#sitecore 8.1

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Sitecore, Solr, and Many languages

Sitecore 7 added a content search API to interact with Lucene and Solr. I'm sure anyone who has ever worked with search will tell you that search is hard, as it requires a lot of customisation that is entirely per-site, and what works for someone else might not work for you.

I'm here to tell you what worked for me, a really specific use case involving Sitecore 8.1 update 4, Apache Solr 6.2, and searching 7 regions with 4 different languages.

We're using some internal libraries on top of the content search API, but they eventually make the same calls as everyone else.

We started out with a fairly standard content search, which... mostly worked, even across languages. Condensed form:

var context = SearchIndex.CreateSearchContext(); var query = context.GetQueryable<oursearchresults>(); query.Content.Like(queryArgs);

There are actually a few issues with this approach:

The way our site is set up, 90% of the content we care about is actually in an item's components, not on the item itself.

This treats all languages the same way. Sitecore will send the same query to solr no matter the language being searched: _content:(*queryArgs*)

This will only give exact matches (even though .Like() is used)

Issue 1 is solved with a computed index field.

public class VisualizationField : MediaItemContentExtractor { public override object ComputeFieldValue(IIndexable indexable) { string baseValue = base.ComputeFieldValue(indexable) as string; Item indexItem = indexable as SitecoreIndexableItem; if (!ShouldIndexItem(indexItem)) { return baseValue; } var dataSources = Globals.LinkDatabase .GetReferences(indexItem) .Where(link => ShouldProcessLink(link, indexItem)) .Select(link => link.GetTargetItem()) .Where(targetItem => targetItem != null && targetItem.Versions.Count > 0) .Distinct(); var result = new StringBuilder(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(baseValue)) { result.AppendLine(baseValue); } foreach (var dataSource in dataSources.Where(ShouldIndexDataSource)) { dataSource.Fields.ReadAll(); foreach (var field in dataSource.Fields.Where(ShouldIndexField)) { result.AppendLine(field.Value); } } return result.ToString(); } }

The ShouldProcess and ShouldIndex methods check to see whether or not something is actually related, and whether or not something should be put into the solr index based on some pretty basic parameters (correct content type, whether or not the component is actually being rendered).

Issue 2 caused me a great deal of stress until I stumbled across a blog post from the Sitecore 7 era. Sitecore added the concept of CultureExecutionContexts, which is a really fancy way of saying you can tell Sitecore to send over a search for content_t_{lang} instead of just _content by using this:

var context = SearchIndex.CreateSearchContext(); var culture = new CultureInfo(Sitecore.Context.Language.Name); var cultureCtx = new CultureExecutionContext(culture); var query = context.GetQueryable<oursearchresults>(cultureCtx); query.Content.Like(queryArgs);

And now your solr queries will look like this:

`content_t_{lang}:(*queryArgs*)`

Huzzah! You're searching specific languages! The problem quickly becomes, now you're doing language-specific exact match queries, which isn't very helpful.

Enter stemming algorithms.

The basic idea is that you give solr a word like engineer, and it boils the word down to the word's stem, so that you can run queries like engineer, engineers, engineered, or engineering and it will give you the same results. There are stemmers for basically every language you can think of, and the solr documentation explains how to use them far better than I ever could. The example schema.xml file generated by Sitecore actually contains basic analyzers that work fairly well. You will likely want to tweak them to fit your needs, but for an out-of-the-box solution, they work.

Once you've put the correct analyzers in place, restarted solr (this is important, solr does not pick up schema changes on the fly), and reindexed, you should now be getting decent search results in multiple languages.

Now is when language-specifics come into play. One of the languages this client supports is Polish, which does not come with out-of-the-box support from solr. Thankfully, there are already instructions for how to set that up.

The problem language for us, so far, has been German. German is what's known as a fusional language, which means that they tend to make new words by shoving old ones together. For instance, the German word for engineer is "ingenieur" and the word for civil engineer is "bauingenieur." This creates an issue for our search purposes, as "bauingenieur" and "ingenieur" should both return results for "ingenieur." The problem is solved with the Dictionary Compound Word Token Filter, a solr filter that will break words like bauingenieur down into their components "bau" and "ingenieur," so your results become what you'd expect. This requires a German word list, which can be a bit tricky to find, but once you have it, it works beautifully.

