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2025
31/Jan
Technology 2025
Reviewed Sitecore DxP and provided public review
Sitecore (Nicole Montero) was seeking and asking for a public review on https://www.g2.com/products/sitecore-digital-experience-platform/reviews
Because I have worked on Sitecore DxP suites and know pros and cons and customer experience and technical analysis about ease of use and capabilities
I wrote complete review and feedback on Sitecore Digital Experience Platform on provided link.
Webinar on "Ways of creating components in XM Cloud"
Took webinar on "Ways of creating components in XM Cloud", This was specifically articulated around how many ways you can create components in XM Cloud, because there are so many things to do one thing, I strongly felt this session was necessary for community to give them clarity on what are the possible ways and which one can be used when by giving them real life examples.
and it got lot of traction too
Sitecore XM CloudAttended SUGCON as XM Cloud Expert and had XM Cloud conversations on the booth with community
I was part of XM Cloud Expert panel form Horizontal team, and we had a booth, where we invited people to ask and discuss question about XM Cloud / CDP / Search or anything and we were on the floor having XM Cloud badges and other badges so people can approach us and start conversations
We had team coming to us and discussing on real life challenges they are facing, and we were talking to them and guiding them and giving them goodies.
Some of them also had selfie with me and they posted on ...
Feature request to Sitecore which was accepted, request no. DEVEX-2997
We had one bug for which Sitecore ticket was crated but in the same Sitecore Ticket Case No. CS0444487, I raised a feature request, and it was accepted by Sitecore as a feature request
with feature request no. DEVEX-2997
Same can be seen on below blog post too
SUGCON technical insights on why one should attend SUGCON
Just before SUGCON we created this video for the people who know what is DxP and what customer are seeking and why someone should attend SUGCON, here are the highlights
As the world embraces composability, questions naturally arise:
- How to use CDP data to drive hyper-personalization?
- How to deliver an omnichannel personalized experience?
- How to migrate customers to XM Cloud?
- What ROI can be expected with Sitecore Composable Suites?
- What’s new in Sitecore 10.4?
Here is ...
Webinar on using "Magic of Sitecore SSC API for authentication in headless app"
Took the webinar in SUGNAGPUR on "Magic of Sitecore SSC API for authentication in headless app", Because in a headless world everything is changing, way of authentication also has changed, and in this webinar, we shared the demo as well as code snippet (github) for the same so community can easily get started if they have authentication in their website.
Following LinkedIn post talks about it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daivagnananavati_using-magic-of-sitecore-ssc-api-for-authentication-...
Sitecore XMPublished GitHub Gist scripts for migration of sitecore users
When you are migrating your old XP sites to XM, you also want to migrate all of your users and because we had this need in our project to migrate more than 20k users on to new headless XM DB, I created this script, and it successfully transfer users to new XM DB with their passwords
2024
31/Jan
Technology 2024
Webinar on How to Approach XM Cloud Developer Certification
I appeared in Sitecore User Group India in "Sitecore TECH Talks" and shared my views on my experience on XM Cloud Developer Exam, I prepared for the exam in oct-nov 2023, and appeared for the exam in DEC and because of the nature of the exam and type of questions, I wanted to share this experience with the community as exam was new and there was lot of anxiety among community members and that was this episode fetched 600+ views and wanted to make sure that it reaches to as many as community memb...
Sitecore XM CloudCollaborative Program – XMC Forms Early Access
I had an opportunity to work with "Christa Marousek" and "Marina Kostopoulou" from Sitecore on Collaborative Program – XMC Forms Early Access where we had weekly calls, and we were given early access to Sitecore XMC Forms, and I played around it and give them feedback and improvement points before making it live to everyone
It was closed program for partners, and they registered all our feedback and invited us to write about it when forms go live and link provided here https://daivagnananavat...
