Thursday, 9 November 2023

XM Cloud :: GraphQL Playground :: Query is too nested to execute error!

while working recently on an XM Cloud project, I ran into issue with GraphQL we were preparing to pull the header component data source, basically when we execute the query in the GraphQL playground we get ""Query is too nested to execute. Depth is 17 levels, maximum allowed on this endpoint is 15." Error, if you want to know how to resolve this, keep reading! 


Friday, 3 November 2023

XM Cloud Architect Tips :: SUGCON Takeaways!

I believe a lot of architects working with Sitecore ecosystem is eager to learn CM cloud, if they're not already started, while working with XM Cloud has some close enough implementation to headless implementation with XM on premise or PaaS it has some differences, a great presentation I attended in the SUGCON NA last month where Andy Cohen shared some very important tips when working with XM Cloud, in this post I will share some of my takeaways out of that session. 


Wednesday, 1 November 2023

XM Cloud :: Failed to register layer error

 While setting up my local instance for an XM Cloud project I got into a strange error while trying to build images locally, an error "failed to register layer: Cannot create layer with missing parent acf3d164746bcef47b6a7fd46c5912a1103931480f6bcf9336efa664f58ad669: The system cannot find the file specified." keep happening, in this post I will share the steps I tried to resolve the error, hopefully it will be useful for someone. 


Saturday, 14 October 2023

Sitecore DX Minneapolis 2023 :: Recap!

 As you know Sitecore this year decided to go with smaller events called Sitecore DX instead of the well known Sitecore Symposium, to make it simpler and easier for everyone to attend this event in their region, this time the DX event was at Minneapolis and my company Americaneagle.com was a diamond sponsor for this event, their was big announcements in this event, in this post I will share my recap from this one day event! 


Thursday, 12 October 2023

Sitecore MVP Summit 2023 :: Recap

 We had an amazing Sitecore MVP Summit last week at Minnesota, we did meet with other mvps from all around the world, also we had a great conversations with Sitecore people, discussing latest and coming updated to the different products,  we also had a wonderful night on Monday with a lot of fun games! In this post I will share with you my recap of this couple days event, some of the news that we can share!



Monday, 2 October 2023

A week of fun with Sitecore

 Here we come Minneapolis, it will a lot of fun with sitecore this coming week, Sitecore MVP summit, Sitecore DX and Sitecore user group conference north America (SUGCON NA), wohooo!! so if you're heading there, go a head and read this post where you can find my list to attend in this week! 



Monday, 21 August 2023

Content Hub Certification Exam :: Tips!

 Are you planning to be Sitecore Content Hub certified developer? are you curios where you should start? where you can find resources? what topics you should be focus on for the exam? in this blog post I'm sharing my experience preparing for the exam and some of the topics/areas that should focus on, excited? keep reading... 




Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Working with Sitecore Managed Cloud Containers - Tips!!

 I have been working with Sitecore Managed Cloud containers for the last couple months now and I thought to share some tips and information that I believe its very useful while using MC Containers, like working with The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl to troubleshoot issues that may happen while working on MC containers, interested, keep reading! 


Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Sitecore Indexes rebuild causes site crash/recompile!!

Have you ever ran into issue where while rebuilding sitecore indexes; the sitecore instance just suddenly recompile?!, checking log files and there are no errors related to indexes? here is a quick blog post where I wanted to share one issue I have faced and how did we troubleshoot and resolve. 

Sunday, 28 May 2023

Sitecore Content Hub: Finding Assets with Missing Renditions

 If you worked with Sitecore Content Hub, you must have worked with DAM module and in particular your worked with Renditions, if you don't know much about renditions I would suggest to go through my previous articles on it, just click here, In these previous posts I have explains renditions and how you can refresh renditions and how sometimes refresh rendition will be challenging, in this post I would like to provide some scripts samples of how you can find assets with missing renditions, keep reading! 


Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Sitecore PowerShell Script - Create redirects map

 If you worked with Sitecore SXA you probably already know that its comes with out of the box redirect feature, You can use the mapping tool to set up a 301/302 or server transfer redirect from the original URL to the updated URL, this is useful when you're re-designing your website or if you're creating a new page for an existing URL, this redirect tool provide a way to group redirects in a redirect map, through a Name Value List field, in this post I will show you how you can import you're redirect items into Sitecore in a very easy way.

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Solr Suggester for SXA Search Box using SearchStax.

 In a recent project I have been working on, we had a DEV, Staging and Prod environment on Sitecore managed Cloud - Containers, and one of the tasks we needed to do is to enable auto suggestions for SXA search box, in this post will show you how you can enable auto suggestions for SXA search box, how you can add search component and request handler to you solr instance specially in this case we are using searchStax for Solr nodes.


 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Sitecore MVP 2023 Announcements

 

[Americaneagle.com] [Mohammed Syam] wins Sitecore Most Valuable Professional award

Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community