Questions tagged [xdb]
For questions related to the Sitecore Experience Database (xDB). If you're using Sitecore 7.2 or earlier, use the `dms` tag instead.
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rebuild the xDB index in Azure Search didn't finished
I followed this article to rebuild the xDB index in Azure Search.
About 2 hours after the rebuild index process started, i noticed that the rebuild process seemed to stopped (document of xdb-...
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Content Management having processing/aggregation config files Sitecore 8.1
I have a question regarding Content Management configuration settings. I have setup our CM environment as per Sitecore's instructions. I. In the excel sheet provided, I have filter out ‘Enable’ under ...
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Using Key Behavior Cache in scheduled task
I'm implementing a scheduled task that loops through contacts that have recently visited the site and sends over some analytics information to another service we have. The relevant parts of the code ...
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Sitecore 9 Session End Pipeline issue
I am trying to send some anonymous data into analytics and browse it in experience profile.
I set @Html.Sitecore().VisitorIdentification() into layout and added reference to mvc.extensions.
Set the ...
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How do you track known users in Sitecore 9 Update 1?
I am working on creating an intranet, and I know the users logging in to access the site. I am trying to create and update contacts' personal information. However, I am running into issues with Read-...
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XConnectClientConfiguration.InitializeAsync() hangs on Azure Web App
When I try to initialize my XConnectClientConfiguration when running on an Azure App Service, the call to cfg.InitializeAsync() simply hangs. The controller trying to connect to XConnect eventually ...
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Solr Error When Rebuild xDB Search Index
I'm working with Sitecore 9.0.2 and Solr 6.6.2.
When i tried to rebuild xDB search index, i saw some error in log of SOLR as below :
9/7/2018, 4:47:39 PM
ERROR false
RequestHandlerBase
org.apache....
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Is there a way to trigger Sitecore's bot detection on purpose?
I am working on a feature that should behave differently based on whether or not Sitecore believes that the current Contact is legitimate or a malicious bot.
I am using ContactClassification.IsRobot(...
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MaxPageIndexThreshold Reached when saving rapidly changing data to facets
Sitecore 8.2,
I've implemented a custom facet.
Every time the UI changes i will send an ajax request to update the facet data. After some time this log message appears:
18012 10:06:13 WARN Session ...
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Experience Profile search results show fewer visits than in details
For at least one of my contacts, when I search for them it shows that they have only one visit on the results page, but if I click into the details and look at the Activity tab and the visits there, I'...
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Custom facet data not being updated after initial flush to xDB
What i want to do:
Save and update facet data repeatedly through WebApi
Read the facet data through WebApi
Everything works fine, until the contact stops being updated. It seems as if, once the ...
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ERROR xDB unavailable when submitting contact - certificates?
I have problem with my Sitecore 9.0.1 XP1 installation. The environment is Azure VMs with Azure SQL and is following:
2x CM VMs
2x CD VMs
1x xConnect + Sitecore Processing VM
1x Sitecore Reporting VM
...
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Why Sitecore 9 xDB on SQL server 2016?
My curiosity is to know more about the features which Microsoft has provided in the SQL server 2016 version which also allows the Sitecore to implement the xDB on the SQL Server 2016 itself, which ...
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How do I keep from updating a merged contact card?
I'm using Sitecore 8.2 Update 4, and I've got an agent that goes through an external system and lets me know when certain data is updated in an external CRM system. Part of the data that comes through ...
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Why Xdb.Collection.Shard0, Xdb.Collection.Shard1 and Xdb.Collection.ShardMapManager databases in Sitecore 9 are not Partially Contained?
I am wondering what are the reasons or maybe technical limitations all of Sitecore 9 databases to be Partially Contained except Xdb.Collection.Shard0, Xdb.Collection.Shard1 and Xdb.Collection....
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Generate report from Interaction with custom model data
I need to generate report from the custom model data saved with the interaction.
I created a custom event with custom model and then trigger the action from the code based on the user behavior.
For ...
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Sitecore Commerce Account Login failed: xDB unavailable error
In our project we want to use out of box Login (Commerce Account) functionality but for some reason it doesn't work.
In response to Login post request system gives
"xDB unavailable" Error
(see ...
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Refreshing KeyBehaviorCache after triggering a goal
Certain actions the contact does trigger goals. The triggering of the goals should be visible in the public site via profile completion.
However, we're not seeing the triggered goals in the ...
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Can't create contact list
I couldn't create contacts list and getting following exception,
HTTP POST
URL http://x/sitecore/api/ssc/ListManagement/ContactList
Exception Sitecore.XConnect.XdbSearchUnavailableException: The ...
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No user inside “Experience Profile” in Sitecore 9
In Development environment , While clicking on XProfile icon , there is no user inside "Experience Profile", I am browsing website locally with loggedin/non- loggedin user but Still no record are ...
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ContactListManager.FindById returns null for a list that exists
I am trying to access the contents of a list using the ContactListManager, but in certain contexts the FindById(listId) method returns null.
This code is actually used as part of a condition in an ...
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Sitecore SXA Forgot Password component - Email could not be sent
I am having the problem with Sitecore SXA OOTB ForgotPassword component.
I have only customized the styling of it in my project and I am not able to send emails. I am getting this in the console when ...
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Pipeline issue while installing Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1
I am trying to install Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 with Sitecore 8.2 (initial release 160729). I am following the instruction at Sitecore Commerce SDN. After I install Commerce Server 11.4.153 using exe, ...
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How many times has my goal been triggered
This is somewhat related to How to view triggered goals
We are working on a solution where we need to trigger an analytics goal when someone submits a form. I've got that working by triggering the ...
