Sean Holmesby

.NET and Sitecore Developer

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Multiple Datasource Locations using Queries are back in Sitecore 7.2 Update-2

Sitecore 7.2 Update-2 (rev.140526) was recently released, and one of the entries in the Release Notes was this:-

  • Layouts and renderings
    • The Select the Associated Content dialog did not handle multiple data sources correctly. It only used the first data source and ignored any additional data sources. This has been fixed. (389483)

A while back Thomas Stern wrote a post detailing a way to allow for queries in Datasource locations, so that the Associated Content dialog could be more flexible for multi-site solutions.

I tested out his solution back when the post was written, and it worked perfectly. However I found that it was broken in both Sitecore 7.0 and 7.1.

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Sitecore MVC: Page Editor friendly Views with Glass Mapper

I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

Last week Mike Edwards, the creator of Sitecore Glass Mapper, presented version 3 of the new Glass Mapper on the Sitecore Virtual User Group. [Slides here], [Video here]

During the webinar I asked if it was possible to use Glass models in MVC Views, while still having them Page Editor friendly.
After the webinar, Mike held a Google Hangout, and some other developers expressed their interest in how this could be done with Sitecore MVC.

This blog post details how the developers at Igloo enable the page editor using Glass Mapper with Sitecore MVC.

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