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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 |

In this episode of Diving into Sitecore Analytics, we’re going to use campaigns to feed our acquisition reports with useful data. (and do some neat personalization) By the way, this post from 2014 is still valid! It describes how campaigns…

By Mark | October 8, 2019 | DMS, xDB | No Comments |

Video series “Diving into Sitecore Analytics” launched

I have launched a video series on youtube. The goal is to touch on as many Sitecore Analytics and Experience Platform features as possible without going into too much detail. We’ll start out with out of the box features…but coders…

By Mark | October 7, 2019 | DMS, xDB | No Comments |

Handling Analytics Processing Issues

Recently, authors were reporting that no more Analytics data was being displayed since a certain date. When analyzing the logfiles of the processing/reporting server, there were many of these entries: Exception: Sitecore.Xdb.Processing.Queue.ProcessingPoolException Message: Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed…

By Mark | September 24, 2019 | Infrastructure | 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 |

Watch your IDTables when upgrading

Recently after a major Sitecore upgrade, we ran into issues with items that have been synced from a DAM through a data provider. These items suddenly had different Guids than before which led to many broken links. The reason for…

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

10 issues you might run into when upgrading to Sitecore 9

In this post I’ll list 10 issues that – depending on your particular setup, you might also run into when upgrading to Sitecore 9. They are all easy to fix, so I hope this post saves you some time. 1.…

By Mark | December 3, 2018 | Upgrading | 1 Comment |

Customize Solr Managed Schema in Sitecore 9+

In Sitecore 9+ we can now populate Solr managed schema through the Sitecore control panel. It is still possible to use the legacy schema.xml files, but it is actually a lot more comfortable to be able to just deploy the…

By Mark | October 28, 2018 | ContentSearch | 1 Comment |

Santa’s little xDB Helper

Sorry for the xmas pun but hey, it’s December. Back to topic. Debugging xDB issues on a remote environment can be very difficult. Is the MongoDB connection OK? Is tracking configured correctly? Are contacts being created and identified? Is my…

By Mark | December 1, 2017 | Infrastructure, xDB | 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 |