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Ghodrat Ashournia

Latest — May 19, 2024

Refactoring none-modular XMCLOUD using SXA-Headless-Scaffolding-Extension

Here I will compare the classic development of Sitecore components with modular SXA components and share some thoughts and a tool to speed up refactoring of the existing xmCloud project to use SXA modules. Classic development vs. SXA modules In classic development, we usually serialize and deploy everything. That includes:

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Restarting xmCloud instances

This is a short article about how to restart the xmCloud instance, when necessary. There are three ways to restart an xmCloud instance: * Creating a new Deployment * Restarting using Powershell * Restarting using Sitecore cloud CLI * Restarting using the xmCloud Deploy App Restarting using Powershell Try to avoid restarting an instance

xmCloud development on Ubuntu using Github Codespaces

In this article, I show you step-by-step how to use GitHub codespaces (Visual Studio code online) from anywhere. Main credits go to Richard Seal and the Sitecore team, nicely done: https://developers.sitecore.com/learn/accelerate/xm-cloud/pre-development/developer-experience/dev-workflow-codespaces Setting up your code In your repository root create a

Content hub DAM connector and xmcloud

In this article, I will share some recent changes in the connector for DAM and look at a few useful extensions for finding broken links and updating assets. Setup Connector Setting up the connector is well documented on the Sitecore documentation and I will not spend much time on this

Basic authentication for Storybook

For xmCloud and many other projects we are using Storybook, in this article I discuss how to secure the storybook deployed on vercel using basic auth and other available options. The same architecture can be used with any other host provider and also any other Identity provider like okta/auth0.

xmCloud Deploy Process

In this blog, I describe the xmcloud deployment process based on my understanding and observations and address some of the frequent questions that I saw in the community. Please keep in mind that the actual process may differ from what I described here and these are only my understanding of

Easier Sitecore Ticket Management using Tampermonkey

In the Sitecore support portal, you can not open a support case in a new tab, it is quite annoying especially when you are using the filtering. Here is a hacky way to open the Support tickets in a new Tab using Ctrl+Left mouse click. Tampermonkey You can install

Deployment information in xmCloud

Here is a good example of using xmCloud deployment API to show the deployment information in the Sitecore. The solution is created by leveraging, Sitecore Scheduled Tasks with Sitecore Caching to prevent any kind of performance impact. There is quite a few good information in this article and code: * Creating

Extending Security Roles in xmCloud

This article shows you how to extend the Sitecore security roles using the Setup security script. Setting up the Security Roles using Script Out of the box, you can quickly set up the security roles using the Powershell script. To do that first, you need to right-click on your tenant(

Sitemap in xmCloud

This article includes a high-level overview of the sitemap in xmcloud and a few tips on how to manage and troubleshoot it. Sitemap Configuration The sitemap configuration can be found under the /Settings/Sitemap . you can find the detailed field descriptions on the Sitecore documentation. The sitemap media item will