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User 4:38 PM

SUGPL #6 Białystok - Organizator feelings

Our SUGPL operates very dynamically, hence we had a new meetup! This time, Białystok! For me it was special, because I was generally responsible for organization. It sounds proudly ;)

Organizers feelings, well, you have to do everything and think about everything. It remind my my wedding in some way :) But I like it! Because of that feelings and activities I want to do it!

It also worthy to notice that we had high attendance, but moreover we saw a lot of new faces, what is even better in that. I hope it will start a new journey for some people to became a dynamic part of our Sitecore User Group Poland.

Besides the community, we had 3 great presentations. Two of them was presented by our friends from Belarus - Alexei Vershalovich and Andrei Paliakou. The third one has presented my close friend - Tomasz Juranek.

During first presentation Alexi was describing Marketing Automation in Omni Channel. Great topic that he mentioned during last SUGCON in Berlin. It was an opportunity for other people that join this event to hear a lot of very interesting things, how we connect Sitecore in so many ways.

Nest speaker was Tomasz Juranek whom presentation topic was "Sitecore Forms and Marketing Automation in practice". Tomasz has shown us haw we can use this two tools and combination of them to achieve our business goals and be better marketing masters :)

At the end presenter was Andrei, Commerce MVP who presented topic "Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 - expectations and reality". He has described how many differences have been made in new xCommerce and how improvement it contains currently. Great to see that !

When we finished all presentations it was time for afterparty! It was good to talk with earlier mentioned new faces

As picture shows, a lot of smile on the faces so it had to be good time :) I hope we will see all together in next meetups as well!

Thank you all!

Robert Dębowski 0

User 9:45 PM

SUGPL #5 Wrocław - XConnect Speaker feelings

Spring has come (or even summer, looking at temperatures) so our meetups also have a new scene, meetup in Wrocław is just behind us. Well done meeting when I had an opportunity to present XConnect with my friend Tomasz Kłos.

This meetup was special because of our guest - Paul Urban, who came from Canada and he join our meetup with own presentation! Thank you Paul for willness to be a part of SUGPL meetup and this presentation. I hope that's only the beginning of our cooperation ;)

First presentation was... my presentation with Tomasz Kłos. Topic of our presentation was:

"eXtremeConnect - where and how to not lost in new reality"

eXtreme Connect from Robert Debowski

We would like to show the whole new approach of communication in Sitecore Platform which XConnect service provides with description of possibilities. Additionally second part of our presentation was application that generate mock data in xDB - xGenerator for Sitecore 9. If you need to generate dummy data for e.g. Experience Profile, that tool is for you!.

If you are interested in app, try this from Github link.

More information is on my friend blog - Tomasz Kłos

Second presentation was made by earlier mentioned our special guest - Paul Urban. He prepared for us topic: "GDPR compliance with Sitecore 8 implementation". We discussed many important topic that very often are over IT topic, to be more law area. But for that we are making that, IT should helps and solves problems in other live areas, right? ;)

The third presentation was prepared by Szymon Kuźniak, who presented topic: "Sitecore roles without Sitecore users". Very interesting topic, I hope it will solve some issues for us in the future.

At the end we met in nice place (12 krok) for the most important - networking !

Cheers guys! It was a pleasure for see you and all other new faces as well !

Robert Dębowski 0

Winners 1:03 PM

Winners of Sitecore Hackathon 2018 - Feel like a star- SUGCON Berlin 2018

Hi all!

In this post I would like to share with you my memories from lat SUGCON which was placed in Berlin, Germany.

At the beginning I would like to say it was one of the best time I've ever had in my professional 'career' ;) Hence, my description could be a little bit subjective :) , but in other hand it should be a better motivation for those, who haven't attend in this conference to change it and join!

First of all,

Berlin

It was my first visit in this city. The main building which dominates over others is Berlin TV Tower, besides that I was surprised what a beautiful old town there is, so small stroll was a pure pleasure. Just take a look on pictures below.

Conference

It has started like good party in the club. I felt this power in the air.

It's good point to notice that before the conference has started, we had an opportunity to pass Sitecore Certification exam on the newest Sitecore 9 version. That was 1st success during that days, new Sitecore 9 certificate.

Also I would like to congratulates for the organizers for whole services like catering, which were on really top level. Perfect job guys !

Presentations

Hard to cover all topic were available during this two days, we can mention GraphQL with JSS team, Marketing Automation by Alexi Vershalovich and of course presentation about SIX by Robert Senktas, my good mate from SUGPL community and same company as well :)

If you are more interested in SIX, try to check this link: SIX

Hackathon 2018 - Winners Announcements

One of the best moments in my life! Nobody knows before that time who won Sitecore Hackathon this year, so there were some hopes, some tension in the air. Akshay Sura has come on the stage and after little kick of he announced that this year Sitecore Hackathon won... LasVegans!!! What means, my team!

