Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
I've been spending some time setting up some custom Entities in Content Hub recently. I bumped up against an issue with one feature where it took me a while to find the right info to make it work the way I wanted.
I spoke recently at the London user group, talking about a scenario where you might use Content Hub to help you with OrderCloud projects. Since that presentation didn't get recorded I thought I should write some notes on the core bits of what I said, as this is probably of interest to a wider audience...
I've been looking at some information architecture stuff for OrderCloud recently, and came across a situation where "groups" were suggested as helpful for the business scenario I needed to model. There didn't seem to be a great deal of documentation about why you might want them for things like this, so I figured it might help others for me to write down what I was looking at. And why groups might be the right answer for you too...
If you're experimenting with OrderCloud then getting a sandbox instance is an important part of the discovery process. Unlike most of Sitecore's products, this one is available free to anyone (just register in the portal) - so it's easy to give it a try. But if you want to build an experiment against the sandbox instance you need your code to authenticate with it. And this has tripped me up a couple of times because it's not wildly well documented. So learn from my frustration...
Have you thought about attending SUGCON EU this year? We're getting close to the community's big annual get-together which is being held in London this year. And as ever it has a very interesting looking agenda. Still thinking whether you should attend? Here's a few of the reasons why I'll be there...
I've been looking at some work related to Content Types in Content Hub recently, and while this is a bit like Data Templates in the good old DXP, I had a couple of things I had to spend time researching as part of this work. So maybe if you're looking at using the CMP features, this might help you understand a couple of quirks too...
I've had a few days to decompress and think about all the stuff I heard from the various stages at this year's Sitecore Symposium in Orlando. So here's a rundown of the key messages for me, from my viewpoint as a developer and architect in the Sitecore space.
Anyone who's been doing Sitecore DXP for a while will be fairly comfortable with Solr and how search works under the Content Search APIs. But if you're moving to the newer SaaS products then you're not working with that any more. And getting started with Sitecore's SaaS Search product does involve learning a few changed concepts.
Here are four quick things they tell you that you might not have thought too much about, but you need to remember to help avoid project surprises...
I got asked for help with an issue in some QA test the other day, and it struck me as a fun one that others might encounter. A nice little side effect of how literal computers can be...
I was doing some investigation into moving some Experience Forms UI over to the new SaaS Forms in XM Cloud recently, and bumped into an interesting issue. If you're looking to make use of this new tool you may find this an interesting read:
