This post intends to get you familiar with how Sitecore manages SelectRendering dialogs found in Experience Editor , how Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) module is able to override those dialogs and how we can still use vanilla Sitecore based SelectRendering dialogs even after installing SXA module. We are working on upgrading our application from Sitecore 8.2 to Sitecore 10.1.1. We have 100+ sites in our existing Sitecore instance and we are moving them from vanilla Sitecore sites to SXA based sites. Problem While testing the pages in Experience Editor, we noticed that the SXA based SelectRendering Dialog is different from vanilla Sitecore 10. For e.g. when you click on Add Here to add a rendering on your page in Experience Editor in Sitecore 10, below dialog opens up - Due to the structure in our legacy Sitecore 8 application, lots of tabs started appearing in SelectRendering dialog which looked confusing as in snapshot above. This also created another problem. With so
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