Issues with Design Importer 2.0, Sitecore 7.0 and ECM 2.1

The silence is broken, this is my first blog post for the last 3 weeks time since I’ve been renovating my apartment. But now I’m back first with this small information post. I was installing a clean Sitecore 7 with ECM 2.1 and design importer 2.0 for Sitecore 7 yesterday. The design importer was working fine in the content editor but when trying to create a new message in ECM I received the following exception. ...

December 3, 2013 · 1 min · alc

Sitecore 7, Lucene 3.0 and Highlighted results

For all you that will use Lucene 3.0 under Sitecore 7 and want to highlight your results using Luce.Net.Contrib libraries, let me save you a whole lot of time. On Lucene.net page http://lucenenet.apache.org/ you will find a reference to the above mentioned package which i used for retrieving highlighted results from my Lucene index. All nice and smooth until i performed the search and stuck with this error for 3 days: ...

November 29, 2013 · 1 min · ap

Preview deletes the .aspxauth cookie

I’ve been working a bit on an extremely weird support case the last couple of days. When the editors on a site clicked on preview from either the content editor or the page editor then the page ended up in a redirect loop. Who stole my cookie? Using Fiddler I quickly noticed that the .ASPXAUTH cookie was removed from the session as soon as preview was clicked and what actually happened was the user being redirected infinitely to the login page until the browser crashed (chrome crashes nice, IE just fails miserably). ...

October 23, 2013 · 2 min · alc

A Sitecore update bummer

When update 6.6 rev 130111 was released I upgraded a customer solution from the previous 6.6 release thinking that this was only a minor update which would solve some of the other issues the previous revision have had. I was terrible wrong and the upgrade led me into a ton of trouble. The first issue in the new revision was an added processor in the renderField pipeline. <renderField> ... <processor type="Sitecore.Pipelines.RenderField.GetTextFieldValue, Sitecore.Kernel" /> ... </renderField> This processor ensures that all text fields and multi line text fields is output escaped when rendered through the renderField pipeline. ...

October 13, 2013 · 3 min · alc