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Tim Gaunt

UCommerce Vague scratch indexer errors, not quite what it seems

I hit a problem recently where I was working with Ucommerce and linking it up to Sitefinity as the e-commerce solution. As part of this task due to the customer's requirements, we decided to manually set up Ucommerce and then export the Ucommerce_X SQL tables in the

1p rounding issue on Ucommerce products/discounts

We've been hitting an issue over the past few years where the product's price is `1p` out in certain circumstances e.g. £2 off 2 £30 items -it should equal £56.00 but often results in £55.99. The fix is surprisingly (annoyingly) simple -you need

Sitefinity/Ucommerce admin area - The content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue.

Loading the Ucommerce admin area in Sitefinity we were hitting a rather unfriendly error message "The content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue. " The fix is relatively simple -edit `App_Data/Sitefinity/Configuration/WebSecurityConfig.config ` and add "'self'" to both

Delete all orders from Ucommerce

A while ago I blogged about [how to delete test orders and baskets from Ucommerce](https://thesitedoctor.co.uk/blog/deleting-test-orders-and-baskets-from-ucommerce/) and [Delete all products and orders from Ucommerce](https://thesitedoctor.co.uk/blog/delete-all-products-and-orders-from-ucommerce/) which I frequently use. As I often want to only clear out the orders as

Power Ucommerce facet display names from the CMS

ProductDefinitionFieldRepository = Ucommerce.Infrastructure.ObjectFactory.Instance.Resolve>(); private static Dictionary> AllDisplayNames; public static FieldDefinition DisplayNameFromUcommerce(this FieldDefinition self) { var displayName = GetProductDefinitionFieldDescriptions(self.Name); foreach (var description in displayName) self.DisplayNames[description.CultureCode] = description.DisplayName; return self; } private static void EnsureProductDefinitionFields() { if (AllDisplayNames != nul

Error running scratch indexer in Ucommerce v9+

We ran into an odd issue today where we suddenly couldn't run the scratch indexer in Ucommerce after making a few changes to the product properties. We tracked the issue down to the IndexDefinition which was using non-nullable field declarations e.g. ``` this.Field(p => p["

Longest Company Names for Companies in the Financial Markets

When designing websites or mobile apps it's important that you allow for the extremities in the content to avoid breaking your design -even more so if you're dealing with a data website such as an e-commerce website or financial markets. Don't be tempted to

What is browser testing and why does it take so long?

Your design is built, content loaded, media is in and your site looks great on your computer -you’re ready to launch so why the sudden hold up with browser testing and why is it going to take so long? Take this issue I ran into earlier this week. Can

Could not load file or assembly xxx or one of its dependencies

We hit the fairly common issue of not being able to resolve a dependency the other day and tried all the usual resolutions -checking that the version numbers across all projects match, check the values in the configs haven't corrupted during an install, clean and rebuild the solution,

Sitefinity project stuck at warming up

We've had the opportunity recently to start working with the enterprise grade CMS Sitefinity in a little more depth than our previous Ucommerce consultancy which has been a welcome break. It's been pretty straight forward to get up and running in contrast to some of the