Sitecore roadmap

// October 20th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // SPN, Sitecore

Tonight I was catching up with some RSS Feeds and Twitter messages, when I noticed that SPN (Sitecore Partner Network) is renewed. My compliments to the people behind the renewal, it looks so much better and it’s easier to find the information you’re looking for. Next one is SDN perhaps? I know I would appreciate it, and I think there are more people who would like it.

When I was crawling through the content of SPN I saw the roadmap. Curious as I am I opened it to see if it was a different version than the the outdated one at the old SPN. I then saw that I it’s updated and has some real nice improvements.

Here are some

• Sitecore Client RSS feeds
• WebDav
• MS Word Fieldtype
• Webforms 2.0
• LINQ data abstraction
• Re-factored publishing engine
• Advanced clustering of any number of Production CMS Servers

Take a look at the roadmap, you will find more information there.

Creating a Item Editor

// August 19th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Sitecore

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 item editor a name using the header field in the data section.
6. In the icon field you can enter a path to the icon.
7. In the url field you need to fill in the url to the aspx file created in step 1
8. Save the item.
9. Switch back to the master database.

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New search for SDN

// August 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Sitecore

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.

Embedding video in Sitecore items

// August 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Custom field, Sitecore, User Interface

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 an custom control do the rest. So I created a custom field, webcontrol, some xsl extensions an a addition to the flashmanager. Let’s say that we want to embed this video from YouTube. I go to the content editor and paste the url in a field of the type “Video Embed”.

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A fresh start

// August 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Sitecore

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 resumed my work at Evident.

So last week I updated my blog, installed a new theme and wrote some draft posts. I’m hoping to blog a few times in a month on all kinds of Sitecore stuff.