Sitecore Content Hub :: Passing Data to Script from External System

If you worked with Sitecore Content Hub you may cross the need of scheduling a trigger for some scripts you have running in Content Hub, and you probably found that Sitecore Content Hub doesn't offer a schedule tasks for running scripts, so you need to integrate with external system, and Azure function is one of the external systems/services that you could use, in this post, I will show how you can trigger a script in Content Hub from azure function as well as how you can pass parameters into the script. keep reading! 

Sitecore Content Hub : External Component

You probably familiar with Sitecore Content Hub pages and pages components, you could tried adding the out of the box components to a page but do you know that you can create you own component? In this post I will explain Sitecore Content Hub External Components and walk you through creating a simple CH external component. 

Sitecore Content Hub :: Refresh Renditions

 In this post I will explain how you can refresh renditions, both the OOTB existing Content Hub feature and how to programmatically do this, to get a good idea on refresh renditions, I would suggest you first read this blog post before going through this one. we will talk about mass edit jobs, processing job and limitation of the existing OOTB and how you can overcome this.

Sitecore Symposium 2020 Recap, What's coming Content Hub?

 In this year special Sitecore Symposium there were a lot for new stuff and news around Sitecore Content Hub, a lot has been shared through the road map keynote by Desta Price, EVP Product Management at Sitecore and Tom De Ridder, Chief Technology Officer at Sitecore, starting from Content insights, Content Coverage until the new Content as a Service (CaaS) offering that is coming in the early 2021, also some new news about the CMP connector that has been recently release and the new versions on the roadmap, want to know more about these, keep reading! 

Sitecore Symposium 2020 Recap - Day 1

 The first ever Digital Sitecore Symposium kicked off on Monday October, 26th 2020, with a Virtual Happy Hour by Sitecore CMO Paige O’Neil and Sitecore Official Comedian, Jake Johannsen. As an amazing annual Sitecore Conference, 4,500 attendees with more than half of them from outside of the United States, attending from a 70+ counties, showed up this year. Symposium is the ideal place for learning new platform features and products while networking with other Sitecore enthusiasts.

   

Sitecore Content Hub for Developers, Where to write code logic?

 In the previous post I gave an introduction for the different sections you as developer will deal with when using Sitecore Content Hub, In this post I will show you a simple scenario when you need to write a custom code for updating an asset an example, and where you can add this code, mainly there are two places where you can have this logic, you can create a new Content Hub script or create an azure function on your function app azure resource. 

Sitecore Content Hub: Renditions

 In this post we will talk about Sitecore Content Hub renditions, media processing settings and flows and also share a code logic you may need to use when working with DAM and assets renditions, specially if you know there is no auto refresh of renditions in Content Hub, so if you added or made any changes to your media processing settings, this will take affect on the new uploaded/processed assets but not existing un-updated assets.

Sitecore Content Hub For Developers Introduction

 In this series of Sitecore Content Hub for developers, I'll share with you all the information you need to start working and getting familiar with Sitecore Content Hub and specially I'll focus on the areas related to developers, you probably familiar with the different modules that Sitecore Content Hub Offers, Digital Asset Management (DAM),  Content Marketing Platform (CMP), Product Content Management (PCM) and Marketing Resource Management (MRM), if you're not still familiar with these, thats fine, check this article to get an idea. 

In this post and coming posts of Sitecore Content Hub for Developers we will discuss Schema, Entities, Scripts, Actions, Triggers, REST API, Azure Functions, Package export/import, in addition of how you can have IntelliSense while using Stylelabs SDK.

Sitecore XA ::Custom Search Results Using Scriban

In a recent project I was working, we used Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) out of the box search renderings, but we needed to have control over the html of the search results, we started looking of how to implement this and we ended up using the new SXA 9.3 variant option Scriban to create a variation of the search results, in this post will show you how you can accomplish this in no time. 

In the days of COVID-19, SUGJO Going Virtual!

We had a wonderful virtual meetup today, April 12th 2020, with the increasing lock down caused by COVID-19, we planned our Sitecore User Group Jordan meetup to be virtual, we had a great one, two full sessions with more than 20 attendees, keep reading for the details.

Sitecore Scriban Extension - How To Control a Link Field!

In this post I will show you a couple of custom Scriban extensions that I needed to create on a recent project I was working on, first example is how you can get an item URL counting for server URL / Site resolving and another example of how you can pull a link of a link field. Before that if you're new to Scriban, take a quick look for this post, I'm sure you will find it useful. 

Sitecore SXA Scriban

I have been working on a new Sitecore 9.3 implementation with Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 9.3 recently and I got chance to work with some interesting new stuff that I would like to share with you in a couple of blog posts, I expect you will find these very useful and fun, SXA 9.3 came with a lot of new features and enactments, one of these new features is using Scriban Templateting in rendering variants, so, in this post will give an introduction of what is a rendering variant? and what is Scriban? and on the next posts will show you how we can build a custom extensions for Scriban.

Coveo Custom search hub implementation

In a recent project I was working on, this project contain up to 7 microsites, were these microsites are sub trees of the content tree under the main site home item, there was a Coveo for Sitecore cloud 4 implementation, and as requested we wanted to use the same global search results, BUT when a user initiated search from any of these microsites we wanted the search hub to be specific to that search interface, in this post I will walk you through the custom implementation we did.