How to add new placeholder in SXA sitecore | create custom placeholder in SXA sitecore

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Sitecore | SXA | Access Drop link and link field items in Scribban

• Droplist type     

• {{sc_raw i_item "fieldName"}}"

• Droplink (one child item) 

•  We can get the item and then read value from child item: 
• {{- childitem=sc_follow i_item "fieldName" -}} 
• {{sc_raw childitem "childItemfieldName"}}"

• we can read Inline with the below:
• {{sc_follow i_item "fieldName" | sc_raw "childItemfieldName"}}

• Tree link (multiple sub child items) 

• We can get all items as a collection
• {{for i_child in (sc_followmany i_item "fieldName") }}.

How to create new custom theme SXA Sitecore

1. Open website local root on your local machine and open the route C:\inetpub\wwwroot\sc93sc.dev.local\App_Config\Include\z.Feature.Overrides and enable config file.. 2. Navigate to folder under theme created on Local machinne and open command terminal on Visual studio code and run: 'npm config set `@sxa:registry https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-npm-packages/npm' 3. After registering nuget packages url, on the same root run : 'npm install -global @sxa/CLI' 4. Run this command to allow remote machine url to register url: 'Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine' I ran this on my local machine 5. And then run this command to register url: sxa register https://sc93.sc.local/ ((""Inorder to create a new theme we need to run 'new "Themename"' after above command on theme folder)) 6. Navigate actual theme location folder (C:\repos\CustomappTheme\-\media\Themes\Corporate\Customapp\COMBank> npm install) and run : 'npm install' This will install all required npm modules to our theme 7. Run this command on above root : 'SXA rebuild' 8. And then run gulp on the same root : 'gulp' 9. Command to run to publish UI changes to Sitecore Instance : 'sxa watch All -d' New setup for CE: master sitecore 7 but no need to run gulp sxa rebuld . Navigate actual theme location theme folder (Customapp> npm install) and run : 'npm install' This will install all required npm modules to our theme . Run this command on above root : 'SXA rebuild' . Command to run to publish UI changes to Sitecore Instance : 'sxa watch All -d'

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How to open pdf in browser instead of downloading in sitecore site

 I am using the below patch configuration file for Sitecore 9x and SXA 1.8 to stop the download of PDF files. It works fine for me

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
    <!-- Force download of PDF files -->
    <mediaLibrary>
      <mediaTypes>
        <mediaType name="PDF file" extensions="pdf">
          <forceDownload>false</forceDownload>
        </mediaType>
      </mediaTypes>
    </mediaLibrary>
  </sitecore>
</configuration>

How to Check if element is visible after scrolling?

jQuery.extend(jQuery.expr[':'], {  
    inview: function (elem) {
        var t = $(elem);
        var offset = t.offset();
        var win = $(window); 
        var winST = win.scrollTop();
        var elHeight = t.outerHeight(true);

        if ( offset.top > winST - elHeight && offset.top < winST + elHeight + win.height()) {
            return true;    
        }    
        return false;  
    }
});

$(".my-elem:inview"); //returns only element that is in view
$(".my-elem").is(":inview"); //check if element is in view
$(".my-elem:inview").length; //check how many elements are in view

Pull to refresh javascript

To implement pull to refresh functionality in your website follow the below steps:

1. add script reference in your layout (https://www.cssscript.com/demo/easy-pull-to-refresh-library-with-pure-javascript-pulltorefresh-js/pulltorefresh.js)
2. add below style in the layout (<style>.ptr--ptr { box-shadow: inset 0 -3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); pointer-events: none; font-size: 0.85em; font-weight: bold; top: 0; height: 0; transition: height 0.3s, min-height 0.3s; text-align: center; width: 100%; overflow: hidden; display: flex; align-items: flex-end; align-content: stretch; } .ptr--box { padding: 10px; flex-basis: 100%; } .ptr--pull { transition: none; } .ptr--text { margin-top: .33em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); } .ptr--icon { color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); transition: transform .3s; } .ptr--release .ptr--icon { transform: rotate(180deg); }</style>)
3. add below code in the layout under script tag ( PullToRefresh.init({  mainElement: '#main'})