Cooking with Sitecore

Habitat – Profile tracking issue post installation

After installing Habitat for Sitecore on local development environment form https://github.com/HedgehogDevelopment/Habitat/tree/TDS-latest (scroll down for installation instructions), it found that site’s pages gives below error: The solution is set the value of Xdb.Tracking.Enabled to false in C:\websites\Habitat.dev.local\Website\App_Config\Include\Sitecore.Xdb.config file Hit the refresh in browser for the habitat page and bang. Here I am assuming, the local environment…

Set dynamic datasource for template field in Sitecore multi-site

This is to share some of the tricks you can use while dealing with multi-sites with Sitecore CMS while designing content solutions. While dealing with multi-site, we all come across scenario where we want data of some fields to be different per site based on where that item exist. In other words, want to load…

Content Editor – Create new version automatically on Edit

I came across very nice feature Sitecore CMS is providing out-of-box. This might be very useful strategy while doing the content population/editing. Here, I am trying to configure Content Management(CM) or say Content Authoring(CA) server to automatically create newer version upon editing the item. This whole exercise can be divide in to two steps : Step…

Ongoing publishing issue with Sitecore 7.2

Here I wanted to share simple solution to an ongoing issue of publishing with Sitecore 7.2 with my company. It is such a simple solution but took lots of efforts and time to get to it. Thought to share it so that if someone is facing same kind of issue, can be benefited out of…

Sitecore Active Directory Configuration: Read User Data from AD Group

The problem: while working on the Allowing access to the organization’s users as Content Author on the Sitecore CM server using Sitecore’s Active Directory(AD) Module, we encounter very strange issue of not able to read user data from the AD user group. So the idea is to enable group of employees in organization to grant access…

File download issue with Sitecore MVC and resolution

The problem: while working on the requirement of downloading calendar item(.ics) for an event on the site, I struck with the below given error. OutputStream is not available when a custom TextWriter is used. Steps to reproduce issue/problem Using Sitecore MVC form to do the form posting Controller Post Action Finally, Click on the…

OutputStream is not available when a custom TextWriter is used.

Sitecore 7.2 MVC with MVC 5

The problem: Make the MVC 5.2 code working on Sitecore .NET 7.2 (rev. 140526) using VS 2013 Update 3 Steps to reproduce issue/problem 1. Setup Sitecore.NET 7.2 (rev. 140526) with default MVC configuration, As MVC is default enabled as mentioned in document from Sitecore at http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore7/72/installation_guide_sc72-a4.pdf, 2. Create new View in VS 2013 Update 3,…