Gaurav Agarwal

From Download to Workflow: A Smart Tweak in Content Hub UI

The client wanted to replace the “Download” button on the Asset Detail page with workflow state buttons in content hub so this blog explain this.

Pre-Sitecore Symposium 2025 Roundtable

Get an insider look at Sitecore Symposium 2025 in Orlando! Join the Americaneagle.com team as they discuss MVP Summit highlights, must-attend sessions, AI innovations, XM Cloud strategies, and client success stories. Perfect for marketers, developers, and digital experience professionals seeking the latest in Sitecore trends and insights. Join us at the water cooler for this special episode!

SXA Site Creation Wizard Changing Folder Template Types

Bug reported in bug tracking system, use the reference number SXA-8753. Case - CS0637631

1. We created a Datasources folder under our Data folder using the /sitecore/templates/Common/Folder template.
2. We then used the SXA out-of-the-box site creation wizard with a branch template to create our website.
3. After the site was created, we noticed that the template for our Datasources folder had been changed to /sitecore/templates/Project/Ametek/Page Design Folder ( {4E3BC3BF-A1F5-4053-8B2E-2...

Workflow State Change Email Notifications in Sitecore XMC

This blog is regarding having a requirement to send email notifications when workflow states change in Sitecore XMC (e.g., from Draft => Awaiting Approval or from Rejected => Draft).

Useful Sitecore Powershell Scripts Part-2

This blog post has some useful powershell scripts that can be used in any kind of Sitecore solutions. These kind of script we use in our daily life of Sitecore uses.

Sitecore XM Cloud: Ribbon Buttons & Edge Webhooks Manager

In this session in Sitecore User Group Jaipur, we discussed how to configure custom ribbon buttons in Sitecore XP/XM and Sitecore XM Cloud and used the Edge Webhooks Manager PowerShell tool to manage the Experience Edge webhooks directly from the Content Editor.

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_BCzqn-Hx0

Sitecore XM Cloud: Ribbon Buttons & Edge Webhooks Manager

In this session in Sitecore User Group Hyderabad, we discussed how to configure custom ribbon buttons in Sitecore XP/XM and Sitecore XM Cloud and used the Edge Webhooks Manager PowerShell tool to manage the Experience Edge webhooks directly from the Content Editor.

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpt0He9BJY

Could not find Mentor issue

Took part in XM-Cloud-Introduction repository for MVP directory created by Ivan Lieckens and raised 6 bugs - https://github.com/Sitecore/XM-Cloud-Introduction/issues/522

Describe the bug Could not find the Mentor issue on the Sitecore MVP website

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go to 'https://mvp.sitecore.com/Application/My-Data' Go to mentor section Click on the save button See error

Sitecore MVP Applications Bugs - Filters are not showing label

Took part in XM-Cloud-Introduction repository for MVP directory created by Ivan Lieckens and raised 6 bugs - https://github.com/Sitecore/XM-Cloud-Introduction/issues/515 - Filters are not showing label

Describe the bug Pagination is not working properly

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go to 'https://mvp.sitecore.com/Directory' Click on Year '2025' and Country 'India' 2025 is showing 42 and India is showing 40 and the United Arab Emirates is showing 1 When I check the...

Filters are not showing correct numbers

Took part in XM-Cloud-Introduction repository for MVP directory created by Ivan Lieckens and raised 6 bugs - https://github.com/Sitecore/XM-Cloud-Introduction/issues/514

Describe the bug Pagination is not working properly

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go to 'https://mvp.sitecore.com/Directory' Click on Year '2025' and Country 'India' 2025 is showing 42 and India is showing 40 See error Also, Pagination is showing 3 pages and showing "43-42 of 42"

Sitemap is showing wrong domain in urls

Registered as a bug in tracking system with reference number SXA-8018, case - CS0548922 So we had 2 different domains, while checking 1 wesbite's Sitemap, it was showing oter domain urls in Sitemap.xml file.

Sitemap.xml with different language codes

Case CS0531093 - registered it as a feature request to Sitecore product team, discussed with Tamas, he suggested to add this contribution as well. The client has requested a separate sitemap.xml for each language-specific website URL, with the URLs in each sitemap corresponding to the respective language. For example:

English (en): https://creaform3d-ow-live.preview.ametekweb.com/en/sitemap.xml German (de): https://creaform3d-ow-live.preview.ametekweb.com/de/sitemap.xml When accessing thes...

