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Video Series: A Campaign from A to Z #4: Analytics and custom segments
In this episode, we’ll look at the built-in features that Experience Analytics has to offer and how we can now gain insights thanks to our campaign setup. Additionally we’ll look into custom segments – a feature new to Sitecore 10 allowing to set up custom filters for Experience Analytics reports.
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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 are starting to look quite impressive. XdbTracker is available on Github: https://github.com/lowedown/XdbTracker XConnectHelper can also…
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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 two powerful concepts – built in to the Sitecore Experience Platform – provide a huge…
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DiSA Episode 2: Campaigns & Channels
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 are triggered and how to customize triggering.
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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 don’t worry: there will be code in the later episodes! 🙂 Any kind of feedback…
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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 prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. The reason for…
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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 data pushed to the correct places, when my session ends? Why is GeoIP detection not working?
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Web Forms For Marketers meets Sitecore DMS
I’ve had the chance lately to dive into some more advanced features of the Web Forms for Marketers Module in combination with Sitecore DMS. This blog post shows some of the advanced possibilities you have using WFFM in combination with DMS. Tagging A neat feature you have in when working with WFFM and DMS is…