Chirag Khanna

Written 3 of 19 blog post in Nov on Sitecore Products

I have been consistently posting blogs throughout this year over the different issues that I faced and the solutions I took to overcome those issues. In all these blog post I have tried to explain the root cause for the issues and highlighted advantages/disadvantages with each possible solutions.

Below are the the list of blogs that were published by me throughout the year.

1. Improving Publishing Performance in Sitecore XM Cloud: This blog post talks about the publishing issue I experienc...

Engaging with Sitecore Community throughout the year

Throughout the year, I have actively sharing blogs created by me in Sitecore Slack and on LinkedIn to make sure the blogs reaches the Sitecore community members who are facing similar issue during the development phase.

I have taken the initiative to repost contributions from my fellow Sitecore colleagues, ensuring that the solutions discussed in these blog posts reaches the broader audience within the Sitecore network. I connected with a number of Sitecore Community members over Sitecore Sla...

Sitecore Search Get Facet Values when more than 100 values are there

In one of the facets stored inside Sitecore Search, different values stored inside that facet were more than 100. The api response returned first 100 value for the facets that is maximum that can be retrieved in single request and the response didn't included the flag to provide an indication that more values exist for this facet.

I raised the ticket to Sitecore team under case number as CS0646816 and Sitecore team registered this as a feature request under reference number SEARCH-5734 to inc...

Sitecore Search Auto Complete Suggestion didn't worked as expected

I was working on setting up auto suggestion feature in Sitecore Search using Shingle Generator as the Grouping Analyzer and Ngram Based Matching as the Match Analyzer, as mentioned on the Sitecore Search documentation for auto complete suggestions feature. But the auto correct did not worked for more of the query key phrases.

I raised the issue with Sitecore team under case number as CS0644378 and Sitecore team suggested to changes Grouping Analyzer to Keyword analyzer to fix the issue for au...

Nested Rules not working inside Sitecore CLI

I created the nested rule inside module file for Sitecore CLI using below configuration. But the nested rule didn't worked as expected.

{ "items":{ "includes":[ "name": "", "path": "", "rules": [ { "path": "", "scope": "", "rules":[ "path": "", "scope": "" ] } ] ] } }

I raised the issue to Sitecore team under case number as CS0643313 and Sitecore team ac...

Tag Treelist field type not working in Sitecore XMC

I created the field with field type Tag TreeList and set its source to pick from Global location. The source items was not getting displayed under the Tag TreeList field type.

I reported this issue with Sitecore team under CS0641436 and Sitecore team acknowledged this as a bug under reference number SXA-8779. They also mentioned in order for Tag Treelist to work, the source under the field type should point to either of the below item path.

1. The current site's tag folder: query:/sitecore...

Video File not available for selection inside page Builder

I created a file type field on the datasource item. When I tried to select media library for file type field in the page builder, to select the video mp4 file, the video file did not appeared inside the page builder even though video file was already uploaded inside media library through content editor.

I reported this issue to Sitecore team under case number CS0638325 and Sitecore team have registered this as a feature request under reference number PGS-4447.

Feature Request and Bug Report raised in month of Sep on Sitecore Products

I raised below feature request and bug report on Sitecore XM Cloud.

Feature Request: Issue while fetching template fields using template path in Authoring API

I tried to retrieve the fields of the item template using below query on the authoring endpoint. query{ itemTemplate(where:{ path:"TemplatePath" database:"master" }){ fields{ nodes{ name } } }

The above query worked with template id rather than the template path. Since the item query does not works for template, therefore it was n...

Make Connected GraphQL Query Response Editable in Page Builder

I created the api in Next.js and used the GraphQL query to fetch the dynamic component data at runtime. The output returned from the GraphQL response was not editable in the page builder.

I raised the issue with Sitecore team with case number as CS0618427 and Sitecore team mentioned that it is currently not possible to perform inline editing of connected GraphQL components directly from within Pages Editor in XM Cloud. They accepted it as a feature request under reference number JSS-4650.

GraphQL Layout Query Ignoring Item Level Fallback

I created one of the component with item level fallback not enabled on the datasource Item. When I tried to run layout query on the preview and delivery edge endpoint, I was getting the fields of the datasource item even though the version of the datasource item was not there in the requested language.

I reported the issue to Sitecore team with case number as CS0616974 and they accepted it as a bug with reference number DEVEX-5270 in the system. As a workaround, Sitecore team suggested to app...

Feature Request and Bug Report raised on month of July in XM Cloud

I raised below feature and bug request on Sitecore XM Cloud over the issues I faced during the course of development.

Feature Request: Field Validation not working on Page Builder

I setup up the field validation rule to restrict the number of items in the multilist field with the below rule.

Pattern=^.{0,233}$&Text=You can select maximum of 6 items in the {0} field.&Result=FatalError

This rule restricted the maximum number of items that can be selected inside multilist field. The val...

