xDB - Waiting Impatiently

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.

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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 :)

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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