Frequent Questions
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How do you setup a 404 and 500 error page for missing files and media items?
When navigating to a url such as www.website.com/missing.pdf and www.website.com/-/media/missing.pdf you will either receive the IIS 404 Server Error message or a Sitecore document not found page.
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How can I get started learning Sitecore?
I'm about to start on a Sitecore project in 6-8 weeks time. I have extensive ASP.NET MVC experience (4 years) and know the ins-and-outs of web development fairly well.
I am scheduled for official ...
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How can I connect with the Sitecore Community?
I'm looking to get more involved in the Sitecore community. I'm interested in any local, regional or global Sitecore User Groups, events, online resources, anywhere where the community is active and ...
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Issue elevating SPE Console in 9.1 Azure PaaS
I have a relatively clean install of Sitecore PowerShell Extensions v 5.0 in my environment, which is running Sitecore 9.1 on Azure PaaS. As far as I can tell, everything in the install seems to be ...
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xConnect The HTTP response was not successful: Unauthorized
I'm trying to initialize a connection between a .NET Core application and an xConnect installation.
I ran into the following error:
An unhandled exception of type 'Sitecore.XConnect....
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Sitecore IP Geo location Service-Personalization with Geo-based conditions does not work
Sitecore Personalization using GEO IP is not executed .
I have activated "Sitecore IP Geo location Service" and followed all steps needed to activate the service for Sitecore instance (8.1 update 1)
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Global.asax Application_Start not hit after upgrade to Sitecore 8.2
We noticed the Application_Start in the Global asax is no longer hit after the upgrade to Sitecore 8.2.
Does anyone have an idea what may have caused this?
My global.asax.cs:
public class Global : ...
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Analytics "Tracker.Current is not initialized"
I set up my analytics tracker code as someone noted to me in another question, but when I went through my site and did a login, then some stuff, then logged out (causing a session abandon), the ...
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Workflow without lock and edit option
Is it possible to have workflow without lock and edit option.
Also the item version should increment only it had reached the final workflow state.
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Sitecore 9.3 Installation failing - 'Failed to start the Marketing Automation Engine service
I am trying to set up Sitecore 9.3 XP0 locally in a VM using SIA and it is failing at Step 67 of 92 with an error failed to start the marketing Automation Engine Service.
System....
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What should I expect in the MVP nomination or first-time application process?
There has been a considerable amount of traffic on Sitecore Slack Chat, Sitecore Stack Exchange, and even Twitter as to what should people experience when submitting applications or nominations for ...
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What does the "Publish related items" checkbox do in Sitecore?
When you publish an item in Sitecore through the Publish item dialog, you are offered several options. You can choose between Smart publish or Republish, you can also choose whether to Publish ...
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Is it possible to use any personalisation rules without xDB
Is it possible to make use of any of the component personalisation rules without xDB being enabled? e.g. to swap/hide a component depending on the current date? I'm not interested in tracking the ...
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Disable xDB tracking for single requests
I am using our own Sitecore Error Manager in a Sitecore 8.2 project. If an item is not found or an error occurs, our error page is called within the current client request. This error handler calls a ...
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Create controller rendering in SXA
As a test, I wanted to create a rendering for an SXA site. It had to be added to the toolbox and have a controller, model, and view.
I read this Creating new renderings that are compatible with SXA ...
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