Sitecore XM CloudSecured 28th place on StackExchange Contribution worldwide
I was able to contribute to stack exchange throughout the year and also got lot of reputations this year in 2024, This year I have secured 28th place in all of the users of Sitecore community on stack exchange
See https://stackexchange.com/leagues/664/year/sitecore/2024-01-01/7576#7576 to see it
Actively shared/reposted #Sitecore feeds and increased the reach throughout the year
Throughout the year I kept sharing news/videos/events related to Sitecore or any dxp news of Sitecore with #Sitecore for better reach and promotion and help built strong online presence, also I wrote quality blogs almost each month with the same multiple hashtags to community reach and #sitecore reach can be increased, and all of the blog links were shared on social media too with proper tags.
I kept sharing new XM Cloud Change logs throughout the on to linked / twitter etc. following are som...
Wrote quality blogs which will help reduce community troubleshooting time containing bugs/feature request and technology articles
Along with those webinars and videos and StackExchange and slack, I wrote quality blogs which were real life findings and bugs and feature requests, some of the below blogs got lot of traction.
These links were shared on linkedIn too with #Sitecore tags
- https://daivagnananavati.blogspot.com/2024/10/every-sitecore-instance-using-gql-is.html
- https://daivagnananavati.blogspot.com/2024/09/sitecore-gql-not-showing-template-in.html
- https://daivagnananavati.blogspot.com/2024/08/siteco...
Official registered mentor for Sitecore MVP mentorship program
Registered for MVP mentor and had three mentees who I worked with, Following were my mentees
- Akshay Barve
- Tushar Panchal
- Jatin Prajapati
They had an amazing year and great contributions, and we encouraged each other to take out community content and share as much as possible throughout the year
XM Cloud StarterKit - Set up leprechaun code generation with Sitecore XM Cloud Starterkit
People on #xm-cloud channel were asking if anyone has implemented- leprechaun code generation, as i did but never written a post thinking people will figure out a way, but because lot of repetitive and same questions were coming, I wrote this blog and it was shared in #xm-cloud slack channel too and got a warm response to it
It was shared internally in the company slack too by many who are working on XM Cloud project
Sitecore XM CloudSitecore XM 10.3 with CD bug - _hasLayout property not working in GraphQL
While working on a GQL in Sitecore XM environment, Observed that _hasLayout property is not working in 10.3 and has a wired behavior or has no effect and it is getting all the items without the presentation details too, Tried to dissembled DLL and wrote this blog of this behavior for the same and also registered this behavior with Sitecore in the ticket CS0401602
Sitecore XMInternal hackathone repo with over 80 commits from the team
I created this repo to create the Sitecore headless architecture for the website where fed and bed works in same repo and used this to host our JSS app as well as our Sitecore serialized content and other things inside it
We made sure that experience editor and everything works with vercel and sitecore using this repo
We hosted our site on vercel and used this repo for it, It was for our internal mulyankan event (kind of hackathon)
Podcast in Sitecore User Group India - Sitecore XM Cloud Components "FeaaS & Furious"
Talked about Sitecore XM Cloud Components and how powerful they are and what can be done with that also addressed questions which were asked in SUGCON-India-2023 and i took them as a homework and answered them in this podcast too
Sitecore XM CloudSitecore XM - Could not find configuration node: database/database[@id='master']
Found an issue while working on XM where Sitecore was trying to find master DB in CDs, After troubleshooting found out the issue and drafted the steps and the solution so other community member can refer to it and do the same to save their troubleshooting time in the same kind of set up
Sitecore XMPresented at SUGCON-Delhi on "FeaaS and Furious - XM Cloud Component, A true composable offering"
Presented at SUGCON Delhi 2023 on "FeaaS and Furious - XM Cloud Component, A true composable offering", and got overwhelming response on the session as we created full site using no code in front of the audience using SItecore Component Builder
We also showed Components / Style / Datasource by creating a sugcon brand theme and using external data source and wrote GQL too for dynamic components
People also wrote about it in their blog of sugcon highlights and mentioned this session, Current...
Sitecore XM CloudSitecore XM/XM Cloud - Exclude specific Sitecore items from prerendering Sitecore JSS
If you do not want to generate static pages for some paths, Instead of writing a big logic, Sitecore JSS provided this excludePaths property in Graph QL Sitemap Service class
Very handy and useful featured released in Sitecore 10 and wrote a blog as this improved our performance and also got rid of the issue of error generating path at build time because sitemap generator uses the same function and error outs.