At this point, our search results have become downright useful and accurate (though we haven't implemented nice-to-haves like spellchecking and synonym searches), but there's a subtle bug. Sitecore isn't sending over the _content field to solr for each individual language properly. If your setup is like ours, with a very thin item and all of the pertinent content in subcomponents, the _content field in the index is going to be very sparse, basically containing nothing but the content in the top level item itself.

This is a subtle bug, and one that took several hours of debugging and someone far more versed in Sitecore than me to finally solve, but the issue is in the computed index field for the _content field.

var dataSources = Globals.LinkDatabase .GetReferences(indexItem) .Where(link => ShouldProcessLink(link, indexItem)) .Select(link => link.GetTargetItem()) .Where(targetItem => targetItem != null && targetItem.Versions.Count > 0) .Distinct();

This code will only get the components in Sitecore's default language. The rest of the code will properly put the correct language content from the top-level item into the index, but one of the checks it makes is whether or not a component is in the layout of that item in that version and language. If you have an item that only exists in the default Sitecore language, this works fine, but for any other language it's not going to get any of the subcomponents.

I haven't found any documentation about this, but the solution that is working for us is bringing in a LanguageSwitcher:

using (var switcher = new LanguageSwitcher(indexItem.Language)) { public class VisualizationField : MediaItemContentExtractor { public override object ComputeFieldValue(IIndexable indexable) { string baseValue = base.ComputeFieldValue(indexable) as string; Item indexItem = indexable as SitecoreIndexableItem; if (!ShouldIndexItem(indexItem)) { return baseValue; } var dataSources = Globals.LinkDatabase .GetReferences(indexItem) .Where(link => ShouldProcessLink(link, indexItem)) .Select(link => link.GetTargetItem()) .Where(targetItem => targetItem != null && targetItem.Versions.Count > 0) .Distinct(); var result = new StringBuilder(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(baseValue)) { result.AppendLine(baseValue); } foreach (var dataSource in dataSources.Where(ShouldIndexDataSource)) { dataSource.Fields.ReadAll(); foreach (var field in dataSource.Fields.Where(ShouldIndexField)) { result.AppendLine(field.Value); } } return result.ToString(); } } }

Once you rebuild and reindex with the proper computed index field, your components will be properly indexed, your search results correct, and, hopefully, your clients happy.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sitecore 9 Upgrade

Sitecore introduced a series of new features and competencies in the first run of the 9th version built on advanced commerce server integration and Microsoft Azure support.

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As of 2020, Sitecore will no longer provide support for the websites running on a version of 6 or 7. In 2021, you will not be receiving security updates or assistance for version 8.0 and 8.1 and in further years, this kind of support will end for 8.2 also. If you chose not to upgrade you are putting your website or your company in an insecure position.

Why Sitecore 9 is trending?

Sitecore 9 is smarter and powerful than its predecessors, loaded with new features like:-

Sitecore xConnect,

Cortex, Marketing Automation,

Sitecore Commerce, Forms,

JavaScript Services (JSS),

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These features represent significant improvements, including the addition of new modules to enable Sitecore as an end-to-end solution for empowering marketers to create high-quality customer experiences.

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Upgrade to Sitecore 9 Update 2 Installation - Skybridge Infotech

Upgrade to Sitecore 9 Update 2 Installation (Sitecore XP 9.0.2)

Sitecore 9 Update 2 Setup Prerequisites

Windows 10 / Windows 8.1

Windows PowerShell Version 5.1 or later

MS SQL 2016 SP1 or later

MS SQL Management Studio

.NET 4.6.2 or later

Web Deploy 3.6

URL Rewrite 2.1

Solr 6.6.2

Java Runtime Environment

NSSM (Download nssm 2.24)

Sitecore License must have xDB enabled

Packages for XP Single (On-Premises Deployment)

Note:  Please verify all version before it gets started to set up

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How to add a button to the ribbon

How to add a button to the ribbon

In this post I will explain how to add a custom button to the Sitecore Content Editor ribbon.

There are three main concepts.

The first one is Sitecore Ribbon. It is the top section of different menus that content editor offer to the editors. The second one is a Sitecore strip. Strip is the complete group of buttons that belong to a specific set. A ribbon is composed of many Sitecore strips. The third one is Sitecore chunk. Chunk is a specifc group of button(s). A Sitecore strip is composed of different Sitecore chunks.

These are the general steps to add a button to the Sitecore ribbon:

Inside the Core database

Create a chunk. The most important properties of this is the Click property. This property will contain an alias that later will be hooked to a portion of code that does the job of this button. For this import the Click property value is: democom:instagramimport

Add the chunk to either a new strip or to an existint strip. Link the refernce property to the chunk previously created.

