Sitecore Skills

This post introduces a thesaurus module for the Sitecore rich text editor. I started this some time ago using Sheer UI, but never got around to finishing it. I've taken the opportunity to update it now as a way of getting to grips with Sitecore SPEAK development.

Last week I set up my first proper Visual Studio solution for Sitecore 7.2 a nd Sitecore MVC.  I thought I'd share a couple of problems that I encountered and I how I overcame them.

Most customers that I work with consider the provision of standardised lowercase URL's to be a basic requirement for their site. In this post, I discuss some issues that Sitecore developers face in trying to meet that requirement. I also provide some simple code snippets that you might find helpful.

As you probably know, Sitecore content editors are evil geniuses. They masquerade as reasonable, hard working professionals, but don't be fooled. The spend their days hatching diabolical schemes to uncover any remaining weaknesses in the platform, ready to gleefully spring them on you last thing on a Friday. In the last year alone I've had the following phone conversation more times than I care to remember:

Sitecore engagement plans contain an action for sending an email. In the action's settings there's an option to send the email to the "Current Visitors Email Address", but unfortunately this has a bug.

Sitecore users and developers occasionally ask how to find out when an item was most recently published or when it was first published. Unfortunately, the answer isn't as simple as you might assume.

Here's a quick one to correct an omission from my previous post where I detailed 3 rule conditions that respond to the presence of a cookie. On reflection I realised I should have included a corresponding action class. So here it is. As before, I haven't spent much time considering the practical applications. I'll leave that part up to you.