Sitecore 10 - Simple Item extension method to read value from Droplink, Droptree, and Grouped Droplink fields etc.

 Recently, I was working on a requirement to show the selected item field value into a view  (Assume an option to choose a custom icon for the view or a feature).

There are a few options available that get the field id and read the item and get the field value, but in this case, I preferred to create an item extension method that can be used for any similar type of fields, here is the sample for the reference.

public static string GetSampleReferenceFieldValue(this Item item, ID referenceFieldId, ID targetFieldId)

        {

            ReferenceField referenceField = item.Fields[referenceFieldId];

            return referenceField?.TargetItem == null ? string.Empty : referenceField.TargetItem[targetFieldId];

        }

and in the view, we can simply call this as an example below - 

item.GetSampleReferenceFieldValue(Templates.TemplateNameFields.FieldId, Templates.TemplateNameFields.FieldId);

Hope that will help to others.

 

Sitecore 10 - SXA result items sequence got randomly changed - Review and Fix.

Recently, I was working on implementing a SXA result component, the scenario is the items are sort based on the document publishe date,

The issue was the latest published items should always comes on the top but whenever we do the re indexing the seqeuence got change.

After investigating it further we found that's internally Solr fetch the document based on the indexed and change the sequence,

Solution, in that case we provided the second level sorting. it can be done as comma separated on the SXA sort field.