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This is the first blog post of a new series entitled “Build it with Coveo”. The series will present innovative use cases for the Coveo Platform, always including full code samples. Coveo customers use the platform in a multitude of ways. Many in the consulting and resource management business often ask us if our search technology could help them better match resources and projects. Use case: What if you want to find the best peer/employee with knowledge around “Artificial Intelligence.”? What if you need to add constraints such as “available for the next two months.”?

This is the last part of my long adventure to cover all the best practices listed in the Best Practices for Site Search eBook. The previous parts can be found here.

The Sitecore PowerShell Extensions is an amazing tool every Sitecore developer should learn to use. I recently started playing with it, my first goal being to find a solution to the popular request: automate adding a Coveo search box in a page.

7th edition After months of preparation, the seventh edition of Coveo Blitz was held on January 7th 2017. As was the case in the last few years, the contest was held in our Quebec City office. Participants like to see our offices and the work environment we offer - oh, and here’s a scoop: next year, it will be held in our brand new offices! A total of 58 students from 6 universities and colleges participated this year. We opened the registration on October 18th and all the available places (15 teams of 4) were filled by November 3rd.

This is the third installment on my journey to cover all the best practices listed in the Best Practices for Site Search eBook. The goal of this series is to explain in details how to apply each best practice using Coveo for Sitecore V4. If you missed the previous posts, you can find the full series here.

For those of you who missed part 1, this series of blogs is to provide technical details on each of the best practices mentioned in the Best Practices for Site Search eBook.

Our experience creating our first Visual Studio Code extension, details about the vsforce extension, and information that would have been useful when starting its development.

In the past few months, I’ve been discovering Webpack and how to use it to improve the development process in our team. A problem I ran into was how to setup multiple projects dependent on one another, in different repositories. I wanted to make sure that the development environment was as painless as possible.

A few months ago, the Coveo for Sitecore Product and Marketing teams released an eBook on Site Search Best Practices. The guide is great for high level planning, but when it comes to execution, there are some gaps that need to be filled. In this series of blog posts, I will go over each of the 19 points and explain in details how to implement them properly. I will be using Coveo for Sitecore 4.0.450 in a Sitecore 8.0 MVC environment. Take note that everything listed below can also be done in Web Forms, but will require a different syntax.

For almost a year, Coveo has been offering Lightning components in Salesforce as part of its search offering. Over time, we had to develop new ways to debug these components both inside and outside of a developer environment. Here are some of the tips and tricks that we discovered along the way.