lesson-learned · troubleshooting

How to deal with “Unrecognized Guid format” error message on “Rebuild Link Databases” Sitecore dialog

FYI, it’s a Sitecore 8.2 Update 6 project and there are implementations for the relationship between some kind of content types such as resource, event, campaign, etc An idea is to play around with the Links table by getting all the context item referrers and then filter the appropriate related items. Certainly, there is no… Continue reading How to deal with “Unrecognized Guid format” error message on “Rebuild Link Databases” Sitecore dialog

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How to test API endpoints from behind a proxy server via Sitecore user interface

We have a Sitecore scheduler task which CRUDs Sitecore items daily. The data source is from the response of an API endpoint which is managed by another vendor. Recently, no data has been returned. As always, the Sitecore log is valuable to check for root causes and from the logs, we can see that the… Continue reading How to test API endpoints from behind a proxy server via Sitecore user interface

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How to inject the SqlShell admin tool to Sitecore 7

Sometimes, we want to execute the SQL script to get insight into the current status of our Sitecore instance. It will be easy peasy lemon squeezy if you can access the server database. Another way is to play around with SqlShell admin tool (we can execute the SQL script via Sitecore user interface) if you’re Sitecore admin… Continue reading How to inject the SqlShell admin tool to Sitecore 7