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Item display name is not accepting special character Hello friends, I have a requirement where I need to enter ( ) special character on display name of item but special character is being converted into encoded character as below. I found this issue in Sitecore 9.2 & 9.3 version.                     However, it is working in lower version. After trying some workaround, finally, I raised a Sitecore ticket and Sitecore support team has accepted that it is a bug in 9.2 & 9.3 version and the issue is fixed in Sitecore 10.0 version.  If you want this feature in Sitecore 9.2 /9.3 then raise a support ticket to get available hot fix for your respective version. I got below hot fix for Sitecore 9.2 version.   After getting hot-fix, file. Follow below steps to install hot fix. ·         Launch Update Installer – o    Login into Sitecore as admin o    Click...

Publishing issue with subitems of "related items" from Experience Editor Hello friends, I was trying to publish item from experience editor with publishing option “related item” but subitems of related item was not getting published. I would like to explain scenario and solution here. A)   Publishing “Related Items” To publish all the related items to the selected item, select  Publish related items . Out of the box pipeline cover below “Related items” while publishing: ·         Clones – items that are clones of the selected item. ·         Media items – media items that are referenced by the selected item. ·         Content items - data sources that are referenced by the selected item. ·         Design items - renderings, layouts and templates used by the selected item. ·         Aliases...

Sitecore Experience Platform 10.0 Initial Release Hello friends, Sitecore 10.0 released today on 4 th August and I would like to cover some key highlights here.     Sitecore® Experience Platform™ 10.0 focuses on product updates and enhancements that provide more development and deployment options, increase usability and improve overall performance – all centered around enabling both Marketing and IT teams equally, thus making it easier and faster to launch and evolve digital customer experiences. New delivery options including support for Docker, Kubernetes and new Sitecore-provided image repositories, helping delivery teams move to a continuous delivery model more easily with infrastructure-as-code deployments and more efficient solution and team onboarding. The addition of the ASP.NET Core SDK and headless rendering host architecture also provides developers with a new way of building their solutions allowing for faster development iterations. Exciting new developer...

Sitecore Experience Platform 9.3 Initial Release Sitecore 9.3 Initial Release was on Nov 2019. In this post, I will walk you through quick installation of this version of Sitecore for your development machine using SIA . I will walk through the problem, which I faced during installation also. Easiness and smoothness of Sitecore installations are improving each version. With Sitecore 9.2 you have two official options supported by Sitecore to install on your local dev machine: 1.      SIF (Sitecore Installation Framework) : which is used to install Sitecore starting version 9 2.      SIA (Sitecore Install Assistant): New graphical installation coming with Sitecore 9.2. You will find in this blog post:           A)     Choosing a topology           B)     Sitecore 9.3 Prerequisites           C)     Installation prep...