I would like to thanks my partners, Tomasz Juranek and Wojciech Urban who has this motivation, power and trust to build together solution that win competition this year!

One more time, Thanks guys !

Afterparty

After all of peresentations, I have still felt endless joy. Attendees could met at hotel lobby (which was really good and huge) and what we did.

Great time, great people ! :)

Who still haven't been on SUGCON or is wondering is it worth to go, I definitely recommend to take bag, put some clothes, book tickets and meet together in London in 2019.

Hope we will see next year !

Robert Dębowski 0

User 2:28 PM

SUGPL#4 Warszawa

Step by step and the next step for our 4th SUGPL meetup was Warsaw. We had a good opportunity to meet with guys in capital of Poland. We had big amount of people, some new faces as well, great presentations and after party of course!

We have started with presentation about connecting frontend and backend using NitroNet Sitecore by Dawid Jachowicz. It was good moment for check what new tool we have to make our work more even more friendly than it's currently :) There weren't free seats to see it, so some guys had to keep the windows in place ;)

Second presentation was prepared by Artsem Prashkovich & Ihar Pauliuk who have spoken about Headless CMS. Sitecore JSS getting started, tips and tricks. I have to highlight that guys made a big effort to prepare and say for us so many things. Cheers !

As a 3rd was presenting Szymon Kuźniak. He has topic SXA in real life example. If somebody hadn't try it use, Szymon is a good man to ask about Sitecore Experience Accelerator.

Afterwards was time for integration! Well known party for each of SUGPL members. But that afterparty was not so usual as other because of so many attendees. We didn't even prepare enough seats. Fortunately bar service took care about each of guests and we could spent really good time and enjoy moment :)

If you are still wondering is it worthy to attend for next one, do not hesitate, just to it!

Big thanks for all you guys for that day!

Robert Dębowski 0

Vegans 10:02 AM

Hackathon 2018

I could be a part this great adventure one more time. With all gathered experience during Sitecore Hackathon 2017 I joined with friends on Sitecore Hackathon 2018. What feelings afterwards? Enjoy, challenge and passion! That was the same power as last year or even better!

Team

Last year I was a part of team called "Error 404". It was an amazing team, so in this year we decided to continue our together work with one exception. We will change our name to "LasVegans". In that way new called team has the same squad as an year ago:

me, Wojtek Urban and Tomasz Juranek.

Topic

We have chosen "XConnect Module" category. Our idea was to build multi-functional module with external integration which will deliver notifications for end user with the air quality value in their area. We wanted to use xConnect od course, Marketing automations, Geolocation, email sending and whatever can be used there :)

Work

In this year we have taken another approach and we have slept night before much longer to be more rest than a year ago. Fortunately it worked and our crisis came much more later ;) Of course everyone was aware of the sacrifice that he need to make, but enjoy, fun and challenge were bigger then fatigue.

Finish

We finished our work 20 minutes before deadline, much progress than few minutes a year ago :) Our AirPolution Smog Fighter has been finished. We hope that it will help people to life more healthy!

Materials:

GitHub Repo

Video

So much fun, so exiting time, I've wrote that it were very tough 24 hours, but this feeling after the whole day is priceless! I really enjoy that that second time and of course I'm looking forward to meet each of you in next year on Sitecore Hackathon!

You have to be there !

Robert Dębowski 0

Sitecore 5:14 PM

Feel like in a movie, dreams come true - Sitecore MVP 2018 awards

Wow, wow, wow... that were words used the most often when I got to know that I had this pleasure and I became Sitecore MVP 2018. I'm so happy, really.. no words :) Currently I can say, that dream came true! I will do my bests to be even better for the community in the next year, so stay tuned !

I just would like to thank every person that was supporting me, especially my wife who has to have a lot of patience to me :) Thank you ! Of course my friends from SUGPL and others who live a little bit further. Thank you all ! You are the best !

Robert Dębowski 0

WFFM 12:54 PM

WFFM Custom Error Message

Well known picture, isn't it ? :) Creating our custom message is really helpful in the future: during using our application by end-users or even for other developers who will maintain project.

What in case when we use WFFM, is it possible ? Of course it is, each WFFM action has possibility to display custom error message by dedicated field which looks like:

It works perfectly. We can use many custom actions with own error messages for each other. Generally it solves problem with custom error messages.

But what when someone has a lot of custom error messages or many combination of them? We assume that this person would like to avoid creating many action just to see correct error message. Is there any solution?

Well.. sure it is :) !

Firstly we have to create our custom Form Verification action. It's important to make Form Verification action, not the Save Action.

Secondly we create our custom class which inherits from WffmCheckAction and do the magic inside.

The most important part of this magic for us is to catch exception that can occur. We can for instance put there message we would like to see and re-throw it again. Even in bubble way from previous layers.

At the end this exception message will be displayed above our form.

You don't have to fill error message fields in the action. The code you have written is everything you need.

Cheers !

Robert Dębowski 0