Sunday 3 March 2024

Sitecore XM Cloud :: Build & Deploy internal server error

 I've been recently working on an CM Cloud project, and was getting "Internal Server Error" when trying to build & deploy using the deploy app in XM Cloud, in this post I will show you how did we resolve the issue, keep reading! 



Wednesday 21 February 2024

Sitecore XM Cloud Forms :: What to expect, what not to expect?

 Sitecore recently released Sitecore Cloud forms as part of the XM Cloud product, so if you have an XM Cloud instance, if you check the launch PAD now, you will see a new icon for FORMS!! in this blog post I will share what cloud forms have and what is still developing and missing in the current released version, keep reading! 



Monday 19 February 2024

Configuring Sitecore XM Cloud Forms with Webhook Submit Action!

 In this article, I'll demonstrate the process of configuring a submit action in XM Cloud forms. As you're aware, Sitecore XMC forms have recently been released, featuring a range of functionalities including setting up webhooks and assigning them to forms for data submission. Moreover, the introduction of a test webhook functionality allows for seamless testing of form webhooks to ensure successful connections. Excited to learn more? Keep reading!





Friday 9 February 2024

Sitecore MVP 2024 Announcements

 

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

Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community


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



Saturday 26 November 2022

Exporting a list of custom Content Hub Taxonomies Definitions Names

Have you worked on a content hub implementation where you needed to create too may taxonomies definitions? did you need to loop your client in the process of updating these taxonomies and their translations? how would you get a list of created taxonomies (Definition Names)? you probably checked the UI and you figured out already that there is no way to do that OOTB, if you didn't get into this case before you probably going to in future, its very simple to accomplish this with Content Hub Scripts. keep reading! 


Wednesday 19 October 2022

Sitecore Symposium Day 3 :: Keynote Recap

Today is the the 3rd day for Sitecore Symposium 2022 in Chicago, it started with a fantastic keynote by Chief Product Officer Dave O’Flanagan, where he dives deep into the latest product innovations at Sitecore and sets out our vision for the next 12 months and how Sitecore’s evolving end-to-end composable DXP gives brands the agility, speed and flexibility they need to meet every moment across the customer journey with standout digital experiences. If you missed or looking for a summary of the keynote, this is what you're looking for, keep reading! 



Tuesday 18 October 2022

Sitecore Symposium Day 2 Recap

 Finally after 3 years Sitecore Symposium is back in-person in Chicago, today was the second day for 2022 Sitecore Symposium, there were a lot of news, updates, and new products announced, and if you missed it, don't worry I got you covered, Keep reading and you will catch up! 



Wednesday 17 August 2022

Sitecore Content Hub Session Timeout

If you worked with Sitecore Content Hub you will notice that the default session timeout behavior is 20 or 30 minutes, regardless if the session is active or not, which will cause an issue for you if you're working or you're in a middle of a long update, in this post I will show where and how you can find and update the configuration of the Content Hub sessions timeout. 




Friday 29 July 2022

Migrate Sitecore media library items into Content Hub - Part 2

 In the first part of this series I explained how we can generate excel files of Sitecore media library and their public links and how can use these in Sitecore Content Hub in an import operation using the creation component, to pull these media items into Content Hub DAM,  in this part I will show how you can update media library references/usage and replace image fields pointing to media library to point to Content hub using public links.   



Sunday 19 June 2022

Migrate Sitecore media library items into Content Hub - Part 1

 Have you run into the case where you needed to migrate your Sitecore media library assets into Sitecore Content Hub Digital Asset Management (DAM)? yes, no, or not yet, you will get into this at some point as content hub become more popular and more customers are interested in the composable world where Content Hub takes a central part in it. In this blog posts series we will go through the process of migrating your media library items into CH and updating the references in your content items to point to Content Hub instead of your media items. 




Saturday 21 May 2022

Working with Web Client SDK :: Performance Tips - Part 2

In this blog post I want to share one more tip that you should know when working with Sitecore Content Hub Client SDK, you will see in this post how a small piece of info is making a big difference in your code performance, if you didn't came across  part 1 of Client SDK performance tips, you can check it out here: 


Wednesday 20 April 2022

Adding Language Selector to Content Hub PCM Product Detail

 In a recent Sitecore Content Hub (CH) Product Content Management (PCM) implementation I ran into issue of not having a language selector in the product detail page, and while my project needed a multi-lingual support, we had to look for a way to add this feature and with help from Sitecore Support we were able to add it, in this post will guide you through the process of how you can add such control. 



Sunday 13 March 2022

Sitecore Commerce + Coveo Indexing

 This post for you if you are working or planning to work on Sitecore Commerce implementation with Coveo as your site search provider. I would assume you already planning to use Coveo for Commerce for your implementation, which is using a Catalog source on Coveo cloud, if you're looking into how you would implement your indexing strategy then this post is what you're looking for!! 



Thursday 10 March 2022

Sitecore Commerce: Submitting an order No inventory associated to "Product1"

 This is a quick post that I wanted to share with my Sitecore Commerce Devs friends, where I was running into an issue while trying to submit an order where system tells me that there is an inventory issue with one of the in cart products, error message from log files is [12736 16:13:49 ERROR DoCommand Failed: No inventory associated to CatalogA|Product1|.]



