Experience Sitecore !

I am quite often kicked-off into login screen due to session expiration or other reason that invalidate the current session. Even browser kindly stores last username and password for me, it takes some time to figure out what went on and use a mouse in order to click Submit button. If you opted out of browser remembering passwords for you and your password is smth. more complicated than b - then you'll likely to lose even more time. Let's fix that by writing auto-login script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Sitecore autologin
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Automatically logs into Sitecore, especially helpful on session timeouts
// @author       Martin Miles
// @match        */sitecore/login*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    var login = document.getElementById('UserName');
    var password = document.getElementById('Password');
    var submit = document.getElementById('LogInBtn');

    login.value = 'admin';
    password.value = 'b';
    submit.click();
})();

Works like a sharm - as soon as timeout brings you to Login screen, scrip does the rest! This of course is good to use on dev machines, but not qute suitable for production scenarios due to security concerns.

More advanced script

So now, after re-logging to Sitecore, you'll be redirected to Content Editor within Sitecore Desktop opened. It works!

Now I am going to write a more complicated script that will open 6 Content Editors and each of them will open its's predefined item.

The full code of this script can be obtained from my GitHub designated repository by this link: the code. Please keep in mind that this is a quick demo variant I have quickly created for the purpose of this blog post, so the code is quite minimal just to meet the objectives  Below I am showing how the execution looks like:

    start                        // click Sitecore Start button
        .then(loadContentEditor) // select Content Editor from start button menu
        .then(getContentEditor)  // gets iFrame handler in order to pass down the pipeline to furhter callers
        .then(clickId)           // expand Content node
        .then(clickId)           // expand tenant node
        .then(clickId)           // expand site node
        .then(clickId)           // expand Home page node
        .then(selectItem)        // click home item in order to select

        .then(startPromise)      // a 'promise' version of clicking Sitecore Start button
        .then(loadContentEditor) // ... repeat the above actions for new Content Editor iframe
        .then(getContentEditor)
        .then(clickId)
        .then(clickId)
        .then(clickId)
        .then(clickId)
        .then(selectItem)

const items = {
    content: "{0DE95AE4-41AB-4D01-9EB0-67441B7C2450}",
    content_tenant: "{3E49489A-45F6-4FDC-BC53-CA40592AE944}",
    content_site: "{6B81532B-FCF4-461A-9964-C82980AE2933}",
    content_site_home: "{8CCB4C5D-B4A2-4476-91AA-275E9D1FB05B}",
    content_site_data: "{D1F7AC1A-9A4F-4009-A9F4-F8012C25FD9D}",
    content_site_presentation: "{2273EE5A-C314-4453-A2F4-69AD28B5B252}",
    content_site_presentation_renderingVariants: "{A9A0A0B7-C16F-49C9-BDBB-4CCFFC15124A}",

    layout: "{EB2E4FFD-2761-4653-B052-26A64D385227}",
    renderings: "{32566F0E-7686-45F1-A12F-D7260BD78BC3}",
    feature: "{DA61AD50-8FDB-4252-A68F-B4470B1C9FE8}",
    renderings_tenant: "{CD3E1C5B-DF68-439B-8AA3-055FE2FD7D42}",
    renderings_tenant_components: "{A69A614C-11BC-4052-949F-54978988F653}"
}

	$Hostname = "YourSiteCustomHostname.dev.local" 
	$SiteNameHere = "$SolutionPrefix.$SitePostFix" # "Platform.dev.local"
	
        write-host "Adding IIS Hostname Binding for website (HTTP and HTTPS)"
        write-host "Site name: $SiteNameHere"
        write-host "Hostname: $Hostname"

	$cert=(Get-ChildItem cert:\LocalMachine\My | where-object { $_.Subject -match "CN=$Hostname" } | Select-Object -First 1) 
	if ($cert  -eq $null) { 
		$cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName $Hostname -CertStoreLocation "Cert:\LocalMachine\My" 
	} 
	$binding = (Get-WebBinding -Name $SiteNameHere | where-object {$_.protocol -eq "https"})
	if($binding -ne $null) {
		try{
	     	Remove-WebBinding -Name $SiteNameHere -Port 80 -Protocol "http" -HostHeader $Hostname
	     	Remove-WebBinding -Name $SiteNameHere -Port 443 -Protocol "https" -HostHeader $Hostname
		}
		catch{
		     	write-host "$SiteNameHere yet does not have a binding for $Hostname"
		}
	} 
	
	New-WebBinding -Name $SiteNameHere -IPAddress "*" -Port 80 -HostHeader $Hostname
	
	New-WebBinding -Name $SiteNameHere -Port 443 -Protocol https -HostHeader $Hostname 
	(Get-WebBinding -Name $SiteNameHere -Port 443 -Protocol "https" -HostHeader $Hostname).AddSslCertificate($cert.Thumbprint, "my")