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So  I was using Sitecore 8.2 and working on one of my development tickets. While committing my changes to source control, I observed,  for some reason,  created field value for TDS item was updated on my local instance (highlighted in snapshot). I knew this was not the Sitecore item created date field which is represented by __Created (also in snapshot). I looked around but didnt find  much information on what this field represents and why it was updated on my local.  So I started digging and also reached out to Sitecore support and below is the observation - Created field values are updated by Sitecore serialization. TDS doesn't directly update them, it uses the Serialization API to get the item and it is changed/updated by the API Created field is ignored by TDS for sync and compare. It was not present in older versions of Sitecore, therefore, we don't use it to maintain backward compatibility. Since it is ignored by TDS, there is not much information about the field, but it

Sometimes we  simply want to know in JS if the user is on regular site view or experience editor view or any other view. In JS, we can do this by below lines of code -  var isEditMode = function ( ) { return typeof Sitecore !== "undefined" && Sitecore && Sitecore.PageModes && Sitecore.PageModes.PageEditor; } var isPreviewMode = function ( ) { return typeof Sitecore !== "undefined" && !isEditMode() } var isNormalMode = function ( ) { return typeof Sitecore === "undefined" }

Validators that take a long time to run can have a negative performance impact while using the Sitecore Content Editor. This post is intended to look for those validation rules in question. Symptoms of Problem     Slow performance while using the Sitecore Content Editor How to Check Long Running Validation Rules   Long running validation rules appear in the Sitecore logs with the following message: Long running operation: Running Validation Rules. To search for these messages you can either search for the above string using your favorite text editor like Notepad++, or by parsing the log file(s) with Sitecore Log Analyzer tool. To parse the log file(s) using Sitecore Log Analyzer:  1. Launch Sitecore Log Analyzer.  2. Use Select Location button to select log file(s) for parsing.  3. Set String filter field to Long running operation: Running Validation Rules value.  4. Press Analyze / Refresh* button.  5. Go to Messages tab and check Warnings checkbox.  6. Check the checkbox of the “* Lo

Hi, So our content authors and testers started reporting that they are getting more and more Page Unresponsive Error dialog appear while working on CM server. They also reported that there were often long waits during edit and save operations. So, I started investigating this and jumped into Sitecore logs to dig out the root cause. I had interesting observations - Created pages in Experience editor and did not encounter any issues during normal editing actions. Created a copy of medium sized folder in site (e.g. /sitecore/content/<SiteName>/<Test Folder Path> and recycled it later. On both the actions, Page Unresponsive error was reproducible and all subsequent requests from Sitecore client kept waiting. This confirmed a large copy/delete/publish operation consumes most of the resources available for SQL operations and other users get blocked. Analyzed the logs for last few weeks and found that the following activities happened a

High performance for any digital platform is elementary. In this post, I will address some basics around Sitecore caching and some best practices that Sitecore developers/architects can follow to boost the performance of Sitecore solution. While working with one of our clients, content authors started complaining about the page load time in experience editor. The environment was Azure IaaS. So, we started looking at all the performance tweaks we could apply. Sitecore Cache Tuning Performance and cache go hand-in-hand :D  So first thing we wanted to explore was Sitecore caching especially the cache sizes.  I assume the readers are already aware about Sitecore caches and  how to configure them . We used the showconfig.aspx (https://<my sitecore hostname>/sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx ) and looked especially for Sitecore's prefetch, items and data cache sizes. So, how do we  know if the cache sizes are sufficient for our application? First, you need to open Cache Administration

  We have lots of media items and our business wants to copy the data from en version of media item to all other language versions defined in System/Languages. This ensures that media is available in all the languages. So, we created the below powershell script to achieve the same -  #Get all language versions defined in System/Languages $languages = Get-ChildItem /sitecore/System/Languages -recurse | Select $_.name | Where-Object {$_.name -ne "en"} | Select Name #Ensuring correct items are updated by comparing the template ID  $items = Get-ChildItem -Path "/sitecore/media library/MyProjects" -Recurse | Where-Object {'<media item template id>' -contains $_.TemplateID} #Bulk update context to improve performance New-UsingBlock (New-Object Sitecore.Data.BulkUpdateContext) { foreach($item in $items){    foreach($language in $languages){ $languageVersion = Get-Item -Path $item.Paths.Path -Language $language.Name #Check if language versi

If you ever require to export Sitecore media files to zip (may be to optimize them), SPE (Sitecore Powershell Extension) has probably the easiest way to do this for you. It's as easy as the below 3 steps -  1. Right click on your folder (icons folder in snap)>Click on Scripts> Click on Download 2. SPE will start zipping all the media files placed within this folder. 3. Once zipping is done, you will see the Download option in the next screen. Click Download Zip containing the media files within is available on your local machine. You can play around with the images now. Hope this helps!! Like and Share ;)