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Banner image for Adding a Project to Your Helix Solution and How Tds Can Break Your Sitecore Instance article

Today I was adding a project to our Helix solution, and was a little surprised to see the instance break after first deployment. The fix was simple but nowhere near straightforward.

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Banner image for Give Your Authors the Ability to Select Placholders Instead of Typing Them with the Placeholder Dropdown Module article

A good development team will always work to ensure Experience Editor is the preferred method for authoring a page's layout. Of course, this isn't always possible, so our clients need to know how work with Placeholders in the Content Editor, and the module Placeholder Dropdown is a good step in the right direction to improve this experience.

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Banner image for How to Add Custom Buttons to the Content Editor Ribbon article

I was recently asked to provide a way for a User to execute a scheduled task immediately instead of waiting for the next scheduled run. Adding a button inside the Content Editor was a useful way to accomplish this, and since I found a few misleading guides online I thought I'd post my own, which is hopefully a lot clearer.

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Banner image for Using Xconnect Without Certificates When You Really Want to Live on the Edge! article

Sometimes you don't have time to deal with problems and you've just gotta have a running instance of Sitecore. Today we had some certificate issues with xConnect that appeared out of nowhere, so after some time troubleshooting, I decided to remove the requirement, since we've already locked down network access to it. Temporary and non-Production, and in other words, nail meet hammer. 

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Banner image for The Complete Guide to Installing Habitat Home Corporate on Sitecore 9.2 article

Habitat is a great demo instance that has been used to showcase what Sitecore can do. I'm grateful for this tool since we can spin up a copy quickly to use during project initialization phases where people new to Sitecore can quickly get familiar with it. Installation can be tricky, so I'll cover the steps and some hiccups I've come across.

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