Articles for developers

This is the third part of the article series in 9 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

 
In this article we suggest, how you can define your architecture in a Sitecore solution and walk through the architecture for the simple information site we are building. Hope you enjoy the tutorial.

Ever wanted to extend your Sitecore User Profile?  This short tutorial provides a quick overview of how to set, retrieve, list, and remove custom profile properties using the Sitecore API.

Developing applications with Sitecore’s Sheer UI is simple and fun.  This article describes the entire process, from creating the necessary items and files in Sitecore, to creating, compiling, and deploying the necessary DLLs in Visual Studio.

It is possible to have multiple sites in the same solution in Sitecore, but there are a few pitfalls and issues which need to be taken into account, when developing the solution. This article will go through the steps and considerations to take, when designing and building solutions containing multiple sites. Starting out with a simple walk through and then talking about the pitfalls and drawbacks.

This article presents an approach to implement single source publishing in Sitecore. The article includes a discussion of the implications that single source publishing has on website search.

This article will show you how to help the editors figuring out how to use the items and fields correctly, and thereby saving them a lot of time figuring out what the developer was thinking when she was coding the website.

This article will describe how you query for data in Sitecore OMS analytics database, pulling out statistics about the visits on your site. In particular this article will show you, how you can use the analytics data to create a presentation of the most viewed pages on your site.

Sitecore caching isn’t documented very well and it is quite intransparent how it works; still it is extremely important for the performance of your site. Therefore this article will try and explain the different caches in Sitecore, how they work and when they are cleared.

Hopefully it will help you ensure performance on your site.

Read this second and last part of the article series about the key concepts in Sitecore OMS.

In this part we walk through the concepts of events, failures, the rule engine, filters and personalization.

Enjoy! 

Read this first article of two about the key concepts in Sitecore OMS.

In this part we walk through the concepts of profiles, reports, goals and campaigns.