Mentorship field is showing old text

Took part in XM-Cloud-Introduction repository for MVP directory created by Ivan Lieckens and raised 6 bugs - https://github.com/Sitecore/XM-Cloud-Introduction/issues/502

Describe the bug I left blank Mentorship field but while submitting the MVP application, it was still showing old text that I entered before

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go to "https://mvp.sitecore.com/en/Application/Apply"

Fill in the field "Did you have any mentors this year?" from the applicati...

Post-Sitecore Symposium 2024 Roundtable

I spoke in the Post-Sitecore Symposium 2024 Roundtable held in Americaneagle's Sitecore watercooler podcast, where we discussed the key takeaways from the Sitecore Symposium and Sitecore MVP Summit.

Sitecore Symposium Event 2024!

Blog about sessions in Sitecore Symposium Event 2024! I discussed interesting sessions from whole events and what to expect from the events.

XM Cloud External Image Import

Created a Sitecore Module on GitHub to import external images into Sitecore Commerce Media Library using next js App Routing - https://github.com/gauravpansari1991/XMCloudImageImport

Unable to Verify the First Certificate

We were installing the Sitecore XM Cloud instance locally, everything was going well and the installation was successful as well but we got an error on the front end saying “unable to verify the first certificate”, this was a strange error for us, so we decided to dig into it. so this blog is about its solution.

Error setting up Single Sign-on(SSO) using SAML in Sitecore XM Cloud

While setting up Single Sign-on(SSO) using SAML in Sitecore XM Cloud we got the error "one or more validation error occurred". So wrote a blog post about this error and its solution.

Validation Error in SAML SSO in XM Cloud

Raise a bug in Sitecore Support CS0453829 (https://support.sitecore.com/csm?id=csm_ticket&sys_id=7e1f1f4b832e46542ad9bda6feaad3ab&table=sn_customerservice_case) on Validation Error in SAML SSO in XM Cloud.

The Session Has Expired Issue

We were in the process of upgrading from Sitecore 9.0.1 to 10.3 as part of a project. Upon completing the upgrade, we conducted tests on the upgraded website and encountered an issue with a page containing a Sitecore Form. The issue arose when attempting to open a form that appeared in a popup upon clicking a button, resulting in an error message stating “session has expired.” This was perplexing because we were actively browsing the website, so the session should not have expired. So wrote a b...

Sitecore Mentorship Program

Sitecore started the Sitecore mentorship program to encourage the Sitecore community those who would like to contribute to the Sitecore Community and based on their contribution become an MVP. So wrote a blog about the Sitecore Mentorship Program.

Sitecore Forms: Object moved to here

We were working on an upgrade project from Sitecore 9.0.1 to 10.3. After the upgrade, we verified the upgraded website, while testing the page that has Sitecore Form we noticed that when we filled in the information and clicked on submit button, it gave an “object moved to here” error pop-up. So, wrote about an error about Sitecore forms - The object moved to here.

Search is not working with space in MVP directory

Took part in XM-Cloud-Introduction repository for MVP directory created by Ivan Lieckens and raised the bug - Search is not working with space in MVP directory

Sitecore MVP Directory not showing default profile pic for some cards

Took part in XM-Cloud-Introduction repository for MVP directory created by Ivan Lieckens and raised the bug - Sitecore MVP Directory not showing default profile pic for some cards

Sitecore Content Hub Best Practice – Part 2

I worked on some content hub projects and learned about some best practices that we should use while creating Schema, taxonomy, and other fields in the Content Hub. In Part 1 we discussed some best practices related to taxonomy flags, and taxonomy entity flags, which are very crucial to know while working on schema creation. so wrote about Sitecore Content Hub Best Practices Part 2 for conditions, Member Groups in Schema, Taxonomy vs Option List, etc.

