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Experience Analytics are not showing Online Interactions
After many days of research, I have determined it all boiled down to missing a step. Mistakes happen.
Post Deployment Steps
Once the deployment is complete, there are a few steps that you should ...
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Analytics "Tracker.Current is not initialized"
Cannot Create Tracker or Tracker.Current is Not Initialized - Common Fixes
Your problem is that after changing the Analytics.Clustername, you are not ensuring that the hostname (which is really what ...
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Analytics Dashboard has a 10 day delay and updates only gradually
To answer your first question, yes, it is absolutely possible that the server fulfilling the Processing role is occupied leading to processing taking a back-seat. Having said that, 10 days is quite a ...
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Is there any easter egg in Sitecore?
Maybe not an easter egg, but MainUtil class contains some "useful" methods like:
My favorites:
/// <summary>Returns false.</summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public static ...
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Clean Analytics in Sitecore 9
To clean the sql xdb database in Sitecore 9 you need to run bellow script in SQL on every shard that you have .
USE [yourdatabaseprefix.Collection.ShardX]
GO
DELETE FROM [xdb_collection]....
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Definition Not Found in Analytics Aggregation
Hot to fix
In Sitecore, go to Control Panel -> Deploy Marketing Definitions.
Select "Campaigns".
Click "Deploy".
See this official documentation page for detailed instructions on deploying marketing ...
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Is there any easter egg in Sitecore?
I have previously found 2 secret CLI commands in Sitecore JSS:
elephant-in-the-room:
> jss elephant-in-the-room
JSS CLI is running in global mode because it was not installed in the local ...
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When rebuilding the reporting database stuck on StoppingDataRecording
I figured out the problem. Turns out I had Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.Aggregation.Services.config and Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.Services.config files disabled. I had disabled them during the ...
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How does Sitecore xDB work in a basic CM/CD setup
Normally analytics data are stored in the MongoDb on session end. Then, with Sitecore Aggregators, the data is flushed into the Sitecore Reporting database at a defined interval. If not mistaken, the ...
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Does VisitorIdentification really need to be in the head element
Yes it does
Except if you don't use xDB or Analytics. In this case, VisitorIdentification is redundant.
What it does
It serves a number of purposes; but the most relevant to you is, it aids robot ...
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How to remove an IP address range from analytics?
You can do that by including the company IP range in
"excludedIPAddresses" section of Sitecore.Analytics.ExcludeRobots.config file (Or by creating a patch config):
<configuration xmlns:patch="...
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No contact created in MongoDB when session is closed
I know you have already found the exact solution for your particular case. Still, I'm going to list the steps I normally take when troubleshooting data saving issues in xDB. Hopefully, this can help ...
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Generating test data for Sitecore Analytics
You can use Sitecore XGenerator for generating analytics data. More information you can find on Sitecore Github Repository
Experience Generator
Generate "realistically looking" traffic for the ...
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xDB Cloud Experience Analytics not refreshing
NB: The following description works for both xDB on-premises as well as xDB Cloud.
In Sitecore Experience Database aka Sitecore xDB, there are Collection repository and Reporting repository.
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Sitecore 8.2 Experience Analytics error: "anti-forgery form field is not present"
Explaining the log message
11404 20:29:34 INFO [Experience Analytics]: Request: http://host.name/sitecore/api/ao/aggregates/all/7A9A483F195D4F96AD88473CD6854C4F/all?&dateGrouping=by-week&&...
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How can I create a custom report in Experience Analytics?
Basically, it is a kind of difficult sometimes to query the MongoDB directly, I had a similar scenario and following what I did:
I created aggregation processor that will be called when you rebuild ...
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XDB Continuous Update for Reporting
Continuous Updating is automatically configured. It is the process of xDB which takes interactions that have just ended, out of shared session, into the repository, and then processed and aggregated ...
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Ways to block SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE from being deployed?
You can create your own class:
public class ClearCookieHttpModule : IHttpModule
{
public void Dispose() { }
public void Init(HttpApplication context)
{
//...
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Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.Session.Contact Is Null
Make sure it runs before the Sitecore.Analytics.Pipelines.HttpRequest.EndAnalytics processor in the httpRequestProcessed pipeline. Otherwise, the contact is set to null in the EndAnalytics pipeline ...
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Bind current visitor with Sitecore contact
From the Sitecore Launch site. You can use the email address or the domain\username as inputs for for Tracker.Current.Session.Identify(domainUser); This will link the current contact with the sitecore ...
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Sitecore analytics not tracking logged-in users
Just because you are logged in does not mean it will treat the user as a contact in xDB. You should check out how to identify contacts.
The key being to call Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current....
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How does Sitecore xDB work in a basic CM/CD setup
Your personas, and personalizations are stored either on as items in the Master database or as part of an item (personlization rules for renderings) just like any other content item in Sitecore. You ...
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How to get engagement value or persona
The points assigned to a Goal/Page Event combine & accumulate as
Engagement Value for a user. Is this correct?
Yes, you are correct. You assign engagement value points to score specific contact ...
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SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE Disable based on cookie consent
You need to patch your custom processor before CreateTracker processor of the StartAnalytics Pipeline.
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
<sitecore&...
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Experience Profile always shows anonymous or unknown as Name
Not sure what version of Sitecore you are on, but this is a bit of code from the Sitecore Launch site. It identifies the user and adds the out of the box xDB facets. This is Sitecore 8.1.0.151207.
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Why is my Experience Analytics dashboard blank in Sitecore 8.1 Update-3?
When a user browses the site, the session/interaction is tracked in MongoDB.
When a session ends (due to inactivity and controlled by the timeout in the web.config), the commitSession pipeline kicks ...
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Clean Analytics in Sitecore 8
First Method (recommended):
Install the Analytics Database Manager version 3.0
When Analytics Database Manager is installed, access the application from the Sitecore
launchpad.
Go on the "REMOVE OLD ...
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Experience Analytics Entry/Exit pages display [unknown page]
The [Unknown page] entries may appear due to following reasons:
Items may have been deleted which were already tracked.
Pages are opened and tracked which are not Sitecore items e.g. You created a ...
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Can't deploy marketing definitions, "definition manager is in read only mode"
Background
Under sitecore/marketingDefinitions/goal/definitionManager, you have the following parameter configured:
<param desc="isReadOnly" type="System.Boolean" factoryMethod="Parse" arg0="true"...
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SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE domain name in multisite
You'll want to set a <httpCookies> configuration in your Web.config that allows for a wildcard domain. This is done by specifying the root of your domain in the cookie.
Note: that by changing ...
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