Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Basic Presentation Components

Introduction

Creating a simple content page using template and layout

Creating a sidebar menu using view rendering and RenderingModel

Creating breadcrumb using the view and custom model

Creating carousel using view and controller renderings

Placing renderings dynamically using placeholders

Empowering the Experience Editor using placeholder settings

Restricting or swapping rendering controls on placeholders

Chapter 2. Extending Presentation Components

Introduction

Altering rendering behavior using component properties

Creating strongly typed rendering parameters

Achieving asynchronous operations using a custom device

Creating multilingual content pages

Generating RSS feeds for syndicated items

Improving site performance by caching renderings

Personalizing components

Chapter 3. Customizing the User Interface Framework

Introduction

Adding a custom command to item context menu

Creating a gutter to show unpublished items

Creating a Sheer UI application using XAML control to list products

Creating a SPEAK application to list and sort products

Searching and filtering products using SPEAK

Building a custom form to bind product details using SPEAK

Creating a custom editor tab in the Content Editor

Creating a custom experience button using the Field Editor

Creating a custom rule to validate item fields

Creating a custom sorting routine to sort the content tree items

Creating a custom field to save the date time with time zones

Chapter 4. Leveraging the Sitecore Backend

Introduction

Working with multiple sites

Customizing pipelines to achieve a custom 404 page

Creating a custom event handler to auto-publish on an item save

Achieving a site-specific URL pattern for a multisite environment

Initializing hooks to subscribe events to prepare an audit trail

Creating jobs to accomplish long-running operations

Using a scheduling agent to delete older item versions

Scheduling database tasks

Chapter 5. Making Content Management More Efficient

Introduction

Using dictionary domains for multilingual sites on a multisite environment

Creating vanity URLs for marketing purposes using an alias item

Centralizing common content using a clone item

Using a wildcard item to integrate external content

Placing dynamic content in the Rich Text Editor by replacing tokens

Adding a custom tool to the Rich Text Editor to generate tokens

Dealing with user-generated content using an Item Web API

Storing external content using a custom cache

Chapter 6. Working with Media

Introduction

Restricting malicious files being uploaded to the media library

Downloading the media library folder

Protecting media files under a disclaimer

Achieving responsive images

Serving media files from CDN or external storage

Chapter 7. Workflow and Publishing

Introduction

Creating a custom action using workflow

Achieving time-based automated publishing

Unpublishing of items

Using publishing events to send a publish completion e-mail

Publishing file-based items using web deploy

Clearing an HTML cache based on published items for a multisite environment

Customizing the publishItem pipeline to avoid duplicate names on a live site

Chapter 8. Security

Introduction

Working with a custom user profile

Creating custom access rights for an item

Achieving a single sign-on by creating a virtual user with custom roles and rights

Preventing Sitecore from applying security

Implementing extranet login

Chapter 9. Sitecore Search

Introduction

Indexing searching sorting and paging content using a search query

Creating a computed index field for categorization

Refining search results by tagging based facets

Achieving the autocomplete feature with a wildcard

Influencing search results with boosting

Hunting MoreLikeThis results

Correcting a search with did you mean

Managing millions of items using an item bucket

Chapter 10. Experience Personalization and Analytics Using xDB