Nelson Joel Raj

Bulk image upload to content hub - Feature request

Accepted as feature request for uploading the bulk images provided as zip folder

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Sitecore XM Cloud - Multiple repository and multi language solution -Metadata editing

This article guides users through the process of setting up a multi-repository and multi-language application using the beta feature available in the XM Cloud Deploy portal.

It also explains the importance of metadata editing for local development and provides detailed steps on how to configure this feature after enabling it both in Next.js and ASP.NET Core applications. The article highlights the key differences between this beta approach and the default configuration, helping developers und...

Seamless Media Migration to XM Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide from Sitecore XP 10.4 and Content Hub Integration - Enabling media migration

This article covers the media migration from the existing Sitecore XP to Sitecore Content Hub after successful connection established. This article provides various powershell scripts to do this process easy and faster without much of manual interaction. All the media items from the sitecore media library will be exacted in to Excel and from there all the media will be uploaded into to content hub after all the necessary settings and fields created in the content hub, This article also helps w...

Seamless Media Migration to XM Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide from Sitecore XP 10.4 and Content Hub Integration-XM Cloud Migration Tool

This article provides guidance on migrating content from Sitecore XM or XP to Sitecore XM Cloud. It explains the process for migrating media content including fields that use Content Hub public links into the XM Cloud environment.

It also offers step-by-step instructions on configuring and using the XM Cloud Migration Tool, enabling a smooth and efficient migration experience for all media items.

Sitecore XM Cloud Embedded Personalization's variants limitation and resolution using Middleware approach

This article provides a solution for the limitations of Sitecore XM Cloud embedded personalization, which supports only up to eight variants. It offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming this restriction, enabling content authors to have full control in creating personalized experiences for their content, rather than being constrained by the default audience rules.

Additionally, the article introduces middleware that helps developers get started and explore the extended flexibility that Sitec...

Implementation of Mobile Application with Personalization using XM Cloud

This webinar discusses implementing mobile architecture using applications such as Flutter, through the creation of middleware to retrieve content from Sitecore XM Cloud. It covers how to track user behaviour and deliver personalized content to users, leveraging embedded page personalization and other personalization strategies provided by Sitecore XM Cloud.

Sitecore Upgrade from 8.1 XP to 10.4 XM Scaled-Instance setup with solr and migration steps with scrips

This article provides comprehensive guidance on preparing a Sitecore 8.1 instance for migration to a Sitecore 10.4 XM Scaled environment. It includes detailed instructions for configuring Solr for the existing Sitecore installation, using the production database as the data source.

Additionally, the article outlines the prerequisites and steps required before running the Sitecore Upgrade Tool to transition the current Sitecore instance to version 10.4.

Complete information on upgrading th...

Revolutionizing Sitecore XM Cloud: Modern Implementations with .NET

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, .NET Core stands out as a powerful framework, enabling developers to build high-performing and scalable applications. For the Sitecore community, which predominantly leverages .NET technologies, this provides an excellent opportunity to harness its potential. By integrating .NET Core with Sitecore XM Cloud, organizations can deliver seamless and impactful digital experiences to their customers with ease. This session will focus on creating an...

My Sitecore Stake exchange community support

The following links highlight my community contributions on the Sitecore Stack Exchange platform.

https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38927/how-to-populate-an-attribute-of-type-string-array-using-a-web-crawler-document-e/38929#38929

https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38928/xm-cloud-page-not-found-error-on-local/38933#38933

https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/38900/use-language-code-as-virtual-path-in-sitecore-site-definition/38937#38937

https://sitecore.st...

Multisite / Single site is not working with XM cloud .net SDK (Always looking for default site name property)

Description

I have tried to enable the XM cloud multisite by following the readme file provided in the repo, I have provided the "EdgeContextId" and "EditingSecret", but I'm not able to see the multisite based on the domain name I have configured in Sitecore, I have deployed this rendering host to Azure web app, and I have configured the same domain names in the Sitecore, but still multisite not working

Reproduction Steps

1. Open Clone the XM cloud repo for asp.net SDK and update the "Ed...

Fixing Sitecore Buckets folder path - Items created after 12 AM server time zone

This blog is designed to assist content authors who rely on Sitecore for creating and publishing content, especially for news and articles that require 24/7 availability.

It addresses a common challenge faced by authors working during nighttime hours in different time zones: maintaining a consistent and logical bucket folder structure. Since Sitecore bucket folders are typically created based on the UTC time zone, this can lead to confusion and misalignment when organizing items according to...

Sitecore Bulk Upload from the item itself - HTTP/2 error Resolution

This blog is designed to assist content authors in streamlining their media content authoring process. It focuses on enabling bulk image uploads directly from the item interface either by zip or directly one by one, bypassing the traditional media library workflow, which often leads to errors.

