Sitecore Turn Off SPEAK Dialog UI in 7.5

Question

I have installed 7.5 and the progress was 7.0 -> 7.2 -> 7.5

However, when I click "Insert Link", "Media Link.. " and some specific link in content editor, Sitecore says the dialog path can not be found.

So, I knew that Sheer UI (old UI) replaced with SPEAK UI from 7.2. Many articles (https://briancaos.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/disable-sitecore-speak-dialogs/) says that I can comment out "overrideDialogs" node in "Sitecore.Speak.config" file to keep using old UI. But, the nodes are located at "Sitecore.Speak.Applications.config" file, not "Sitecore.Speak.config" file.

I tried to comment out the node in "Sitecore.Speak.Application.config" file, but it doesn't make the dialog UI pop up and it shows me the same error.

How can I change this back to use old dialog UI in 7.5? Or, how can I enable SPEAK dialog UI in 7.5??

Answer 1

How about taking a brand new 7.5 install and copying the "sitecore" directory to your existing, upgraded instance?

Answer 2

Yes, that can be achieved by disabling Speak overrideXmlControls in the Sitecore.Speak.config indeed. Create a custom configuration with the following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
    <sitecore>
        <overrideXmlControls>
            <override xmlControl="Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Media.MediaBrowser" with="/sitecore/client/applications/Dialogs/SelectMediaDialog">
            <patch:delete />
        </override>
    </overrideXmlControls>
</sitecore>

Important! Keep in mind the order so that the configuration file needs to be bellow the Sitecore.Speak.config in the Include folder otherwise the configuration file won’t work because the original Sitecore.Speak.config overrides won`t be registered (a good name will be z_Sitecore.Speak.Overrides.config). Full article available here:

http://sitecorecorner.com/2014/08/13/switch-sitecore-7-2-speak-ui-media-browser-to-the-good-old-sheer-ui-media-browser/