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Showing posts with label Sitecore lessons. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

1 Dec 2020 - Special day - 0.5 million

1st Dec 2020 was special day for my personal blog website where Total Page views crossed 0.5 million count.

I started to note down my learning notes since I started my carrier. One fine day in May 2010, these notes converted into this blog site. Since then my technical journey is still continuing ...

Thanks for each and everyone. I hope you got it what you are looking for at this place. 

Any suggestion or improvements are most welcome!!!


Million Page Views count


 

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Fixed - Failed to start service Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer

If you are installing Sitecore 9/9.1/9.2, you may get xConnect services error such as

Faulting application name: XConnectSearchIndexer.exe, version: 3.0.0.0, time stamp: 0xf3556d61
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.18362.1, time stamp: 0x1a30e11b
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x000000000003a839
Faulting process id: 0x1dd8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d563cefdbb60d1
Faulting application path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\habitathomecorporate_xconnect.dev.local\App_Data\jobs\continuous\IndexWorker\XConnectSearchIndexer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: bee07631-f2fa-48b6-9307-b4296f68ff50
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:


Solution :-

I follow below steps and its solved my issue
  • Close all PowerShell window
  • Remove any existing "DO_NOT_TRUST_SitecoreRootCert" certificate from your machine
  • Provide "Full Permission" to "Everyone" to folder "c:\resourcefiles"
  • Provide "Full Permission" to "Everyone" to folder "C:\inetpub\wwwroot.

Try again to install the Sitecore and you should get your instance up now.

I hope this solution helps other in similar situation.

Friday, July 5, 2019

Fixed: Rebuild Reporting Database failed in Sitecore


We are using Sitecore 8.2 and our analytics data is stored in MongoDB database. Its size is around 50 GB.


From few days, we were not getting data in Sitecore analytics reports so we decided to rebuild reporting database.


We started rebuilding activity, but it fails on 8th days. We tried again, and same thing happen and failed on 8th days.


We started to investigate why its failing specially on 8th days?


Solution:


There is a config setting <TaskEntryAfterLife> in file "Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.config" which by default set for 8 days. 

<!-- TASK ENTRY AFTERLIFE
  Specifies the minimum time a task entry (and all associated data structures) is kept in the task queue after
  the task has executed.
 
  Default: 8.00:00:00
-->
<TaskEntryAfterLife>8.00:00:00</TaskEntryAfterLife>

We changed its entry for 15 days as

<!-- TASK ENTRY AFTERLIFE
  Specifies the minimum time a task entry (and all associated data structures) is kept in the task queue after
  the task has executed.
 
  Default: 8.00:00:00
-->
<TaskEntryAfterLife>15.00:00:00</TaskEntryAfterLife>

After this we again started rebuilding activity and this time it works fine and completed the task on 10th days.


Now we are getting missing data in Sitecore analytics reporting sections.

I hope it helps you to fix the similar issue.

Stay tuned for more such tips and tricks.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Sitecore Event: Move item to datewise folder automatically based on date field


You may have items such as news, publication, blog, events etc. that contain date field.

Its great to show these items according to datewise so that each item should place in "YYYY > MMM > dd" path. This type of content structure is good to locate the item quickly.

Whenever content editor creates such item with specified date and save the item, our job is to fire an event to move that item in the respective date folder. If date folder is not exist then it should be created automatically and move the item into that.

In below image there are two year folders - 2017 and 2018. I am adding new item "Test News Article 111" and selected its date as "12-Feb-2016". When I click on save button, my event automatically created folders 2016, February and 12 and moved the item under that.

