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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Sitecore 9.0.2 compatibility with MS SQL 2016 Standard SP2
We are currently using Sitecore 9.0.2 with MS SQL Standard Edition 2016 with ALWAYSON HA.
The xDB is running on SP2-CU4 since always and is working fine. We recently upgraded the XM from SP1-CU15 to ...
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Getting Error while creating contact through xConnect in Sitecore9
I am getting an exception/error while I am creating contact though xConnect Code,
below is my code:
using (var client = CreateClient())
{
try
{
...
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Sitecore 9.1 xDB Data Migration Tool 2.1 multi threads issue
When I start "MongoDB Contacts to xConnect Migration" pipeline with 1 thread all works fine. But when start with more then 1. I have an error after random count of processed contacts.
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Why I can't create historical Interactions (with a date in the past) And I can't add new facets to already existing interactions
1. Can't add new interaction with historical date
This is the only way to add new interaction problematically
new Interaction(contact, InteractionInitiator, channelId, userAgent);
and as you can see,...
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Any insight on how to fix “XConnect Exception Filter OnException” errors?
Our instance has been pretty stable until recently we started receiving the following errors in XConnect.
Main log
[Error] XConnect Exception Filter OnException(), url - "https://site.com/odata/...
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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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Use Sitecore Analytics to show most viewed pages
I have a requirement to track the most viewed pages in last month in our Sitecore 9.0.1. I have followed the answer here https://theroks.com/use-sitecore-analytics-show-number-pageviews/ and tried to ...
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Update Sitecore Contact Programmatically :For Users on a Shared Computer
I am using Sitecore API to identify and update the contact with a Member ID value Post login.
But the below code seems to update the interaction to the same contact i.e. If two people are logging in ...
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Check personalization views on a component without AB tests
What should be done in order for one to check how many views a personalized view of a component has x the default version of that same component?
This component is on a homepage of a website and ...
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WFFM 8.2 Trying to manually insert form onto razor view
In the header html of our website we would like to insert a form, but it is not accessible from experience editor or content editor so I would like to insert it directly into the cshtml page for the ...
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1 CD in pair behind ELB loses connection to SQL
Sitecore 8.2 Update 3. Running two CDs behind ELB in AWS. Same region. This week, one of these CDs has twice lost it's ability to connect to the SQL server (according to the logs). Running SQL on RDS ...
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Explore mode GeoIP data not available
In Sitecore Experience Editor Explore view I am facing one issue in which I am not getting any country list in GeoIP section under Visitor information. Below is the screenshot of my page.
Please ...
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What does this Experience Profile error mean?
I have a Sitecore 9.1.1 distributed instance. I am seeing this in the CMS site log files a lot. Not sure at all what it means.
10360 15:50:06 ERROR [Sitecore Services]: HTTP POST
URL https://...
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How to track component wise user views
We have a video component on the page. I just want to know how many users have viewed the component and how many users clicked the video. How can we achieve it?
Any ideas?
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Is it possible to use any personalisation rules without xDB
Is is possible to make use of any of the component personalisation rules without xDB being enabled? e.g. to swap / hide a component depending on the current date? I'm not interested in tracking the ...
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Tracker.Current is null on CD for media request event
I'm using Sitecore 9.1.1, and I've wired an event up to media:request that forces a track of the download page event, as well as increments a counter of number of downloads that a user has performed ...
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GeoIP Location data not coming in database and interaction object?
I am trying to implement geo-location-based personalization for my website and for this, I would like to test the data locally.
I have enabled geolocation services from app-center and tested with the ...
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How do you add a sitecore contact in CM environment
I am using the below code to add a Sitecore contact which works fine in my Standalone environment but is causing issue on CM environment as the contact is coming null.
Tracker.Current.Session....
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Add values for contact facets
I'm using 9.1.1, and at the moment all of the contacts I have in experience profile are coming back as unknown. For our system, you have to log in to use anything beyond the homepage, and as part of ...
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SQL query against all xDB Shard databases
I am looking for a way on T-SQL to be able to query all the shards at same time.
It looks like Sitecore is using a ShardManager that is used on code, which makes sense for them. But I used SQL a lot ...
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Actual IP Address not showing in Mongo DB Interaction table though Analytics.RedactIpAddress is set to true
I know that by default IP address is hashed in Mongo DB interaction table(Sitecore 8.1 Update 2).
But recently I set the value Analytics.RedactIpAddress to true which is by default false, so that ...
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Experience Analytics dashboard gives errors
My Logs shows this error
2428 23:47:09 ERROR [Sitecore Services]: HTTP GET
URL http://ffg.local/sitecore/api/ao/aggregates/all/786FBA3A4573445EA74504E3CA5E48C1/all?&dateGrouping=by-week&&dateFrom=23-...
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WFFM not saving data
Sitecore 8.2 update 3. Just installed WFFM 8.2 update 3. Local (to CM) MongoDB for analytics (if that matters?)
I created a template for an item to save the results of a form submission and made "...
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Rebulding Database not showing previous analytics after upgrade
I have upgraded from Sitecore 9 to 9.2 recently. Looking into the database I see all interactions being written to xDB. But from the date of upgrade, the UI has not been updated on Experience ...
