I recently installed Sitecore Rocks (1.2.6.0) into Visual Studio 2012 and connected it to my existing Sitecore 6.5 instance. I can see all my objects in the master database, but when I hover over them, the "Template" value is blank, and the "Template ID" is {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. Am I missing a step in order to get the template information into Rocks?
As far as it seems you are using the Good Old Web Service to connect to the Sitecore Service which won't provide you with template information. To resolve the issue you should start using the new Hard Rock Web Service when you try to connect to your Sitecore Instance. Keep in mind that that the Hard Rock Web Service requires .NET CLR v4.0 and Sitecore 6.5 runs on v2.0 by default. Tested this on my local and everything seems to work fine on a Sandbox Instance.
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I am a new user of SiteCore platform and facing "Page Unresponsive" Issue - extremely frequently - on SiteCore CMS. This happens on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. This happens at every 30-40 seconds.
Could anyone please share insights on what might have gone wrong and what steps to take to fix this issue?
Hi the bad performance could be generated by different problems. I would recommend you check your console for errors or monitor Sitecore ajax calls that result in errors or are very slow/unresponsive.
chrome web developer tool
Also you can check Sitecore logs for errors. These are located in [data-folder]/logs in log.[date].txt file
You can also check if you met the requirements for installing Sitecore 8:
IIS 8.5 or IIS 8.0
.Net framework 4.5 and above,
Miminum MS Sql server 2008 R2 SP1 or above editions like SQL server 2012, SQL server 2014
MongoDB Database 2.6x if you have Analytics enabled
I need help, currently i'm working on how to rollback a package installation (I've made a terrible mistake regarding a Sitecore deployment package), and found a bitter truth about it.
So i just left my hope, and move on into a future precautions act.. i want to analyze any package before i deploy it. I search around and found "Sitecore Rocks Anti Package" could be my "X-Ray Detector".
I'm trying to follow steps on this site "28 Days of Sitecore Rocks" and already tripped at early steps. I found no "Manage Package" Menu on my Sitecore Explorer.
There should be "Manage Package" menu like in that site tutorial.
Please help, i can't proceed further to learn the subject.
Btw, im using Visual Studio 2015 and Sitecore Rocks v 2.0.39.0.
Thanks.
In order to use some of the advanced functionality in Sitecore Rocks you need to ensure that the connection type used is the Hard Rock Web Service and not the Good Old Web Service.
Modify your connection and ensure you are using Hard Rock Web Service:
You should now have the Manage Packages option available allowing you to create anti-packages:
If you are using Sitecore Powershell Extensions module then a script exists to create an anti-package, the benefit is that it can be created on any server and not just instances connected to your Visual Studio (i.e. Production instances).
Good day – We rebranded our site back in June, with new images, CSS and a thorough review of the site content to replace instances of the old name with the new . After rollout, everything was fine - site was stable and we were able to move forward with standard maintenance stuff - updating, archiving, etc.
We had to restart our production site server this morning and we just noticed that the SC content on the site is now all showing the old information. I have checked the SC backend and all of the content has the old information and is missing recently added items. It is like SC rolled back a month.
We are currently on Sitecore 7.2, hosted internally on a Server2008R2 Windows box, IIS 7.5, 4.0 .NET framework.
How can something like this happen by rebooting the server? We are working with our third-party provider, but figured I would also post here to see if anyone else has run into this issue.
I am new to Sitecore administration. I wanted to setup Sitecore 8.1 in an Azure vm. I have one Azure sql vm and one vm for Sitecore. So I would like to know the best recommended approach to set up Sitecore
using Sitecore web installer
from sitecore zip
using pre defined powershell script (not very much sure about steps)
SIM
Please guide me as I am new to Sitecore administration.
Deb,
I know isn't the version that you were looking for, however you can get the idea in deal with a Sitecore installation and all its prerequistes. Please have a look here: https://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore7/70/installation_guide_sc70-a4.pdf
Based on Sitecore installation guide, I haven't seen a recommendation from them saying "install using EXE" or "install using ZIP". Actually, they show you both! Personally, I would suggest you to go through using ZIP.
Cheers,
Vinicius
I'm building a website which requires forum integration to a Sitecore build - I've checked on the Sitecore website and they suggest YetAnotherForum and Telligent Community Integration Module. Both of these modules tho only support up till 6.4.1 and 6.4 respectively - I'm using Sitecore 7.0.
Logged a ticket with Sitecore and they came back with the following:
We have no information about Forum modules that are compatible with Sitecore 7.1. I would recommend you to contact your regional office and check whether they could advise you something.
Any suggestions?
First of all Telligent supports Sitecore 7.
Reference link
I have been working with Sitecore and Telligent Community integration from quite time and from my experience i have this opinion.
For deep integration it is quite a lot of work and requires much knowledge of both the product and costs will be high for licensing & deployment. But i can assure you that Telligent will work in Sitecore newer version also. However with higher costs you will get more rich functionality, Facebook like Activity Stream, and Apart from Forums it also has Blogs, Wikis, Media Gallery.
Telligent supports two kind of integrations:
1. Side by Side Integration - In this Sitecore and Telligent both will be user facing.
2. Integration mode - In this user will be mostly in Sitecore.
Reference link
If you are Sitecore Partner you will get trial license of Telligent. For details check 'Social Starter Kit' on Sitecore SDN site. Also there is video on YouTube regarding Sitecore & Telligent Integration in Sitecore Virtual User Group community.
I have no experience on YAF module so can't suggest on that.
Did you try to install YAF integration module, https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/YAF_integration.aspx, i think it would run on Sitecore 7, since this module mainly integrate YAF with Sitecore security, i don't see why it should not run on Sitecore 7.
The Telligent product was renamed, I suggest you take a look at http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra-community/sitecore-starter.html and contact them. I'm unaware of what version they're targeted at right now.