Tag: Media
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Tracking Asset Usage: Designing a Resilient Serverless Delta Middleware
In my previous post, we looked at how to extend a Sitecore XP implementation to capture granular publishing events and fire off non-blocking telemetry signals. By adopting a fire-and-forget approach, we ensured that the CMS remains fast and unaffected by any potential downstream network latency. But once those publishing signals leave Sitecore, the real heavy…
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Tracking Asset Usage: Deep Diving into the Sitecore Publishing Lifecycle
In my previous post, I introduced a cloud-native architectural concept to track Sitecore asset usage within Content Hub in real time. The strategy is straightforward: rather than pulling data from Sitecore via heavy, on-demand crawls, we want the CMS to actively push usage signals to an external middleware layer the moment content goes live. However,…
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Real-time asset usage in Content Hub: a concept
Sitecore Content Hub does not provide built-in functionality to track asset usage in the Sitecore CMS. When using the Content Hub CDN to serve images directly to a Sitecore XP website, this creates the risk of deleting assets that are still in use, resulting in broken images. And as a result, content editors become hesitant…
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Focal point cropping v3.2
I just released a new version of my Focal point cropping module for Sitecore Content Hub. It is tested with the latest version of Content Hub (which is now on auto-update), has a small new feature, and most importantly, I got rid of all vulnerabilities and outdated dependencies in my npm setup. I now also…
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Naming public links for cropping ratios
Focal point cropping version 3.1 A small but impactful update on my focal point cropping implementation for Content Hub, thanks to a suggestion / feature request from Jorgen Jansson from Creative Folks (thanks again for your wonderful contributions Jorgen!): I have added the possibility to name your public links instead of using the ratio itself…
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Focal point crop 3.0: go React!
It took a little longer than planned, but I have finally released a completely new version of my Focal point cropping extension for Content Hub, version 3.0. This new version contains a React version of the external page components Focal point editor and Public link viewer (I have slightly changed the names of the components).…
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External page components in CH4.2
To improve performance and add new features, Content Hub is replacing the front-end Knockout framework with React from 4.2.x going forward. Using React should also make it easier to develop custom components. This is of course great news, but it also introduced an issue for those being used to building custom external page components that…
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Focal point crop 2.0
Public links are pre-generated and cached on CDN, and transformations are generated on-the-fly. Also, public links can be custom cropped, thus the algorithm can be influenced to obtain the desired result of focal point cropping; while transformations can only be either cropped ‘smart’ or centered. Those two reasons steered me in the direction of basing…
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Focal point crop v1.1
Within a few days after launching my focal point crop extension for Content Hub, I already improved my extension quite a bit. Originally, I replaced the original Entity image viewer component, with the idea to add this new focal point functionality as unobtrusive as possible. In practice, however, this proved to have some disadvantages: my…
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Content Hub: Focal point crop
Content Hub has multiple cropping strategies as you might know: crop to center, smart crop and custom crop. Smart cropping is “a feature that intelligently examines the content of an image and automatically focuses on the most important part of an image for cropping”, as the documentation states. Although the result is often spot on,…