Sitecore 9 Data Flow - Part 3 - Process and Aggregate

In this post I will walk you through the processing and aggregation of the collected analytics data in sitecore, if you didn't check the previous two posts I really recommend you go through these before checking this one, here are the links for the previous posts:

• Sitecore 9 data flow part-1 introduction
• Sitecore 9 Data flow – Part 2 – Collect and Store

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Sitecore 9 Data flow – Part 2 – Collect and Store

In this post you will find a useful information about sitecore process of gathering information and storing it, all the details you need, the tracker, contact, interactions and the different servers roles involved in this process.

Before you start reading this post I recommend you to check the following first:

• Sitecore 9 Data flow – Part 1– Introduction

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Sitecore 9 Data flow – Part 1– Introduction

In this series of blog posts I will describe the flow of data in sitecore 9 from the moment when Sitecore gather information to the moment we see these data in reports, everyone knows that Sitecore with its analytics and marketing power (With Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)) gather information for each visit, move this information through a flow until we can see the information in a well-organized reports.

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Sitecore Experience Editor and General Link Field encoding

This is a quick post I wanted to publish in which I will explain a weird issue happened with one of our clients, actually it took time to figure it out, imagine that sometimes and without any known scenario you “lose” data from master database on a production environment! “Lose data”? yes, a general link fields suddenly become empty, and after publishing you will have issues on live! You want to know how, when, why, please completed reading.

WFFM Data Report Statistics

In a recent project I worked on, client reported an issue with the statistics fields for WFFM reports,  the visits, submission attempts and dropouts are displaying as zeros while the number of successful submissions has a value. This was the trigger to look deeper for this issue, in this post will mention the different WFFM forms data providers, and what is the issue with these statistics fields.

Setting rendering data source in a predefined condition

Recently I was working with client were personalization is major component of their multi-site Sitecore based website, and we were in the need for using sitecore predefined conditions, but we hit a wall where we discovered that you can only add conditions to predefined conditions BUT with no actions although the rule editor allow you to add conditions, Do you want to know how we overcome this issue, keep reading :) 

SUCON Europe 2018 – Day 2

 Day 2 of this amazing event started early, it started with a welcome talk by Tamas then an interesting session by Todd Mitchell & Lars Birkholm Petersen about the power of connected data, once more these guys did a great job. I will give you a brief about the great sessions that I had the chance to attend on this day.

SUGCON Europe 2018 - Day 1

You have to like Sitecore, as a platform and as a community people, today this post is coming from Berlin where Sitecore user group conference 2018 is being conducted. In this post I will share my experience for the first day of SUGCON in addition to the previous day.

Are You a Sitecore Developer Located in Jordan? Are You a Developer interested in Sitecore? Are you an Organization Interested in Sitecore?

If you are a sitecore developer and located in Jordan, if you're a developer interested in Sitecore or if you are a marketer interested in Sitecore and located in Jordan then this post is definitely for you guys. Also, For organizations interested in sitecore and located in Jordan you will be interested in this post too.  

WFFM - Custom Email Confirmation Field

In this post I will walk you through the steps you need to do to create a custom WFFM field for an email confirmation, this was a recent request by one of our clients, if you ever had a similar request or you expect to have one; this post will make you life easier.

Sitecore Experience Profile - Identify and Merge Contact when submitting WFFM form Troubleshooting - Part 3

In this section will share a personal experience on the same subject I talked about in the first two parts, in which when we applied the code that explained before the anonymous records still appear under experience profile report, so what we did wrong?!

Sitecore Experience Profile - Identify and Merge Contact when submitting WFFM form - Part 2

In this post I will show you how you can use a WFFM custom action to identify and merge a contact and of course I will provide you with a fully documented code that you can find it in GitHub, in case you missed the previous post I recommend you to go back and check it, it will give you an overview about the problem that we are trying to overcome here.

Sitecore Experience Profile And The “Anonymous” Records Problem - Part 1

In a recent project I worked on a question came from client is why we see “Anonymous” records when we open experience profile from the launch pad? So, I started to dig into this and I found a lot of useful information, none of them was a complete solution to my problem, so after completing this I thought I should share a full package that contains the problem and the solution.