5 new things you didn’t know about Sitecore Forms 10.1
1. Sending emails to your backoffice Until now, sending emails with Sitecore Forms or with the SFE extension, was always done with EXM. Whilst EXM is a great tool to construct create, style and track emails to your customers, it might be a bit of an overkill for simple emails to your backoffice. Also, to […]
When 2 of my favorite technologies meet
Sitecore adds NextJS to it's headless stack
When we look at digital architectures today, we can differentiate 2 models with regards to rendering the website. In one hand we have the “Traditional CMS” where the rendering of the html pages takes place inside the CMS. And on the other side we have seen a big growth of the “Headless CMS” that exposes […]
What’s new in SFE 3.1
Sitecore Forms Extensions 3.1 come with 3 mayor new features: Subscribe to list submit actionQuery string value providerSend email was extended to allow sending mails to any field of the item in a dynamic datasource Subscribe to list With the subscribe to list action you can now directly link your form to your contact lists […]
Sitecore JSS in containers
Find out how to setup an XP0 installation supporting Sitecore JSS on the cm/cd role. Basic knowledge of Sitecore JSS as described on https://jss.sitecore.com/ is required. To add JSS Server Components to your Sitecore server, 2 asset images are made available by Sitecore: sxp/modules/jss-xm1-assets (to be used for xm topologies) sxp/modules/jss-xp1-assets (to be used for […]
Adding a custom database to Sitecore container stack
How databases are mounted and connectionstrings passed through on Sitecore containers.
Sitecore 10 introduces official support to containerized development with Docker. Some of the applications we are developing require custom databases. Let’s find out how we can add them into our container stack. 1. Add your database to SQL container In our first step, we will mount our custom database into our sitecore-*-mssql container. In order […]
Container support for Sitecore Forms Extensions
With the release of Sitecore 10, official support for developing with docker containers was added. In this article we’ll explain how you can add the Sitecore Forms Extensions (SFE) module into your containered Sitecore application. Before you begin This article assumes that you have basic knowledge of running Sitecore in containers. Please have a look […]
Make your custom component compatible with Redirect to Url action
A while ago, I received a question from Joshuwa Jenskins on how the value of the hidden fields component (from Sitecore Forms Extensions) could be made available in the “Redirect to Url” action added in Sitecore 9.3. After a bit of research, the answer proved to be rather easy. First of all, your custom component […]
Value Provider on list components
Since version 9.1, Sitecore Forms supports prefilling by using value providers. (The functionality is also available for version 9.0 via the Forms Extensions module) Out of the box, Sitecore only provides the Value Provider system, but doesn’t have any implementation. When you install SFE, 24 value providers linking to the xDB profile will be available […]
Connection strings on Azure PaaS
XSL transform connection string file into JSON
After you have provisioned your Sitecore application in Azure PaaS, you will notice that in the webroot the connectionstring file has been generated in <<webroot>>/App_Config/ConnectionStrings.config To improve security, in Azure, you have also the possibility to store and manage the connection strings on the app service. Copy pasting all the connection strings from the original […]
Sitecore Forms Extensions for Sitecore 9.3
What does SFE 3.0 for Sitecore 9.3 has to offer?
Since the original release of Sitecore 9.0, a lot of improvements have been made to the default shipment of Sitecore Forms. The first major update was shipped with Sitecore 9.1 when we got an improved Send Email action and Value Providers. With the release of Sitecore 9.3, a file upload component was added and robot […]