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Measure engagement on a per product basis

I'm trying to measure engagement per product and I'm spinning my wheels a bit. Goals seems to be close to what I'm going for but "engagement value" is a one-dimensional metric when what I really need ...
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Button Text personalization in WFFM

Is it possible to personalize the Submit Button text in WFFM. Our requirement is to display the different Button text based on the User type logged-in. We have a rule to identify the person type Or ...
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Experience Editor's unexpected behavior

I have the below situation. I have a .NET Core application that sends a Contact with Facet data to xConnect to show interest in a category (using profile keys). A Sitecore website, on which I ...
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Contact custom facet personalization using xConnect

I'm trying to implement personalization with the contact custom facet in xDB pulled using xConnect. Here I'm using ICondition as mentioned in the Sitecore doc link. After implementing everything, It's ...
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Sitecore personalization rule "goal was triggered during a past or current interaction" not being triggered

Here is what I did: I set Component A to show after Goal A was triggered during a past or current interaction'. Then I triggered Goal A and I was successfully identified as a contact by adding an ...
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How to hide WFFM field with personalization rules in client-side?

We are trying to hide some form field based on some condition but the existing Rules Action hides the filed from the server side. We will be storing some value in field and these values will be ...
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How to measure personalization efforts

The big question! You can have all the personalization scenarios in the world, at some point you want to know what the hard numbers are. Sitecore gives the opportunity to test components, however A/B ...
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Implement personalization on component level

I have a personalization scenario in which we want to change a component (button label) based on a triggered goal. Not very difficult you would think, but the component exists on all pages. It's ...
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What does the number of interactions mean in the personalization visitor rules

When adding personalization rules to a component I get this option: "where the specific campaign was triggered during a past or current interaction and when the number of elapsed days compares to ...
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How to send the real-time personalization events data in Sitecore to external system like google analytics?

I need to capture the real-time personalization event in sitecore, capture the data and send to the google analytic through JavaScript API(using DataLayer). Scenarios Capture the event when ...
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Custom Sitecore rule, define query for parameter item

I am creating a custom Sitecore Rule, in the rule text I need to define a parameter that allows the user to pick an Item using the Tree interface. However the tricky part is that the root needs to be ...
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Dynamic content in body copy based on url parameter

A newbie question please: I have a URL: www.example.com/?location=London I want to change a part of the title, headline and body text from the default value (UK) to the supplied value (say London). ...
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How can I personalize content within a JSON endpoint served by Sitecore?

I have different sets of content that would be relevant to different users. Is it possible to serve this variety of content via an endpoint that exposes JSON? If so, what would need setting up in ...
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Personalization Rules Being Ignored In Experience Editor

I am setting up personalization on my site (Sitecore 8.2 Update 2). I have set up rules, pattern cards, etc. but apparently have something wrong. In Sitecore Experience Editor, I see: Yeah, you ...
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Personalisation on item's children

I'm trying to find out the best-performance way to make personalized sidebar menus. Each link has conditions that determine whether or not it should be included in or excluded from the menu. I ...
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Programmatically acquiring the best matching pattern card for the current visitor

According to the following sitecore post: https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/digital_marketing/personalization/insession_personalization/pattern_cards "Sitecore calculates the ...
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Test Sitecore personalization on Non-Prod enviroment

We want to test Sitecore personalization on staging instance before directly making changes on live pages. We have one Geo IP location license active on prod CM instance, so to test personalization ...
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How to visualize the results from A/B testing as soon as possible in the reporting?

I'm setting up some local development tests to properly validate the functionality of AB Page- and Component tests. I'm using the /admin/kill.aspx page to succesfully kill a session. I can see data ...
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Does personalization require a specific license?

I'm looking at the list of licenses and wondering if there is one specific license that enables personalization. If so, which license should I be looking for? Using Sitecore.NET 8.0 (rev. 151127)
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Rule to set datasource based on search result

Using sitecore 8 (8.2 update 3 to be specific) I'm looking to be able to create a rule based on some condition which will set the datasource (and maybe rendering) to the most appropriate result from ...
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How can I programmatically list all personalization in my page?

I am trying to get all personalization set in a given page from a RenderingController context. Any idea? public ActionResult GetPersonalizationRule() { var contextItem = Sitecore.Context.Item; ...
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What is difference between Sitecore Profile Card and Pattern Card

What is the main difference between Profile Card and Pattern Card. They both look similar. I would like to know what are the use cases where I can use profile card and use cases for Pattern Cards. I ...
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SXA: Personalization not working with Carousel

I have a SXA Carousel component on my homepage I would like to personalize. I added a few rules and associated datasources for each of them. Then I noticed the same datasource was always used, no ...
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Personalization using a Campaign not working

I have created a Test Campaign. I am now trying to Personalize a home page component using the Campaign trigger. However the Personalization rule is not firing. I can see the campaign has been ...
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Personalization Rules Chaining

I need to use sitecore rules to personalize the contents that I want to display to users. For example, I configured two basic rules on a component. When used separately, both rules evaluate to true. ...
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How do I do a component test for a personalized component?