Sitecore Content Hub Best Practice – Part 1

I worked on some content hub projects and learned about some best practices that we should use while creating Schema, taxonomy, and other fields in the Content Hub. Like -

1. The Importance of Schema and Taxonomy in Content Hub
2. Understanding the Role of Flags in Schema
3. Insights into Taxonomy Entity Flags

A migration journey to Content Hub PCM by Mohammed Syam & Gaurav Agarwal

In this presentation, me & Mohammed Syam talked about a quick overview of the main functionalities, we have under the Sitecore Content Hub (CH), Product Content Management (PCM) module, like catalog, categories, and products. We talked about the migration process, migration of products meta data, products images and the linkage process. We also talked about some integration approaches with external systems, and best practices when it comes to create schema, relations, member types and conditions...

Post-Sitecore DX 2023 with our Sitecore MVPs

In this episode, we Sitecore MVPs to discuss their top moments from Sitecore DX 2023. From significant announcements to enlightening sessions and cherished memories, discover key takeaways and join the excitement for the future of Sitecore and its thriving community.

In this episode we talked about sessions and events that we like during the whole week and discussed some features in details.

Sitecore Events Next Week

In this blog, I wrote about what were the events we were looking for in the Sitecore MVP, Sitecore DX, and SUGCON NA events in Minneapolis. Events like I wanted to attend -

1. Keynote of Steve, Sitecore CEO
2. Session from Jonathon Price on the seamless integration of Sitecore XM, Personlize, and CDP
3. Sitecore CPO Dave O’Flanagan session about Composable DXP
4. sessions about AI and chatGPT from Noelle Russell
5. Rob Earlam session on Implementing Sitecore Search
6. ContentHubONE sessi...

Sitecore Commerce Concurrency error

Old issue but worth sharing. We were working on the migration of Product data from Content Hub (PCM) to Sitecore Commerce. So this was a bulk migration as there were almost 2000 products we were syncing at a time. So we created a Connector to sync the data between Sitecore Commerce to Content Hub. Everything was working fine when we were syncing some products but the issue got started when we started the whole catalog sync. We noticed a number of products were syncing and then suddenly they stop...

Content Hub not loading issue due to a corrupt theme

We tried to change the theme for our content hub environment, but somehow it was corrupted and due to that whole content hub was down. It was just spinning and no pages were loading.

Keyboard arrow keys are not working in search box #434

I took part in the Sitecore review program about Sitecore Search that was created by Rob

I am searching in the search box and then wanted to put space between 2 words but the left and right arrow keys don't seem working.

Update Product taxonomy relation fields by content hub script

In one of our projects, we were working on updating products from spreadsheets, so everything was going good. Later on, we got a requirement to add some new taxonomy relations and add content for them, again one way is the same as my last post to download a spreadsheet from the content hub and update an extra column with the content and upload it back but for that, there was no direct way for us as we had more than 3k items and it’s more manual time confusing efforts.

So, we decided to create...

Update Product fields in a particular language by content hub script

In one of our projects, we were working on updating products for multiple languages from spreadsheets, so everything was going good. Later on, we got a requirement to add content for one more language, one way is to download a spreadsheet from the content hub and update an extra column with that language content and upload it back but for that, there was no direct way for us as we had more than 3k items and it’s more manual time confusing efforts.

So, we decided to create a script for it. In ...

Link Entity to Another Entity in Sitecore Content Hub

We got a requirement to link a product entity to another schema entity, but there is no OOTB way to link a number of entities, we can link those manually but we can not do it as the entities were too many.

Let’s suppose a scenario where we have a separate schema that has fields like Title, Description, Product Name, BatchId (all string), and Products (Relation to M.PCM.Product), and we want to relate products in this Products field.

So, we decided to create a script for it. In this script,...

ERROR: manifest for sitecore-docker-tools-asset:10.3.0-1809 not found #1107

Building an image based on Sitecore 10.3.0 containers:

ERROR: manifest for scr.sitecore.com/tools/sitecore-docker-tools-asset:10.3.0-1809 not found: manifest unknown: manifest tagged by "10.3.0-1809" is not found.

I noticed tools are not available for 10.3 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sitecore/docker-images/master/tags/sitecore-tags.md

Delete Images Entities By Batch Ids

We got a requirement to delete some particular asset, but there is no OOTB way to delete a number of assets, we can delete those manually but we can not do it as the assets were too many.

So, we decided to create a script for it. In this script, we delete assets as per Batch Id. So while uploading images we uploaded those by adding BatchId to them.