Part 2: Introducing Sitecore SPEAK Components

This post is part 2 in a series showing how to create custom Sitecore SPEAK components. In this post I will show how to setup a custom SPEAK component in Sitecore. It is actually just setting up a rendering in Sitecore and then creating a rendering parameters template for it which is actually just a template item residing beneath the rendering item. Registering a SPEAK component in Sitecore To do this we do not need to enter Sitecore at all, what we need to do is to use Sitecore Rocks as mentioned in part 1. To make it even more easy then scope the Sitecore Explorer to the core database in which you want to register the control. ...

December 10, 2013 · 3 min · alc

Part 1: Introducing Sitecore SPEAK Components

This post is part 1 in a series showing how to create custom Sitecore SPEAK components. It is time for Sitecore developers to learn Javascript and become all around web developers not just hiding back in the save haven of the server. Like it or not this is the way things are going. Looking on the bright side with todays frontend technologies it is almost the same to work on the client as on the server. ...

December 3, 2013 · 6 min · alc

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