Adding Security to a Mongo instance on Windows Server
We're moving our server infrastructure to a new host, and as part of the new configuration the Mongo instance will have its own server, as opposed as living on the same server of the SQL database. I took this as an opportunity to set up proper security for it. IP restriction The first thing to […]
TinyMCE for Sitecore: usage and configuration
This is a quick introduction/configuration for the TinyMCE Module for Sitecore module I'm writing and that I eventually aim to release on the Sitecore Marketplace. It allows usage of the "Insert Sitecore Media" and "Insert Sitecore Link" functionalities, implemented as a TinyMCE plugin. It contains no references to Telerik web controls. After installing the all-in-one Package, […]
Sitecore Analytics: Custom Dimensions and Segments
In Sitecore Analytics, a Dimension represents a set of key/values pair which is updated daily. Each entry contains, for each key, a class called SegmentMetricsValue that contains the following fields: Visits, a custom Value, Bounces, Conversions, Time on Site, Page Views, and Count. Each of those can be arbitrarily assigned, and the method that calculates […]
Accessing and manipulating Office documents via Sitecore Powershell Extension
Recently I have been asked to populate a collection of Items with the content of an Excel file, a rather common request that in the past I have fulfilled with third party C# libraries. This time around however I wanted to use Sitecore Powershell: after a brief search I found the following code that would […]