14Jul, 2022
I was recently working on a custom site settings item which needed a new base template. Once added, I got a scary warning about removing a base template during save. How can this be? All I did was add a new template! I'll explain the why and how in this article.
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04Jul, 2022
I had a real tricky issue this week as my newly built assemblies weren't being deployed to a dev environment. There were no errors. No warnings. There was even a message in the build output that the files I needed were in fact sent, but nothing showed up. Well, it all came down to a pesky developer playing around with the solution's configuration.
11May, 2022
We've got a client with a really cool search implementation, and they're always excited to publish new content and see how our various CTAs dynamically pull data based on this or that. So, once the site started to really get going with content, we were getting requests about content not getting indexed. After a couple of initial checks, it turns out the sitecore_suggested_test_index was clogging the pipes! Why? How? Let's check it out.
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01Feb, 2022
This week a client had a well-running installation go offline, showing “Error 524: a timeout occurred”. Not having worked on this instance for several months, the first thing I did was look at the logs to see what's going on. The site is logging thousands of exceptions a day, and one SQL database is pinned at 100% for at least seven days. This needed a few steps to resolve the issue, so let's go through them.
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04Dec, 2021
Part of a Sitecore multisite implementation is defining a more sophisticated Information Architecture and removing out of the box content would be a logical step in this process to clean things up. No issues were seen or logged when /sitecore/content/Home was deleted, but Siteimprove had some issues and generated SiteImprovePush errors once the module was installed.
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