Today Sitecore released version 6.2. According to the change log their are several new (cool) features. Sitecore client RSS feeds for items in workflows Built-in support for syndicating items using the RSS format. WebDAV support in the media library A new File Drop Area field type has been introduced A new Word Field has been introduced! Analytics Oracle support Improved IIS7 support Sitecore’s theme icons are now stored in zip-files. Sitecore is now distributed with…
Tonight I was catching up with some RSS Feeds and Twitter messages, when I noticed that SPN (Sitecore Partner Network)…
These days streaming video on the web is quite popular. In almost every project we do at Evident Interactive the customer wants to embed video in content items. Off course they can do that by copy-pasting the embedding code in a Sitecore field or in the rich-text editor. But that is not the most user-friendly method. I thought it would be nice if an end-user could just copy-paste the url of the page and let an custom control do the rest. So I created a custom field, webcontrol, some xsl extensions an a addition to the flashmanager. Let’s say that we want to embed this video from YouTube. I go to the content editor and paste the url in a field of the type “Video Embed”.
Last week I took a look at my blog and realized that I haven’t posted anything the last few months.…
Whenever I use Google to search for Sitecore information I get a lot of marketing and CMS review results and a few results with detailed developer information. So I created a Google custom search engine to search through all Sitecore related blogs. Now I can search through sites I think are the most usefull for me as an developer. I use it a lot and thought I might be usefull to share this the rest…
Regularly I see topics on the SDN5 forums where people ask if it is possible to use a custom Rich Text editor. Wll, yes it is. You can use so called profiles with the Rich Text editor. These profiles are stored in the Core database under /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/. There are some default pre-configurated profile which you van duplicate and customize to your own needs. To use these profile you need to set the source…