I am using sitecore 7.2.
I have an item bucket and I have lots of items inside that bucket.
Now, the requirement is to add some custom facets in the search result view.
So, I went here: /sitecore/system/Settings/Buckets/Facets.
Copied the "Author" facet and rename it to "City".
Changed the facet field to "city_t" (this is the field name in index).
enabled it.
But when i go to bucket search view, i don't see the new facet.
Am I missing something?
NOTE: I tried the same with Sitecore 8, and the facets shows up in the search result view.
But I have to do it in sitecore 7.
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Issue with the copy functionality.
When I try to copy any bucket item to another item(bucket or non bucket item) on selection of item in content tree it works fine.
But when the same has been attempted by mentioning the path of destination folder in path field of “Copy item to dialog box” it creates a copy in the same parent.
Please follow below mentioned steps to recreate the scenario mentioned above.
Right click on the item to be copied.
EDIT the path field with desired destination field and click copy button.
Item is created under the same parent though path mentioned in the Path field was different
Note: If the case is like we have to select item in the content tree, and mentioning the path in the path field is of no use, Can I get a patch where path field is disabled.
Bucketed items loose their parent-child relation. To put simply, programatically, we cannot find the parent of a bucketed item. This is not an answer to your question but it can help to investigate further. If 'Copy To' functionality using 'Path' field needs to know the parent of current item, then it will not work in case of bucketed item. In worst case it may end up creating a duplicate of the item in same hierarchy.
Inside my custom save action, I iterate through the form fields (the AdaptedControlResult objects). Any form field which is a DropList (from any source -- manually entered values, or an item lookup) is returning a string value of System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]
Now, it's important to know, it's not returning an actual List. It's returning a literal string with that value.
So, this call:
fields.GetEntryByName("MyFieldName").Value
Is returning the string: System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]. Not the value of the dropdown. A string saying that's it's a List<string>.
I have confirmed the HTML of the form is rendering correctly. I have manually checked the inbound HttpContext.Current.Request.Form values as well...
HttpContext.Current.Request.Form["BGWnjkQqrE6w6sr31IgzrQ.Sections[5].Fields[0].Value"]
That is the correctly-selected value of the drop down (a Sitecore ID).
So, the data is getting output to the form correctly, and the inbound Request.Form data is also correct. Somewhere, Sitecore is deciding not to populate the selected value into the AdaptedControlResult object.
What's additionally odd is that for DropList field types, the selected value does appear in the Parameters property (inexplicably). I would just detect this and use it, but it's not consistent -- for instance, for textbox field types, the word "multiline" appears there.
All other field types work fine -- I have several text entry fields, and some radio button lists. It's just DropList fields.
What is the trick to getting this?
This is a known bug in Sitecore when using the WFFM module in MVC. You can find more details in this Knowledge Base Article - Incorrect data is saved for list fields in WFFM MVC.
The fix is listed on the kb article and depends on the exact version of Sitecore you are using. Sorry to provided a link only answer but there are multiple steps reqiured for the fix and the download for the fix is attached in the article.
I have created a content item at /sitecore/Home/FootballFever/Articles and have given insert option so that we can add only items of templates "Article".As of now,these article items are bucketable according to a field created date.
Now, i have insert option "Add Article" and "Insert from Template" buttons in the Home ribbon "Insert" block. When i create an item through "Insert from Template", the item automatically gets added in respective bucket with path as created date. for example if the item has created date is "7/21/2014" then path will be "/Articles/2014/7/21/ ".
But when i click on "Add Article", the item gets added in /Articles and i have to Sync everytime to get it to correct path.
How can I have the same behavior as that of "Insert from Template" but with path having Release date which is a field of template "Article"?
Please make sure that Article template has Bucketable field checked in its Standard values (for Article template).
If not, when you add a new item into buckets folder, newly added item itself is not bucketable, unlike the rest already existing items from the same bucket folder.
I have just made a proof of concept on my sandbox environment and can confirm that in case you add a new item with Bucketable checked by Standard values - it comes into a bucket straight away and you do not need to perform Sync.
Hope this helps.
UPDATE: I have written a blog post specially to cover your question,with comprehensive description.
http://blog.martinmiles.net/post/understanding-buckets-adding-new-items-to-buckets-correctly
By default, items will be structured in bucket folders, five levels deep based on the date and time the item was created. There are a couple of other built in rules you can use like using part of the Guid or part of the name. The thing to note here is that these are all things that are available on item creation. If you want to structure your articles based on a custom 'Release Date' then you will need to write a custom rule and you will also have to implement an OnItemSaved event handler. Here is a article on how to write the custom rule.
Generally you don't have to worry about how the items are structured in your bucket. Editors should be using the search tab to find the items they need.
Having said that, this SO post discusses how to structure your bucket items based on a custom field. Some things to note here is that this is generally a global change. There are ways around it that enables you to have different strategies for different buckets but you'll then have to do additional work to override the LinkProvider and potentially other things.
I'm looking to use the Sitecore Item Buckets package from Shared Source since I needed faceted search functionality and it makes sense to use the built in functionality rather than writing by own Lucene.Net search.
Sitecore Item Buckets
I'm having trouble with the search, or maybe I am reading the documentation wrong.
According to the documentation in section 2.2.3 & 3.1.3 I just need to mark a field as "Is Facet" and my filter will show in the search results.
I've also defined a tag field on the template and changed the Tag Parent field in "/sitecore/system/Modules/Item Buckets/Item Buckets Settings" to point to correct folder. This is working correctly, I can apply a set of tags to an item and search from the Bucket UI using "tag:CSharp" and it brings back the correct results, but again there is no filter shown in the list. I've rebuilt the bucket indexes in all cases.
Am I missing something? Should these show up in the list automatically, do I need to change some settings or provide my own implementation?
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This is all within the Buckets Client UI, I haven't started writing any code yet, and on a clean install of Sitecore 6.5 (update-5/rev. 120706).
I'm not sure the documentation wording around this is entirely clear at the points I've mentioned. If you read further down the document though, section 4.3:
Item Buckets ships with 5 different types of faceting.
Templates
Fields
Dates
Locations
Authors
If you would like to introduce your own faceting categories then you only need to implement the IFacet interface.
There is an example of IFacet implementation in the documentation, or use dotPeek to look at the implementations of the existing Facets.
You also need to add an item to Sitecore: /sitecore/system/Modules/Item Buckets/Facets
Suppose Item A contains the link Item B would like to use as the source of its Droplist field. How can I achieve this? I have read the Sitecore Query documentation here and here. It appears to me that this is not achievable using Sitecore query, but I could be mistaken. Any help would be appreciated.
No this is not possible. To set the source of a droplist, you can either set the root path to an item which would make the droplist populate the sub-items or you can use Sitecore query to query for specific items based on your query. This is covered in the Data Definition Cookbook (PDF link) under 2.4.2.