Sitecore Experience Editor and General Link Field encoding

This is a quick post I wanted to publish in which I will explain a weird issue happened with one of our clients, actually it took time to figure it out, imagine that sometimes and without any known scenario you “lose” data from master database on a production environment! “Lose data”? yes, a general link fields suddenly become empty, and after publishing you will have issues on live! You want to know how, when, why, please completed reading.

WFFM Data Report Statistics

In a recent project I worked on, client reported an issue with the statistics fields for WFFM reports,  the visits, submission attempts and dropouts are displaying as zeros while the number of successful submissions has a value. This was the trigger to look deeper for this issue, in this post will mention the different WFFM forms data providers, and what is the issue with these statistics fields.

Sitecore Experience Profile - Identify and Merge Contact when submitting WFFM form - Part 2

In this post I will show you how you can use a WFFM custom action to identify and merge a contact and of course I will provide you with a fully documented code that you can find it in GitHub, in case you missed the previous post I recommend you to go back and check it, it will give you an overview about the problem that we are trying to overcome here.

Sitecore Experience Profile And The “Anonymous” Records Problem - Part 1

In a recent project I worked on a question came from client is why we see “Anonymous” records when we open experience profile from the launch pad? So, I started to dig into this and I found a lot of useful information, none of them was a complete solution to my problem, so after completing this I thought I should share a full package that contains the problem and the solution.

Build WFFM MVC Custom Field

As you probably know Sitecore announced that Sitecore forms will become the new generation of forms used under Sitecore and it will be built in into the platform, the Sitecore forms will replace WFFM module but WFFM will be there in Sitecore 9 and for a short time next, in this blog post I will show you how you can create a custom WFFM field under MVC.

Deploy Marketing Definitions Loading/Progress Time Issue

In this blog post I will show you one of the funny issues that I experienced while working on one of the upgrade projects that I worked on, this is related to deploying marketing definition which as you know a post-step that you should do after completing Sitecore upgrade.

WFFM Radio List Field Items Issue

In this blog post I will share an issue that I faced recently with one of the upgrade projects that I did, this problem is related to WFFM radio list field in which after upgrade you are no longer able to see the items that had been there before upgrade.

Building Custom Analytics Report – Part 4 – Experience Analytics New Menu.

In previous posts in this series we discussed the business needs for custom analytics report, I explained how to collect data, how to save them and how to aggregate the data into reporting databases and how you can display them as a SPEAK report, in this part I will show you how you can add the created report as one of the reports in the experience analytics.

Build Custom Analytics Report - Part 2 – Storing and Retrieving Data

In part 1 of this blog posts series I discussed the business needs for building a custom analytics report, In this part I will show you how you can save your analytics data to MongoDB using the analytics tracker, then how you can aggregate this data into reporting SQL server database, in future blogs posts will show you how we can build SPEAK application to display the data and how you can extend the analytics filters based on your report needs

WFFM Captcha Required Field Issue

This is a quick blog post related to WFFM captcha field, in which will explain to you an issue that might appear in your site while upgrading from older version to newer one, and we are switching from the using captcha version 1 to captcha version 2.

Master Details Using Sitecore SPEAK

I started to learn sitecore SPEAK and I want to share my first hello world application I did using sitecore SPEAK.

In this application I just used a WFFM to save a form as a sitecore item and I used sitecore SPEAK application to display these sitecore data items as master details page.

I will go through the second part of my application which is the part of displaying the data as master detail using Sitecore SPEAK.

Sitecore XP :: Federated Experience Manager

In this blog I will talk about another great feature of sitecore experience platform which is federated experience manager "FXM", 

Sitecore 8 will give you the power to track visitors of an external non sitecore sites by just adding a single JavaScript line!, so let's dive deep and know more about this feature.

Sitecore XP :: Path Analyzer

As I gave you a little overview on the new features in sitecore 8 I will start a series of blogs to dive deep in each of these features to let you know more and more about how great is the new sitecore version.

In this blog I will explain an interesting feature that sitecore 8 added which is the "Path Analyzer" which give you the power to know more about your site visitors movements through your site, so let's start..

Sitecore 8 What's New?

As most of you know sitecore 8 or sitecore XP ( experience platform ) has been released lately with so many new feature, enhancements and modifications, In this blog I will try to give you an overview on some of sitecore XP updates.