Recently a tweet by Kiran Patil caught my attention and made me think that I needed to provide a bit more context to the issue he (and perhaps others) might run into. https://twitter.com/kiranpatils/status/1280315487625281547 So what is the actual issue? When you install the SXA Styleguide you get a website build in SXA that explains how SXA works. It includes example usage of all the components and much more. One of the things it adds is…
With the installation of SXA you get access to several standard SXA components that you can use to build your webpages. Those components are designed to fit the most common requirements but will never meet all requirements. Instead of providing even more components, the standard components have been made extremely flexible. This gives you the opportunity to makes changes to those standard components to meet your specific requirements. But where do you make these changes?…
With the introduction of SXA 9.3 we are introducing the SXA CLI. The CLI (Command Line Interface) is a command line tool that allows you to setup a theme locally and register it with SXA. Before we start installing the CLI locally you need to make sure you have NodeJS installed on your local machine. We are using NPM (Node Package Manager) to install the CLI and all its dependencies. The other dependency is that…
Two weeks ago the Sitecore Symposium 2019 in Orlando kicked of with the pre-conference seminars on Monday. The following three days were full of inspiring and entertaining sessions combined with some more social activities. Once again I had the pleasure to present this symposium together with good friend and co-worker Adam Najmanowicz. As you might of guessed we presented on the most important (upcoming) changes in SXA 9.3 (yes 9.3 instead of 1.10. Version alignment…
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?
With the introduction of the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 1.6 we are introducing some new functionality. The last release (1.5) was mainly targeting the sharing of content and presentation within tenants. Now in 1.6 we are introducing a new component and some additional functionality to further customize the SXA experience. Snippets The new component which we have added, Snippets, has a lot of functionality and at the same time no functionality. That is because the…
