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Sitecore self assessment migration tool in beta!

Planning a Sitecore migration? Our free Chameleon Self Assessment tool connects to your Sitecore instance, inventories your sites, content types, views and pages, and lets your team scope what to migrate — no strings attached.

What Is SAD?

SAD stands for \"Sitefinity As a Database\" - a term for Sitefinity projects done without proper expertise. This post offers a 5-point checklist to help you ask the right questions before starting a Sitefinity project, with a real-world example of what happens when the platform's built-in capabilities are ignored.

Sitefinity CMS

What Is eVeliko 2.0?

eVeliko 2.0 marks a turning point in how Eveliko works. This post tells the honest story behind the shift from building software products to delivering complete Sitefinity solutions - and the financial reality and client insights that drove that change.

GatherContent for Sitefinity – Some Use Cases

The GatherContent Connector for Sitefinity opens up some useful workflows beyond simple content imports. This post covers three real use cases: migrating built-in Lists to dynamic content, using GatherContent for collaborative internal project documentation, and syncing external documentation directly to a Sitefinity site.

Sitefinity CMS

The Autocomplains – Sitefinity OData

Sitefinity's OData Client SDK datasource type does not support the contains filter operator, throwing an \"Unknown operator type\" error. This post shows how to work around it by switching to the standard odata-v4 datasource type and using a custom read function to call the OData service directly.

Sitefinity CMS

Exposing Taxonomy Fields in Sitefinity OData Service

Sitefinity OData services return only taxonomy IDs by default, requiring extra queries to resolve their details. This post shows how to use TaxonomyRelationResolver and Navigation Property mappings to expose taxonomy fields directly in your OData service, enabling $expand queries to return classification data in a single call.

Sitefinity CMS

Page Speed Stats Shortcut in Sitefinity Page Grid

Checking Google PageSpeed after every Sitefinity publish normally requires several manual steps. This post shows how to add a custom DynamicColumnElement to the pages grid so you get a direct PageSpeed link for every page right in the Sitefinity backend.

Sitefinity CMS

All Eveliko Clients Were Patched (CVE-2017-9248) Last Week

Following the disclosure of CVE-2017-9248 in Telerik.Web.UI.dll, Eveliko patched all clients on active support on the same day - coordinating with government and financial institutions across different Sitefinity versions and security environments.

Sitefinity CMS

Index RelatedData and RelatedMedia in Sitefinity

Indexing related data fields in Sitefinity one by one requires ongoing code changes. This post shows a more generic approach using a custom inbound pipe and a Regex naming convention, letting editors add new related fields to the search index from the backend without touching the code.

Sitefinity CMS

Index Categories and Tag Titles for Dynamic Content in Sitefinity

By default, Sitefinity does not index the titles of categories and tags assigned to dynamic content. This post shows how to use a custom inbound pipe to make taxon titles searchable, following the same pattern as indexing related data and media fields.

Sitefinity CMS

Clean Old Personalization Statistics in Sitefinity

Sitefinity's personalization module can cause the sf_stat_sentence table to grow to millions of records, leading to upgrade issues and page timeouts. This post shares a SQL script to clear old statistics and tips for handling transaction log bloat.

Sitefinity CMS

Use Sitefinity Identity Server and ServiceStack to Create Protected Services

Sitefinity's built-in OData services are protected out of the box, but custom ServiceStack endpoints need explicit protection. This post shows how to use the Sitefinity Identity Server, OpenID authentication and an OWIN startup class to protect your custom API routes - for Sitefinity versions prior to 14.0.

Sitefinity CMS

Eveliko with 3rd Place in Bulgaria!

Eveliko is proud to have won 3rd place in the Best Company of 2017 awards organised by FIBank Bulgaria, competing in the Micro and Small companies category alongside around 300 shortlisted firms.

Sitefinity Index Numeric Fields

Sitefinity indexes all fields as text or date by default. This post explains how to use Elasticsearch ingest pipelines and index templates to convert fields to numeric types at storage time - even when you have no control over how Sitefinity calls the search provider.

