Recently, i am working on a project using Sitecore Azure.
when creating a web form, we use Web Forms for Marketers module provided by Sitecore.
It works fine in local environment. but when we publish it to Azure. it dose not work.
Because there is no database for web form in Azure.
Has anyone experienced this before, maybe you guys can help me. Thanks
Finally, i get it down.
first, you need to create a same database for WFFM as the local one Sitecore_WebForms in SQL Azure.
Here is a link tells you how to do it.
second, change the connection string in forms.config to point to the database in sql azure.
here is a example.
<formsDataProvider type="Sitecore.Forms.Data.DataProviders.WFMDataProvider,Sitecore.Forms.Core">
<param desc="connection string">Database=Sitecore_WebForms;Data Source=tcp:YOURSERVERNAME.database.windows.net,1433;user id=YOURID;password=YOURPASSWORD;Connect Timeout=60</param>
</formsDataProvider>
This is how i fix it. Hope it helps if anyone has the same problem.
Only Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM) 2.4 or higher is compatible with Sitecore Azure module. Additionally, you must use SQL Server version of WFFM database, which must be shared between all WebRole Instances. Please check the details here: https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/880886
How to add WFFM database in Sitecore Azure and automatically deploy it with entire Sitecore solution read in the following article: https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/179306
Best Wishes, Oleg
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I am using the Python3, Django and database as Postgresql, and I wanted to use the Thingsboard dashboard in my web application. can anyone pls guide me how can I use this
ThingsBoard has APIs which you can use. You may also customise it based on your requirements.
Go to THINGSBOARD_URL/swagger-ui.html get the list of all available REST APIs and use it as per your requirements. http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html
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 created a datasource from my ColdFusion 8 admin using JDBC/Oracle Thin Client. The datasource creation was successful.
When Oracle encryption is configured as "Requested" I can browse my ColdFusion app. and run many functionalities with no problem. But when the Oracle encryption is configured as "Required" the connection fails.
The way I tested and know that it was failed was when I log in to my web app. It won't log me in. But when the Oracle is switched back as "Requested" I can log in successfully and run my tasks.
I have ColdFusion 8 Enterprise version and the operating system is Unix.
From the network dept, I was told they have the correct JAR file in place but not sure what is the correct JAR file.
Currently my web apps are running with datasource created using Oracle Thin Clint but the Oracle encryption needs to be switched back to "Requested" otherwise my users are complaining that they can't log in.
Has anyone ever experienced this situation and found a solution?
What should I do so I can use Oracle encryption set to "Required"?
I believe you are looking for the ojdbc14.jar file in the ColdFusion8/wwwroot/WEB-INF/lib directory (this will work with 11g).
I would give Coldfusion a restart but it might not be unnecessary.
Navigate to your Coldfusion Administrator.
In the ColdFusion Administration under data sources. Add a new data source along with your credentials and choose Other from the Database driver options.
Then enter this: jdbc:oracle:thin:#10.10.10.11:1521:ORCL in the JDBC URL Textarea.
In the Driver Class textfield enter oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver.
If you need a different jar (not sure you will) but if you do you can down load it from here.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/index.html
Hope this is helpful or at least gets you further along.
Frank, Thank you for the answer but the java version running on my CF server is JAVA1.6 and the ojdbc.jar that's installed in there is ojdbc6.jar
Should the version of ojdbc.jar and java be the same? If I am already in the right track with my ojdbs.jar and java files then I'm back to square one
In addition, my further test using Oracle encryption as "Requested", I can run my apps. just fine except when my CF made a call to a str. procedure, it did not return a result. So I got CF error.
From me googling this issue, I found a blog that says this is a problem on CF standard version when using Oracle Thin Client. My CF is Enterprise edition.
I'm confused...is this related? how can I make this work?
I am quite new to Sitecore WCM and have been doing a lot of research and readings. Could someone please help me to clarify the following
basics of Sitecore?
I've a number of ASP.net web applications. If I convert the project to Sitecore project will it just work magically?
If I want to create new site, do I need to manually create a new site in IIS or Sitecore does it when I publish?
Are there any online training videos available, could not find a single (except Sitecore marketing demo).
If we have MVC and Web forms applications, is it possible to migrate to Sitecore?