Written 2 of 19 blog post in Apr on Sitecore Products

13. Securing Pages on Sitecore XM Cloud: This blog post talks about securing the pages on the Sitecore XM Cloud websites to ensure secured pages can't be directly browsed by anonymous users. It leverages Azure AD B2C for authentication and middleware in Next.js to ensure only authenticated users can access the secured pages on the website.

14. Refreshing Renditions in Sitecore Content Hub: This blog post focuses on refreshing renditions in Sitecore Content Hub with the help of mass edit endpo...

Participated in Sitecore Hackathon 2025

This year worked on extending Sitecore Content Hub CLI to target below 2 use cases.'

1. Automated migration of asset of Sitecore Content Hub from one tenant to another tenant: Currently there was no straightforward available way to migrate assets from one tenant to another tenant. Either that needs to be done manually or using some middleware to generate and transform the public links is required, to achieve the same. With the help of Sitecore Content Hub CLI, we automated the process of migr...

Written 2 of 19 blog post in Jan on Sitecore Products

16. Importing State Flows in Sitecore Content Hub: This blogs post covers exporting and importing state flows/workflows in Sitecore Content Hub from one tenant to another tenant. It talks about dependent entities that should be packaged alongside state flow, to successfully transfer them to another tenant with all other associated changes.

17. Print PDF Generation inside Sitecore Content Hub: This blog post focusses on the print entity generation feature that can be used for developing previe...

Written 2 of 19 blog post in Dec on Sitecore Products

18. Fetching Entity Permissions through Sitecore Content Hub External Component: This blog post, unfolds on how to read the permissions of the current logged in user have on the entity, through the external component in Sitecore Content Hub. It also covers privilege's to be assigned at the user group level to make sure the permission api work for the non-superuser's as well.

19. Triggering Copy Profile in Sitecore Content Hub: This blog post focusses on triggering copy profile in Sitecore Con...

Written 21 blog post on Sitecore Technologies over the course of 2024

I have been working on writing various blogs throughout the year encompassing various categories such as Sitecore CDP, Sitecore Content Hub CMP and DAM module, Sitecore Connect and Sitecore XP. In all blog posts, I have tried to share in-depth insights on all the technical challenges faced by me and how I managed to overcome them.

Below is the list of blogs published by me throughout the year.

1. Leveraging Order and Order Items table to store relational data: This blog post focuses on s...

Became mentee in Sitecore MVP Mentorship program

To assist Sitecore community members who are looking for mentorship, Sitecore organized a community mentorship program. This program, which is led by Tamas & Nicole, is particularly beneficial for those who are just starting their MVP adventure.

Varun Shringarpure is the mentor for our group (Devanski Kakade, Meenakshi Gour, Garima Thakore & Myself) and has guided, mentored and motivated us throughout the year. Initially this year, we all set measurable goals and divided them into smaller chu...

Written 21 blog post on Sitecore Technologies over the course of 2024

4. Migrating Assets in Sitecore Content Hub: This blog focuses on the migration of Sitecore Content Hub DAM assets from one tenant to another tenant with the help of the export profile feature. It uses Powershell snippet to generate the import file that can be imported to another tenant in Content Hub with the help of the import command in Sitecore Content Hub CLI. Published on 10/21/2024

5. Deep dive into the Remote Events in Sitecore: This blog post deep dives into the remote events in Site...

Connection notification showing error while triggering in Sitecore CDP

I created the connection in Sitecore CDP and connected to Audience Export. While triggering the resend notification from the Audience export page, it displayed an error in the toast message. Raised the ticket to Sitecore Support with case number CS0499327. Along with the help of the Sitecore support team, were able to debug the root cause of the issue. The API endpoint that is added to the connection needs to return a 200 status code and the response content type should be application/json for ...

Podcast on Basic terminologies in Sitecore CDP.

Quite often, we just get started on a given technology and start learning it, without really thinking about its real application of it. In this episode, I tried to uncover various terminologies that we need to know while designing the use cases in Sitecore CDP. The episode is useful for both technical as well as strategist audiences. I would like to acknowledge Varun Shringarpure to ensure that the session remains engaging throughout the conversion.

Written 21 blog post on Sitecore Technologies over the course of 2024

8. Major architectural change from Sitecore 9.3 to Sitecore 10.4: This blog talks about one of the architectural changes made from Sitecore 9.3 to Sitecore 10.4, due to which the bucketed URLs when accessed on the website were returning 204 content not found. This change was discovered during the Sitecore upgrade of the solution from 9.3 to 10.4 and in this blog, I have covered the path taken to resolve this issue. Published on 9/5/2024

9. Exporting/Importing Segment in CDP: This blog post fo...

Batch API Data Validation in Sitecore CDP

I was working on the ingestion of multiple guests through Sitecore Batch API. The source system had some malformed email addresses. Raised the ticket to Sitecore support with case number CS0473778 to understand the validation on the email field. Thanks to the Sitecore support team for providing the different regex rules that were in place for the email validation in Sitecore CDP. This information will also be added to the Sitecore CDP documentation website and was taken as a Sitecore document u...

