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Experiences with Glass Cache

In version 4, Glass Mapper introduced a caching mechanism to speed up access to mapped objects. Basically, once an object is mapped, it is stored in Glass Cache which by default utilizes HttpCache in Memory. The next time the same object…

By Mark | November 2, 2015 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |

Understanding Sitecore DMS Campaign triggering

Sitecore DMS allows you to launch and track Campaigns. You can set up Campaigns inside Marketing Center. Check the Marketing Operations Cookbook on SDN for more detail on that. Make sure you deploy your Campaigns by clicking Deploy in the…

By Mark | July 13, 2014 | DMS | 4 Comments |

Use System.Boolean when indexing checkbox fields

I faced the issue that checkbox values were not being updated in the index correctly. When I unchecked a checkbox and saved, the index would still have “1” stored as value for my field. To prevent this issue, use Sytem.Boolean…

By Mark | June 27, 2014 | ContentSearch | 2 Comments |

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…

By Mark | June 26, 2014 | Administration | 2 Comments |

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…

By Mark | June 11, 2014 | Administration | 1 Comment |

Determining the Context Index when performing bucket queries

We have faced a problem when working with multilists and custom indexes. Some of our multilists would not contain any data even though the lucene queries would have matches when querying the index directly. We found that the problem had to do…

By Mark | May 26, 2014 | ContentSearch | No Comments |

On large sites with many authors working concurrently it can be very annoying to wait for your turn to publish. Also, not being able to cancel a publish job is very annoying. Luckily, Ivan Sharamok has created a fantastic module…

By Mark | March 8, 2014 | Authoring | No Comments |

We have recently completed a project for an international Site featuring a large amount of content in many languages. Not only did we have to support several base languages – it also was a requirement to be able to customize…

By Mark | March 7, 2014 | Languages | 3 Comments |