Default SCS in XM Cloud

When I started working with the XM Cloud setup on my local development environment using the Docker container images provided by Sitecore, I added some content serialization config files and enthusiastically started creating data templates, rendering items and demo content. I then had to switch to another project for a bit, stopped my containers and …

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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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Sitecore Technology MVP 2023!

When I started sharing my ideas and findings on Sitecore in one of the local user groups back in 2014 I would’ve never believed I once would be able to say this, but I am proud and grateful to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for no less than the eight time in a …

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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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Sitecore Symposium 2022

Last week I went to Chicago for the ’22 Sitecore Symposium and my fifth in-person MVP Summit! The theme for this year being composability, with the introduction of no less than four new Sitecore products: XM Cloud, Search, Connect and Content Hub One. It really has been an awesome experience of which I’d like to …

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Sitecore Technology MVP 2022!

Seven is my lucky number. And being awarded an MVP title even once is an amazing honor. So you can imagine how proud and grateful I am to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for the seventh time in a row! This year, as a Technology MVP, I am one of only 141 Sitecore …

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Content Hub API integrations

For quite a while, Action Scripts do not support the use of System.Net.Http.HttpClient anymore and I think that is a good measure to prevent action scripts from doing external (API) calls and enforce an implementation via either an API call action type, or an Azure event hub or service bus action. So what is the …

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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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