The blog also addresses common issues encountered during the media upload process and provides practical resolutions, enhancing efficiency and reducing frustration for content authors.

Sitecore Symposium 2024 Nashville: Day 2 Highlights

This Blog provides my experience of attending in the official launch day of the Sitecore Symposium held at Nashville, attending this Symposium really helped me to listen to great minds in the Sitecore World. During this day I have experienced the Sitecore path towards AI journey and how it going to help the marketer and the company in their marketing journey to reach the customer and provide highest ROI with less investment by Sitecore Stream and other Sitecore Products. I had chance to show m...

Reflections on Attending the Sitecore Symposium MVP Summit in Nashville 2024

This Blog provides my experience of attending Sitecore Symposium MVP Submit, where I have provided the highlights, upcoming product features, and how the MVP Submit given me the great opportunity to connect directly with the Sitecore different product team in the form of round table discussion where I have explored a lot by directly asking them questions and also listen to other community members discussion. which real helped me in my sitecore journey and latest AI trends happening in the Siteco...

Before Sitecore Symposium - A Preparation and invite the sitecore community for attending this event

I created a short video to express my excitement about attending the Sitecore Symposium. In the video, I shared my enthusiasm for being part of such a significant community event and encouraged other Sitecore community members to join.

I highlighted the value of attending the event, emphasizing the opportunity to learn, connect, and gain insights from various sessions and speakers. My aim was to inspire others to participate and make the most of the event, contributing to the growth and know...

CS0495813 (Bucket folder not following Server DateTime)

This is the Sitecore support ticket CS0495813 for helping the content author to create the sitecore buckets item in the proper structure (year / Month / Date). The content author will be using the CM in different time zone and the expectation is to create the bucket folder based on the same time zone date folder structure instead of following the UTC time zone.

When we are providing the setting like below

setting name="ServerTimeZone" value="any time zone"

The bucket folder has to be ...

Challenges in getting Sitecore item which has hyphen or dash(-) in the name

This blog provides a comprehensive walkthrough of a PowerShell script designed to extract content from Sitecore using URLs specified in a CSV file.

The blog specifically addresses a common issue where Sitecore URLs contain hyphens ("-") in the item names, which can cause problems when attempting to fetch content. It explains the challenges faced during the extraction process, such as URL encoding issues and how hyphens in the item names can lead to incorrect or failed retrievals.

The pos...

Mobile application with Sitecore XM cloud for personalize user experience

I had an opportunity to speak at SUGCON India 2024 held at Bangalore on how to leverage the XM cloud and provide mobile app solution with personalization.

Design beautiful dynamic mobile application in Flutter cross platform leveraging Sitecore XM cloud and show how effective it can become as it provides complete personalize experience to user based on user location, behaviour and type.

This will add a lot of value for your customers as it completes connected experience through android and...

Crawl the content from SOAP API using Sitecore Search

In this blog, we explore the process of configuring Sitecore Search to crawl data from an XML API endpoint, specifically focusing on how to set up a Web Crawler (Advanced) source to directly crawl data from a SOAP API.

The key steps include configuring the Request trigger to send a request to the SOAP API endpoint and providing the necessary SOAP body as parameters. This is crucial for ensuring the request is correctly structured to retrieve the desired data. Once the request is sent, the Do...

Mastering Sitecore Search Crawler and API

I had an opportunity to speak in Sitecore User group India on how to use Sitecore Search and its features, to take a deep dive into the practical sessions of Sitecore Search API crawler.

Learn how to seamlessly discover content from the edge and various sources, explore the process of ingesting content from 3rd-party applications into Sitecore Search using Ingestion API and delve into the dynamic world of events and recommendation API.

Uncover the strategies and techniques that will e...

Transforming with Composable Architecture: Insights from First XM Cloud Implementation

I had the opportunity to speak at the SUGMEA live event held at the Sitecore Dubai office, where I discussed the composable stack on XM Cloud. During my session, I showcased the latest XM Cloud Forms with a real-time demo, explaining the configuration process.

I highlighted how easily marketers can create forms, integrate them into XM Cloud pages, and use them in XM Cloud Component Builder. I also demonstrated how to design various styles and templates, while ensuring proper field validation...

Sitecore Search - API Crawler with Edge Pagination

This Blogs mainly covers Sitecore Search Sources and crawlers also how to use them in real time and provide necessary content to be indexed in Sitecore Search.

This blog covers the real time examples on the below.

GraphQL - Layout Query with Components

GraphQL - Item Query

GraphQL - Item Query with Pagination

GraphQL - Search Query with Pagination

Each and every concept provide the graphql query example for Document extractor, Request extractor for doing pagination and necessar...

