Swati Gupta (3x Sitecore MVP) | Blogs

Add a Custom Attribute to the General External Link Field in Sitecore I have a requirement where I want to add a custom attribute on the External Link popup just like the below image:    Below are the steps which we need to done: Core DB: Go to in core DB Go to this location “/sitecore/system/Field types/Link Types/General Link/Menu/External link” In a message field by default value is “contentlink:externallink(id=$Target)” which we need to update with this “contentlink:externallinkextend(id=$Target)”    Now click on General Link and update the “Control” field with this “content:ExtendLinks”     Create New Message Handler  using Sitecore; using Sitecore.Diagnostics; using Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor; using Sitecore.Text; using Sitecore.Web.UI.Sheer; namespace SampleProject.Services { public class ExtendLinks: Link { public override void HandleMessage(Message message) { Assert.ArgumentNotNull((object)message, nameof(mess

Sitecore 10.2 - “Failed to start service ‘Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine' ” on Windows 11 Today I started to install Sitecore 10.2 using Sitecore Instance Manager on Windows 11 and I got this issue “Failed to start service ‘Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine' ” . Error : On event viewer it was showing the below error: I also tried to run ‘ Sitecore.MAEngine.exe ’ like this C:\Windows\system32>C:\inetpub\wwwroot\sclocal102xconnect.dev.local\App_Data\jobs\continuous\AutomationEngine\Sitecore.MAEngine.exe Which was throwing below error: Starting Marketing Automation Engine... 2022-01-29 22:21:11 ERR Error initializing XConnect client. System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> Sitecore.XConnect.XdbCollectionUnavailableException: An error occurred while sending the request. ---> System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected err

Sitecore 9 Forms :  Alphanumeric Captcha As you know Recaptcha is not available on Sitecore 9.0.1 and Sitecore 9.0.2 forms, so I thought to create custom Google Recaptcha but my issue was Google Recaptcha was not working properly on Internet Explorer as it was asking 10 to 15 times to verify which is very frustrating, at the same time it was working for another browser so I thought to create custom Alphanumeric captcha as per client requirement. In previous blog, we have checked how to create Google reCaptcha field. Now we are going to create Alphanumeric Captcha using below steps: Create new viewmodel class AlphaNumericViewModel.cs [Serializable()]     public class AlphaNumericViewModel : StringInputViewModel     {         protected override void InitItemProperties(Item item)         {             base .InitItemProperties(item);         }     }   Create Controller AlphanumericCaptchaController.cs public class AlphanumericCaptchaController