Questions tagged [xconnect]
For questions related to xConnect, the API service layer abstracting the storage architecture of xDB from those accessing xDB data.
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xConnect The HTTP response was not successful: Unauthorized
I'm trying to initialize a connection between a .NET Core application and an xConnect installation.
I ran into the following error:
An unhandled exception of type 'Sitecore.XConnect....
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Sitecore 9.3 Installation failing - 'Failed to start the Marketing Automation Engine service
I am trying to set up Sitecore 9.3 XP0 locally in a VM using SIA and it is failing at Step 67 of 92 with an error failed to start the marketing Automation Engine Service.
System....
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The HTTP response was not successful: Forbidden
I have tried Sitecore 9 update 1 installation on my local Windows 10 and encountered this error:
Exception: Sitecore.XConnect.XdbCollectionUnavailableException
Message: The HTTP response was not ...
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Issues with XConnect certificate does not contain Private Key
I have a Windows Server 2016, SIF and Sitecore Fundamentals installed where I am trying to provision a Sitecore 9 XP1
Here is the error I am seeing
CERT:\LocalMachine\My\...
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Issue with Sitecore 9 certificate missing private key
Trying my best to get my Sitecore 9 instance running on Windows 8.1 with IIS 8.5.
As mentioned in Sitecore guide, I am noticing lot of issues while installation.
After solving a few of them, I ended ...
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xConnect WebApps on Azure PaaS not working
I installed the vanilla Sitecore 9.0 version from Marketplace on Azure PaaS
with XP and extra small configuration and select the option self signed certificate for xConnect client certificate, but ...
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Failed to start service Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer when installing Sitecore 9
While running SIF to install 9.0.1 the powershell script stops during the Install-SitecoreConfiguration @xconnectParams step which deploys the xConnect instance giving the following exception.
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How best can you scale xConnect to handle high traffic?
This is a follow on from questions about how best to get data out of xConnect (What is the preferable way to get contact information out of xConnect and to a consumer?)
How should you approach ...
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Any Guidelines to choose between SQL or Mongo for xDB on Sitecore 9?
Want to check if we have any guidelines (metrics) helpful to decide either Mongo or SQL will be good fit while Upgrading to Sitecore 9, especially if the current version in below 7.5 (No Mongo). ...
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What is the Identifier Source of a Contact After Upgrading to 9 / xConnect?
In Sitecore 8.x, when a contact is identified, it's done so just on a single string like an email address or username.
In Sitecore 9.x (more specifically xConnect) when a contact is identified, there ...
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Getting list of contacts assigned to Contact / Segmened List in Sitecore 9.0.1 programatically
We are trying to get list of contacts programmatically in latest Sitecore 9.0.1. We want to show list of contacts on pages based on their linkage to certain list.
We need to get the same list of ...
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Troubleshooting "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" error in XConnect on Sitecore 9.1
I have a freshly-created Sitecore 9.1 instance.
After setting up the xDB Migration Tool, I get the following error message when running the Troubleshooter:
ERROR [Data Exchange] at Sitecore.Xdb....
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HTTP Error 403.16 - Forbidden- Sitecore xConnect
I installed Sitecore 9 for xP0 , but I'm facing an issue with xConnect I tried to Open the web https://sitecorexp1.xconnect and I see an error HTTP Error 403.16 - Forbidden Your client certificate is ...
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Talking to xConnect in .Net vs .NetCore
Sitecore 9.1
.NetCore 2.1
.Net 4.7.1
Below you will find the hello world console app code to talk to xConnect. You pass it a thumbprint and a url and it will try to initialize a connection. The only ...
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How to check whether my license file supports Sitecore 9 and xConnect
I am trying to install Sitecore 9 on my Windows 10 machine. I came across many issues during installation. Finally i stuck at almost last step where installation script tried to start xConnect service ...
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"Could not deploy package" error while installing Sitecore 9 update 2 setup on Remote server
I am facing below issue while installing Sitecore 9 update 2 on my Azure VM server, which doesn’t have any Visual Studio or SQL Management Studio installed.
