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You are able to know more about it on coders.center blog where you will find my new article: “You can not upgrade your Sitecore!“
Let's learn more about Sitecore!
I’ve got your attention? Great!
You are able to know more about it on coders.center blog where you will find my new article: “You can not upgrade your Sitecore!“
If you had in the past dilemma or you have it right now and you still not sure what you should choose – Sitecore Commerce Server or Sitecore UCommerce – you can find some hints in my new article.
Some of you will probably find there answers, some of you maybe will find there only arguments – all of you can find this article on Coders Center blog:
Sitecore & eCommerce. Find Your Path!
If you have different opinion, or maybe you want to ask for something – you can do this always in comments or write to me an private message.
I have decided to create first ever tutorial for SPEAK 2.0 which will give you really working examples.
Why? Because I was not able to find any information about that and I was not sure which version should I choose for greenfield projects (1.2 or 2.0).
I hope I will be able to answer for all your questions in this and all future articles.
Do not hesitate to ask when you will have any additional questions.
Before we will start, please remember – if you want to work with SPEAK you have to:
Sitecore with second verions of SPEAK provides us something new – the guidance. Inside core database under the path:
/sitecore/client/Business Component Library/version 2/Content/Guidance/Dashboard
We can find SPEAK application with all available SPEAK 2.0 components.
Application looks in the following way:
Under the url
/sitecore/client/Business Component Library/version 2/Content/Guidance/AllComponentsList
we can see all available components but this time as a list. The number of components is really impressive. We can use following components:
Category | Component Name |
---|---|
Authentications | AccountInformation |
Charts | LineChart |
Charts | RadarChart |
Charts | AreaChart |
Charts | BarChart |
Charts | ColumnChart |
Charts | DoughnutChart |
Charts | PieChart |
Common | BackButton |
Common | Button |
Common | CheckBox |
Common | DropDownButton |
Common | DropList |
Common | GlobalLogo |
Common | HyperlinkButton |
Common | Image |
Common | ListBox |
Common | MessageBar |
Common | ProgressBar |
Common | SearchableDropList |
Common | Separator |
Common | ButtonTextBox |
Common | Text |
Common | TextBox |
Common | TextArea |
Common | ToggleButton |
Common | ChildRenderer |
Common | ItemRenderer |
Common | PageCode |
Common | RenderView |
Common | SubPageCode |
Containers | Border |
Containers | Expander |
Containers | Frame |
Containers | ScrollablePanel |
Containers | SubAppRenderer |
Containers | TabControl |
Containers | Popover |
Data | QueryDataSource |
Data | SearchDataSource |
Data | EntityDataSource |
Data | BaseDataSource |
Data | ChartDataSource |
Data | GenericDataSource |
Dialogs | ConfirmationDialog |
Dialogs | DialogWindow |
Forms | Form |
Forms | Uploader |
Forms | UploaderInfo |
Indicators | ArrowIndicator |
Indicators | ValueLabel |
Lists and Grids | Grid |
Lists and Grids | ListControl |
Navigation | Breadcrumb |
Navigation | Menu |
Navigation | NavigationToggle |
Resources | Pipeline |
Resources | Rule |
Structures | Page Structures |
Structures | Substructures |
Sitecore also provides us a list of all available properties which defines the components behavior. List is available under the url:
/sitecore/client/Business Component Library/version 2/Content/Guidance/AllComponentProperties
It is really long list – so i will not paste it here.
In previous version of SPEAK we had possibility to use branches for faster creation of pages. We could find them under the path:
/sitecore/client/Business Component Library/version 1/Templates/Branches
Unfortunately they are currently not available for SPEAK 2.0.
That is why I prepared a branch for dashboard. You can download Sitecore package with this branch from here: SPEAK 2.0 Branches-1.0
Install this package in your Sitecore instance. If you will create a page with my template branch you will be able to see following page:
Nothing special – that’s right, but it is looking exactly the same as page created from SPEAK 1.2 template branch. If you will compare “Design Layout” definitions you will find many differences.
Congratulations – you have created your first SPEAK 2.0 application!
Check also “Design Layout” properties for your Dashboard item. You should have following renderings:
In next article I will show you how to build SPEAK 2.0 application with ListControl.
What can I say. Second in Poland Sitecore Meetup is a fact.
If you work with Sitecore and you are in Poland you should be on 19 August in Wrocław.
If Wrocław is too far for you you should join to our communication channels because event will be transmitted online.
Again we will have three speakers:
Adam will talk about: Sitecore PowerShell Extensions – From zero to hero – crash course
The basics of Sitecore PowerShell – where it can be useful and how to best utilize it in your day-to-day workflow. The audience will learn how to work with items and Sitecore API as well as how to build rich user interfaces with just a few lines of code and no server restarts. We will also see how to debug those easily and provide extensible Web APIs easily.
Learn more about Adam:
Adam’s background is in the Customer Experience Management (CEM/CMS/ECM) space, he worked with SharePoint and EPiServer as well as some bespoke CMS-es but now his focus is within the Sitecore space. He is a Developer (at heart) who heads up the .Net Practice at Cognifide. During his years in the industry he’s gathered substantial experience in a variety of frameworks besides Microsoft .Net, he’s tinkered with and hacked at Delphi, Java and a wide range of DBMS (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix to name a few). Sitecore MVP since 2011.
Read Adam’s blog here: http://blog.najmanowicz.com/
Radoslaw will talk about: Unicorn – synchronize easily.
Using Unicorn to synchronize Sitecore databases and resolve item deployment problems.
More information about Radek:
Passionate Sitecore & .NET developer and designer with a lot of professional Sitecore development experience. Worked with Sitecore since beginning of 2013, as a developer and afterwards, team lead developer. Sitecore community contributor, sharing his work, such as modules and packages, and his knowledge – with blog and community forum.
You should also check his blog: http://SitecoreCoffee.com
Wojciech will talk about: Sitecore Habitat – make it smarter.
Presentation will be about Sitecore Modular Architecture which could give you some advantages in the future
More information about Wojtek:
Very energetic person, passionate of new technologies, Sitecore & .NET developer in Coders.Center. Wojtek started his journey with Sitecore in 2014. Since this time he was working on many international projects based on Sitecore with different approaches.
This time registration is mandatory. Please register here: registration link
I hope that we will be there together!
On 15th June 2016 I had a pleasure to be on first in Poland Sitecore Partner Day.
Speakers were mainly from Sitecore and we had an opportunity to hear about:
As you can see – most of titles are about: partnering with Sitecore , future of Sitecore and Sitecore Modules. There was a lot of interesting information and I am not able to provide all of them to you, but I will provide for you some of the most interesting from my point of view.
I hope that some of this information will be interesting for you also.
At the end I want to also share with you one photo from Sitecore Partner Day:
Coders Center got some Sitecore Awards 😉 I am this first guy from the left side.