Within the past few days my main focus was upgrading a solution from Sitecore 9.2, to Sitecore 10.2. I didn’t have any struggles and the upgrade was pretty smooth, until the client started testing the search behaviour. Apparently Sitecore introduced a breaking change within Sitecore 10.1, that changes the way that queries with Contains are …
When you’re upgrading from Sitecore 9.2 to any higher versions, then there have been major changes in the setup of the Reference Data database. Within 9.2 and lower, there was a seperate table for the DefinitionMonikers, while in higher versions this table is merged with the Definintions itself. Depending on the amount of records within …
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With the introduction of IAR (Items as Resource), the horrible task of upgrading the items in the database came to and end. For upgrades, this means we can remove the items from the database, as they are now stored in the IAR files. The Sitecore UpdateApp is able to remove all items from the database …
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When Sitecore 9 was introduced, a new way of storing contact data called XDB was introduced. XDB which is short for the Experience Database, stores all the data related to contacts, such as interactions, contacts and their related facets. To support a large intake and retention of data, Sitecore chose to use sharded databases, which …
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Sitecore has abstractions built in to make use of the message bus functionality which is implemented with Rebus. There’s a great post from Volodymyr how to use this functionality within your own Sitecore solution. I wanted to make sure my messages were retried several times, as I’m calling an external API which isn’t available from …
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In my previous post i’ve described how you can bypass the Sitecore Forms validation, and a workaround to solve the problem. This workaround however breaks the conditional required fields which are the fields that will be hidden or shown depending on the conditions that you can configure on a field. The conditions are evaluated only …
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Recently I did a reinstallation of my laptop, and chose to get the latest and greatest Windows 11. While trying to install a Sitecore 9.1 environment using SIF, I ran into an issue where the Marketing Automation Service wouldn’t start, and where I couldn’t open XConnect using my browsers. This issue apparently also occurs on …
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Sitecore is great in collecting data; an insane amount of data. The XDB data that Sitecore collects is stored within the XDB Shard databases. These databases contain everything about contacts, their interactions and their facets. When you have Sitecore running for a while, you’ll see these databases grow. Out of the box there’s nothing that …
For one of our clients we noticed that when we create new Goal Maps for the Path Analyzer no data was returned and the following message is shown in the Path Analyzer: “No data was found for the selected map in the selected date range. Please try selecting a different map or changing the date …
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SXA is a great product and comes with opengraph support out of the box, you can define the following opengraph fields on every page: Title Description Image Type Site name Admins App Id All opengraph fields will not be outputted as HTML tags when they’re empty, except for the Title field. Sitecore uses the Sitecore.XA.Feature.SiteMetadata.Repositories.OpenGraphMetadata.OpenGraphMetadataRepository …
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