Sean Holmesby

.NET and Sitecore Developer

Aug
16

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TDS Post Deploy Step – Rebuild Content Search Indexes Script

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This post shows how I created a custom TDS Post Deploy Step to rebuild the Content Search Indexes after my deployment in the Launch Sitecore TDS solution.

Hedgehog are currently asking for community contributions to the Post Deploy Step repository, so we can all benefit from each other’s work.

Got an idea for a Post Deploy Step? Let us know.
Getting started is super easy.

My Custom Post Deploy Step:
Rebuild Content Search Indexes

Problem: As a developer, you may have added new fields to a Sitecore data template, or extended Sitecore with a custom index field. TDS makes it easy to get your changes deployed to other environments, however, you can’t begin querying these fields until a full index rebuild is performed. Deploying new code without an index rebuild can result in search listings coming up empty, or worse, broken pages.
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Aug
8

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TDS Post Deploy Step – Rebuild Link Database Script

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This post shows how I created a custom TDS Post Deploy Step to rebuild the Link Database after my deployment in the Launch Sitecore TDS solution.

Hedgehog are currently asking for community contributions to the Post Deploy Step repository, so we can all benefit from each other’s work.

Got an idea for a Post Deploy Step? Let us know.
Getting started is super easy.

My Custom Post Deploy Step:
RebuildLinkDatabase

Problem: When links are made between Sitecore items (for example, through the use of internal links, and reference fields), Sitecore will store those relationships in the Links Database. The Links Database provides quick access to these bidirectional relationships between items, allowing Sitecore to quickly retrieve related items. It’s generally a good idea to rebuild the links database from time to time, especially when working with reference fields or developing features that rely upon it directly.
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Aug
4

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Allow for Long-Running TDS Post Deploy Steps

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This post describes how to increase the TDS deployment timeout setting so long-running Post Deploy Steps can complete their execution.

Team Development for Sitecore has many points of extension. You can implement custom code generation, custom MSBuild steps, and even custom project validators. These extensibility points make TDS capable of doing just about anything you want it to do in your build process.
To make things even easier, TDS 5.5 introduced Post Deploy Steps, and, as with many other TDS features, you can extend the Post Deploy Steps to run your own custom code.
Hedgehog are currently looking for developers to think up some custom Post Deploy Steps so they can be shared with the rest of the community.

Creating a Post Deploy Step is easy. Charlie Turano shows how a basic step can be created on the Hedgehog blog.
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