One of the hidden secrets of SXA is called Content Tokens. Content Tokens are essentially content items that have a key and a value and can be referenced in fields on other items.
Rendering variants within SXA allow you to define your own html structures that will render your field values. You can use multiple variants to render the exact same content in a completely different way. In this post I will not explain how to use rendering variants or build your own. There are a lot of posts and excellent documentation that you can read to learn that. Instead I want to share something that isn’t documented…
Recently someone asked me whether it’s possible to assigns id’s to SXA components instead of assigning css classes. And while the answer is a clear yes, I wasn’t sure whether it’s common knowledge as I could not find it on the documentation site. How do you assign id’s When you have your site open in the Experience Editor you need to select your component first. Next you can click on the More button on the…
One of the things people love about SXA is it’s flexibility. But did you know you can use that flexibility for themes as well?
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In the first part we have configured OAuth and CORS in our Stylelabs environment so that we can use it within our Sitecore environment. Now we need to install the Stylelabs plugin within Sitecore and make some additional configuration changes. Once logged into Sitecore and on the launchpad, click on control panel and go to “install a package”. First we need to upload the plugin, that you can download from dev.sitecore.net, to our Sitecore instance.…
With the Sitecore plugin for Stylelabs DAM Sitecore users can browse, search and embed digital assets from the Stylelabs DAM without leaving the comfort of the Experience Editor or Content Editor. In this post I will guide you through the configuration of the module. Before installing the plugin, you need to make some configuration changes within the Stylelabs environment. First, we need to allow the Sitecore instance to authenticate against Stylelabs by setting up an…
At Sitecore Symposium 2018 Sitecore Omni was introduced. This video walks you through all the products that involve Sitecore Omni
As described in a previous blogpost you can use a PowerShell script to install Sitecore on your machine using the Sitecore Install Framework (SIF). There are a few variables here that you can change to match your situation. If you look closely then you can see that a total of five different steps are defined: Client certificate for xConnect Setup Solr for xDB The xConnect instance Setup Solr for Sitecore Install Sitecore instance For each…
One of the features I personally really like in SXA is Creative Exchange Live. It gives you the ability to make theme modifications right from your favorite code editor. By utilizing gulp tasks your changes are immediately synchronized to your Sitecore instance. Recently I wanted to make some changes to the default theme in SXA Storefront. Naturally I exported the default theme in the Experience Editor do that I could unzip the theme and make…