Tag Archives: xDB

Sitecore 9 Tracker.Current.Session.Identify is replaced with Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs

Posted on January 19, 2018 by briancaos

In Sitecore 9, Sitecore have decided to change how you identify named users, i.e. how you match a Contact with a user that is logged into your website. The  Tracker.Current.Session.Identify method is obsolete. It has been replaced with Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs: The IdentifyAs() … Continue reading →

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Sitecore General error when submitting contact – Another contact with the same identifier already exists

Posted on September 26, 2016 by briancaos

In Sitecore when creating your own contacts you can get the following exception: 10604 10:16:27 ERROR General error when submitting contact. Exception: System.InvalidOperationException Message: Another contact with the same identifier already exists. Source: Sitecore.Analytics.MongoDB at Sitecore.Analytics.Data.DataAccess.MongoDb.MongoDbDataAdapterProvider.SaveContactWithIdentifier(IContact contact, ContactSaveOptions saveOptions) at … Continue reading →

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Sitecore xDB – flush data to MongoDB

Posted on March 2, 2016 by briancaos

When debugging Sitecore xDB issues, it is a pain that data is not written to MongoDB directly, but you have to wait for your session to end. The legend said that you could either set the session timeout to 1 … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Contacts – Create and save contacts to and from xDB (MongoDB)

Posted on October 9, 2015 by briancaos

The Sitecore Contact is the cornerstone of the Sitecore Experience Platform and is the place where you store every data you know about any contact, named and anonymous. UPDATE: 09-09-2016: CreateContact Updated: Thanks to moginheden for the update. UPDATE: 27-09-2016: … Continue reading →

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Sitecore contact facets – Create your own facet

Posted on July 16, 2015 by briancaos

This article describes how to create a simple Sitecore facet consisting of a DateTime and a list of strings. A contact is made up of facets. Here are all the facets Sitecore uses (you will find the facets in \App_Config\Include\Sitecore.Analytics.Model.Config): In … Continue reading →

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Sitecore 8 and Tracker.Current.Session.Identify – Overriding expired contact session lock for contact id

Posted on July 2, 2015 by briancaos

The new Sitecore 8 Experience Profile is a vital part, yes almost a cornerstone of the new xDB concept. UPDATE 2018-01-19: Please note that in Sitecore 9, Tracker.Current.Session.Identify have been replaced with Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs. For more information, see Sitecore 9 Tracker.Current.Session.Identify is replaced … Continue reading →

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Sitecore 8 and Engagement Plans

Posted on January 26, 2015 by briancaos

With the introduction of the xDB in Sitecore 7.5, Sitecore also changed the analytics API. The VisitorManager have been replaced by the Tracker. The Tracker is one of the base API’s for Sitecore the new Sitecore Experience Platform (the new … Continue reading →

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Sitecore and xDB – Setting up MongoDB on your developer machine

Posted on October 1, 2014 by briancaos

With Sitecore 7.5, Sitecore introduces xDB – the new MongoDB based DMS database. But before you say “oh no, yet another technology I have to deal with”, you should know that working with MongoDB is very easy. In fact it … Continue reading →

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