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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
Book Image

Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By: Yogesh Patel

Overview of this book

This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices. Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore’s backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more. By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with a custom user profile


The Sitecore user profile provides all the basic information that we expect, such as the username, full name, password, e-mail, and so on. Most of the time, our requirements will get satisfied with these properties, but sometimes we might need to add more fields to the user profile. In such cases, we will create a custom user profile.

Configuring user profiles in .NET needs Web.config level configurations, which require application restart. In Sitecore, the dynamic user profile structure and role management is possible just through the user interface, which is simpler and easier. In this recipe, you will learn how to create a custom user profile to store a user's social media account details.

How to do it…

We will create a custom template with fields of social media account information and, using this, we will create a new social media user profile:

  1. From the desktop view, select the core database and open the Content Editor.

  2. Select /sitecore/templates/System...