Error states : Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema....
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How to replace `CertificateHttpClientHandlerModifier` to `X509Certificate2`
I'm using Sitecore 9.2 scaled environment on Azure, and am trying to make a .Net core 2.2 project published on azure app service connects to XConnect which is also on Azure, am following this link ...
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Sitecore installation error - Dacpac file path: Instance failure. System.InvalidOperationException:
I'm trying to install Sitecore v9.1 update 1 with Sitecore SIF. I did install all the prerequisites. Everything looks fine. Also the script does install 7 databases (like MarketingAutomation, ...
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List Manager not indexing contacts after CSV import
I am using EXM, and trying to upload contacts via List Manager.
After uploading csv I found that recipients are still 0 so I opened log file and I found some Exceptions like that and I would like if ...
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Install xConnect Separately with Sitecore upgrade
I am looking to install xConnect only through SIF with 9.1.1. I am upgrading from Sitecore 8.2 so didn't had any preexisting xConnect setup.
Following the upgrade process from Sitecore which says ...
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XConnect IndexWorker error "Tokens are incompatible, they have different set of shards."
The log for my IndexWorker is filling up with the following error:
Tokens are incompatible, they have different set of shards
Any ideas what might be causing this?
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Can I call the oData service directly in xConnect?
I've been playing round with Sitecore 9 recently and the xConnect api and had a question around oData.
Underneath the api layer there is an oData service that can be reached via: https://...
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Display custom facets in Sitecore Experience Profile version 9 or later
I am creating custom facet for saving contact information (Like Car Model, Variant, Color, etc) into XDB. I am successfully able to save and retrieve custom facets details with respective Contact. Now ...
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Experience Analytics fails on Sitecore 9.0.1
I am having trouble configuring the analytics engine on Sitecore 9 with a pretty standard install of Sitecore XP1.
I'm using the self-signed certificates and none of the analytics graphs display ...
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Single contact showing in Sitecore Experience Profile
I've created an xConnect client API for Sitecore 9 that creates new contacts and sets the facet properties. I've added multiple contacts to xDB, however only one contact has shown in the Experience ...
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xConnect contact search by preferred email
Here is my code for searching contact by preferred mail.
using (XConnectClient client = SitecoreXConnectClientConfiguration.GetClient())
{
try
{
var queryable = client.Contacts
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ERROR Cannot start analytics Tracker
I get below error in Content Delivery Environment in Sitecore 9.0.2
11284 11:00:12 ERROR Cannot start analytics Tracker Exception:
System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException Message: An error occurred ...
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Sitecore EXM insert Custom tokens issue
I am using Sitecore 9.0.1 and I am trying to insert custom tokens to email in EXM. I followed Sitecore's documentation and spent hours investigating possible solutions but somehow my tokens did not ...
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Patching xConnect, AutomationEngine, IndexWorker configuration
Is there a way to patch xConnect, AutomationEngine, IndexWorker configuration in a way we do it for sitecore instance?
I.e. configuration that resides in xConnect instance folders:
\App_data\config\...
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Is there an automatic way to migrate engagement plans to marketing automation plans?
This question prompted when I was answering an Engagement Plans question. I couldn't find an answer anywhere nor an explicit mention that Marketing Automation Plans are essentially replacing ...
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Sitecore 9 Installation error "Failed to start service 'Sitecore xConnect Search Indexer"
I am trying to install Sitecore 9 in my Windows 10 box. At first attempt, it was failed with this exception.
Failed to start service 'Sitecore xConnect Search Indexer'
I got the one answer for ...
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How to programatically add contact to a contact list in Sitecore 9.0u1
I need to programmatically add contact to a contact list. How to do this in Sitecore 9.0.1?
I find a documentation. Here it says this below line will add contact to a list.
Contact contact = ...
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Difference between xConnect model versions
I've deployed 2 versions of a custom xConnect model I created called DetailModel.
According to the documentation, the xConnect models' unique name is name of model + version.
The model’s full name (...
