Søren Kruse | Sitecore and .NET
Renderings

  1. Get data source items from renderings in a placeholder

    I was recently in a situation where I needed to look at the data source items of all the renderings added to a specific placeholder. Luckily not too long ago I made some extension methods to get the number of renderings in a placeholder, which made the this pretty simple.…
    on Placeholders Renderings Sitecore - Comments

  2. Getting the number of renderings within a placeholder

    Sometimes you might want to do something if there are no renderings in a placeholder or if there is a specific amount. You might want to show editors a warning or some help text if there are no renderings. Unfortunately there is not a simple out-of-the-box way to do this…
    on Placeholders Renderings Sitecore - Comments

  3. Showing the thumbnail image of the current rendering

    I recently ran into an issue with a component in a placeholder that made it troublesome for the editors to select it within the Experience Editor to either select a new data source for the component or to get to the placeholder to insert more renderings. The issues came from…
    on Experience Editor Renderings Sitecore - Comments