Dave O’Flanagan appointed Interim CEO of Sitecore
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-o-flanagan-85323249
Rumors collectively associate that with either recent Gartner Magic Quadrant update moving (in our opinion, unfairly) Sitecore away from the Leaders quadrant, or a potential purchase by (likely) Microsoft, or both factors. But once again, that is just thoughts and time will show.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-o-flanagan-85323249
Rumors collectively associate that with either recent Gartner Magic Quadrant update moving (in our opinion, unfairly) Sitecore away from the Leaders quadrant, or a potential purchase by (likely) Microsoft, or both factors. But once again, that is just thoughts and time will show.
How to quickly export a page with all the datasources and dependencies?
Try Sitecore Page Exporter: https://tinyurl.com/ym3yokx3
Try Sitecore Page Exporter: https://tinyurl.com/ym3yokx3
Sitecore is migrating downloads site from dev.sitecore.net to the new downloads section on the existing Sitecore Developer Portal. This change will enhance your experience and make it easier for you to find the resources you need. Old site will get deprecated the by May 1st.
New site: https://developers.sitecore.com/downloads
New site: https://developers.sitecore.com/downloads
Sample Template SCS Configuration File
Attached to the article with the explanation.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/27h3jk6x
Attached to the article with the explanation.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/27h3jk6x
Question: Can you mix headless and non-headless sites on the same Sitecore instance?
Answer: for non-XMCloud, you can Next.js and MVC sites side by side, but you cannot mix them within the same site.
Answer: for non-XMCloud, you can Next.js and MVC sites side by side, but you cannot mix them within the same site.
Have you got any experience with XM Cloud?
Anonymous Poll
23%
Yes, a project for a client
31%
Yes, but only in sandbox and local
46%
Not yet
As a quick reminder, Sitecore Telegram is not just a single-channel media, but rather a family of dedicated channels devoted to specific composable products from Sitecore. This channel is the main entry point, however, please consider subscribing to the others:
- XM Cloud: https://t.me/Sitecore_XM_Cloud
- Content Hub: https://t.me/SitecoreContentHub
- CDP/Personalize: https://t.me/PersonalizeCDP
- OrderCloud: https://t.me/OrderCloud
- Connect: https://t.me/SitecoreConnect
- Search: https://t.me/SitecoreSearch
.. and finally, the brand new one devoted exclusively to the headless development with Sitecore and Next.JS:
- Headless Sitecore: https://t.me/HeadlessSitecore
The more subscribers we've got - the more it motivates posting valuable content more regularly. Please share these channels with your colleagues and other Sitecore professionals using Telegram Messenger.
- XM Cloud: https://t.me/Sitecore_XM_Cloud
- Content Hub: https://t.me/SitecoreContentHub
- CDP/Personalize: https://t.me/PersonalizeCDP
- OrderCloud: https://t.me/OrderCloud
- Connect: https://t.me/SitecoreConnect
- Search: https://t.me/SitecoreSearch
.. and finally, the brand new one devoted exclusively to the headless development with Sitecore and Next.JS:
- Headless Sitecore: https://t.me/HeadlessSitecore
The more subscribers we've got - the more it motivates posting valuable content more regularly. Please share these channels with your colleagues and other Sitecore professionals using Telegram Messenger.
Dave O'Flanagan has been appointed Sitecore CEO after being named Interim CEO in March. As CEO, Dave will continue to advance Sitecore’s DXP leadership, driving ongoing innovation and transforming customer value with AI, including our “marketer-first” AI strategy.
To deliver on this new strategy and accelerate growth, Roger Connolly has been promoted to Chief Product Officer
To deliver on this new strategy and accelerate growth, Roger Connolly has been promoted to Chief Product Officer
Sitecore XP 10.4 is available with more than 200 enhancements
For marketers:
- You can now enhance personalization by targeting specific audiences more effectively with custom languages, perfect for global companies targeting diverse geographies.
- There’s more intuitive customization of visitor data tracking and targeting. This enables marketers to create personalized experiences for their customers based on behavior, preferences, and demographics without the need for developer involvement.
- We’ve refurbished the content editor experience with new visual focus indicators, aligning with the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide, making this our most accessible version yet.
