud, while it has a search, that search...doesn't work. You get a script error.
Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore JSSGetting fields from a "linked" Sitecore rendering parameter - good news, bad news
Recently working with Sitecore, I had a scenario where I was trying to set a filter key and value to pass to Sitecore Search from XM Cloud via rendering parameter. I have a rendering that gets back search results, but the client wanted to sometimes restrict those by a certain field to a certain value. Since we have all those taxonomy values in Sitecore, we hooked up both key and value as droplink fields. Which makes sense, because you don't want to lose track of the item if it moves.
Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore JSSSitecore XM Cloud: The Final(?) Word on Content Resolvers
This is a follow-up post to my prior two blogs on content resolvers and the issues we've run into with them in play. I felt it was important to share this information with the community, especially as in the days since I wrote the blogs, I actually saw folks posting about using the content resolvers, and I wanted to warn them off.
Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore JSSSitecore XM Cloud: Getting Around the Navigation Content Resolver
So, in my last blog, I implored you all to avoid rendering contents resolvers. What scares me is I feel like I said it too much, like I called for Beetlejuice, because lately I've seen a couple of blogs discussing their use. I'm very much an advocate against them, but as I noted, the navigation content resolver is a sticky wicket.
Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore JSSRendering Contents Resolvers and XM Cloud - Just say NO
There is a feature in Sitecore renderings called Rendering Contents Resolvers...you'll find a dropdown near the bottom of the settings for a rendering. There's a few entries there, like Context Item, Datasource with Children, Context Item with Children, Navigation...all kind of self-explanatory, all useful...
And all toxic in Sitecore XM Cloud. All. Of. Them.
Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore JSS2023
29/Nov
Slack Q&A
Asking and answering questions on Slack regularly through the year to try and help others in the community.
Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud2023
5/Oct
A University's Journey to the Creation of their Composable Roadmap
Presentation at SUGCON about the roadmap and XM Cloud selection for Michigan State University.
Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud