Extending Sitecore’s Experience Profile – The Pipelines
Part 1 – ExperienceProfileContactViews Pipeline I’ve been writing this series on Sitecore xDB, Contacts and the Experience Profile for a while now. I’ve been covering how to identify Contacts for...
View ArticleExtending Sitecore Experience Profile – The SPEAK App
Part 2 – The Experience Profile App Sitecore’s Experience Profile shows a detailed breakdown of each Contact (visitor of the site) and is built using Sitecore’s SPEAK, so to modify the app it we are...
View ArticleGated Content Sitecore Module
Quite a few of the clients I have worked with lately have asked about implementing Gated Content. Not Gated Pages – preventing access to pages requiring an account and roles but gated areas on an...
View ArticleSitecore Publishing Service – Setting up 8.2s new Publishing option
Sitecore 8.2 has been released and it brings a new option for publishing Sitecore Items – Sitecore Publishing Service. This is a feature that my brother Mike Robbins worked on and been so tight lipped...
View ArticleIndex custom xDB Facets to Segment Contacts in Sitecore’s List Manager
It’s a new year! And fresh from a short break from the blog, to focus on presenting at the xDB training course in New Orleans and Sitecore User Group in Cardiff, I’m back. So let’s get to it! I talk a...
View ArticleHow to find Sitecore Contacts in MongoDB
Fed up of trying to your Contact in 100,000s of Contacts in xDB when you only want see if some data is there. Yeah me too. Here are the easiest way to find your Contacts. First things first, lets get...
View ArticleSitecore – Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
I’ve encountered this error message on various Sitecore implementations predominantly while publishing. It’s painful as its fatal to publishing process and Content Editors get uppity when they see the...
View ArticleSitecore – Pay your technical debts and move to Helix
At a recent Sitecore UK User Group Wesley Lomax and I presented on how to resolve technical debts in Sitecore implementations. With the release of the Helix principles last year a lot of preexisting...
View ArticleSUGCON 2018 Presentation – A Developer Pays their Debts
Earlier in the year I was fortunate enough to be selected to present at Sitecore User Group Conference, SUGCON. I presented with Wesley Lomax on the thinking, approach, and execution of how we solved...
View ArticleDisplay the Context of a Sitecore Goal in the Experience Profile
For a while now I’ve been writing about collecting and displaying data unique to a client in Sitecore’s Experience Profile. What went hand in hand with that is the use of Sitecore Goals and Outcomes –...
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