Moving news item to datewise folder automatically
Moving news item to datewise folder automatically


Implementation Details

Create 3 template items in Sitecore for Year, Month and Date at path “/sitecore/templates/Project/Common/Content Types” as below

Name – Year Folder
Template - /sitecore/templates/System/Templates/Template
Icon - Business/32x32/calendar.png

Name – Month Folder
Template - /sitecore/templates/System/Templates/Template
Icon - Business/32x32/calendar_31.png

Name – Day Folder
Template - /sitecore/templates/System/Templates/Template
Icon - Business/32x32/calendar_7.png

Create constant to specify different news items details as
 
namespace Sitecore.Foundation.SitecoreExtensions
{
    using Sitecore.Data;

    public struct Constants
    {
        public struct DateWiseStructure
        {
            public static readonly ID NewsArticleTemplateID = new ID("{B69277AD-E917-4B9F-9136-A12E0A3E462F}");
            public static readonly ID NewsArticleParentID = new ID("{FBF578DE-0640-43CF-91C1-492ECD093BC4}");
            public static readonly string NewsDateFieldName = "NewsDate";
            public static readonly ID YearFolderItemTemplateID = new ID("{B64C595D-FE20-44B1-96CC-38F292730437}");
            public static readonly ID MonthFolderItemTemplateID = new ID("{F1183F76-17AC-4DF3-877C-85726A16EECA}");
            public static readonly ID DayFolderItemTemplateID = new ID("{A443C72F-8A0B-4816-BCEF-D537905A7331}");
        }
    }
}

To implement such functionality, we need to write below code for Save event

using Sitecore.Collections;
using Sitecore.Data;
using Sitecore.Data.Fields;
using Sitecore.Data.Items;
using Sitecore.Data.Managers;
using Sitecore.Globalization;
using Sitecore.SecurityModel;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace Sitecore.Foundation.SitecoreExtensions.Extensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Save Event to create folder struture datewise in Sitecore content tree
    /// </summary>
    public class ItemSaveEventHandler
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Check language version is exist for the item
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item"></param>
        /// <param name="contextLanguage"></param>
        /// <param name="database"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool HasGivenLanguageVersion(Item item, Language contextLanguage, Database database)
        {
            try
            {
                if (item != null && item.Languages != null && contextLanguage != null)
                {
                    Item languageSpecificItem = database.GetItem(item.ID, contextLanguage);
                    if (languageSpecificItem != null && languageSpecificItem.Versions.Count > 0)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Sitecore.Diagnostics.Log.Error("Error while checking language version of item " + item.ID + " Error is " + ex, typeof(BasicUtil));
            }

            return false;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Save Event method to create folder struture datewise in Sitecore content tree
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="args"></param>
        public void OnItemSaved(object sender, EventArgs args)
        {
            if (args == null || Sitecore.Context.Site.Name.ToLower().Equals("publisher")) return;

            Item itemToOrganize = Sitecore.Events.Event.ExtractParameter(args, 0) as Item;

            if(itemToOrganize == null || itemToOrganize.Name.ToLower().Equals("__standard values") || !itemToOrganize.TemplateID.Equals(Constants.DateWiseStructure.NewsArticleTemplateID))
            {
                return;
            }

            Item parentOfTypeAutosave = null;
            Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");

            parentOfTypeAutosave = SitecoreUtil.GetItem(Constants.DateWiseStructure.NewsArticleParentID, master);

            if (parentOfTypeAutosave == null || BasicUtil.IsOfTypeFolder(itemToOrganize)) return;

            string dateFld = string.Empty;

            ID dayFolderTemplateID;
            if (itemToOrganize.TemplateID.Equals(Constants.DateWiseStructure.NewsArticleTemplateID))
            {
                dateFld = Constants.DateWiseStructure.NewsDateFieldName;
                dayFolderTemplateID = Constants.DateWiseStructure.DayFolderItemTemplateID; //Day Folder Template ID
            }
            else
            {
                return;
            }

            Item _currentYearItem = null;
            Item _currentMonthItem = null;
            Item _currentDayItem = null;
            bool _yearFolderExist = false;
            bool _monthFolderExist = false;
            bool _dayFolderExist = false;
            DateTime date = ((DateField)itemToOrganize.Fields[dateFld]).DateTime.Date;

