Luke Arentz

Integrating Sitecore with Raygun

Raygun Crash Reporting is an automated error tracking solution that provides insight into your application through various APIs. These APIs easily integrate with .NET and more specifically Sitecore. There are a number of guides on the Raygun website and the solution below outlines the

Sitecore Experience Forms Query string exception

Sitecore Experience Forms formerly known as Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM) allows Content Authors to construct web forms that record and report information provided by contacts on a website - ideally without the need for additional development. The integrated nature of Sitecore Experience Forms

Sitecore xConnect Invalid Certificate

Since the introduction of xConnect there have been hundreds (if not thousands) of articles, posts and blogs covering the who/what/when/where and wtf? is wrong with xConnect. Many of these articles focus on xConnect setup or issues with the application accessing the

Sumo Logic For Sitecore

It's a well known fact that Sitecore uses an old and somewhat customised version of log4net. This can make integrations with other libraries such as Sumo Logic difficult as the log4net APIs have changed. To work around this issue a new log4net Appender must

Building a Sitecore Redis Session State Provider

With the release of Sitecore 7.5, Sitecore changed their underlying architecture and introduced MongoDB. While this improves the performance of Experience Analytics (formerly Sitecore Analytics), it has brought with it a new set of challenges. The new architecture persists all user interactions into

Adding Google Drive to the Windows Explorer sidebar

For those of you who use OneDrive or Dropbox you may have noticed that they create non-removable shortcuts in the Explorer sidebar. If you are also a Google Drive user you'll notice that Google Drive doesn't create the same shortcuts. Following the steps below

Diagnosing Sitecore publishing issues

Every client asks the same questions "Why is content being pushed live before I have approved it" or "I have already re-published. Why is my content not showing?". In most cases it is user error or a misunderstanding of the Sitecore workflow. In order

Extending profile field types for the Sitecore Active Directory module

The Sitecore Active Directory module provides integration between one or more Active Directory domains and Sitecore. Out-of-the-box this module supports reading and writing of data types such as: string, int and bool, however a common Active Directory data type byte[] is not supported. Sitecore

Visually representing Bootstrap breakpoints

When working with Bootstrap it can sometimes be difficult to determine the active breakpoints for a given screen width. The simplest solution is to add a breakpoint helper to your document and configure it using the standard Bootstrap visibility classes. The example below uses

Diagnosing Sitecore XHTML Validation Errors

Many of you may already be familiar with the out-of-the-box XHTML validator that Sitecore offers. If not you can find it at sitecore/system/Settings/Validation Rules/Item Rules/Item/Full Page XHtml. Recently I encountered issues where the validator would fail with a