Error while exporting the CDP Segments

I was working on fetching segment definitions to export them from one tenant to another tenant on Sitecore CDP. Faced challenges in authenticating the Rest API endpoint with the bearer token to fetch segment definition. Raised the ticket to Sitecore Support with case number CS0463193. This was registered as a feature request with reference number BOX-49871.

Guest count not reflecting on CDP dashboard

I worked on ingesting multiple guests on CDP tenants with the help of Batch API. Although the guests were visible, the guest count was showing as zero on the CDP dashboard. Raised the ticket to Sitecore Support with case number CS0462639. This was registered as a bug with reference number BOX-49794. Thanks to the Sitecore team for taking this bug as a priority and fixing this within a short period.

Presented at SUGCON India 2024 on Constructing advanced reports for Sitecore CDP and Personalize using Sitecore Connect and Power BI

I submitted the topic for SUGCON India 2024 on "Constructing advanced reports for Sitecore CDP and Personalize using Sitecore Connect and Power BI" and the topic was selected. I got the opportunity to present this session on SUGCON India 2024 held in Bangalore this year. This topic was a further extension of the session presented at the SUGCON India 2023 last year by me and Varun Shringarpure on the topic "Providing Connected Experiences using Sitecore XM Cloud, CDP & Personalize in a Headless A...

Participated in Sitecore Hackathon 2024

Worked on creating a downtime notification module in Sitecore XM/XP, to proactively inform users about upcoming maintenance/downtime on CMS. This module will help content authors to plan their activities better for the upcoming days. Special thanks to the Sitecore Hackathon committee for organizing this event every year. Also would like to give a shoutout to my colleagues Jatin Prajapati and Meenakshi Gour for working restlessly throughout the night to make this module delivered in 1 day.

Sitecore Slack

My genuine effort to share my available knowledge with Sitecore community members over slack channel like #general, #sitecore-chat,#xm-cloud,#solr, #sxa, #spe and #cdp-personalize. I have connected with the community members personally too on the issue raised, to help them achieve the desired results.

Below are some links of the threads where i tried to help the community members on the issues faced by them.

https://sitecorechat.slack.com/archives/C0294KX3RQF/p1697750857698759

https://s...

Github Contribution

I upload the code to Github, for all the extensions done in Sitecore to help community member to easily integrate the changes.

Below are the repo links for Github:

https://github.com/chiragkhanna28/SitemapCrawler

https://github.com/chiragkhanna28/SitecoreProtoBuf

https://github.com/chiragkhanna28/sitecoreadvancegraphql

https://github.com/chiragkhanna28/sitecorecesgeolocation

https://github.com/chiragkhanna28/SItecoreDynamicPlaceholder

https://github.com/chiragkhanna28/GraphQ...

Dynamic Placeholders in Sitecore Headless

This blog explains how to get started with Dynamic Placeholder component in a Sitecore Headless and also addresses the Allowed controls issue inside dynamic placeholder in which placeholder restriction does not works as expected.

Implementing Sitecore Smart Hub CDP in XM Sitecore Headless App

Presented an advance session on CDP and Personalize at SUG columbus. It covered on how to design experience/experiment in Sitecore Personalize and use them to personalize the content on the website.

Search Result Boosting in Sitecore

This blog unveils how we can implement search result boosting by the relevancy of the fields in Sitecore. It uses 'Extended Query Parser' to configure relevancy of the fields and applies idf(Inverse Documents Frequency) and tf(term frequency) parameters to compute the score of the document and sort the results.

Insights on Dictionary Service in SXA Headless

This blog provides complete insights on how to configure dictionary service on a SXA headless project and addresses various issues faced while configuring dictionary service on multisite setup.

Sitecore CDP Integration in a Headless Project

This blog helps on getting started with integrating Sitecore CDP/Personalize on a Headless Project, by leveraging Engage SDK. It used React context to initialize the Engage object once, to be used across all the components to trigger page events, identity events etc.

Configuring Multisite setup in Sitecore JSS Headless with SXA

This blog explains on how to do a multisite setup inside Sitecore Headless SXA based solution. It further provide details of how Nextjs multisite middleware addon works in background to resolve different sites hosted on a single head app.

Sitecore GraphQL – Advance Search Queries

This blogs targets on how we can do advance search on complex fields such as multilist field using GraphQL in Sitecore. This can help us to perform search options using AND/OR operator on tagging fields seamlessly while working on GraphQL integrated mode.

Sharing Cookies with Sitecore Owin Authentication

This blog targets on how to share login cookies across different sites while using Sitecore Federated Authentication. Using this way, we can implement single sign on across all the sites.