With Sitecore CLI 3.0 a few new features have popped up, and for me, the most important one for me, is being able to publish changed items automatically when using Sitecore Content Serialization. In CLI 2.0 you had the option to run sitecore publish which would just do a full publish to the WEB database. …
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When you’re working with Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA), there’s a big chance that you’re using Scriban. Scriban is a lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET, and is used when you define a Template Variant field in any Rendering Variant. Within plain Scriban it is possible to use includes, which allows you to render another …
When a contact is merged with another contact, only facets that do not exist on the target contact will be copied. This means that when both the Source and Target contact have a value set in their Marketing Preferences facet, only the Marketing Prefences from the Target contact will be kept. This can cause unwanted …
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A while ago i’ve noticed that for one of our instances the memory usage of the XConnect Search Indexer was extremly high and would not go down. In addition to that, I also saw that changes on XDB related data were not reflected within Solr. Rescaling the webapp to a higher plan would just result …
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It is of course sad to see a contact unsubscribing from all email communcation on your website, but what if you could send him a nice confirmation email that might change his mind? The Sitecore Email Experience Manager is capable of sending confirmation mails to the contact when a few actions happen: Subscription confirmationThis happens …
Most of you will already know, but all Contact Identifiers within XConnect are case-sensitive. This means that your-email@test.com is different than your-email@TEST.COM. One should expect that the List Manager converts all emailaddresses to lowercase, so the import would be consistent, and that it does not depend on the Markteer knowing that he should have converted …
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XConnect offers you the possibility to register types for Dependency Injection, by using configuration files. Make sure your configuration file starts with sc. Make sure the service node (YourServiceNameMustBeUnique) is unique. This does not have to represent the name of your service and can be filled in to your own liking. You can use either …
When you create a new map for the Path Analyzer, this map needs to be deployed. When deploying a map, Sitecore also schedules an historical rebuild for the newly created map. Within the historical rebuild, Sitecore will aggregate all previous interactions, to supply the map with historical data. Unfortunately when you have a lot of …
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Sitecore Forms offers the possiblity for a content editor to prefill certain fields within the Form by using Value Providers. Sitecore does not ship any default value providers out of the box. Sitecore has a great example that uses a custom Value Provider to prefill form fields based on the values that are located within …
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