Tips & Tricks from Linda

I have been worked on a multi-language Sitecore 8 website project recently. I setup some fields to "Shared" version but changed back to "Non-shared" fields after few days. I needed to change the value of filed and found unable to change and clear the value. I search in google and found out a Blog post " Not able to change field values after installing a package with the template having it's fields changed. " and it explains the similar issue which I was facing,  But I didn't contact Sitecore support as the post suggests, and just tick the "Shared" version of the field, and there is data lost warning prompt me, and the field value is cleared after I choose "OK" to continue. I can change the field value successfully afterwards! I just changed those fields back to "Non-shared" again. That's it! 

Azure Notification Hubs provide the feature to send push notifications to a Mobile App including iOS application, Android application, Windows Store or Windows Phone 8 application. First of all, you need to create a notification hub in Azure portal . Secondly, you need to build a mobile application to connect to the notification hub and also receive message from it. You can send notifications by using Notification Hubs from any backend via the REST interface . This scenario can be used in different cases such as Error message notification, Timesheet reminder, etc. Below is a screenshot of a sample notification in Windows Phone, and it would be extended to Windows store desktop App as well. The detail tutorial is in here . In addition, you can use Azure Mobile service to send notification when end user add / update /delete data in Azure database.