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Sitecore XP 9.1.1 certificates error
I get the following error from my CD Server(serverB)
The certificate was not found. Store: My, Location: LocalMachine, FindType: FindByThumbprint, FindValue: """"", InvalidAllowed: False.
Source: ...
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What is the preferable way to get contact information out of xConnect and to a consumer?
In the xDB world (ie in 7.5/8) we created a typical MVC controller & view to allow us to get information to the browser via a json feed. Example data would be custom facets we could import from ...
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Can't start the 'Marketing Automation Engine' service
Can't start the Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine on my Sitecore 9.1 instance.
When I try to do so, that's what I get on my log file:
19:02:11 15:56:15 ERROR Exception when executing agent ...
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Connecting two Azure services to access XConnect
I'm using Sitecore 9.2 scaled environment on Azure, and am trying to make a .Net core 2.2 project published on app service azure connects to XConnect which is also on Azure, am following this link ...
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How to properly configure a custom facet in Sitecore 9.1
I have been trying the Sitecore samples to define a custom facet, and it all works if I do it outside from Sitecore. But when I want Sitecore to track the contacts and add data to the custom facet, I ...
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Experience Analytics Error throwing System.Data.DataException error
I am in the upgrading process of Sitecore instance from 9.1 to 10.2 where the upgrade steps have been followed where I created a fresh 10.2.x instance and deployed the solution in to after the fact it ...
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Failed to start the Marketing Automation Engine service - installation sitecore 10
I am trying to install sitecore 10 using garphic setup but i get error.
I checked the logs of xconnect-log-MarketingAutomation and i found the below error, also i sarched about the error and i did ...
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Xdb.Collection.Shard0 Login failed for user
I have a Sitecore 9.3 instance. I installed on my local machine. After install, I moved my SQL databases to a server. I updated the connection strings and Sitecore itself is working fine. XConnect ...
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Sitecore 9 Experience profile dashboard shows contact name and email as "Unknown"
We are working on porting our site to Sitecore 9 Update 1.
We have installed Sitecore 9 Update 1 with (WFFM) Web Forms For Marketers 9.0 Update-1 and Solr 6.6.2.
Issue:
The contacts are always shown ...
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All Goals trigger through programmatically are visible in Experience Profile but not in Experience Analytics report
All Goals trigger through programmatically are visible in the Experience Profile > Goal Report but not in Experience Analytics Report.
We have triggered goal programmatically and attached with a ...
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Error with custom Page Event Model - Sitecore.XConnect.Schema.XdbModelException
Environment: Sitecore 9.3
I have created a custom Page Event.
When I am trying to use it throws this error:
48856 14:48:01 ERROR Cannot execute 'sessionEnd:batch:ended' event
Exception: System....
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How to get a contact with custom facet?
I am trying to get a Sitecore contact with the custom facet. The custom facet is working fine I have verified it.
The following code is running fine on Standalone and CM environment but is throwing ...
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How do you properly query xdb for a contact by email?
I am trying to search an email in Sitecore Xdb using the code :
var queryable = client.Contacts
.Where(c => c.GetFacet<EmailAddressList>(EmailAddressList....
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Capturing the close of a modal as an xDB event
I'm working on a scenario where I have a modal on a page, and if/when the user dismisses it, I want to make it such that the modal doesn't come back up for the user. The ideal scenario is to have this ...
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Programmatically getting list of goals triggered through xConnect for certain contact
I would like to get check whether certain goal was triggered through xConnect for certain contact programmatically. We are using Sitecore 9.0.1.
I have found this article:
https://doc.sitecore.net/...
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Experience Analytics Graphs are not loading in Sitecore 9.3
We are working on Sitecore 9.3 with SXA and having a scaled setup, 2 CMs, 4 CDs,1 Xconnect server, 1 Solr server, and initially, there were some errors on the Experience analytics tab, and that we ...
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Enabling the internal search in the sitecore analytics
I try to track the top searched keywords to my website using the Sitecore analytics, I read that first I need to register the search page event, So I wrote this :
if(Tracker.Current == null)
{...
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