Unapproved content gets published [Friday Case]

Today in a Friday Case category, which features support cases causing to pull my hair out, a very interesting issue I’ve had with a customer reporting that unapproved content was going live quite unexpectedly.
After witnessing the issue with my own eyes when an item just created and not pushed via workflow was magically showing up in production after a few minutes, I decided to investigation Sitecore configuration. This revealed a PublishAgent that was enabled to run frequently, but nothing else.

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Partial Language Fallback Module Update

Today I pushed a small update to the Partial Language Fallback module which I introduced a while back. Check out this quick screencast below. For the full list of changes hit “read more”.

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Sitecore Output Caching: Kick it up a Notch

Ever wondered how Sitecore caches works? It is pretty cool, actually. Sitecore can cache the output of any presentation component that it is aware of (Sublayout, WebControl, XSL Rendering). Basically, this output may vary on data context (Context Item or Datasource), device, whether user is logged in or not, parameters passed to the rendering, query string and Context user:
This gives a ton of options and in most cases this is sufficient, but what if the output of your rendering depends on inner logic embedded within the control? Sometimes you could solve this with VaryByParm and by passing different parameters to the rendering, but what if that’s not the case?
This is exactly the use case I have been presented during another onsite visit with a customer.
Here is a very simple way of extending the cache variation logic for a Sublayout.

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Web Forms File Upload: 2 Exceptions [Common Errors]

If you are having trouble with the File Upload field within the Web Forms for Marketers module, specifically the form submission fails with a generic error, check your Sitecore log file. If you see either of the following two exceptions, there is a solution! Read on.

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