I'm in the middle of developing a website using Sitecore 6.5 and when my company knew that Sitecore released version 6.6 they want to use the new version instead for the project, Is there a way to convert my Items created using sitecore 6.5(webform) to sitecore 6.6(mvc) so I wont redo my work?
General content items are not affected by switching to MVC .. it would be any presentation items that you would need to update if you did make a move to MVC. As #JayS says MVC is not mandatory and you can actually mix MVC and Webforms layouts within the solution so if you wanted to convert to MVC slowly over time it would be a possibility.
Just wanted to note that there is no such thing as 'recommended releases' any more (see: http://sdn.sitecore.net/support/versioning%20policy.aspx). Lots of customers already using 6.6 in production. The upgrade from 6.5 -> 6.6 should be straightforward (but this obviously depends on the complexity of your solution).
From my understanding, you do not need to use MVC in 6.6 if you do not want to. John West has a blog about the installer and how it enables MVC. You should be able to port your existing solution up to 6.6 relatively easily, but if you wish to take advantage of MVC you'll need to alter your solution.
Note, I believe that Sitecore has not marked 6.6 as a recommended release, so you may wish to inform your company of that.
UPDATE: Thanks to Stephen for pointing out that Sitecore has discontinued using the recommended release tagging. Some of their documentation online still needs to be updated regarding this :)
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I am going to use SitecoreJSS to develop a website.
- When SitecoreJSS 9.1 would be released?
- what are the limitations and restrictions of using Sitecore JSS 9.0(Tech Preview 4)?
Release date information is not appropriate for StackOverflow. You may want to ask this in the Sitecore Slack community instead (Join via form here: http://siteco.re/SitecoreSlack)
However, for your question on limitations. When JSS is fully released with 9.1, a 9.0-compatible version will also be made available. That version is fully supported.
If you work instead with the Tech Preview 4 that you mention, you will be using preview software which may not be compatible with the GA version of 9.1 and also will not be supported by the Sitecore support team.
Does RAZL can compare Sitecore 6.5 (core,master,web) databases with Sitecore8.1(core,master,web) databases.
Or it can compare only same versions of Sitecore.
I need to use this for a migration from Sitecore 6.5 to Sitecore 8.0
Yes it can.
But keep in mind that using RAZL is not a recommended practice for Sitecore upgrades. Why? There are plenty of reasons. Some of them can be found in this article:
The Truth About Sitecore Upgrades
I agree.
I have used RAZL in the past for moving the content. You can use this to move content from one Sitecore instance to another one even on different versions, but I would not recommend it using for Sitecore migration because you may move the content without properly moving dependencies first. This tool is good if you want to move very heavy content without too much of definition changes or you can use RAZL for comparison.
Using Redmine v3.3, is it possible to have a custom calculated field based on data in two other custom fields?
e.g. Duration = Date 2 - Date 1
Specifically, I am attempting to calculate the days between two dates as a performance metric. More generally, we will be looking to eventually using other custom calculated fields (simple additions, multiplications, etc.).
It would be preferable to keep this to the "vanilla" Redmine v3.3 without additional plugins but all suggestions are of course welcome.
Not in Vanilla Redmine as of 3.3, unfortunately.
It has been requested and there was some discussion about it. The feature wasn't rejected but nobody has gotten around to building it for Redmine. You can follow the discussion/development here:
http://www.redmine.org/issues/1712
A plugin is discussed in that issue as well but - as with all plugins - a thorough check will be required if it matches your stability/security expectations.
Such feature request has been filed 11 years ago (2008-7-30), while not yet enhanced.
At the moment, you can try Computed Custom Field plugin.
Although it shows "This project is no longer maintained", it stated that it is comptatible with latest stable version of Redmine 4.0.4 (2019-06-10).
Current version: 1.0.7 (2019-01-14)
Compatible with: Redmine 4.0.x, 3.4.x, 3.3.x, 3.2.x, 3.1.x, 3.0.x, 2.6.x, 2.5.x
I was trying to find layout Studio to create a custom App in sitecore 7.2, but couldnt find it. Did anyone try any customization in sitecore 7.2.
I think this is now referred to as the Developer Center.
Sitecore Start Button > Development Tools > Developer Center
I wouldn't recommend using this if you have access to other development tools that are more suited to the task To be honest I'm surprised Sitecore have kept this feature in the product.
I am not sure what you mean with Layout Studio, I have never noticed it ;)
If you want to create a custom application, you have 3 choices, all of them use Visual Studio for your coding:
use XAML/SheerUI to create your application (sheer ui reference)
use SPEAK (Speak reference) allthough Speak seems to be changing heavily in Sitecore 8.
use standard WebForms or MVC
Which one you choose, mostly depends on personal preferences and the functionality you need.
I mostly prefer using standard WebForms or MVC because of the flexibility.
I am working on the upgrade of a project from Sitecore 6.2 to Sitecore 7.
I have found out that in Sitecore 6.2, the highlighting of the search results are implemented with the Lucene.Net.Search.Highlight.Highlighter, QueryScorer and Formatter classes in sitecore.client dll.
Which classes and/or functions does Sitecore 7 provide to do highlighting in search results? I searched the web but I could not find the required information/examples.
Highlighting of results is not supported currently OOTB with Sitecore 7 (it will be coming in a later version). The issue is that we map the results back to objects using the DocumentMapper so you do not have raw access to the 'Document' objects like the older versions.
For now, if you want to dig into Lucene and get the results yourself you can find the Highlighting functionality inside the Lucene.net contrib library.
If you do use this there is a useful blog post here regarding Lucene DLL versions that you should be aware of:
http://laubplusco.net/sitecore-7-lucen-3-0-highlighted-results/
I'm not sure if is possible to hightlight in search results.
On this link you can see: This little beauty is a hidden gem within the LINQ layer and in future versions of Sitecore will be your gateway to getting Highlighted Terms, Spelling Suggestions etc.