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Is it possible to associate goal triggering on button click without code?
In sitecore DMS is there any way to associate goal triggering on button click without code , i read some blogs which are giving info regarding how to associate item or pdf to trigger goal . So is it ...
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Sitecore 9 Operation failed: One or more dependencies failed
I am using Sitecore 9.0.2. I am using Update Contact details on submit button in forms to update facets in xDB. I am getting below error while I am submitting the form, it was working before.
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How do I change the Sitecore Analytics cookie to be SameSite=None?
With the default security changes in browsers, third party cookies are getting blocked. Sitecore's SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE doesn't seem to have a SameSite property in it so it is being treated as ...
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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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What is the proper troubleshooting technique for a “No known predicate type could be determined” error message?
As the question title suggests, I am looking for proper troubleshooting techniques in order to solve an error currently being experienced in a Sitecore 9.0.2 XP1 Topology Processing Role Server.
The ...
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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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Where Sitecore 9 stores anonymous contacts in DB?
Where Sitecore 9 stores anonymous contacts in DB? How Sitecore create anonymous contact start to end?
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XConnect: An error occured during resuming a previous index rebuild process
Does anyone have an idea about what could be causing this error? It happens after doing a re-build of the XConnect index. This is in Sitecore 9.3
2020-03-30 20:11:02.896 -05:00 [Error] An error ...
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xDB not tracking Custom Facet
Version: Sitecore 9.2
I have followed these tutorials:
- https://himmatsinghdulawat.blogspot.com/2019/06/create-custom-facet-model-in-sitecore-9.html
- How to properly configure a custom facet in ...
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How do I get SiteName populated for WebView facets?
I have CD server data getting collected by XConnect collection, but when it's serialized and saved to a shard, the WebView FacetData JSON is missing SearchKeywords and SiteName. Since SiteName is ...
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Sitecore 8.2 website went down when MongoDB crashed, how to prevent [duplicate]
Sitecore 8.2 Update 3
We have a single CM that also hosts MongoDB for analytics. We also have 2 CDs.
This morning MongoDB crashed when it apparently ran out of memory. I thought Sitecore was supposed ...
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Rebuild Reporting DB on Sitecore Managed Cloud
I am experiencing an issue where my Experience Analytics data is current but my Experience Profile data is out of sync. I believe to fix this issue, I need to rebuild the Reporting db and Analytics ...
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How to trigger a generic event through code
Page Events (defined in /sitecore/system/settings/Analytics/Page Events) cann be triggered like this:
var pageEventDefinition = Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.MarketingDefinitions.PageEvents[pageEventId];...
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Spoof IP Address for testing Sitecore Geolocation?
My site is on a CDN and uses True-Client-IP for tracking:
<setting name="Analytics.ForwardedRequestHttpHeader" value="True-Client-IP" />
I'm trying to test geolocation feature in production, ...
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Sitecore custom contact facet
Getting exception on Xdb BuildModel().
Please help me with the below exception.
'CollectionModel.Model' threw an exception of type 'System.TypeInitializationException'
Data: {System.Collections....
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Media library images not displaying - Invalid URI: The URI is empty
I'm on Sitecore 9.0. Sporadically after a build, the Media Library images all display as broken and when I try to browse to an image directly (e.g. mysite.com/-/media/images/logo.png) I see a server ...
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Slow Sitecore platform due to lot of data in Mongo DB
We observed very bad performance of Sitecore Digital Platform. Applications like List manager, indexing are very very slow. Contact data and corresponding properties within contact are getting ...
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Experience Analytics graph cannot be displayed due to a server error
I am trying to configure a CM + Process Server for Sitecore 8.2 Update-6. We are on Sitecore Managed Cloud M3. I went through the steps in the documentation and enabled/disabled all relevant configs ...
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How can I disable xDB?
If I don't have a working connection to MongoDB and I don't want to use xDB functionality. Currently, my logs are being filled with errors.
What is the configuration needed to disable xDB?
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xDB Data Migration Tool 3.0.0 [closed]
First question:
Do the packages get installed on the Sitecore 8 instance or the Sitecore 9.2 instance?
Second question:
The installation guide refers to three files:
Data Exchange Framework 3.0
xDB ...
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How can I see subscribe and unsubscribe list in sitecore database
Where is the following EXM information stored in Sitecore database (version 9.2).
Subscribe list
Unsubscribe list
I have checked in the Sitecore92_EXM.Masterdatabase. But I was unable to find it. ...
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How to programmatically trigger a goal to contact and then retrieve it in the same visit and in later visits
I want to trigger a goal programmatically to the website visitor/contact and retrieve this triggered goal during the contact's current visit and in his future visits. I could trigger the goal of using ...
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Sitecore 9.1 custom facets
I am upgrading my Sitecore 8.2 code to work with Sitecore 9.1
WE have custom facets and few custom facets have collection field like below code.
public IElementCollection<IJobPreferenceElement&...
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Using xDB Data Migration Tool 2.0.2
Is there a need for down time while tool is running?
If not, should we disable analytics during the process?
Thinking the site should be live but I do not want to have new data going into Mongo ...
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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 ...
