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Hello everyone, in this blog we will explore how the Sitecore Marketplace has transformed the Sitecore AI ecosystem. We will also look at how to get started with development and build a practical application that will be hosted on Vercel. So, let’s get started. If you’ve ever seen a content author navigate through multiple levels of the Sitecore AI content tree just to find a page they edited yesterday, you know how frustrating the experience can be. Similarly, when Sitecore developers work on stories and need to test their changes end-to-end, they often have to manually keep track of all the pages where a particular component has been added. SC Bookmarks is a Sitecore Marketplace custom app that gives Page Builder authors the ability to pin frequently edited pages, see recently visited pages, and search through their bookmarks — all from a sidebar panel that lives right next to the canvas. No more drilling through the content tree. In this post, I'll walk you through every ...

Hello Everyone. In this blog, we will see one of the pain point while working locally with Docker and Sitecore AI. Developers often experience slowdowns in local environments due to the need for manual publishing. This becomes even more frequent given how Docker setups can sometimes become unstable or require restarting (docker down) because of various unpredictable issues. When running your project locally using Docker (docker up), you typically: Start containers Wait for CM to be ready Manually trigger publishing This becomes repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone. In this blog, we’ll explore how to eliminate manual publishing by enabling auto-publish during Docker startup, along with a real-world use case. Now let's see, how we can implement the same. Step 1: Update your project csproject file with this below entry. The RuntimeIdentifier = win element in a .csproj file tells .NET which operating system/runtime your application is targeting. <R...

Hello everyone, In this blog we will learn and see an important concept i.e XDT transformation which is widely used in Sitecore ecosytem even if it is XP, SXA, Headless or Sitecore AI. Let's start quickly. What is XDT tranformation: Managing configuration changes across multiple environments can quickly become difficult. We might have many important credentails that may vary across your different environment like third party api url, credentials or even emails that can be triggered during workflow publishing. This are mostly run time configuration changes and this is mostly after deployment process. I will mostly focus on Sitecore AI, By default we have transformation configuration node that can be added to xmcloud.build.json file. So when this config is available, during Sitecore AI deployment, it auto pickup the tranformation file and perform the transformation directly. Check the below screenshot which will give you fair idea. Now let’s move on to the interesting part—ho...