I'm running Sitecore 8.1 (Original Release), using the personalization features of Sitecore. Here's what my setup looks like: I have a "donate" banner component that is personalized based on how much ...
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Personalization rule by GeoIP -> Business name

Does anyone know how the following rule works: where the business name compares to specific value What is it the Business name and how it populates?
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How do you personalize a banner that is on multiple pages?

I'm using Sitecore 8.1 Original Release, and I've created a banner advertisement that I want to display on every page of my website. The banner is using personalization to determine which variation it ...
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Sitecore 8.0 Visitor Rules availability

Do we have below 2 conditions available in Rule Set Editor for Personalization in Sitecore 8.0? If not, do we have any alternatives except custom rule creation? Where the specific campaign was ...
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Set query as datasource in personalization

I'm on Sitecore 8.2, using MVC. I have two sites, and I'm defining presentation details on Standard Values of the template, so that I can use one presentation details setup for rendering the same ...
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Logs on personalization

Does anyone know whether it`s possible to get from the logs whether Sitecore is rendering a personalized view? I mean I know we can check the output by looking at the site but wondering whether ...
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Get the last goal triggered by the current visitor

Is there a way in c# to get the name of the last goal triggered by the current visitor? A simple conceptual example: Bob visitors the homepage and clicks on a button (triggering a goal called "my ...
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Missing Item ID [closed]

I have in my local machine a clean installation of Sitecore 8.1. I did the upgrade to Sitecore 8.2 rev. 161221. Now I'm trying to do a component personalization, and after I click on "Personalization" ...
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Engagement value points condition not working in SXA personalization

I am using personalization in Sitecore 8.2 SXA. I am using the engagement value point condition so that when the number of points reach certain number, the user is shown another content. But it is not ...
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Personalisation of videos

Using OOTB Sitecore functionality: I have a bucket of video items, when a visitor views a video we have a control for them to say whether they like or dislike the video. What would be the best way to ...
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Personalization and Pattern Card Matching

Using 8.1 I would like to implement some personalization on the top banner of a page. So, if the user matches Pattern Card A, they see banner A, if they match Pattern Card B, they see banner B, and ...
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Personalize a component using outcomes

I would like to personalize a component depending on whether a certain outcome has been triggered in the last 30 days. In my opinion the condition below should be able to get the job done: where ...
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Altering sublayout if the visitor has no interaction with it

I'm running sitecore 7.2. A sublayout is shown and there will be a button on it to go to the detail. If the visitor does not click on the button if he sees the sublayout for X-times the sublayout ...
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Customizing the Personalization Rules

How can I change the "where the site name compares to value" personalization rule so that "value" is a list of Sites driven by my configuration? I have a website in multiple languages with multiple ...
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Is it possible to fetch datasource and personalized content of context item?

Context Item- mypage -- Presentation ----Controller Rendering -R1 with datasource value -D1 -----R1- Personalize Content.D2 How do I refer both these data content and get it rendered in given page ...
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Storing a user interaction with a page outside of session

Alright, I will just dive into explaining the situation: On a page, we have a component called the Help Message. This component will render above most of the content and continue to show until the ...
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How can I personalize based on geolocation for first page load?

Typically, during the start of a new session, Sitecore uses an agent to asynchronously lookup the geo data of the visitor - but this means that geo-based personalization isn't available on the first ...
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Sitecore IP Geo location Service-Personalization with Geo-based conditions does not work

Sitecore Personalization using GEO IP is not executed . I have activated "Sitecore IP Geo location Service" and followed all steps needed to activate the service for Sitecore instance (8.1 update 1) ...
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Behavioral personalization?

We currently have a site that uses some simple personalization based on some "if/then" conditions. For instance, we have one component that is personalized based on date. Another is based on whether ...
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Reusing a set of personalization rules?

I am a marketer responsible for setting up a new campaign on our Sitecore website. We have content which we want to target at a very specific customer segment -- customers from a specific Geo on ...
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Minimizing and Maximizing Profile Key Values Programmatically

Background: One of our clients has contracted us to create a "siloing" feature on their site, using personalization. Basically, a visitor would come to the site and optionally self-identify as a ...
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Sitecore Personalisation - Profiles and Pattern Cards

I'm trying to come up with a good answer to a question I get asked a lot. Why does Sitecore have both pattern and profile cards? Outside the standard answer: profile cards are for tagging content ...
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Personalizing components with Analytics disabled in Sitecore 7.2

I've just come across an issue with missing personalization options on a Sitecore 7.2 website. Analytics was recently disabled. I found an article explaining that disabling Analytics hides all ...
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How does Sitecore "match" a pattern card for personalization?

I understand the basic concepts of pattern cards and profile keys. But how does Sitecore determine that a user matches a particular pattern card? How many pages tagged with that card does a user need ...
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How to invoke other actions in Conditional Renderings?

Another question here (Can I change the order of components in placeholder based on personalization?) got me thinking - maybe there was a way to actually dynamically assign a placeholder to a ...
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