Sitecore – The Solution Architect

How to Install Sitecore Experience Platform 9.0 Update 1

INTRODUCTION Sitecore has released version 9.0 not too long ago. I should say, I’m probably quiet late coming into the game because by the time I wanted to install it, they have already released the Update 1. In this article I just would like to go through with you the install process just simply because […]

Glass Mapper Sitecore 8.2 Update 4 Error Glass.Mapper.Sc.Utilities.get_IsPageEditor()

INTRODUCTION I’m doing an upgrade from Sitecore 8.0 to 8.2 Update 4 and the solution was using Glass.Mapper. The upgrade went well except when I tried to access Sitecore, I get the error saying that: Glass.Mapper.Sc.Utilities.get_IsPageEditor() no longer exists. Basically GlassMapper tried to access the Get property of Sitecore’s PageMode.IsEditor which has now been set […]

Could not load type ‘Sitecore.Web.UI.Controls.SheerUI’ on Indexing Manager or Rebuild Link Databases

INTRODUCTION I have just upgraded a client’s website from Sitecore 8.0 to 8.2 Update 4. Then I also installed Web Forms for Marketers WFFM 8.2 Update 4. After the WFFM install somehow the Indexing Manager and Rebuild Link Databases link did not work. It returned 404. The exact error message was: Could not load type […]

How to Install and Programming SOLR with Sitecore 8.2 Update 1 xDB

INTRODUCTION With Sitecore you can choose the search technology to use: Lucene or SOLR. As per Sitecore’s recommendation, SOLR is preferred. See below article for more details: https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/81/setting_up_and_maintaining/search_and_indexing/indexing/using_solr_or_lucene This article details on how to install and configure SOLR, creating custom index and running query to the SOLR index using C#. INSTALLING SOLR To install SOLR: 1. […]

How to Upgrade from Sitecore 6.6 to 8.2 xDB using Express Migration Tool v2.0

INTRODUCTION I am tasked to upgrade Sitecore 6.6.0 (rev. 130404) to Sitecore 8.2 (rev. 161221). I’ve tried to look for information on the net but there is not many available. So this article consists of the details of the upgrade process I took to make it to work. Please note that the success of the upgrade is dependant […]