In this article, I will show you my approach to setup Unicorn serialization for Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 1.8 using Sitecore 9.1.0 and Unicorn 4.0.7. This is the second part of the series of posts about Unicorn serialization. If you would like to start from the very beginning and read an introduction to Unicorn have a look at part 1. If you do not feel comfortable with Helix principles please check the documentation because I assumed that understanding of basic concepts is a prerequisite for the rest of the article. Sitecore structure For the demo purpose, I created a single-tenant solution with one…
Read MoreAzure tricks – How to show all files in Kudu Diagnostic Console, not just the first 199 items
When navigating to your site wwwroot in Kudu Diagnostic Console on Azure by default you can only see the first 199 directories and files. For large directories with more files, it's a problem because it hides important files that you would like to browse. Luckily it is easy to manipulate the number of files to show: 1. Install LocalStorage Manager for Chrome 2. Open LocalStorage Manager by clicking on its shortcut on the top right corner 3. Click "Add" to add new variable "maxViewItems" and click OK 4. In the next window type in the number of items you want…
Read MoreSitecore 8.2.1 on Azure PaaS Web Apps part 2: ARM Templates
As I already mentioned in the first part of the tutorial there are two ways to deploy Sitecore 8.2.1 to Azure Web Apps. In this post, I am going to talk about the second option which is installation using Azure Resource Manager Templates. Sitecore 8.2.1 ARM Deployment step by step: Install the latest version of Azure PowerShell SDK. Run PowerShell console and execute the above lines: Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned # Install the Azure Resource Manager modules from the PowerShell Gallery Install-Module AzureRM # Install the Azure Service Management module from the PowerShell Gallery Install-Module Azure I experienced an issue: "some modules…
Read MoreSitecore 8.2.1 on Azure PaaS Web Apps part 1: Installation using Azure Marketplace
In Sitecore 8.2 since update 1, Sitecore provided out of the box support for Azure Platform as a Service deployments. Before Sitecore 8.2.1, it was possible to deploy Sitecore using Cloud Services which required custom deployment and had a few drawbacks like no support for some Sitecore modules like WFFM or EXM, burdensome maintenance, long deployments time and requirement of integration with third-party services because of lack of automatic scaling. Since Sitecore 8.2.1 there are possible two ways of deployments: One-click deployment option using Azure Marketplace Powershell based deployment using Azure Resource Manager Templates In this post, I am going…
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This is still great, use it all the time! Only thing that's changed that can make this one-liner more elegant…
This is an excellent article, thanks for posting it! I'm looking to set up something very similar. In the time…
Yes, you have two different configurations: Content-Data and Content-Data-Configuration which are trying to serialize the same item (/sitecore/content/Data/Configuration). This is…
thank you, I use this construction: .int value= int.TryParse(valueToParseFromString, out value) ? value: 0;.