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jraps20 / PublishUtils.cs

Last active May 2, 2022 17:40

Sitecore publishing Utils to quickly queue up a batch of items to a publish queue and publish the queue, as opposed to individual publishes which cause the publish:end event to fire multiple times (read: individual index updates, cache clearing, etc.)

	public static class PublishUtils
	{
	public static void CreateAndPublishQueue(Database sourceDatabase, Database[] targetDatabases, Language[] targetLanguages, IEnumerable<ID> itemIds, bool skipEvents = false, bool useSecurityDisabler = true)
	{
	Assert.IsNotNull(sourceDatabase, "sourceDatabase");
	Assert.IsNotNull(targetDatabases, "targetDatabases");
	Assert.IsNotNull(targetLanguages, "targetLanguages");

	var publishingCandidates = SetPublishingCandidates(sourceDatabase, targetDatabases, targetLanguages, itemIds);

jraps20 / RemoveBinFilesFromUpdatePackage.ps1

Last active September 19, 2017 12:59

Remove \bin Files from a Sitecore Update package. This came about due to the fact that the TDS package generator adds `HedgehogDevelopment.SitecoreProject.PackageInstallPostProcessor.dll` even when you select not to include files with the package. By removing this file, the app pool does not recycle during installations. This requires that `Hedg…

	Param(
	[string]$pathToPackages
	)

	Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
	function Unzip
	{
	param([string]$zipfile, [string]$outpath)

	[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($zipfile, $outpath)

jraps20 / PublishDeployedItemsWithPublishingQueue.cs

Last active July 19, 2018 11:09

TDS Post Deploy Action to publish items via publishing queue instead of native solution

	[Description("Publishes deployed items after deployment using publishing queue.\nPublishing targets are specified in the Parameter as a comma separated list.")]
	public class PublishDeployedItemsWithPublishingQueue : IPostDeployAction
	{
	/// <summary>
	/// Borrowed directly from HedgehogDevelopment.SitecoreProject.PackageInstallPostProcessor.BuiltIn.PublishDeployedItems, HedgehogDevelopment.SitecoreProject.PackageInstallPostProcessor
	/// </summary>
	private static Database[] GetPublishingTargetDatabases(string parameters)
	{
	if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(parameters))
	{

jraps20 / SitecorePdf.xml

Last active October 24, 2017 03:44

Config file for use in Sitecore PDF Generation

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
	<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
	<sitecore>
	<pipelines>
	<getScreenShotForURL>

	<!-- Disable security check -->
	<processor type="Sitecore.ContentTesting.Pipelines.GetScreenShotForURL.CheckDisabler, Sitecore.ContentTesting">
	<patch:delete />
	</processor>

jraps20 / AddTimeoutToScript.cs

Created October 24, 2017 03:46

Gist to illustrate modifying the PhantomJS default timeout of zero to a new value

	using Sitecore.ContentTesting.Pipelines.GetScreenShotForURL;

	namespace MyLibrary.GetScreenShotForURL
	{
	public class AddTimeoutToScript : GenerateScreenShotProcessor
	{
	public string Timeout { get; set; }

	private const string StandardExit = "phantom.exit();\r\n});";

jraps20 / GeneratePdf.cs

Created October 24, 2017 03:49

Gist to illustrate saving a PNG generated via Sitecore PhantomJS as a PDF.

	using PdfSharp.Drawing;
	using PdfSharp.Pdf;
	using Sitecore.ContentTesting.Pipelines.GetScreenShotForURL;

	namespace MyLibrary.GetScreenShotForURL
	{
	public class GeneratePdf : GenerateScreenShotProcessor
	{
	public override void Process(GetScreenShotForURLArgs args)
	{

jraps20 / SimpleSitecorePdf.cs

Created October 25, 2017 03:19

	var args = new GetScreenShotForURLArgs(item.ID);
	CorePipeline.Run("getScreenShotForURL", args);

jraps20 / LogMessageRemoteEvent.cs

Last active June 19, 2018 14:31

	[DataContract]
	public class LogMessageRemoteEvent : IHasEventName
	{
	public LogMessageRemoteEvent(string instanceName, string eventName)
	{
	InstanceName = instanceName;
	EventName = eventName;
	}

	// This is the custom data you will be passing between servers

jraps20 / LogMessageRemoteMap.cs

Last active May 11, 2018 20:01

	public class LogMessageRemoteMap
	{
	public void Initialize(PipelineArgs args)
	{
	EventManager.Subscribe<LogMessageRemoteEvent>(new Action<LogMessageRemoteEvent>(OnGenericRemoteEvent<LogMessageRemoteEvent>));
	}

	private static void OnGenericRemoteEvent<TEvent>(TEvent @event) where TEvent : IHasEventName
	{
	RemoteEventArgs<TEvent> remoteEventArgs = new RemoteEventArgs<TEvent>(@event);

jraps20 / LogMessageRemote.xml

Last active December 29, 2017 15:49

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
	<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
	<sitecore>
	<pipelines>
	<initialize>
	<processor type="MyNamespace.LogMessageRemoteMap, MyDll" method="Initialize" />
	</initialize>
	</pipelines>
	</sitecore>
	</configuration>

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