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Sitecore XP : Commerce Reports and Pages or events required for the reports to work

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 In this blog we just look at the mapping of Commerce Reports and the analytical data points that are required to generate that report. This list will be a handy reference for custom implementation of the commerce connect module.

A comparison with OneTrust for “The right to be informed” compliance.

  The right to be informed – One Trust vs Sitecore •         Sitecore •         No Automatic scanning of cookies. They have to be manually identified and categorized or use some third-party tools. •         Cookie banner and setting etc have to be custom built using preferred technologies like Sitecore MVC , boot strap etc. •          Sitecore recommends capturing and storing your end customer’s affirmative action in the Sitecore Experience Database(xDB). This action can be stored as a facet on the end customer’s contact record in xDB. Once stored in xDB it is possible to display the contact’s information in the Sitecore Experience Profile •         One Trust •         Automatic Scanning of the website to identify and categorize the cookies used •    ...

How to go to a Complete Sitecore Cloud Native from Sitecore XP?

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  How to go to a Complete Sitecore Cloud Native from Sitecore XP. Introduction   In this blog, I’ll try to explain the need to consider going towards a Sitecore Cloud Native solution while upgrading your Sitecore solution to 10.x version & also a high-level road map to get there. Why Sitecore Cloud Native? ·        Tech landscape will be in line with industry trend Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless (MACH) compliant ·        Sitecore CDP is better and more advanced integration and analytics (in line with current trend of “cookie less marketing”) ·        Sitecore Cloud Native solution is completely different from the way XP works. Here we can plug and play SaaS Components like Personalize, send etc as and when required. ·        Whereas Sitecore XP license brings in all the components as it is a monolithic architectur...

Sitecore App Service Backup Problems and solutions

    1.        Backup Size crossing the threshold a.        Problem The Microsoft threshold for backups is 10 GB. Sometimes there are situations encountered where the Web App size has crossed this limit and because of which the backups would fail. b.        Solution All files from /App_Data are either:   ·          Temporary files for caching purposes ·          Diagnostic data for debugging purposes They shouldn't affect any Sitecore functionalities if they are not restored from the backup files. But in case if there are any missing files from /App_Data in the future, some of them would automatically populate itself with data.   Create a Backup Filter 1)        Create a file named _backup.filter in D:\home\site\wwwroot through Kudu console ( h...

An approach to upgrade Sitecore from 8.x or 9.x to 10.x

  An approach to upgrade Sitecore from 8.x or 9.x to 10.x   Introduction   If your current Sitecore website is running on 8.x or 9.x version and you are looking to upgrade this to Sitecore 10.x version, then this a good place to start.   In this blog, I’ll try to explain the various details that needs to be considered while upgrading your Sitecore solution to 10.x version. These are aspects that are generally not covered in a “How-To” Guide which only explains the process of upgrading Vanilla Sitecore. This is an attempt to provide a 360 view on the Sitecore upgrade which will help you in carefully executing a complex upgrade program. High Level Approach The overall upgrade process can be sub divided in to three different stages ·          Assess & Prepare o    Identify the pre-requisites – This may include Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable, Files and scripts for upgrading   that can...