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Sitecore - How to show a new marketing promotional page on the same URL as existing home page

Hi Team, Today i will share one of the solution that we did for one of our customer, I am sure you will or you already might have came across such requirements and found your self in multiple option/solutions and trying to find best suited one for your customer, here is the story and solutions we thought of and finally selecting one out of it which was the best in all scenarios Also the solution was required in time sensitive deadline before their social marketing campaign begins so we had to come up with the solution and implement and go live before it. Customer Requirement They were doing a brand refresh, so whole site supposed to be revamped, With new user interface and UX, but that is a longer route, by the time we create that fully new site for them, they wanted to have a teaser home page, or a new home page to be shown just to give the visitor a feel of what is coming and they can market it using social campaigns. So their need was, Whenever users visit a website (www.blahblah.co...
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Sitecore Stream - Platform DxP Evolution

Hi Team, I am absolutely Sitecore Stream enthusiast, and if you also keep following what is new in it and explore it features, This blog post is for you Since it was announced in symposium 2024 and probably the first platform DxP version package was released in FEB-2025 and we are now in Sep end and there have been significant roll outs and we are into 6th release of the platform DxP package. The purpose of this blog post is to summarize all improvements which came along with different releases for all of you and community, If you have not explored all of the packages. NOTE : Remember Stream is "AI capabilities throughout the composable stack, be it Content Hub, XMC, CDP, Personalized but this blog post is only for platform DxP package for on-prem XP/XM. If you see the image above, i have tried to show the package rollout on the timeline as an when they were released and watchout for next package rollout, For other useful features :)  Important improvements 1) Less configurations ...
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Sitecore Stream - Manage brand kits and brand documents and ingest using REST API

     Hello Sitecore Enthusiastic, Today i will be sharing one of the recent rollouts from Sitecore Stream which is the developer APIs using which one can directly manage their brand kit, upload documents to it and also start ingestion process and that all using APIs. As recent as June, Sitecore announced REST APIs for Sitecore Partners  using which Sitecore partners can now use Stream REST APIs to integrate with their existing systems and support brand governance. List of APIs for Sitecore Stream https://api-docs.sitecore.com/?product=AI+capabilities 1) Brand Management API      As we know Brand kit is the major building block of how Stream gets its brand awareness from, So using this brand management API, You can create new brand kit, you can get specific brand kit or list of brand kits and also can get specific section of brand kit like brand context, tone of voice etc and also can update them. 2) Document Management API     Each brand...
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Sitecore Stream - Configure AI capabilities into Sitecore XP using Stream Platform DxP package

Hi Folks, Recently, I delivered a webinar on "Do more in era of less with AI capabilities, Ideation to execution with Sitecore Stream" and I also have a blog around the same which you can read here on  Sitecore Stream - Do more in era of less with AI capabilities, Ideation to execution The purpose of the webinar session and above blog is to first set the tone for reader and audience to understand what Sitecore Stream is and how it operates and what values it can bring in, if possible, I will share the slides too so you can go through it. That session and the blog above were more from how Sitecore Stream is solving marketer's challenges Today, I will be showing you how you can configure the power of stream and its Brand Aware AI capabilities right into your on-prem XP, Why XP is because all other SaaS based (Cloud based) DxP products like XMC, Search, CH already has the power of Stream, So I will show you the steps of configuring Stream into on-prem XP version. Prerequisit...
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Sitecore Stream - Do more in era of less with AI capabilities, Ideation to execution

Hi Folks, This blog post is around my point of view from technologist on AI capabilities and orchestration provided by Sitecore Stream, and why it is important to know what it has to offer and RoI for a business and what it has for future roadmap, Because every customer has similar problems and as a technologist you should always try to solve those business problems, and hence below statement comes to my mind  for Sitecore Stream. A true innovation should start from "Looking at the business problem and then choosing the tech to solve, and not vice versa" With Sitecore Stream  , This is exactly what Sitecore team has done, The product team and technical team worked with marketers and marketing team and with customer to understand their problems and then came up with this amazing innovation and AI capabilities throughout their composable stack. I will try to simplify things for end audience, so it is easy for them to understand What is Sitecore Stream? A new Product? Before we ...
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Sitecore 10.2 Headless SXA is looking for "master" db on CD server

Hi Folks, Sometimes you are trying to troubleshoot one thing and end up solving another :), How many of you have ended up same?  Well, I was actually troubleshooting the high CPU and no. of requests on CD was trying to find some error patterns from Sitecore logs for one of the issues we were facing, there was one specific error which we kept observing was below Exception and if you drill further down into it, Sitecore was looking for master DB on CD servers, which is not possible, so definitely, this is bug I previously faced the same error but for other assembly and to troubleshoot and resolving that the approaches were different but for both meaning of the error is same, for 10.3 where i got the error is drafted here  Error in Sitecore 10.3 XM with CDs - Could not find configuration node: database/database[@id='master'] Troubleshooting It was clear that because some the code which is in "VersionInitializer" class of "SItecore.XA.Foundation.Upgrade.dll" is ...
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Sitecore XM Cloud Components - BYOC - Bring in your existing react or nextjs component library

Hi All, Last year i did lot of research and hands on to "XM Cloud Component Builder", Very powerful futuristic tooling provided by Sitecore. At that time it was still in "Early Access" phase. You can have a look at my "SUGCON 2023 - Presentation on XM Cloud Component Builder"   to know about it's capabilities and use cases. and if you are PODCAST lover, find the podcast here   I would highly recommend going through above video or podcast to understand "Low code, No code" and what is "FeaaS" and power of it, As LCAPs (Low Code Application Platforms) are growing at the speed of around 25% every year, And it's a future. Now, Let's talk about Part-2 of it, more advance use cases of "XM Cloud FeaaS", Once you have understanding of the component builder, you can do wonders, and this part-2 we will talk about something amazing it can do which is BYOC, Bringing Your Own Components. What is BYOC - Bring Your Own Code (Or Co...
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Every Sitecore Instance using GQL is prone to this scenario of template not found - Sitecore Component With GQL Queries Broke On Production

Hello Team, Today, I wanted to share a real scenario and a solution of it about what happened  suddenly to our components and how we identified it and how we resolved it, and most importantly it could happen to your installations too Scenario We have one Sitecore 10.2 headless instance and two sites, One site is non-sxa which is legacy site and another site is a new site which uses headless SXA. Now, non-sxa site is already live and working fine with all components etc. and the new headless site was in development and it has separate development team, So we have same DEV/UAT/PROD environments. One fine morning they took their code and site on environment but strangely some of the GQL components like header footer of legacy site disappeared.  Troubleshooting Steps 1) We checked the broken component's GQL query  2) We took that query and fired it in GQL IDE, and we observed that, Some of the templates references we used were not found, which was working just fine and we hav...
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