Sitecore XM Cloud: external editing host and firewall

When working with Sitecore XM Cloud it’s possible to not use the internal editing host which comes with XM Cloud but set up an external one. The Sitecore documentation helps you with this and I recommend to read the blogpost by Rob Earlam. But be reminded, ideally you use the internal editing host! Only if you can’t do it you should set up an external one.

I don’t want to repeat the steps of the setup but rather write about the challenge I came across lately: What if there is a firewall in front of the editing host?

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Sitecore CDP and Personalize: Push a contact to Sitecore Send with triggered fullstack experience

Some time ago I had the chance to have a look into Sitecore CDP and Personalize and Sitecore Send and connect them.
In the previous blogpost I showed you how to do that via Audience Sync. This time I’ll introduce you into connection to Send via using a triggered fullstack experience.

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Sitecore Content Hub: How to extend the search for choosing an entity in a relation field

When you add a relation field in an entity and make this visible in the Entity details component on the Detail page you can see a default search, which is just a list of entities with a search field. But what if you want to enhance this search with facets e.g.? This blogpost will show you how to do this.

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Content Hub: Dependent fields on entity details component

We all know the requirement, that fields are dependent on other fields. Also in Content Hub projects this can be a requirement for editing details of an entity. Following I will show how to solve this for two taxonomy members of an entity.

The use case is the following: We have a Taxonomy “Category” and a Taxonomy “Section”, both are related to M.Asset and Subcategory is dependent on Category. (We had discussed this example in Sitecore Slack Channel)

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Content Hub: Different state flows for different content types

When it comes to creating different content types like blog articles, business reports or similar in Content Hub customers often need different workflows for the different types. In Sitecore Content Hub CMP there is one main state flow which you can configure. Following I will show you how to trigger different state flows.

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Content Hub: Notifying Sitecore about Asset changes via Azure Service Bus und update image fields

Last time I wrote about our changes to the DAM connector to store extra fields in the XML raw value of the image fields in Sitecore. But what happens if these values are changed in Content Hub? We implemented storing the value in the moment we choose the asset from Content Hub. So we would have to choose again the asset which we changed in Content Hub? No way! Following I will show you our implementation of notifying Sitecore that something has changed and update the image fields in Sitecore.

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