CORS issue for fonts in XM Cloud Local Experience Editor
I recently got a local XM Cloud instance running and started to configure the site. The kind front end architect had everything in the src solution arranged very nicely and …
Author: Phil Paris
Use Visual Studio to view your Docker containers and view XM Cloud CM files in the container.
If you have a valid Visual Studio license, here is a way to view the file system of the XM Cloud CM running on your local. Open Visual Studio ( …
In XM Cloud disable password requirement for Powershell
By default, Sitecore asks you to provide your admin password to create an elevated session to run powershell. This won’t work in XM Cloud, so we have to modify this …
Viewing Logs for CM and Rendering Host in Docker
This is an easy one, but it wasn’t obvious to me. If you are running Docker Desktop, you can view the logs for the CM and Rendering hosts by simply …
Options for leveraging external data in a Sitecore site
This topic is very broad and what I am presenting is by no means an exhaustive list, as there are probably hundreds of different ways this can be done. Below …
Hide JSS Rendering with invalid datasource
On a recent JSS project, we came across a scenario where the client had inadvertently configured a datasource on a rendering. This was done either by manually changing the path …
Webdam Connector For Sitecore
If you have a legacy license agreement to the Webdam digital asset managment system, you might have been concearned about how it previously lacked a stable connector to Sitecore. You …
Automatic Alt tags for Images
In this post we’ll be looking at 3 different file formats for images. Those are JPEG, GIF, and PNG. By default, except for the Jpeg, there is no option to …
Adding Tokens in Sitecore
While there is a way to add tokens in fields using SXA, if you aren’t using SXA, you could use this strategy. The use case for this example this. The …
Sorting Languages in Sitecore Content Editor
Sometimes it’s those little requirements that can take the most time to code for, especially if it has to do with customizing the Sitecore UI. Here is one that was …