- A new security role has been introduced, granting users read access to items in the Content Editor and Media Library. This improves visibility for marketers while maintaining overall content and media security.
- Enhanced security with system administrators having the power to enable or disable SVG files containing JavaScript from being uploaded to the Media Library by default.
- The Publish Manager now supports the publishing of multiple items, speeding up page deployment times and time to value.
For developers:
- Composable martech orchestration with Sitecore Connect allows customers the flexibility to connect their XP instance with over 1,000 martech solutions.
- Connect Sitecore XP contact data to Sitecore CDP systems using ready-to-go connectors, allowing you to enrich the migration with other data sources.
- Gain deeper insights for informed decision-making by exporting and combining faceted contact data in Power BI. This allows you to combine Sitecore xDB data with other data sets for greater insights. You can also retain long-tail analytics in your BI infrastructure, reducing hosting complexity in your XP environment.
Download page has moved: https://tinyurl.com/ym2s3vvk
For marketers:
- You can now enhance personalization by targeting specific audiences more effectively with custom languages, perfect for global companies targeting diverse geographies.
- There’s more intuitive customization of visitor data tracking and targeting. This enables marketers to create personalized experiences for their customers based on behavior, preferences, and demographics without the need for developer involvement.
- We’ve refurbished the content editor experience with new visual focus indicators, aligning with the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide, making this our most accessible version yet.
- A new security role has been introduced, granting users read access to items in the Content Editor and Media Library. This improves visibility for marketers while maintaining overall content and media security.
- Enhanced security with system administrators having the power to enable or disable SVG files containing JavaScript from being uploaded to the Media Library by default.
- The Publish Manager now supports the publishing of multiple items, speeding up page deployment times and time to value.
For developers:
- Composable martech orchestration with Sitecore Connect allows customers the flexibility to connect their XP instance with over 1,000 martech solutions.
- Connect Sitecore XP contact data to Sitecore CDP systems using ready-to-go connectors, allowing you to enrich the migration with other data sources.
- Gain deeper insights for informed decision-making by exporting and combining faceted contact data in Power BI. This allows you to combine Sitecore xDB data with other data sets for greater insights. You can also retain long-tail analytics in your BI infrastructure, reducing hosting complexity in your XP environment.
Download page has moved: https://tinyurl.com/ym2s3vvk
10.4 SUMMARIZED
🚀 SXP 10.4 Release Highlights
📢 Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 10.4 includes updates for improved security, prolonged supportability, performance, and usability. Highlights include:
👉 Updated Javascript libraries throughout SXP components.
👉 Improved security hardening throughout SXP to decrease risks due to vulnerabilities.
👉 Updated 3rd party compatibility: SQL Server 2022, latest Azure Kubernetes Service.
👉 Improved accessibility - enabling content authors with poor vision to better manage content in the Content Editor. For example, you can now:
✅ Navigate the ribbon and use these actions: create, rename, move, and delete items
✅ Navigate and expand items in the content tree.
✅ Navigate and select various types of fields in the content area.
✅ Listen to information about UI elements through assistve third-party technology.
👉 Implemented Solr soft commits to make index changes visible to search.
👉 Added a new Sitecore Client Content Reader user role that grants read access to Content Tree items in the Content Editor and Media Library.
👉 Added the ability to create a custom or regional language directly in the Content Editor, such as en-EU, which extends beyond those ISO language formats that are registered in .NET.
👉 Added the ability to trigger campaigns or goals based on rules. This is relevant, for example, if you want to display content from a campaign when certain pages are visited.
👉 Added the ability to bulk assign marketing definitions in xDB to content, improving the usability and efficiency in associate a marketing campaign to multiple content items at the same time.
👉 Added a new Codeless Schema Extension module, enabling business users to extend the xConnect schema without requiring code development.
👉 Added an open source module with the ability to extract data from xDB and transform the schema to feed external analytics tools. This also includes templates that show how the reports can be recreated in Power BI.
📢 In addition, SXP 10.4 release adds flexibility in interworking with new SaaS products across Sitecore's portfolio and with the community ecosystem, enabling current customers to continue with existing investments in SXP, while innovating on their own pace with Sitecore's other SaaS-based products. Related tooling released along with SXP 10.4 include:
👉 XM to XM Cloud Migration Tool for migrating content, media, and users from a source XM instance to an XM Cloud environment. This tool provides an aid for the routine and sometimes recurring back-end migrations, so our customers/partners can focus on migrating developing new front-end sites.
