In my previous post I’ve described what Custom Values are in Marketing Automation, and how you can use them. In this post I’m showing you an example how to create a generic condition so you can use the custom values easily in every Automation Plan. To give the content-editor the maximum amount of flexibility, you’d …
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Sitecore Marketing Automation is a really powerful tool, if used correctly. An often overlooked feature is the ability to use Custom Values when enrolling a contact into an automation plan. By using this feature, you can make an automation plan “contextual”, and with that I mean that you can act on the values that are …
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Sitecore lets you clone an item which means that instead of copying an item to a new location, it copies the original item and keeps it’s fields up to date with the source item. Sitecore describes it perfectly as follows: “A clone is an item that is not just a copy of the original item, …
Within Sitecore 10+, a lot has changed in regards to tracking consent and being GDPR compliant. Sitecore 10 introduced default functionality out of the box, which you can use to configure explicit consent for tracking as is shown in the documentation. To make sure a contact isn’t tracked unless he gives his consent, all you …
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When creating custom conditions using the Sitecore.Framework.Rules.ICondition interface you might have run into the problem that there’s no way to make use of Depdency Injection. If you add parameters to the constructor, you’ll get exceptions that the object can not be created, and there’s no ServiceLocator pattern implemented. The creation of the ICondition implementations is …
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Update: There’s a fix from Sitecore that can be found on this page. Recently I’ve upgraded a clients solution to Sitecore 10.2, and all of the sudden (without changing anything) the site stopped working and was spitting out a continuous stream of errors. This was resolved after restarting the applicationpool, thus I didn’t think much …
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After an upgrade to Sitecore 10.2, I’ve noticed that it took a long time when we create a new EXM message, or when we try to edit a draft. We were looking at the screen with the loading icon for around 2 minutes every time we edit or create an message. This is because EXM …
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Sitecore has a really nice docker example project, which will help you start using Docker for local development. This project uses Traefik as a forward proxy, which makes it easy to configure and use SSL for all the services within the project. When you run the project, you will have to make sure that certain …
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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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