Tuesday 15 February 2022

Sitecore Commerce :: Checkout forms validation

 If you're working or planning to work on Sitecore Commerce, you will definitely run into this issue while working on the checkout process and to be specific in the forms entry steps, either the shipping/delivery step or the payment step, if you have the OOTB SXA storefront  you would notice that the validation/error messages not working as expected, when you click the submit button you should receive/see error messages for the required fields, but this is not happening, want to know how to resolve this, keep reading the solution is simple!  



Monday 31 January 2022

Sitecore MVP 2022 Announcement

 

Mohammed Syam wins Sitecore Most Valuable Professional award

Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community


Wednesday 1 December 2021

Sitecore Commerce :: Extending Checkout Shipping Step Fields

 Recently I worked on a sitecore commerce implementation, and while working on too many extension areas in sitecore commerce one of these areas was working with checkout process, we needed to extend the checkout shipping address steps, in this blog post will highlight the main areas that you would need to be aware of and need to be updated, in addition to best practices while working with Commerce SXA theme items. are you read? keep reading!! 



Friday 22 October 2021

Sitecore Symposium 2021 Recap

What a wonderful Sitecore Symposium we had this year, yes for one more year we had it online, but as always it was a lot of fun and a lot of new announcements and news, Sitecore CDP, Search, Discover, Send, OrderCloud and many more have been announced, all can be combined in a new CMS! yes a new composable CMS, you can have a fully SaaS content management solution with Sitecore new composable DXP, if you got excited, keep reading! :) 


Saturday 25 September 2021

Sitecore xConnect Circuit Breaker

Have you heard of Circuit Breaker design pattern? have you heard of configuring Circuit break for Sitecore xConnect? no, then this article is for you, I've been reviewing sitecore log files on my local Commerce environment and accidently found error messages related to Circuit Breaker while seeing xConnect errors caused by my xConnect instance had wrong connection strings info, I got interested and wanted to understand what is it and when it was introduced?! keep reading! :) 





Friday 13 August 2021

Sitecore Commerce - Braintree Online Payment not working

We have been involved in many Sitecore Commerce projects recently, and its time to start blogging about anything I see useful while working though Sitecore commerce, here is one of the issues I faced and the fix was too simple, its related to Sitecore commerce and Braintree payment plugin. excited, keep reading! 


Thursday 15 July 2021

Sitecore Analytics Downloads : Custom Export

 If you worked with Sitecore Analytics before, you must have come across Top downloads report under behavior tab, this report  shows the assets that your contacts have downloaded the most from your website. but sometimes you may get a request from your client to get more information and control over this report, like as example, sort, filter, or maybe show all assets not only the top ones. In this case you would need to go with a custom approach, either built a custom analytics report or why not to export the report into a CSV and give your client a full control over it. In this post, I'll walk you through a step by step approach to pull these information from Analytics database into a csv format. excited?! keep reading! 




Tuesday 15 June 2021

Working with Web Client SDK :: Performance Tips!

 Have you worked with Sitecore Content Hub Web Client SDK [External Integration]? or are you planning to using it with you next project? you will definitely find this post useful, this post will focus on some points that will definitely affect/enhance you application performance, we will discuss APIs calls, properties/meta data loads and workarounds, so keep reading! 

Saturday 15 May 2021

Coveo Custom Popular Searches Rendering

 In a recent Coveo implantation I worked on, our client asked for a home page rendering that should the most popular searches, so we need to get the common keywords that have been used in our global search page, and when user click on these words, the client will be redirected to the global search results page with the result pre-filtered using the clicked keyword, in this post I'll show you how I did that and please comment or email me if you have a better way of doing it. 



Thursday 15 April 2021

Sitecore Content Hub :: Web Client SDK and Aggregates

 In a recent integration project we worked on, we used Sitecore Content Hub (CH) Wen client SDK to build a web PI application to serve as middle point between Sitecore CH and a third party application, we learned a lot through this project, and one of these learning lessons is the speed of pulling data from CH and how CH aggregates would be great help while working on such implementation, in this post I'll introduce aggregates and discuss how it could help enhance your application performance, excited? keep reading :) 






Friday 19 March 2021

Enhanced Package Designer

 This year sitecore hackathon was so excited, we participated in " The best enhancement to the Sitecore Admin (XP) for Content Editors & Marketers" category, and we build a simple but very useful feature, how may times you worked on creating a Sitecore Package and you missed to include the media items? how many times you wanted to package specific item version? our Enhanced Package Designer module will offer you these functionalities, all what you need to do is to install a simple package. 



Monday 22 February 2021

Sitecore Virtual Users on a CD scaled environment

How many times you worked with virtual users in Sitecore? Do you know what is Sitecore virtual users? have you ever run into issues with virtual users on your production environment? In this post I would like to share my experience with virtual users in a scaled production users, if you don't know virtual users or when/how to use it, or if you run into issues with it I highly suggest you keep reading!


 


Sunday 31 January 2021

Sitecore Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2021

 


MVP award is being given by Sitecore, the global leader in digital experience and content management every year to recognize the individuals who contributed over the previous year, I'm honoured, thrilled and humbled to be awarded as a Sitecore MVP for the 6th year in a row, it still feels the same way as the first time I got it.  




Monday 21 December 2020

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! 



Wednesday 25 November 2020

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. 




Saturday 21 November 2020

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.


Sunday 1 November 2020

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! 



Wednesday 28 October 2020

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.


   


Friday 11 September 2020

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. 


Sunday 30 August 2020

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.