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Comment on Revolver 2.1 Released by Ivan Huang

Ivan Huang — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:20:34 +0000

Al, do you know if there is a confirmed release date for Sitecore 7 yet?

Comment on Post item:saved Event Handler Execution by Alistair Deneys

Alistair Deneys — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:40:03 +0000

Good question John, you bring up a vital consideration.

This blog post was just about the data structures and item creation processes. I’ve not mentioned anything about publishing here. If you are following this advice, to structure you’re news items in folders for performance and usability, then you’ll need to ensure the folders containing the news items are published before the news item itself. This wouldn’t be an issue if you’re using incremental site publishes, but it would be an issue if the author was just doing an item publish on the news item.

I’ve seen solutions in the past which added publish pipeline processors which did these checks and added the ancestor items to the publish process if required.

Comment on Post item:saved Event Handler Execution by John West

John West — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:13:30 +0000

Alistair, do you do anything to ensure the year and month folders get published before the news item in this case?

Comment on Redirect Options by Alistair Deneys

Alistair Deneys — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:16:54 +0000

Hi Michael,
Yes, I imagine the Sitecore language resolver may get in the way if you’re trying to setup a 301 for an international code as an alias within your site. As I mention in the conclusion, I prefer to use an IIS module to handle this kind of redirect as it’s more of a behaviour of the site rather than something an author would need to manage.

Comment on Tracking Local Search with DMS by Alistair Deneys

Alistair Deneys — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:46:18 +0000

Hi Joe,
Yes, the code would go in your search results codebehind or wheverever you’re executing the search logic. The “query” variable in my example was parsed from the keywords entered by the user. If you were using a textbox you could populate from it from the “Text” property or if you’re using a query string parameter read the variable from the HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString object.

Comment on Tracking Local Search with DMS by Joe Pescatello

Joe Pescatello — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:06:25 +0000

Please excuse my ignorance as I’m finishing up my first Sitecore implementation. But I had two questions about the code snippet:

1) Does it go in the search results page sublayout codebehind?
2) Where do the ‘query’ variable come from?

Many thanks

Comment on Redirect Options by Michael Green

Michael Green — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:12:31 +0000

Alistair, it seems like the only method to handle 301 redirects with international versions of content in Sitecore is to use the IIS filter method? If you have redirects you have to setup for US, UK, FR and MX for example.

Comment on Always select a publishing target in Sitecore by Mike Reynolds

Mike Reynolds — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:05:31 +0000

Congratulations on the new gig!

Comment on Always select a publishing target in Sitecore by Adam Conn (@adc_sitecore)

Adam Conn (@adc_sitecore) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:14:20 +0000

Congrats on the new role! eDynamic is fortunate to have you.

Comment on WeBlog 2.2 Released by Alistair Deneys

Alistair Deneys — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:13:03 +0000

Hi Tom, All documentation for WeBlog is on github wiki. Since I wrote this article We've moved the project over to github and the old Trac environment has been shut down. So first place to get started would be . To make complete sense of the documentation though, you'll need to understand Sitecore and know how to develop within it. As for unbiased reviews, I'm not sure I've seen any. Most of the stuff written about WeBlog is from members of the team contributing to it (myself, Nick Wesselman or Mark Van Aalst). From the feedback we receive it appears most people using it are quite happy with it, though I suspect many people use the codebase as a starting point for their own customized version of the module. Have a look round on the SDN forums and maybe even ask the question of others opinions of the module.