👉 xDB to CDP Migration Tool for transferring site visitor contact facets to Sitecore's CDP and Personalize products, and also via Sitecore Connect to external systems. This provides the ability to interwork with or eventually adopt other SaaS based innovation.
👉 10.4 SXA got support for Tailwind
🚀 SXP 10.4 Release Highlights
📢 Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 10.4 includes updates for improved security, prolonged supportability, performance, and usability. Highlights include:
👉 Updated Javascript libraries throughout SXP components.
👉 Improved security hardening throughout SXP to decrease risks due to vulnerabilities.
👉 Updated 3rd party compatibility: SQL Server 2022, latest Azure Kubernetes Service.
👉 Improved accessibility - enabling content authors with poor vision to better manage content in the Content Editor. For example, you can now:
✅ Navigate the ribbon and use these actions: create, rename, move, and delete items
✅ Navigate and expand items in the content tree.
✅ Navigate and select various types of fields in the content area.
✅ Listen to information about UI elements through assistve third-party technology.
👉 Implemented Solr soft commits to make index changes visible to search.
👉 Added a new Sitecore Client Content Reader user role that grants read access to Content Tree items in the Content Editor and Media Library.
👉 Added the ability to create a custom or regional language directly in the Content Editor, such as en-EU, which extends beyond those ISO language formats that are registered in .NET.
👉 Added the ability to trigger campaigns or goals based on rules. This is relevant, for example, if you want to display content from a campaign when certain pages are visited.
👉 Added the ability to bulk assign marketing definitions in xDB to content, improving the usability and efficiency in associate a marketing campaign to multiple content items at the same time.
👉 Added a new Codeless Schema Extension module, enabling business users to extend the xConnect schema without requiring code development.
👉 Added an open source module with the ability to extract data from xDB and transform the schema to feed external analytics tools. This also includes templates that show how the reports can be recreated in Power BI.
📢 In addition, SXP 10.4 release adds flexibility in interworking with new SaaS products across Sitecore's portfolio and with the community ecosystem, enabling current customers to continue with existing investments in SXP, while innovating on their own pace with Sitecore's other SaaS-based products. Related tooling released along with SXP 10.4 include:
👉 XM to XM Cloud Migration Tool for migrating content, media, and users from a source XM instance to an XM Cloud environment. This tool provides an aid for the routine and sometimes recurring back-end migrations, so our customers/partners can focus on migrating developing new front-end sites.
👉 xDB to CDP Migration Tool for transferring site visitor contact facets to Sitecore's CDP and Personalize products, and also via Sitecore Connect to external systems. This provides the ability to interwork with or eventually adopt other SaaS based innovation.
👉 10.4 SXA got support for Tailwind
Сompatibility tables updated to include 10.4
Сompatibility table for XP 9.0 and later: https://tinyurl.com/2kbopes8
Modules compatibility table for XP 10.0 and later: https://tinyurl.com/24p9mzfb
Solr compatibility table: https://tinyurl.com/2af94kfv
Сompatibility table for XP 9.0 and later: https://tinyurl.com/2kbopes8
Modules compatibility table for XP 10.0 and later: https://tinyurl.com/24p9mzfb
Solr compatibility table: https://tinyurl.com/2af94kfv
Curious to get hands on 10.4 but don't want to bother with setting up containers running on ltsc2022? You want to run it locally but the amount of prereqs for XM/XP platform makes you insane?
Try out Sifon - the best Sitecore installer ever!
(of course it is not just an installer but much more than that)
You can get Sitecore XM/XP up and running in a matter of few clicks!
No need to download and configure SQL Server, Solr and of course Sitecore itself - Sifon knows all about how to download and install the things:
- don't have SQL Server on locally? One "click" downloads and installs it!
- the same works for Solr, you don't even need to mess with versions!
- one click to run the installer, choose the topology, and set the defaults.
- the next click downloads (!) everything you need and installs XM or XP.
