We recently worked to help one of our customers set up xDB Cloud and had some great findings come out of the project. While the Sitecore documentation is very good in some areas, in some of the newer areas, like xDB Cloud, the documentation can be a little unclear or even lacking at times. Here […]
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Sitecore MVC – Independent Experience Editor Views
I find that many of the components I develop in Sitecore need custom markup in the Experience Editor that shouldn’t be present on the live site. Although it’s possible to add this custom markup into my components’ views with @if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsExperienceEditor), I prefer to keep branching logic out of my views as much as possible. Fortunately […]
Upgrading Sitecore – 8.0 update 4 to 8.1 update 2 – Walkthrough
Recently, I posted about issues that ran into during an upgrade of 8.0 update 4 rev. 150621 to 8.1 update 2 rev. 160302. That article is available here. That article did not cover the actual process of upgrading and I thought it may be beneficial to provide a walk-through of that. To start off, I went […]
Let Sitecore Power Your Blogging Platform
Blogging runs the gauntlet from personal to professional, and somewhere in the middle, it ends up being a great tool for engaging customers. In larger companies, it may seem challenging to juggle multiple blogs, find a common audience, and be a trusted voice to customers. With numerous blogging platforms available (with some great, others not […]
Coveo for Sitecore 4 Released!
Coveo released version 4 of their Coveo for Sitecore product today and we’re all very excited about this new release. We’ve been very impressed with the Coveo product as it brings enterprise-grade search capabilities to Sitecore as well as provide a bevy of connectors to other platforms. With this new release, Coveo has made a […]
Bringing Digital Experience to New Levels with Perficient Digital
Top of mind for most clients these days is how to use technology to digitally transform their business. And within this is the underlying current of always putting the customer first. Whether it is improving communication by moving Exchange to the cloud, or streamlining collaboration with SharePoint online – the end goal is to be […]
Sitecore – Null Value Exception When Opening Explore Mode
Sitecore 8 introduced a new Explore Mode option to the Experience Editor that allows content authors to test their digital marketing strategy by simulating visits to their site as different users. One feature that has been particularly useful for me is the ability to simulate different IP addresses to test GeoIP integration in components I’m […]
GEOIP – Working with it
In my previous post, GEOIP – Getting Started, I mentioned that I would illustrate how to actually use the GeoIP components, and here it is! I’ll start with a personalization example. For this example we have a tab component that will have content specified for different US states. When a visitor comes to the site from Georgia, […]
Upgrading Sitecore – 8.0 update 4 to 8.1 update 2 issues
This week I’ve worked on a Sitecore upgrade from version 8.0 update 4 to version 8.1 update 2. Overall, following the documentation provided by Sitecore it was pretty smooth. I did run into a couple of things worth sharing. One of the first things I ran into was an issue with the Update Installation Wizard. […]
Sitecore – Launchpad Exception after Removing Broken Links
A couple of days ago I accidentally removed broken links in the Core database of a new Sitecore instance using the Remove Broken Links tool at http://{your-sitecore-url}/sitecore/admin/RemoveBrokenLinks.aspx. The next time I logged into Sitecore, I got the following exception: After some digging around I found that the Remove Broken Links tool erroneously deleted the Model property of the ExperienceAnalyticsLineChart […]
GeoIP – Getting Started
GeoIP is quickly becoming a necessity for the analytics functionality of Sitecore. With GeoIP we can personalize content based on the user’s location to present the most relative information and provide a more engaging user experience. Starting with Sitecore 8.1, the necessary config files and dlls are included in the base install. Prior to 8.1, […]
MongoDB – The Install
With the latest versions of Sitecore, MongoDB has become a requirement for the analytical experience. Different versions of MongoDb are only compatible with certain versions of Sitecore. I’ve found this information from Sitecore that outlines the versions of MongoDb that are compatible with the versions of Sitecore. Below is the compatibility chart presented in the previous […]