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Get the Names of Sites Running in Crafter Engine and Return it them as JSON

From time to time developers want to be able to get a list of tenants on a given Crafter Engine.  A tenant is equivalent to a project in Crafter.  That project may be a website, a content app, a headless content API or any one of 1000

Working with Content as XML/DOM in CrafterCMS

In a previous article (Querying Content in CrafterCMS) we talked about how you can query content in Crafter using content and search services. Under the hood, CrafterCMS saves all of the content you create through the authoring interface (C

Working with Your First CrafterCMS Website

This article assumes that you have followed the steps in the Cafter CMS Quick Start Guide to get CrafterCMS installed and logged in to Crafter Studio. We will be using an out-of-the-box blueprint, called “Website_Editorial” to create your f

Creating and Installing Project Blueprints in CrafterCMS

Using the Blueprint Once you’ve installed your blueprint using it is simple! After logging in, you’ll see the MySites screen (Below). Click on Create Site Give the site a friendly name for the Site Id , a description and then choose a

Reindexing Content for Search and Queries in CrafterCMS

It is necessary from time to time to reindex content due to schema changes, migrations, and other scenarios. A bulk deployment will push all content to your index but involves several steps in addition to indexing which may not be needed. This articl

Building CMS Backed Augmented Reality Apps with CrafterCMS

From SnapChat to Pokemon Go to the helmets used by F-35 fighter pilots, Augmented Reality (AR) applications are gaining a ton of traction. Unlike virtual reality which attempts to completely replace actual reality with an alternative universe an

Responsive vs Adaptive Web Design: Better Together

Responsive web design (RWD), the ability for your web application to “respond” to the size of the view port (traditional screen size vs mobile screen size) is common place and practice today.  Responsive design leverages client side,&n

Patterns for Integrating 3rd Party Content in Your CMS

There are often times when you will want to integrate content in your site that does not ORIGINATE in your content management system.  In this article we’ll look at a few high level patterns for integration and discuss the pros and cons of each

Querying Content in CrafterCMS

Types of Content Queries CrafterCMS supports 3 specific types of content queries: Cross content Lucene/Solr queries. This enables you to query any/all content objects, by any group of properties.) Filtered Structural Queries. This enables you to quer

Building Angular2 Single Page Applications with CrafterCMS

Single Page Applications (SPA) are quickly becoming the industry standard for HTML5 based applications and responsive websites because they tend to be more user friendly, feel faster and are more responsive. As with most applications today, SPA’s fre