Perficient is proud to announce that we have been recognized as Sitecore’s 2024 Practice Excellence Award Global Winner. This award recognizes Perficient for being a solution partner who is successful in building a business around their Sitecore practice, highlighting our power to adapt and grow. “We are honored to receive the Sitecore Practice Excellence Award, […]
XM Cloud content migration: connecting external database
Historically when performing content migration with Sitecore we used to deal with database backups. In a modern SaaS world, we do not have the luxury of neither managing cloud database backups, nor the corresponding UI for doing this. Therefore, we must find an alternative approach. Technical Challenge Let’s assume we have a legacy Sitecore website, […]
Maximize Your Sitecore Symposium Experience With Perficient
Nashville here we come! Sitecore Symposium is just around the corner and it promises to be one of the most impactful events of the year. Whether you’re a Symposium pro or a first-timer, this conference offers unparalleled opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. Here’s everything you need to know about Sitecore Symposium 2024 and what […]
Content Hub: Data Model Simplified
Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other. […]
.NET Core Renderings for XM Cloud finally gets some love
That is not a secret – Sitecore always used to prioritize Next.Js framework as the first-class citizen for XM Cloud. All the best and finest features tend to find their way to a given framework in the first place. However, recently, there has been much activity around the .NET Core Rendering Framework which makes a […]
Sitecore CDP: Understanding Identity Resolution
Sitecore CDP tracks user behavior by linking browsing session, events, and orders to a guest profile. By default, guests are marked as “visitors” meaning we do not know who they are. A guest can become a “customer” meaning we know who they are. In order to identify a guest, we must send an “IDENTITY” event. […]
Sitecore Personalize: Close Event Logic
Sitecore Personalize has several out of the box components that notify the user such as popup takeover, corner popup, sidebar, and alert bar. These components all feature a close icon that will hide the component from the screen. But there is no logic out of the box to prevent them from being displayed again. Imagine […]
Sitecore Personalize: Initialization Error
I started a new Sitecore Personalize project. The client nonprod and prod environments were freshly spun up. All fresh and clean. No offer templates, no experiences, no decision models. I created the first experience and proceeded to click the preview button to test my experience. To my surprise the experience did not render, and the […]
Fixing an XM Cloud Deployment Failure
Intro 📖 Last week, I noticed that deployments to Sitecore XM Cloud were failing on one of my projects. In this blog post, I’ll review the troubleshooting steps I went through and what the issue turned out to be. To provide a bit more context on the DevOps setup for this particular project, an Azure […]
Lessons from the Front: Indexing Content Hub in Coveo
Intro 📖 In the new composable world, it’s common for medium to large Sitecore solutions to include a search appliance like Coveo and a digital asset management tool like Sitecore Content Hub. A typical use-case is to build search sources in Coveo that index content residing in Content Hub. Those indexes, in turn, can then […]
Handling Not Allowed Reflection Method in Sitecore
Recently, to meet project requirements, we customized and expanded the functionality of the “General Link” feature by incorporating a new “Telephone Link” feature. Everything was working correctly on our local project instance, but we got the below-listed error when the changes were deployed on the higher environment. Exception: Sitecore.Exceptions.AccessDeniedException Message: Calling Fieldtypes.ExtendedGeneralLink.ExtendedGeneralLinkForm.OnModeChange method through reflection […]
Sitecore 10.4 is Out, Now What?
A few days ago, Sitecore released 10.4 of its platform DXP Products: XM and XP. Over the past several months, Sitecore has been doubling down on their messaging to existing customers that there is a path for them if they don’t want to move to XM Cloud in the near future and that they would […]