Tracking internal search keywords for reporting on Experience Profile and Experience Analytics in Sitecore

Sitecore offers the possibility of tracking internal keyword search in your site, so you can have a better understanding of your visitors and their engagement. Now, there are 3 types of keywords described in the following table. Internal keywords Lists the keywords used in searches on the website. External Keywords A list of the distinct…

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Avoiding deployments of Sitecore ‘.update’ packages that didn’t change

When we have a Sitecore TDS projects that generates .update packages with content items, its a good idea to automate the deployment process. But depending on the size of this packages this process could take several minutes to complete. To reduce the time I have to calculate the CRC32 of the packages to make sure…

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Sitecore Ship installation and configuration to support Sitecore update package deployments (like TDS), in a CI/CD pipeline

Te following steps describe how to install and configure Sitecore.Ship in a Sitecore instance, on prem or Azure PaaS, to accept .update packages installation over an HTTP request. After you have Sitecore.Ship configured you can automate package deployments in different ways, like in combination with Powershell in a CI/CD tool like Azure Devops, Octopus Deploy,…

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