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jTweetsAnywhere

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:27:55 +0000

“jTweetsAnywhere” is a Jquery widget that looks like a excellent and extremely easy way to include all types of Twitter feeds on your site. Whether you want to display a usertime line or search results!

If you use Sitecore CMS & Javascript is no option you can always resort to the Twitter code i supplied somewhere else on this site.

Check out jTweetsAnywhere

Sitecore Twitter control update

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:01:40 +0000

I’ve uploaded a new version of the Sitecore Twitter code at wiki.evident.nl. This is a base for your own Sitecore Twitter Widget/Control. Changes include:

Password no longer necessary
Search result support (Tweets by hashtag instead of username)
Now uses datasource setting on control to choose Twitter setting item

Still no fancy Linq to XML (sorry) but we are one step closer to an “official” module!

A Sitecore twitter control

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:37:50 +0000

I’ve decided to release some code for a Sitecore Twitter control that displays status updates. Please provide feedback & request features. Once the code is little bit more mature and cleaned up it’ll be uploaded to the Sitecore Shared Source site as a user control. You can also uses this to create a custom control.

You can find the instructions and download info on the Evident wiki site. Enjoy!

Soft7 style for Windows 7

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:34:55 +0000

Want to make your Windows 7 workstation look a little bit better? Sure you do! By installing the Soft7 theme you can enjoy a very soft and clean look based on the Windows 7 Aero style. Don’t forget to ‘mod’ your Start Button orb and to get a matching Firefox skin. Read the instructions very carefully! You can wreck your installation if you mess it up. Get the Soft7 style here.

Generating a valid Sitecore RSS feed (and other XML)

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:44:54 +0000

The newer Sitecore (6.2+) versions are able to automatically generate RSS feeds. If you want to create your custom feed or are using a older version of Sitecore you can use this code as a guideline. The supplied code is an .ASHX handler to generate a valid RSS feed. I’m using the .NET XmlTextWriter class to help us out a little. This example takes a itemLanguage parameter to get the right content language. Please keep in mind that the code can be structured better, its just an example. With some editing you can also use this for other types of XML output. The generated RSS passes validation and most browsers recognize it as being RSS.

Check out the example code.

Custom sorting in the Sitecore backend

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:36:41 +0000

Example: I want to order my news items in the Content Tree by a (custom) Sitecore field named “News date”. The “sort subitems” function in the Sitecore (6.0) backend does not allow to select this custom field. Two steps are needed to accomplish this. The first is creating a icomparer class and the second is adding it to Sitecore.

Code example:


Namespace Evident.Web.Classes
{
    public class NewsSort : Sitecore.Data.Comparers.Comparer
    {
        protected override int DoCompare(Item itemFirst, Item itemSecond)
        {

         return itemFirst.Fields"Datum".Value.CompareTo(itemSecond.Fields"Datum".Value);
        }
    }
}

Create a new child sorting rule

Navigate to: \sitecore\system\settings\subitem sorting Right click the node and choose ‘insert from template’. Choose the “Child sorting” template from \sitecore\templates\system\ Insert the DLL reference here: MyNamespace.MyType,MyAssembly (.dll)

Notes
For more info please see : http://sdn5.sitecore.net/Scrapbook/Understanding%20the%20Sort%20Order.aspx

Embedding the Radeditor on Sitecore pages (html text input)

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:13:06 +0000

Looking for a easy way to let users send or save data using a HTML enabled text field?
It’s possible to embed the “Radeditor” that is already included in your Sitecore installation. You can include it this way on an .ascx or aspx control/page:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="rade" Namespace="Telerik.WebControls" Assembly="RadEditor.NET2" %> " < rade:RadEditor runat="server" Width="500px" ID="uxContent" RadControlsDir="~/sitecore/shell/RadControls/"> < /rade:RadEditor >

Don’t forget to add a reference to the RadEditor.NET2 dll in your Visual Studio project. You can customize the editor by editing the following XML files:

sitecore\shell\RadControls\Editor\ ToolsFile.xml ConfigFile.xml

The output is accessed by the property “.xhtml”. Example: message.Body = uxContent.Xhtml; This has been tested on Sitecore 6. Check out the result:

Well hello there..

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:16:16 +0000

Hiya! I’m the first post on tech.digisaru.com. Don’t forget to check back later!