Manual Rebuild Index – Track Start & Completed

Recently we came into a requirement where we need to send email whenever sitecore user trigger rebuild index manually. We also need to send email once that index gets completed. Sitecore does not provide any event for rebuild index like publishing. We have Publish:end and Publish:end:remote event for publishing but don’t have similar event for […]

Switch Solr Index

Rebuilding of index is a very common scenario if your website is built on Sitecore. During the maintenance of the websites, you come in the situation when you have to rebuild your indexes. Here the question is, what is the problem in triggering index rebuild event? The answer is, while performing index rebuild activity you […]

Change Databases Password – Sitecore 9.X

In the software development lifecycle you have to change database password sometimes. Especially if you are working on a new website or redesigning an existing websites and planning to go live. So before going live ideally we should change the existing databases password. Sometime you are working on issue reported on production website and you […]

Unable to connect to sitecore_sxa_master_index, sitecore_sxa_web_index

When I installed Sitecore 9.0.2 and Sitecore Commerce 9.0.2, I am getting below errors in the log files: ERROR Unable to connect to [https://localhost:8983/solr], Core: [sitecore_sxa_master_index] ERROR Unable to connect to [https://localhost:8983/solr], Core: [sitecore_sxa_web_index] The above issue is not related to the Sitecore Commerce but it is related to Sitecore 9.0.2 and Sitecore SXA (Sitecore […]

Creating a clean solution for Sitecore Commerce

Sitecore Commerce solution is not similar to regular Sitecore solution. Even Sitecore Commerce installation package provide us a sample Sitecore Commerce solution as well. But it contains multiple sample project as well. Usually, people don’t remove the existing sample project and start developing Sitecore Commerce component on top of that sample solution. Its always better […]

Change default password – Sitecore Commerce

Changing the default password of Sitecore Commerce (XC) is not as simple as Sitecore. When we install Sitecore Commerce 9.0 onwards, it creates 8 web applications in your IIS. You can find default password at multiple places in the commerce application’s configuration files. So we have to update the new password all the places. One […]

SEO Friendly URL

Today I would like to discuss regarding SEO Friendly URL issue then will discuss the resolutions: Every project has to work on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Particularly I would like to tell you about the URL. As per SEO recommendation, our URL should be in small letters and it should not have space in URLs. […]

Unicorn Sync – Production environment

Hello friends, Today I would like to talk about a problem statement and its possible solution or workaround. Problem Statement: Suppose you are using Unicorn for Sitecore item serialization. You have deployed your code and Sitecore items on staging/Production environment and released it to client/content author for content entry. So content author is doing content […]

Installing – Sitecore 9.0 Update 1

Sitecore 9.0 Update – 1 has been launched recently. I got a chance to install it. During my insallation, I listed down the steps which I performed. Prerequisites: Windows 10 MS SQL Server 2017 MS SQL Management Studio .Net Framework 4.6.2 or later Web Deploy 3.6 SOLR 6.6.2 Java Runtime Environement NSSM Sitecore 9.0 Update […]

xConnect – Create Custom Facet

What is Facet A facet is part of information that a contact or interaction can have. Sitecore xDB provide lots of out of the box facet that can be used to store user information inside the xDB database. For example: PersonalInformaiton, EmailAddress, ProfileScores, EngagementMeasures and many more… You can see the complete list by using […]