Sitecore Learning Curve

When working on Sitecore personalization, sometimes we have seen the challenges related to profile interaction and personalization reports data is not correct. Here's the common issue: your xdb indexes either are not up to date or they are not configured properly. In this article I am going explain you how to create and configure xdb indexes for SOLR search.  1. Create SOLR Cores Make 2 copies of Solr _default configurations from the <SolrDirectory>\server\solr\configset\_default folder. Put the copies in the <SolrDirectory>\server\solr folder. Rename the cores  <custom_name>  and  <custom_name>_rebuild , for example: xdb and xdb_rebuild. Change your cores settings based on your required index names for SOLR xdb cors. Remove additional data inside cors data folder. Note: keep all folders inside the data folder and only remove the data. Restart your SOLR service (open services.msc >> search SOLR service >> right click and restar...

Become a Sitecore learner gives you more challenges to know all basics about sitecore in initial phase. So Idea is to here giving you some highlights of Sitecore and its functionalities. In this blog post I noted down some important one liners which will be useful for new learners.  Sitecore - A fully customized CMS to provide the capability to manage and publish large content for enterprise application. Minimum required databases: Core, Master, Web Core Database - Stores settings for Sitecore CMS, user’s authentication and security related information. Master Database - Contains all versions of Sitecore content which is created/updated in Sitecore CMS. Web Database - Contains only published versions of Sitecore content. Templates - Provides the blueprints/base structure for Sitecore Items. It consists of fields for Sitecore Items. Section - Part of templates and it is used to group the related fields in a template. Inheritance - Template inherit fields from a...