Today I was asked by a customer to filter out their internal IPs from all DMS reports. There are two approaches for obtaining this. Either very simply add the IP addresses to the Sitecore.Analytics.ExcludeRobots.config as excludedIPAddresses. But I did not like this approach. The customer editors are not robots, so this is messing up domain entities.. Instead I took a different approach and simply wrote a new processor for the startAnalytics pipeline. ...
For this post to make sense I will need to create a user story. I will not try to create a standard scenario instead I will create a scenario that is easy to understand and easily applicable to this post. The problem we want to solve is to present some content to the user that is relevant to the content that the user is looking at in any given time. ...
As a developer it can be a rough road to start developing with DMS. Where do I start? How do I build a site that is accommodating to DMS? These are tough questions. In this post I will give some simple pointers that should get you started quick and easy on the right path. DMS has a thousand different applications and features, but the one that I feel is most useful for us developers and the easiest to start with is the personalization rules. These rules give us freedom and a great way to separate responsibilities away from our web controls. ...