Sitecore #ContactFacets & #Personalization in use

In this post I would like to share with you how we implemented  in a Sitecore 8.1 MVC solution contact facets  and  personification  based on post number (Geo IP) and subsidiary  office locations. If  IP is not found or no connection between Ip and the post number we have in Sitecore we suggest the main office…

November 2018, Sitecore Meetup in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

In  new 22 November we will host a new Sitecore Meetup in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The agenda is: What’s new in Sitecore 9.1 – Sebastian Tecsi, Sitecore MVP Sitecore xConnect & Marketing Automation – Dani Mocan, Sitecore MVP Tips and Tricks in Commerce 9 – Vlad Iobagiu, Ex Sitecorean, Ex Sitecore MVP You can RSVP and…

Exciting Announcement : #SitecoreMVP 2017

I’m very pleased to be able to announce that Sitecore have invited me to be part of their MVP community for 2017. When I started writing this blog about 2 years ago it was purely as an experiment. I’d spent years thinking “I could write about that” while I was solving tasks at work. And…

Sitecore Analytics #xDB troubleshoot and #mongosession configuration

During troubleshooting of xDB  not recording data of a upgraded Sitecore 8.1 solution  I learned several stuff and I want to share that with you. Our problem was related with the website definition , it did’t had enableTracking=”True” and Global.asax was altered . Then , when solution was working fine on QA , when we deploy it…

Sitecore rendering static binding cache issue

We are preparing a site lunch and off course one of the steps is  to setup #Sitecore #caches. I saw  that we had some  static binding renderings refereed like this:    @Html.Sitecore().Controller(“Controller”, “method”). We cannot add any cache setting to this , so this can have some performance implication. In order to fix this we…

Sitecore editors SEO validation help

When we do SEO reports for almost all our client  one of the entry in report is definitely something related with title of pages or meta description not being filled out or valid So we build a small validation popup  that pops up  on Experience  Editor  if editors forget to add meta description or title.  Off…

Sitecore rules for hide items on different markets

Personalization enables you to deliver targeted content to your visitors. In our case we will implement a rule that show different products  lists for different markets, some products are not approve to be sold in  USA yet. So what we want is , when a USA citizen want to see and unapproved product he will be…

A small Sitecore infographic fallback responsive component

From one of our marketers  we had a  small request for extending an image/infographic component, so when is showed on mobile, the image is splited in multiple pieces to be more user friendly. The component is written in MVC,  is a simple implementation , but I liked the idea and I think it will be very useful.…

Sitecore as a claim aware application

Integration with ADFS General Info Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) simplifies access to systems and applications using a claims-based access authorization mechanism to maintain application security. The way Federated Authentication works is instead of logging directly into an application the application sends the user to another system for authentication. Once that system authenticates the user…

Sites Manager – Sitecore SPEAK Application Intro

Since Sitecore 6.2 we have build for our multi site clients the Addition Multisite Framework. Main feature of the framework was to give Sitecore editors(administrators)  possibility to provision ,delete and maintain Sitecore sites by their own, together with enhancing Experience Editor (ex. Page editor)  to improve editor experience. But with  the Sitecore upgrade and with…