Archive for August, 2008

22
Aug

Photosynth + Redbull X-Fighters Germany

Some offtopic, but I really like it. Last week I was at the Redbull X-Fighters event here in Wuppertal (Germany). A really really cool event with around 20.000 viewers.
We made about 800 shots of the whole event and I uploaded 126 to photosynth, there are still some bugs but the technolgy behind photosynth is great ;-).

Click on “Continue reading […]” to get the image or synth. Enjoy.

Related Links:
- photosynth.com
- Fullscreen view of this synth

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21
Aug

Sitecore 6 - The new Forms module

Hey guys,

today I read a blog post by Phil Heltewig (Sitecore Australia) and he wrote about the new forms module in Sitecore 6. I have to say that I really like the new module, because it’s pretty easy to create a form whereever you want. (I’m always thinking of: Even my mum could do that ;-) ).

Just go to his blog post here or the youtube video here.

I’ll give it a try in the next days I guess. cheers chris

14
Aug

Sitecore and .NET 3.5 SP1

Make a long story short, and I guess all of you already knows it: Do not install it.

For more information, go to: http://sitecore.alexiasoft.nl/2008/08/14/bug-in-net-35-sp1/

 cheers

11
Aug

back from vacation

… as you might see on my last blog post, I’m back from vacation, now ready and relaxed for the next weeks.
(Driving through rush hour in barcelona may cause a headache … )

cheers chris

10
Aug

Unlock all items of any user

Sunday message!

After working with sitecore 6 for a while, I missed the feature to unlock every locked item by any user. Especially after a sitecore sales training some of my co-workers missed it as well. I customized the “MyItems” client application in a way, that you now can unlock any item and see every locked item.

I created a sitecore package, but didn’t have the chance to test it yet, so if you want to help me. Just leave me a comment and you will get the sitecore package with all changed xaml, dlls and items. But now, step by step:

  • I added a ribbon to the locks chunk. In the core database under: /sitecore/content/Application/Content Editor/Ribbons; also I added read permission for the admin user and denied it for sitecore\everbody
  • Copied the my items xaml application from \WebSite\sitecore\shell\Applications\WebEdit\Dialogs\LockedItems to \WebSite\sitecore modules\Shell\AllLockedItems and changed some messages and text
  • The reflector helped me to get the code from this application and to modify it in the I need to get all items instead of the items of the current user. (The MyItems app used the new sitecore fast:/ query, but because this is still a little buggy I removed the fast query.)
  • Create a new csproj and insert the code I need and change the references in the xaml file.

I guess that every step I made. I hope you can give me some feedback and help you to save some time ;-) Just leave me a comment and you will get the sitecore package.

cheers chris




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