Sitefinity CMS

COVID-19 Update from Eveliko

An update from Eveliko on how we are responding to COVID-19 - covering remote working arrangements, business continuity, infrastructure status and our financial position as of March 2020.

AI Sitefinity Image Processor

Sitefinity's default thumbnail generator can crop out faces. This post shows how to use OpenCV and computer vision to build a custom Sitefinity image processor that detects faces and centres the crop around them automatically.

Sitefinity CMS

Customizing the Built-in Sitefinity Excel Export

Sitefinity's built-in Excel export can be extended to include custom data. This post shows how to use IoC to replace the default ExcelExporter and add item owner information to every exported row, with working code for both the bootstrap step and the custom exporter class.

Sitefinity CMS

Image Search for Travel Agency Blog in Sitefinity

How to build a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system for a Sitefinity travel agency blog - using a Google Landmark V2 deep neural network to extract feature vectors and Elasticsearch to find visually similar blog posts when a user uploads a photo.

Sitefinity CMS

Hack: Sitefinity Form Rules – Ensure You Use the Right Field

A quick hack for Sitefinity form rules - when multiple fields share the same title in a multipage form, run a one-liner in the browser console to append control IDs to field names and uniquely identify the correct field.

Sitefinity CMS

Protect ServiceStack Endpoints in Sitefinity 14.0

Sitefinity 14.0 introduced a new authentication protocol that breaks the previous approach to protecting ServiceStack endpoints. This post covers the two simple changes needed - a middleware type swap and removing the openid scope - to get things working again.

Sitefinity CMS

SharePoint 2013 to Sitefinity Migrations – So Long, SharePoint!

A look at Eveliko's first SharePoint 2013 to Sitefinity migration - a complex multilingual (English and Arabic) project covering 300 pages, over 4,500 images, and 200 documents, completed in one month using Eveliko's proprietary migration toolset.

Sitefinity CMS · Umbraco

Sitefinity Migration Services!

An overview of Eveliko's Sitefinity migration services - covering Sitecore to Sitefinity, SharePoint to Sitefinity, and custom migrations, backed by experienced tech leads, advanced migration technology, and deep front-end and back-end expertise.

Sitefinity CMS

Questions to Ask Your Sitefinity Partner When Migrating from Sitecore to Sitefinity

A practical guide to evaluating a Sitefinity partner before committing to a Sitecore to Sitefinity migration - covering the obvious questions about experience and the harder ones about budget, hidden business logic, SEO, and go-live planning.

Sitefinity CMS

Getting the Most of Generative AI and Sitefinity – Part 1

How Eveliko tweaked the Sitefinity 15 Generative AI feature to produce well-formatted HTML output rather than plain text - saving content editors significant post-production time with a simple prompt configuration change.

Sitefinity CMS

Ellucian Luminis to Sitefinity Migrations – Can Sitefinity Be a Great Ellucian Luminis Alternative?

With the end of support for Ellucian Luminis approaching, Eveliko explores why Sitefinity is a compelling replacement for higher education organisations - covering roles-based access, advanced personalisation, and the Net Core renderer's preset functionality.

Education · Sitefinity CMS · Ellucian Luminis

Streamlining Your Digital Transition: Mastering Sitecore to Sitefinity Migration – Discovery Phase

The first article in Eveliko's Sitecore to Sitefinity migration series - covering the Discovery Phase, where content statistics, code alignment, and Git-based team analysis lay the groundwork for a successful migration.

Sitefinity CMS

Streamlining Your Digital Transition: Mastering Sitecore to Sitefinity Migration – Meet Chameleon

In the second article in our Sitecore to Sitefinity migration series, we give you an overview of the problems migrations often face, the current solutions, and how our tool code-named "Chameleon" helps facilitate the process, reduce requirements and risks, and democratise the migration.

Government · Transportation · Financial Services · Education · Human Resources · Insurance · Manufacturing · Media & Publishing · Real Estate · Maritime · Sitefinity CMS