Sitecore Slack contribution

I have also did sitecore slack contribution in providing answers or suggestion to the community question. I'm unable to mention any specific dates for the same as I have done it multiple times.

Exploring Sitecore XM Cloud Forms: A Comprehensive Overview

This blog provides a detailed walkthrough of Sitecore XM Cloud Forms in its early launch stage, exploring various scenarios and configuration options. It guides users on how to create and customize forms, set up actions, and integrate webhooks to trigger necessary responses. With real-time examples, the blog demonstrates the functionality of webhooks, including handling API responses to display success and failure messages, ensuring a seamless user experience and efficient workflow integration

Sitecore TECH Talks: Effective Strategies to use Sitecore XM Cloud Admin API

This seminar explores the most important API suites used in the XM cloud environment for Experience Edge, XM Cloud deploy portal, and XM Cloud authoring environment. Also, let's understand how to troubleshoot if any issues happen in Experience Edge with the help of Admin API. We will also explore the authentication process of triggering and maintaining the Sitecore XM cloud Authoring environment and Experience Edge. Understand the purpose of Webhook and maintenance of webhook used in Experience ...

Advanced Filtration with XM Cloud Preview and Edge GraphQL Query in Action

This Webinar covers basic to advanced uses of XM cloud graphql in Experience Edge, XM cloud preview environment and XM cloud Authoring environment. Helps to understand different GraphQL schema, Filtering, searching, Pagination, and Maintenance tasks like creating items, indexing etc. Authentication for creating API keys for accessing the data from XM cloud and XM Experience Edge. Different filter conditions, keywords, Operators and terms etc. Real-time examples of different query options et...

Feature request accepted Sitecore , And discussion with Sitecore Support and tech team

Case No : CS0395615 Case No : CS0403838 Case No :CS0390067

Apart from these I have contacted with different Sitecore support team and Tech team on some other issue like Publishing (CS0399336) which is big blocker during our implementation.

I have raised some other tickets as well.

GraphQL Search is not works with multiple conditions inside where statement

This provides the details about the Search GraphQL query not filtering results properly when any item has a null value in the field, if this particular field is used in orderby along with a cursor for pagination, This issue is fixed by the Sitecore team. Now orderby query works well with a cursor.

GraphQL query in Edge provide different result from XMcloud Preview graphql query (Provides raw value)

Case Number : CS0388804

This provides the details of results coming from Sitecore Preview and Experience Edge in the different formats. The issue is when there is no layout assigned to the Sitecore item, and that item has droplink, treelist or any guid field in the template, then querying the results with the item query provides proper results like all the details of the item selected in the list field (all template field details) in Sitecore Preview environment, but when we trigger the sam...

Sitecore Search Data Ingestion from multiple sources and Search Recommendation API

This article describes Sitecore Search and how to configure it and crawl data using a different approach with real-time examples. Covers information about Attribute creation, Connectors, Crawlers creation, Document extractors, Sources and Triggers etc.

Provided different examples on how to extract data from RSS, PDF, DOM, JSON, Sitemap, Word documents etc by configuring different Triggers, Document Extractors and crawlers.

XM Cloud- Sitecore CDP Interactive Personalization with Sitecore Pages Variants

This article describes how to configure the personalization in XM cloud Pages and drive the personalization from Sitecore personalize instead of using Experience Edge by configuring Next js middleware. Usually, XM cloud personalization will happen by Page Variants not by Component-based, so we need to define multiple page variants in Sitecore pages with all necessary component data sources, if any of the variant names match in Sitecore CDP/Personalize decision table Offers configured, then the ...

Sitecore XMCloud Personalization and CDP Personalization with SitecoreCloud SDK

This article describes how to enable and get started with XM cloud personalization using Sitecore Pages and the Next js app.

Understanding of how to set up Personalization in Sitecore Pages, how to configure Next js middleware to work with personalization by enabling necessary settings and configuration, how to define different Sitecore CDP and Sitecore Personalize events and real-time examples of capturing the events in CDP.

Sitecore XMCloud Webhooks events notitications

This article covers the necessity of XM cloud webhooks and different types of webhooks like Webhook Eventhandler, Webhook Submit Action and Webhook Validation Action. Understanding steps to configure the webhooks based on the different actions and setting up different authentications required to call the API endpoint which is configured in the webhook etc. Understanding the different ways to trigger the webhooks, and understanding how to trigger webhooks when a particular event happens in Site...

Access content from Sitecore XMCloud with Asp.net Rendering Host

This article describes how to do local setup for asp.net core rendering host, understanding different ways to map the content from Sitecore to view, understanding different configurations to access the content directly from XM cloud which is not published to EDGE and accessing published content from Experience Edge. Blog on XMCloud .net core rendering host and accessing the content.