We came up with following: We had to find out the Rendering Item for a given Datasource Item. We thought it is a good idea to use ContentSearch for this: searching for the items with template “Controller Rendering” with the Datasource template which is equal to the fullpath of the template of our datasource item.
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Often when we build something like sliders or grids which hold teasers for content or product pages, customers want to have the possibility to sort it. Often there should be a sorting by popularity – which means counting the page visits.
Sometimes there is the need of adding languages, which are not present yet. For example, if the customers have different versions of pages for english in the different countries.
You can add a language in /sitecore/system/Languages and just type in what you need. But this is not enough. You also have to register the language on your server.
When populating the solr schema in Sitecore, the managed schema for solr is built. In it you can find a reference to the synomyms.txt file. But it’s just that one file which is located in the conf-folder in the core, but not in conf/lang – so it is not language based.
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