Add the new strip to the ribbon. This is needed only if in the previous step you created a new strip instead of using an existing one. In the default ribbon, add a new system reference and link in the reference property to the previously craeted strip.

We have completed all the steps needed to add a new button to the ribbon. Now it is time to setup the code that will execute the action for when the button is clicked.

First lets create a public class that inhertis from the Sitecore.Shell.Framework.Commands.Command class. We will need to override the Execute method behavior. Here is where the functionality of the button will live. Let's look at the code:

public override void Execute(CommandContext context) { if (context == null) return; try { Log.Info("InstagramImportCommand Started!", this); ProgressBox.Execute("Instagram Import API", "Instagram", "Applications/32x32/refresh.png", Refresh); Log.Info("InstagramImportCommand Finished!", this); } catch (Exception ex) { Log.Error("Error!", ex, this); } } public void Refresh(params object[] parameters) { InstagramManager.Refresh(); }

In the Execute method we are calling the Refresh method from this same class that will execute the functionality that I need. As you can notice we are setting up a ProgressBox tool, this will allow the editor to know that the process is still executing.

The final step is to include a config file that will link the alias (democom:instagramimport) that we have setup for the chunk and the class that will handle the click of the button.

This post was developed for Sitecore 8.1 version.

This post was created by Carlos Araujo. You can contact me in twitter @caraujo

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.NET Web Developer 85K + Sitecore 8.1 Certification Training

.NET Web Developer 85K + Sitecore 8.1 Certification Training, Boca Raton My client, a Sitecore Partner is looking to train up a .NET web developer in Sitecore version 8.1. In this role you will spend several be learning best practices with Sitecore from a Read the full post: : .NET Web Developer 85K + Sitecore 8.1 Certification Training

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Sitecore and Solr configuration

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On this post I would like to detail a few important steps that you should follow when setting up Solr as the search engine for your Sitecore instance.

For this post I am using Sitecore 8.1 160302 (Update 2). The recommended Solr version is Solr 5.4.1, you can download it from here: http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/

Install SOLR 5.4.1 to your local environment.

Copy the directory {installation location}\solr-5.4.1\server\solr\configsets\basic_configs to {installation location}\solr-5.4.1\server\solr\ and rename it sitecore_analytics_index.

Open up Sitecore CMS and navigate to the Control Panel.

Go to the link action "Generate the Solr Schema.xml file". Navigate to the schema.xml file under the directory you copied in the previous step. Replace the old schema file with the newly generated schema. The schema.xml file attached to this page already has all the needed fields, use that file if you want to skip this step and jump to step 7.

Open up the schema file and add the following field <fieldType name="pint" class="solr.TrieIntField"/>

The Sitecore schema generator may not include the dynamic fields for multiple languages needed for multi-site solution. Check to make sure you have the following fields in the schema.xml file. <dynamicField name="*_t_da" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_t_de" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <dynamicField name="*_t_ja" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" />

Add a file to the root of "sitecore_analytics_index" folder and name it core.properties "properties is the extension". Open up the file in a text editor and add the following on the first line,  name=sitecore_analytics_index.

You will need a CORE for each index. Copy and paste the sitecore_analytics_index folder you created above for each of the indexes listed below. You will need to replace the text in the core.properties file for each of the cores with their name. In Sitecore 8.1, the following indexes are setup by default:

sitecore_analytics_index

sitecore_core_index

sitecore_fxm_master_index

sitecore_fxm_web_index

sitecore_list_index

sitecore_marketing_asset_index_master

sitecore_marketing_asset_index_web

sitecore_marketingdefinitions_master

sitecore_marketingdefinitions_web

sitecore_master_index

sitecore_suggested_test_index

sitecore_testing_index

sitecore_web_index

social_messages_master

social_messages_web

This is the file structure tree for a Sitecore core inside Solr

Once you have all the indexes/cores setup you have two options either run Solr from the command window or install it as a service. From a local development perspective I prefer to run it from the command window to avoid populating the services list with different Solr instances/versions.

To run it from the command window you can do the following:

To start it

Open a command prompt and navigate to the Solr bin folder {installation location}/bin

Type solr start

Top stop it:

Open a command prompt and navigate to the Solr bin folder {installation location}/bin

Type solr stop -p 8983 Note: I am assuming you are running Solr in the default port (8983)

This post was created by Carlos Araujo. You can contact me in twitter @caraujo