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Infinite loop with dictionary domain

Two caveats when working with Sitecore’s dictionary domains: 1. Set uniqe names on each dictionary domain item If two items have the same name i.E. “Dictionary” this will kick off an infinite loop when opening Experience Editor forcing the instance…

By Mark | October 22, 2020 | Languages, Uncategorized | No Comments |

DiSA Episode 4: Client-side Event Tracking

Coders, your time has come! In this episode, we’re going to trigger client-side events from Javascript using XdbTracker – a Client-side Event Tracker for Sitecore 9.x We’re going to fill even more built-in Experience Analytics reports with data… the dashboards…

By Mark | October 10, 2019 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

DiSA Episode 3: Content Profiling & Identification

In this episode of Diving into Sitecore Analytics, we’re going to gain insights into our (currently) anonymous audience. We’ll create segments based on content interest (Content Profiling) and we will look into identifying individual users based on unique identifiers. These…

By Mark | October 9, 2019 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Setting up and testing xConnect can be a challenge – especially in on premise setups. Are all the certificates set up? Are all databases up and connection strings correct? Initiially, tracking, processing and reporting can be somewhat of a black…

By Mark | December 30, 2018 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Allow lookup field queries to respect site root

This post shows two ways of using relative lookup field queries in a multisite environment.

By Mark | November 22, 2017 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |

Web API routes failing after updating to 8.1 Update-3

After updating to 8.1 Update-3 from 8.1 Initial Release our custom Web API routes on CM and CD were failing with the following exception:

By Mark | June 16, 2016 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Experiences with Glass Cache

In version 4, Glass Mapper introduced a caching mechanism to speed up access to mapped objects. Basically, once an object is mapped, it is stored in Glass Cache which by default utilizes HttpCache in Memory. The next time the same object…

By Mark | November 2, 2015 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |

Custom FxCop Ruleset for Sitecore

Recently, my Co-Worker Daniel and I were allowed to present our way of ensuring code-quality using Sonar and custom Sitecore FxCop rules at the first Swiss Sitecore User Group. Our solution is based on the shared source module of Johannes…

By Mark | November 10, 2014 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Failing DNS lookups slowing down site after upgrade

I ran into a problem today while setting up a content delivery server after upgrading from Sitecore 6.4 to 7.2. After setting everything up, the site ran very slowly and the Sitecore Log started filling with exceptions like this: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException:…

By Mark | November 4, 2014 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

PublishAgent skipping all items when CheckSecurity is activated

We ran into an issue when trying to publish the entire site on a regular basis using PublishAgent. We have it set up to publish the entire site every hour. <agent type=”Sitecore.Tasks.PublishAgent” method=”Run” interval=”01:00:00″> <param desc=”source database”>master</param> <param desc=”target database”>web</param>…

By Mark | July 10, 2014 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments |