Mark's Sitecore Blog

Category: Administration

  • Default Rich Text Editor Profile in a Multisite Environment

    Out of the box, the default Rich Text Editor profile can be set via the “HtmlEditor.DefaultProfile” setting. Unfortunately, this only allows you to set the default profile for the entire Sitecore instance making it the default profile for each site. Set it up for Multisite Luckily, it is possible to create a custom EditorConfiguration which…

  • Sitecore Start Menu Shortcuts not showing

    We noticed, that it is not possible to create Application Shortcuts anymore in SC 7.2. All our newly created shortcuts wouldn’t be displayed, while old shortcuts were visible. The reason for this lies in the changed raw value inside of link fields. Internal links are saved as GUIDs instead of paths: <link linktype=”internal” querystring=”” target=””…

  • View running Sitecore background jobs

    I’ve created a very simple but useful admin page recently that shows all background jobs (indexing, publishing etc.) currently running on the Sitecore instance. So if you’re ever wondering why the instance is running slow or why jobs are being queued you can take a peek at /sitecore/admin/ViewJobs.aspx You might want to apply some styling…