First off, welcome to Sitecore!
Regarding your questions:
I've a number of ASP.net web application. If I convert the project to Sitecore project will it just work magically?
A Sitecore website is an asp.net web application. It just happens to start off with databases, DLLs, and web.config entries that are ready for you to get the CMS up and running. Standard .NET code works just as normal. However, part of what happens when you first setup your site as a Sitecore website is that Sitecore starts intercepting requests for pages and attempts to bind them to pages in the content tree. If a content item doesn't exist with the matching path, it won't return.
This is particularly important if you plan on just standing up your existing pages alongside new Sitecore pages. Your URLs won't initially work, and you'll have to do some configuration to get them to resolve and be ignored by Sitecore.
However, if you do NOT want to put your pages alongside the site and instead integrate them into the Sitecore solution as content items, you'll likely need to re-architect your solution. Sitecore uses 'sublayouts' (ASCX) for different components on a page, and these need to be represented in the database and the code base, and then added to content items as part of their presentation details. This can be easy, if your site is already heavily architected towards components, but sometimes you'll need to create a bunch of ASCX to represent your different pages.
Your business logic should not be affected, unless you decide to make changes to start leveraging configurations in the Sitecore database or accessing properties of the current context item. In this manner, your code should execute "out-of-the-box".
If I want to create new site do I need to manually create a new site in IIS or Sitecore does it when I publish?
Sitecore doesn't "create" anything when it publishes. Publishing is really just an action of taking the content approved in the Master database and pushing it out to the Web database for the selected target. Your IIS sites, and anything else you need for your application, you just setup as you normally would.
Are there any online training videos available, could not find a single (except Sitecore marketing demo).
I highly recommend taking the developer training that Sitecore provides. It's a very good introduction to the concepts, especially if you aren't working with folks who have a lot of Sitecore expertise. It also allows you to meet some other folks who are getting into Sitecore and you can help each other out.
If we have MVC and Web forms applications, is it possible to migrate to Sitecore?
Sitecore is a .NET application at its core, and web forms work. MVC is also supported with the most recent versions of Sitecore.
I know this question is a little old, and already answered, but I think I have some info to add.
I've a number of ASP.net web application. If I convert the project to Sitecore project will it just work magically?
Nothing is magic. If you want the content management or marketing aspects of Sitecore, plan on rebuilding your site(s) within Sitecore.
If I want to create new site do I need to manually create a new site in IIS or Sitecore does it when I publish?
Sitecore is an IIS site. When you install Sitecore, it creates an IIS site along with at least 3 databases (core, master, & web). Sitecore can have multiple subsites, but they're all built within the single IIS site that is Sitecore.
Are there any online training videos available, could not find a single (except sitecore marketing demo).
These videos may not have existed when this question was originally answered...so here's a few I found useful.
Sitecore Training: Developer Fundamental Series - Creating Visual Studio Project for Sitecore
Sitecore MVC - Getting Started (Part 1)
Sitecore MVC -- View Renderings, #Html().Sitecore, and Models
If we have MVC and Web forms applications, is it possible to migrate to site core?
Webforms and MVC are both supported in Sitecore. You will be thinking of both of them in a different way whenever you are rebuilding them in Sitecore though.
1) You can create blank solution and add existing items like sublayout, css , javascript etc and obviously need to change some codebehind. But sitecore has different database structure compared to normal web applications , so you will need to create template, items etc.
2) For sitecore , you will need to create website in IIS and make entry in your host file as follows:
local path C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc find hosts file and in that file add entry as
127.0.0.1 yoursitename.com
3) For demo video you can try Sitecore channel videos for basic sitecore learning from Youtube.
I am new to SiteCore and I have instaled the free edition of Sitecore express on my machine
with that I am able to see the sitemap
but when I click on Edit Site it is taking me to a login page where the credentials which I gave during download are not working
can anyone help me in this regard
Thanks in advance
In your site's Right side you will find a 'Who am I' heading under that there have some predefined users which can be used to login.
I had the same issue, I reinstalled and used the MS express DB as the configuration (requires you have installed MS sql DB). I renamed some tables, check the DB connection string and such and and I could login.
I used the standard name password login: admin b