While developing a Sitecore website there are lots of situations where you want multiple items to have the same Presentation Settings (renderings/sublayouts/layout). The ideal case is that your item Masters have these settings included but sometimes this isn’t the case. You can copy and paste the settings all at one time this way: 1. Navigate to the source item in the Content Editor (or Template Manager) 2. On the ‘View’ Ribbon (Menu tab on top [...]

In Sitecore you can use validation rules. By default there are three validations rules on each template: Is Integer Max Length 40 Requirer You can modify or add new rules in the sitecoresystemsettingsvalidationfield section in the content editor With the use of an multilist you can set the rules for your template. ATTENTION: Validation rules are already built in for version 5.3.1 but you can’t use them. Therefore you need to upgrade to version 5.3.2, [...]

One of the most annoying things about Sitecore is that the Rich Text Editor needs to be opent in an seperate web page dialog. But you can customize this behavior! Go to the Control Panel > Preferences > Change Your Application Options Tab Rich Text Editor Select editable You see that the Content Editor got expanded with the tab “Rich Text”