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Add Behavioral Profiles directly on a contact
Using Sitecore 8.2 U6
So what I want to do is iterate through 100k contacts and add pattern card(s) to the contacts. I would like to do this without requiring the users to log in or writing code to ...
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Method not found: 'System.String Automation.get_MachineName()'
I'm trying to get a newly built Sitecore 8.2 working on my computer. The code compiles, but when I try to load the site it shows the error
Method not found: 'System.String Automation.get_MachineName()...
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VisitorIdentificationCSS fails for 1 of 2 sites in the same deployment
I have a single SC 8.2 rev 170278 deployment with 2 sites, each have their own url.
My template contains a
@Html.Sitecore().VisitorIdentification()
for both sites.
On both sites, this results in ...
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Sitecore Contact Card Merge causing Mongo Query errors
I'm on Sitecore 8.2 Update 4, and I'm also using xDB.
I have an API that is being called from a monitoring service to ensure that the API service is up. The API is secured via an encrypted Sitecore ...
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xDB Data out of sync
We have setup xDB(Sitecore 8.2 update 2), we have a separate CM server, separate CD server, separate Processing server and separate Reporting server. The configuration and setup of these environments ...
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How to create a new Sitecore Analytics report to show assets download per contact
I'm trying to create a report on sitecore analytics to display Assets downloaded per contact.
Currently there is a report to show downloaded assets but it doesn't display how downloaded those assets....
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Is there a reason xDb contact data is saved on session end vs immediately saving the data
So from my understanding it's better to use the tracker to update custom facets (or default facets) from a contact in xDb and then wait till SessionEnd to have that data saved to MongoDb. But my ...
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Sitecore XDB Reporting Database Rebuild
Does anyone know if after rebuilding the Sitecore XDB Database will Sitecore continue to update the reporting and reporting.secondary databases?
Or after perform in the rebuild will Sitecore only ...
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migrating xDB data to xConnect [upgrading sitecore 8.2 to 9.0]
I am at the final step of upgrading a website from 8.2 to 9.0 i.e. migrating the analytics data from MongoDB to xConnect. I am using xDB data migration tool and following the guide provided by ...
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Cleanup Sitecore Assets Download Data
I need to remove all the old Sitecore Analytics data related to Assets/Downloads.
I only need to remove these Assets related data from contacts/reports since there were some incorrect configuration ...
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Making Sitecore ignore the call to an API, while manually adding a page to the tracker
Sitecore 8.2 U4
I am working on tracking the movement of the user through my registration form. As they move from section to section, I am going to add a page to their tracker so I can see that ...
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Sitecore 9 Separate CD server - ERROR Cannot start analytics Tracker
I Installed Sitecore 9 XP1 with Separate CD and CM servers.
I am getting the below error in CD:
Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0
31260 12:55:...
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Switch xDB Search indexes from SOLR to Azure Search
I need some assistance switching the xDB search indexes from SOLR to Azure Search in a Sitecore 9 vanilla install (installed using SIF).
I have completed the following tasks:
Added a Search Service ...
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How to get all users who registered to an outcome
My task is to create a custom report which will export into a CSV that contains the details of all the users who have downloaded report files from our site. It will include not only information about ...
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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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Dependency between Federated Authentication and XDB
We are looking into implementing XDB for a solution which was recently upgraded to Sitecore 9.0.1 from Sitecore 8.2.2, and has a custom SSO login functionality already implemented, for user ...
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Enable Sitecore.Analytics.Tracking.Database.config on CM?
We need to regularly run a custom task to sync contacts in xDB from an external contacts list. It appears that we should use Sitecore's Analytics API to do this, and we think the task should run on ...
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sitecore_analytics_index on Sitecore 9
While troubleshooting issues with the Experience Profile results on a 9.0.1 recently installed instance (PaaS), I've noticed the below setting on Sitecore.ExperienceProfile.config.
<!-- Name of ...
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How to configure clusternames for separate clusters but shared domain cookie and shared session
If I have multiple CD clusters, that serve different subdomains (x.domain.com, y.domain.com), but they share top level domain cookie (.domain.com so same Sitecore contact). What is the correct ...
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Sitecore Analytics Exceptions with mongoDB Failure
Overview
During a disaster recovery test of our environment we make mongoDB unavailable to Sitecore with the expectation that Sitecore will continue to function normally due to the Configuration ...
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Get contact from xDB without identifier
I need to retrieve a contact from xDB, but I don't have that contact's identifier.
Normally I would do it like this:
ContactRepository contactRepo = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.CreateObject("...
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Read Contact for xConnect pipeline returns “No entities were read from xConnect”
I installed Sitecore Connect for Salesforce 2.0.1 and I set up environment using manual for 2.0.1.
However, after starting Pipeline Batch "xConnect Contacts to Salesforce Sync" I get info message ...
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WFFM how to remove a “Register a Goal” save action
How can I remove the disabled "Register a Goal" save actions from a WFFM form?
For some reason, some of our Form items have this save action and I want to remove it, but cannot see how to do that. I ...
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How to get the identifier of a contact programmatically [duplicate]
In Sitecore 8 it used to be very simple to get the identifier of a contact in code, with this method "contact.Identifiers.Identifier".
This seems to be no longer the case in Sitecore 9. Does anyone ...
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Tracker.Current is not initialized error, despite Xdb.Enabled being turned off
We are seeing the error Tracker.Current is not initialized appearing in our logs, despite the fact that we have Xdb.Enabled set to false and Xdb.Tracking.Enabled set to true (we are using some basic ...
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Updating xDB on async mode on Sitecore 8.2 update 4
We are pushing the customer details into xDB when they login. The problem is we may have times where more than 5k customers could be accessing the site at the same time, So I don't want updating xDB ...
