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Get Random Item from XSLT Rendering
Had a request to write an XSLT Extensions that can select a random child of an Item. I wrote this extension that takes in a Sitecore Query and randomly selects one of the times. You could use it to do...
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Multiple Sites with One Authoring Domain in Sitecore
Sitecore allows you to manage multiple sites by binding a hostname to a root content item via the webconfig. This works fine in the delivery enviornment but for authoring you would also now need a...
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HTML5 video with Sitecore
I worked with a client that was having trouble getting HTML5 video to play in Sitecore. Inside of our support tickets I found the trick to getting it to work is to add the following MIME Types to the...
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Sitecore setting Timeout on a Virtual User
A customer was having issues getting a virtual users expiration to timeout. In looking at the code in the Authentication Manager I found that the method being used to load the virtual user passes...
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Federated Authentication with Sitecore and the Windows Identity Foundation
Over the past few months I’ve done some work integrating Sitecore with multiple Federated Authentication systems like Ping Identity, ADFS and some home grown ones. The way Federated Authentication...
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Adding Site Filters to DMS Reports with Sitecore 6.5
DMS does not have a Site Filter for multi site enviornments in the latest version of Sitecore 6.5 but I found adding one is quite easy so here is a little tutorial. Step 1 Create a Filter Browse to...
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Extending Sitecore Rocks – Creating a ContentTreeCommand and Server Component
Sitecore Rocks is completely extensible, much like Sitecore itself. In this example I’ll be extending it to support cloning with a Sitecore Rocks Server Component and a Sitecore Explorer Command...
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Sitecore MVC Area Controller Rendering Type
I saw this post a couple weeks back about working with Areas in Sitecore MVC. One of the issues was that you had to specify the view path in all of the actions because Sitecore didn’t understand what...
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Personalizing Staticlly Based Componenets with the Sitecore Rules Engine
Someone in the SDN forums had asked how to personalize a statically placed component on a page so I thought I’d come up with a solution. One one option would of course be to use template inheritance...
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COBAL Renderings in Sitecore
Sitecore’s flexible rendering module allows developers to create their own custom rendering types. If you wish to avoid XSLT, Web Forms or Razor you can also create your own rendering type. I was...
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