Today Sitecore released version 6.2. According to the change log their are several new (cool) features. Sitecore client RSS feeds for items in workflows Built-in support for syndicating items using the RSS format. WebDAV support in the media library A new File Drop Area field type has been introduced A new Word Field has been introduced! Analytics Oracle support Improved IIS7 support Sitecore’s theme icons are now stored in zip-files. Sitecore is now distributed with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]