            LanguageCollection languages = LanguageManager.GetLanguages(master);
            Item langItem = null;
            DateTime langDate = DateTime.MinValue;
            if (date == DateTime.MinValue)
            {
                foreach (Language language in languages)
                {
                    if (HasGivenLanguageVersion(itemToOrganize, language, master))
                    {
                        langItem = master.GetItem(itemToOrganize.ID, language);
                        langDate = ((DateField)langItem.Fields[dateFld]).DateTime.Date;

                        if (langDate != DateTime.MinValue && date < langDate)
                        {
                            date = langDate;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            List<Item> yearItems =
                parentOfTypeAutosave.Children.Where(
                    x => x.TemplateID.Equals(Constants.DateWiseStructure.YearFolderItemTemplateID) && x.Name.Equals(date.ToString("yyyy"))).ToList();

            if (yearItems.Any())
            {
                _yearFolderExist = true;
                _currentYearItem = yearItems.First();
                List<Item> monthItems = _currentYearItem.Children.Where(x => x.TemplateID.Equals(Constants.DateWiseStructure.MonthFolderItemTemplateID) &&
                    x.Name.ToLower().Equals(date.ToString("MMMM").ToLower())).ToList();

                if (monthItems.Any())
                {
                    _monthFolderExist = true;
                    _currentMonthItem = monthItems.First();

                    List<Item> dayItems = _currentMonthItem.Children.Where(x => x.TemplateID.Equals(dayFolderTemplateID) && x.Name.Equals(date.ToString("%d"))).ToList();

                    if (dayItems.Any())
                    {
                        _dayFolderExist = true;
                        _currentDayItem = dayItems.First();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        _dayFolderExist = false;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    _monthFolderExist = false;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                _yearFolderExist = false;
            }

            if (!_yearFolderExist)
            {
                using (new SecurityDisabler())
                {
                    TemplateID yearTemplateId = new TemplateID(Constants.DateWiseStructure.YearFolderItemTemplateID);
                    _currentYearItem = parentOfTypeAutosave.Add(date.ToString("yyyy"), yearTemplateId);
                }
            }
            if (!_monthFolderExist)
            {
                using (new SecurityDisabler())
                {
                    TemplateID monthTemplateId = new TemplateID(Constants.DateWiseStructure.MonthFolderItemTemplateID);
                    _currentMonthItem = _currentYearItem.Add(date.ToString("MMMM"), monthTemplateId);
                }
            }
            if (!_dayFolderExist)
            {
                using (new SecurityDisabler())
                {
                    TemplateID dayTemplateId = new TemplateID(dayFolderTemplateID);
                    _currentDayItem = _currentMonthItem.Add(date.ToString("%d"), dayTemplateId);
                }
            }
            if (itemToOrganize.Parent.Name.Equals(_currentDayItem.Name)
                && itemToOrganize.Parent.Parent.Name.Equals(_currentMonthItem.Name)
                && itemToOrganize.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name.Equals(_currentYearItem.Name)) return;

            using (new SecurityDisabler())
            {
                itemToOrganize.MoveTo(_currentDayItem);
            }
        }
    }
}

Create custom config file to register this event as

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/" xmlns:set="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/set/">
    <sitecore>
        <events>
            <event name="item:saved">
                <handler type="Sitecore.Foundation.SitecoreExtensions.Extensions.ItemSaveEventHandler,Sitecore.Foundation.SitecoreExtensions" method="OnItemSaved"/>
            </event>
        </events>
       
    </sitecore>
</configuration>

That’s it.

Now whenever you are creating any such news item, it will move to correct date folder.

Note :- If you have not specified any value in date fields then that item will move to 0001 > 01 > 01 folder.

I hope you enjoy this Sitecore article. Stay tuned for more Sitecore related articles.

Till that happy Sitecoring :)

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