One of the pivotal announcements at the recent Sitecore Symposium was the introduction of the API Platform within Sitecore Connect. While webhooks have been a valuable tool for handling integrations and scheduled jobs, they present several challenges when used for more complex and business-critical requirements. These challenges include limitations in delivering authenticated APIs, lower rate limits, lack of queuing strategies, inability to deliver customized responses (e.g., pre-hook webhooks in OrderCloud), etc. The API Platform is built to address these limitations by offering a robust, scalable, and secure solution tailored for business-critical, complex, and high-volume events while delivering additional benefits like better performance, security, and operational efficiency.
Content Hub ONE: Postman Pre-request Script for generating & appending Access Token to Content Management API requests
Content Management APIs in Content Hub ONE require an OAuth client bearer token for authentication. These tokens can be generated using Auth Endpoint. They are valid only for a few minutes(typically 15 minutes) and must be regenerated periodically after expiry for each API request.
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Pre-request Script for appending Access Token to OrderCloud API requests automatically in Postman
OrderCloud uses OAuth 2.0 for token-based authentication, which means that each API request to OrderCloud requires a valid access token. Since access tokens (and refresh tokens) have a defined expiry, the access token will need to be manually refreshed periodically when using an API Client like Postman, which is an integral part of the software development lifecycle while building solutions with OrderCloud.
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Web Harvester for Sitecore: A Technology-Agnostic Solution for Sitecore Content Migrations
Content Migration has been one of the key problems for organizations to solve when migrating to Sitecore or to Sitecore Headless Architectures for adapting to the most sought-after Composable DXP strategy. This introduces the need for a technology-agnostic content migration tool that allows seamless migration of content from any platform into Sitecore irrespective of where the content resides.
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Chrome Extension: Simplifies navigation from Website pages(CD) to it’s associated content in Sitecore(CM)
This Extension enables the content authors to open associated content in Sitecore Experience/Content/Horizon Editors(Content Management) straight from Website(Content Delivery) in single-click.
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Launching Published Content Delivery Website URL for Page Items straight from Sitecore Content Editor
An efficient content authoring experience is crucial for the success of any Sitecore Implementation. Accelerating the authoring process by automating possible areas of authoring and publishing workflows, improves the efficiency of content authoring thereby helping content authors realize its exceptional value.
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Request Google to crawl URLs on Sitecore Publish using Google Indexing API
Most of the sites hold a bunch of short-lived content like Events, Job Posting. While reaching the intended audience for short-lived content is challenging, removing the expired content from Search Engine is also vital for user engagement. This can be solved by bridging Google Indexing Mechanism with Sitecore Publish Mechanism using Google Indexing API, which empowers businesses to gain maximum value by reaching the right users at the right time.
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Design Considerations and Approaches for Scheduling Recurring Tasks/Workflows
Being one of the key initial steps in the automation journey of the implementation, scheduling tasks is not necessarily easy and straightforward. Web applications have plenty of options to achieve this (Eg: Sitecore Scheduler, Windows Task Scheduler, Azure Logic Apps, Container CronJob, Coveo Push API, Hangfire etc.), but each option comes with pros/cons based on the needs/requirements. There are several basic and advanced considerations that needs to be thought before designing recurring scheduled tasks/workflows,
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