For a blog module that I am developing I wanted to create an custom item editor. As you might know those are the “tabs” in the Content Editor. 1. Create a aspx file for the item editor user interface. 2. Select the core database in the desktop mode 3. Open the Content Editor and go to the following path /Sitecore/Content/Applications/Content Editor/Editors/Items. 4. You can create an item editor using the /Sitecore Client/Content Editor/Editor data template. 5. You can give your [...]

I just noticed that Sitecore has greatly improved their search on SDN. You can now search through SDN, the shared source and Sitecore blogs.You even can filter your results by sdn sections, collections and datatypes. Only minor is that I can’t find a list of blogs they included in the search, so for that I will use my own search.

These days streaming video on the web is quite popular. In almost every project we do at Evident Interactive the customer wants to embed video in content items. Off course they can do that by copy-pasting the embedding code in a Sitecore field or in the rich-text editor. But that is not the most user-friendly method. I thought it would be nice if an end-user could just copy-paste the url of the page and let [...]

Last week I took a look at my blog and realized that I haven’t posted anything the last few months. I just couldn’t find the time to write anything. It has been quite a busy last half year filled with a project at work which required all my time, some personal issues and at last I was involved in a car accident two months ago. By now I am recovering from the accident and slowly [...]