When a content author enters decoded symbols in single line / multiline sitecore text fields, the symbols don’t get encoded on their own on the site when we output them with @Editable (Glass method – supporting page editor mode). This also applies to links rendered using @RenderLink (Glass method) This would mean text like ®… Read More Output Html / Encoded characters using glass html helpers in Sitecore
In most product repositories, we come across product specification sets for each product, which usually comprise of a key value pair. We had one such scenario in our project, and we came across the requirement to facet on various specification keys. We have currently added a list of comma separated (key, value) pairs in the… Read More Faceting on product specifications with SOLR computed fields in Sitecore
When using the salesforce connector with Sitecore, we came across the need to store user profile images as well in salesforce. Once the connector is set up (which includes setup in Web.config / Domains.config and S4S.config), any user user profile interaction automatically happens with salesforce, and fields which are mapped in web.config with corresponding sitecore… Read More Storing user profile image using Salesforce Connector with Sitecore
While working with Sitecore, we add many renderings in the presentation and that makes up each page that is output for the corresponding item. We are currently working with Sitecore MVC, and we have traditionally added start and end comments in views manually (copy pasting the path of the current view) to mark the start… Read More Using dynamic view markers in Sitecore MVC
If you are using glass.mapper with TDS and say Sitecore MVC, and have in the past created your models manually, you know that glass codegen is a godsend! Glass basically provides us with t4 template files and dlls, based on the items included in the TDS project, the code is generated using the t4 templates.… Read More Customize Glass.Mapper T4 Templates for Sitecore TDS CodeGen
Strip out HTML Tags Convert string to Alphanumeric text If you want to allow spaces, modify the regex to “[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]”
In some cases, to maintain the integrity of the design, we might want to restrict the amount of text that the content author can add in the rich text field. For this purpose we created a custom validator and applied the same to rich text fields only. For single line / multiline fields, this can… Read More Sitecore Rich Text Field (RTF) length validator
In most sites, by design we have some minimum image size requirements which the content authors need to adhere by while uploading content images to maintain the integrity of the design. In our project we wanted to add a validation in place so that the content author wouldn’t be allowed to set images smaller than… Read More Sitecore Image Size Validator
We came across the need to be able to truncate text (html) entered in a rich text field to be able to display the same on compact modules / show article summaries etc. There are many different approaches that can be taken here to be able to safely truncate html. But here’s the code that… Read More Safely truncate Sitecore Rich Text / Html
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