Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Cookie Warning Message How to change cookie warning in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Site? The Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) providing out of the box (OOTB) component/rendering to display the custom Cookie Warning messages on the website. The content for this cookie component present at Tenant/SITE/Settings/Cookie Warning. With this setting you can change the display message. Also, if your site is multi-lingual then add each language version and if you don’t want to display cookie message on website then you can remove Cookie message component from Meta Partial Design.

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Tips and Tricks: Part-3 How to include custom template based item in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Search results? How to add fields from custom template into search  index fields int  Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) search box to check for matches? The Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) by default index the Page items and only those results will come into search results. Sometimes, we are creating custom templates like Articles, News, etc. in our sites and when user try to search and these items are not coming into search results. To include items which created using our custom templates into search results, we have to inherit our custom templates with _Searchable template ( /sitecore/Templates/Foundation/Experience Accelerator/Search/Computed Fields/_Searchable ). After inheriting custom template with _Searchable template, now go to settings > scopes and create new scope and using build query optio...

Sitecore Error Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting Sitecore Email Experience(EXM) Email Campaign Message Preview and Test email not being send The Sitecore Email Experience Manager (EXM) guides you through the process of creating and sending your email campaigns. To use Sitecore Email Experience(EXM) Email Campaign, after setting up the SMTP, I tried to create the Email Campaign but getting following errors: 1. Not able to see the Message Preview in the Message tab and getting the error in the Front End/Screen as The selected page could not be displayed: To troubleshoot the issue, I checked the EXM log file at web root for Sitecore site: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\sc902.1.com\App_Data\logs\ Exm.log.XXXXX.XXX.txt and found below mentioned error: I was getting exception as Sitecore.EmailCampaign.Model.Web.Exceptions.NonCriticalException . 2. Not able to receive the test email even the SMTP settings was working fine and its showing the success message on screen. To cross che...

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA): What is Partial Design in SXA? The Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) emphasize on the re-usability. For this Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) providing the concept of Partial Design. The Partial Design is the sub-set of page.  Its uses set of responsive and reusable renderings. These renderings can be added to 12 columns provided by Sitecore SXA Theme. The set of SXA Partial Designs help to create complete page. For example, one website having Header and Footer: Header generally contains following items: Logo with link Navigation Search Text Box In ASP.NET MVC based project we used to create partial views to add above mentioned controls and including these partial design in the Master page, so that it can re-used throughout the website for consistent look and feel. In the same way, we can utilize Sitecore SXA Partial Design to create sub-set of page by adding multiple controls into the canvas provided by Si...

Sitecore Error Troubleshooting: Database 'xxx' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory/ Database in Recovery Pending State: In my local system, I was having space issue, so i tried to move all SQL DB files (*.mdf and *.ldf) from C drive to D drive. For this I followed the site Sqlshack.com . After all the steps, I stared getting the error Database 'XXX' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space.  See the SQL Server errorlog for details and Database in Recovery Pending State. After spending some time, I found that this issue is related to the Folder level access for SQL Server, due to this Sitecore instance not able to access the Database files and SQL Server 2016 databases showing as Recovery Pending State: To verify the current state of Database, i executed SQL query: And found that some DB's was ONLINE and rest are in RECOVERY_PENDING state: To resolve the Database '...

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Tips and Tricks: Part-2 Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) : Will provide the facility to use out-of-the-box component library, drag n drop facility of component with properties, based on HELIX architecture, easy to work with UI team ( Creative Exchange functionality ), provide grid’s like Bootstrap / Foundation / Grid 960 (render columns for RWD ), increase productivity, SXA implies best practices and many more.. As per official Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) : SXA separates structure from design, so front-end designers, creative designers, content authors, and developers can work in parallel and you can deploy and maintain multiple sites quickly and cost effectively. With SXA you can: • Accelerate the delivery of sites using standard functionality with minimum-to-no CMS development. • Enable different work streams to run in parallel. • Assemble sites using responsive and reusable renderings. • Use themes to enable brand ...

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Tips and Tricks: Part-1 The Sitecore provided all the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) assemblies using Official Sitecore NuGet Feed at https://sitecore.myget.org/gallery/sc-packages . You have to search with sitecore.xa and you will get packages for Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Functionalities. These assemblies would be helpful, if you wanted to re-use/extend the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) functionalities.

Apply Custom Styling (CSS) on Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Site and OOTP Components: In the previous article " Customize Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) OOTB Components: Part-1 " we created the custom css style file, which contains the customization for Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) OOTB Carousel component. Now, we have to apply the custom css style file in the SXA website  and for this we will be utilizing the Themes which created during the creation of SXA Site . For this login into Sitecore CMS as ADMIN and go to  SXA website  custom theme location /sitecore/media library/Themes/Company/Brand A/India/IndiaTheme/styles : In the above content tree the details about Tenant Folder/Tenant/Site are: =>Company (Tenant Folder)       > Brand A (Tenant)                     o   India (Site) For example name of custom css style file is company-component-car...

Customize Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) OOTB Components: Part-1 The Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA), providing more than 100 out of the box (OOTB) components which you can use to create the website by just adding into the pages. These components provides friendly Experience Editor behavior. These components comes with out of the box styling and will not fulfill Business needs. In those cases, we have to customize the SXA OOTB components as per Business needs. The most of the SXA components supports customization of UI using CSS classes. Now we will try to add Carousel component on page, so go to page click on Add Here and it will open pop-up which will display set of SXA OOTB components. From there go to Composites tab and select Carousel component: It will open the pop-up window to select associated content, it means items which are compatible with Carousel components. In other words, items which created using Templates which can be used in Carousel compon...

Site Items in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA): Once site has been created Sitecore Experience Accelerator create many items in Sitecore content tree and details are: Sitecore SXA Site item : This Sitecore item is very important item and contain all site related details including Page items, Site core site data, Partial Design and Page Design. Sitecore SXA Site Media Library item: For every SXA site there is separate media library folder created at /sitecore/media library/Project/Tenant Folder/Tenant/DEV, here DEV is the Site name and also there is virtual folder of Media item in Main content tree after the HOME item. Sitecore SXA Site Theme item: For every SXA site there is separate Theme folder created at /sitecore/media library/Themes/ Tenant Folder / Tenant /DEV/Dev  here DEV is the Site name and Dev is the theme name mentioned during the Site creation activity in Theme tab. This Theme would be optimize and added to the pages after loading t...

What is Site in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) The Site item in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) will represent the actual site which would be accessible to outer world. The Site item present inside the Tenant item and all sites present inside the Tenant will share the same set of templates and other items, for example Page template:           Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) shared Templates for all Sites inside Tenant  When you right click on the Tenant, you will find option to create site/site folder:  Insert option for Tenant   Site Folder: If you want to clubbed more than one site under one then you can use this option. Site: Once you click on the Site, it will show you the dialog for creating the site:                             ...