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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Sitecore 9.2 introduces the newly and improved submit action Send Email Campaign Message that can be used within Sitecore Forms, to send an EXM Campaign message to a contact. Within this submit action you can configure which fields from the form should be passed to EXM as an token, after which you can use the …
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The Sitecore Marketing Automation has serveral performance issues when trying to use it with a large number of contacts, which causes heavy database usage, or causing the plans to not function at all. In the upcoming blog posts about this subject I’ll share some tips on how to improve the performance. A full list of …
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The Sitecore Marketing Automation has serveral performance issues when trying to use it with a large number of contacts, which causes heavy database usage, or causing the plans to not function at all. In the upcoming blog posts about this subject I’ll share some tips on how to improve the performance. A full list of …
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