Configuring SolrCloud for XConnect

Published at December 13, 2018 ·  3 min read

Sitecore had a documentation page on their old doc site which detailed out how to setup Solr cloud for xConnect. That page has since been taken down and doesn’t appear to have been migrated to the new doc site. Luckily, I was able to find it cached. This blog post contains information taken from that cached page, mixed in with some of my own experiences. Getting Started You should already have Solr Cloud and Zookeeper setup and running with SSL....

Token Replacement on Sitecore Experience Forms

Published at August 10, 2018 ·  3 min read

Sitecore Experience Forms are new to Sitecore 9. This module is a built-from-the-ground-up replacement for the old Web Forms for Marketers and it’s pretty powerful. One of its features is multi-page forms. Multi-page forms means you can segment your form via next and previous buttons. One thing that isn’t really clear is how to pass data from one page to another. I wanted to figure out how to pass data across pages....

Announcing Leprechaun

Published at May 28, 2018 ·  4 min read

Leprechaun I am very pleased to announce, albeit a bit late, the launch of Leprechaun! Leprechaun actually made its debut in April at SUGCON EU, but I didn’t write anything up on its release. I am really passionate about this project and I’d love to share it with you now! What is Leprechaun? Leprechaun is a universal code generator for Sitecore templates that reads in serialized yaml from Rainbow for use in Unicorn-based projects....

ShowConfig on Content Delivery

Published at February 21, 2018 ·  2 min read

The Problem Today I was troubleshooting a problem on a content delivery server. I knew the problem was around configs, but I needed to see the combined config to determine what the exact problem was. Normally, I would login to Sitecore and go to /sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx and I would see a beautiful XML file that shows me the merged config. The problem? The Sitecore back-end is removed on content delivery servers! There’s nowhere for me to login, and there’s now ShowConfig....