Daivagna Nanavati

Hi Folks This will be a quick post as i wanted to quickly share this scenario and i am sure it will be helpful for many of you as it includes SEO inputs and how we had to change few things to support it   Scenario Recently we changed the implementation of our sitemap generator as it was not respecting the "language embedding" flag, which is a known issue mentioned here , so we had to overwrite it and make our own to make it work, but all good so far so now our site map did not have any URLs with language code appended to it . But our SEO team came up with the analysis that there are users still going to 404 page because of they are hitting URL with the language code, Although we had that flag to true in Sitecore.config settings So, Logically all pages should be accessible only without language code in the URL Now, we knew that if we hit pages with language code they are going to 404, but our SEO team insisted that it should go to the actual pages with 301 redirect, and it sho...

Hi Team, One more amazing troubleshooting day, And this is when one fine morning one of the developer in our team raised the FLAG that she is not able to export pages using "Export" button available in ribbon in experience editor and she was getting below exception in export wizard, and surprisingly in content editor, "Creative exchange" section and their export/import button were not showing at all. "Export failed. There is no storage definition in the site"   We use azure virtual machines so she had the same copy as mine, and it was working fine on my machine, so my troubleshooting started, i was not expecting anything major out of it as i thought there must be something minor going on or some access issues as she was playing around with access to Sitecore items but it turned out something else and it took couple of hours to figure out what is going on, following are the steps which were performed to troubleshoot the issue. Troubleshooting steps performe...