- plugin system is extremely helpful for hashtag#Sifon - add one more "click"
- you may want to install SXA with SPE - that would cost you another "click" to auto download and install these modules
- speaking about SPE - installing remoting is optional and is supported
- need Publishing Service? One more click to install and configure it along with module
- same for Headless Services v22 - one more click if you need it.
- lots of other handy options - choose what you need from the UI
Just try it yourself. Yoг can get it either:
- from Chocolatey gallery by running:
- download from the official site: https://sifon.uk
The website contains docs and how-to videos.
Hope you find Sifon helpful!
Try out Sifon - the best Sitecore installer ever!
(of course it is not just an installer but much more than that)
You can get Sitecore XM/XP up and running in a matter of few clicks!
No need to download and configure SQL Server, Solr and of course Sitecore itself - Sifon knows all about how to download and install the things:
- don't have SQL Server on locally? One "click" downloads and installs it!
- the same works for Solr, you don't even need to mess with versions!
- one click to run the installer, choose the topology, and set the defaults.
- the next click downloads (!) everything you need and installs XM or XP.
- plugin system is extremely helpful for hashtag#Sifon - add one more "click"
- you may want to install SXA with SPE - that would cost you another "click" to auto download and install these modules
- speaking about SPE - installing remoting is optional and is supported
- need Publishing Service? One more click to install and configure it along with module
- same for Headless Services v22 - one more click if you need it.
- lots of other handy options - choose what you need from the UI
Just try it yourself. Yoг can get it either:
- from Chocolatey gallery by running:
choco install sifon- download from the official site: https://sifon.uk
The website contains docs and how-to videos.
Hope you find Sifon helpful!
If you still prefer containers and are a lucky one working on Windows 11 or other LTSC2022-powered machine, here's preconfigured 10.4 XP and XM containers archive for you!
Running the below archive(s) for XM/XP is fast and easy:
1. First of all, you need to initialize
2. Once initialized, you can run it:
3. When containers are spun up, run Sitecore:
Enjoy Sitecore 10.4!
Running the below archive(s) for XM/XP is fast and easy:
1. First of all, you need to initialize
.env file with the right settings for your desired topology, as below: .\compose-init.ps1 -Topology "xm1" -LicenseXmlPath c:\Projects\license.xml -IdHost id.sitecore.localhost -CdHost cd.sitecore.localhost -CmHost cm.sitecore.localhost -SitecoreAdminPassword b -SqlSaPassword YourPasswOrdShouldBeStrongToComp1y!!!2. Once initialized, you can run it:
docker-compose up --detach3. When containers are spun up, run Sitecore:
Start-Process https://cm.sitecore.localhost/sitecoreEnjoy Sitecore 10.4!
What's new in SXA?
- Ability to configure headless sites using the Tailwind grid system
- Additional roles for finer grained access control
- Added the ability to create modules at the Project layer
- Sitemap improvements for multi-lingual sites
- Enhanced 500 error page to support multiple languages
- Data source workflow action allowing workflow to effect descendants
- Ability to configure headless sites using the Tailwind grid system
- Additional roles for finer grained access control
- Added the ability to create modules at the Project layer
- Sitemap improvements for multi-lingual sites
- Enhanced 500 error page to support multiple languages
- Data source workflow action allowing workflow to effect descendants
‘We disrupted ourselves’
Sitecore outpaced a chunk of its customers base on cloud and composability shift, admits new CEO Dave O'Flanagan, but troubled integration claims rejected
Read article: https://www.mi-3.com.au/14-05-2024/sitecore-likely-pushed-customers-hard-shift-cloud-and-composability-says-new-ceo-dampens
Sitecore outpaced a chunk of its customers base on cloud and composability shift, admits new CEO Dave O'Flanagan, but troubled integration claims rejected
Read article: https://www.mi-3.com.au/14-05-2024/sitecore-likely-pushed-customers-hard-shift-cloud-and-composability-says-new-ceo-dampens
Sitecore Symposium 2024 registration opens today,Tuesday, June 18. Super Early Bird pricing available through June 30.
Link: https://symposium.sitecore.com
Link: https://symposium.sitecore.com
If you missed out SUGCON Europe 2024, here's a playlist with all the recordings for you:
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2bwm8l33
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2bwm8l33