xDB - Waiting Impatiently

Are you losing your xDB data?

If you are on Sitecore 9.0 to 9.1.1, and you have no patches, then I am afraid that you are losing data. Here is how you can find out if you are losing data.

xConnect

Bonfire releases xDB Peek (Part 1)

Our little analytics DTO project is getting all grown up. Now called xDB Peek. An easy to use, styled tool that lets you see everything you need to know about a Sitecore visitor to your web site.

xDB

Add your xConnect facet to Experience Profile, the lazy way

When you start creating xConnect facets, one of the first things you want to do is show them. So you open Google and start your search. Oh joy, I found a 30 step process to do it in Speak. Some time (most times) you want to do it in less than 3 days :)

xDB

Reset a facet on an xConnect contact

In 8.2 it was easy to reset a facet in code using the .Reset() extension on the facet. But in 9.x they removed this making it difficult to clear a facet. Lets fix that.

Sitecore

Tracking anonymous users in xDB post 8.2 update 3

Sitecore made a pretty big change to the default configs if you are using xDB on your site. By default now, Sitecore will only track users that have been identified in xDB. By "identified," we mean that the user has logged in, clicked a link from ExM, or

xDB

Track, identify and personalize visitors by company

In a B2B scenarios, it is very important to identify the visitors to your website, allowing you to market to that user and track/guide their user journey. There are many ways to do this, including (but certainly not limited to) email campaigns, cookie tracking, traditional marketing campaigns, and IP

xDB

Multi-node xDB Facet

Creating an IElementDictionary Facet In my earlier post, I described how to make a single node facet for xDB. This was a simple facet that tracks information about a contact like name, company, location, etc... But now lets take the facet and push it further with a facet that is

xDB

Single node Facets in the xDB database

xDB Factets The xDB Mongo database is intended to collect all the data you need for each client that visits your Sitecore site. Out of the box it collects a lot of data about what pages the user clicked on, how long they were on the page, who they are,

Sitecore

Order of Pipelines for the Analytics Tracker

I have been working on a new Tracker modification that I will be releasing on the marketplace soon. What I had trouble with was the order and running of the pipelines for the Tracker. I have my Tracker calling out to an API to gather some details on the user