Sitecore XMCreated a repo for sugconindia to show component builder capabilities
This repo was created for sugcon presentations i did in delhi to showcase the capabilities of XM CLoud components, Also currently i am using same repo also to commit different research into the same repo
Sitecore XM CloudSitecore XM/XM Cloud - DefaultSitemapQuery errors out if excludepaths has space in item name
This when is when i registered a behavior to Sitecore about default site map query is erroring out when excludepaths parameter is used
I also created a ticket for it and they registered it as a bug and this blog has the problem and the solution to it
Sitecore XMSitecore JSS - Error: `redirect` can not be returned from getStaticProps during prerendering
As 2023 was learning and cross skilling year, I wrote this blog post for the exception people get when they try to use redirect at the build time and what to do to avoid it, In our upgrade project we faced this issue and this detailed blog post was shared, This was one of the issues for which i was introduced into the project and resolve some front end issues after my JSS learnings
Sitecore XMSitecore 10.3 XM Headless SXA - Placeholder "sxa-header" was not found in the current rendering data when partial designs are used
This is when we migrated Sitecore instance from 10.2 and 10.3 and team was facing the issue and same issue was being faced by community members too, there was a question on stackexchange too and this blog post also got two up votes by people facing this issue on stackexchange, Can be seen on this link https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/33742/sxa-headless-with-partial-design-placeholder-not-found/35123#35123
Sitecore XMXM Cloud - SXASTARTER Kit Setting up Leprechaun Exited with Code 1 Error
Leprechaun code generator is being used now widely for XM Cloud project, but i found out that, If you use leprechaun with XM Cloud StarterKit, It does not work so technically leprechaun and XM Cloud StartKit were not working with each other
I registered this behavior with ben lipson repository on https://github.com/blipson89/Leprechaun/issues/63 and we had multiple calls and finally the work around which was suggested was agreed by ben lipson and he also shared my article in couple of slack ...
Sitecore XM CloudXM Cloud - Site folder not visible in "insert from template" dialog box
This is again one of those issues everyone was facing and i shared this blog post with lot of community members on #xm-cloud channel on slack as they were facing same issue and trying to find answer
So this blog post was again a time saver because, Because XM Cloud was getting matured too and there was some gotchas, so i drafted this behavior and a bug too and also provided the solution for it in the blog
Bug ticket was created with detailed steps and it was acknowledged as a bug and regis...
Sitecore XM CloudXM Cloud - Could not load file or assembly 'System.Net.Http.Formatting' or one of its dependencies
I think this blog saved so many community members time, Because there was a clear bug in publishing profile in StarerKit where once you publish, Your local environment will go down and you will have no clue, I registered those steps and made and also got on a call with andy cohen (from Sitecore) to align with this and issue in deploy wpp target
Andy Cohen did agree to it and they brought that change in the XM Cloud Head Repo and PR was created by them for the solution given on the blog, PR li...
Sitecore XM CloudSitecore NextJS hackathon event repo created and used by the team
Our internal program on a weekend we did as a hackathon to implement the learning where we had member from different team and i created this repo where we contributed
It was part of the learning because paradigm is shifting towards JS frameworks with composable products and we wanted to make our team ready for it
XM Cloud Publish Error
Because XM Cloud does not have CDs and in local development there is no experience edge, When people start working XM Cloud from normal Sitecore XP, Everyone gets into trap of not publishing because it is not needed, and if you do you will get into error, Wrote a blog post which i shared in the reply of couple thread in #xm-cloud slack channel as lot of people were asking and facing same questions, and having this blog post helped so those who are starting in the learning phase of XM Cloud can r...
Sitecore XM CloudXM Cloud Service not enabled blog
As i started working on XM Cloud from starting of the year, i found this configuration issues in the documentation and because every community member will be referring to the same document hence wrote a blog post mentioning the same and it was acknowledged by Sitecore and they corrected the documentation as per the inputs i gave, Ticket can be found with CS0359842 reference number
Sitecore XM Cloud2023
31/Jan
Technology 2023