Today I published a new client feature on the marketplace called DMS Gutters. This will install two gutters within the Content Editor that shows which items have running tests and personalized components. It will help the business user identifying which items contains tests and personalisation. You can download the installation package via the Sitecore Marketplace. You can find it here

By default Sitecore comes with a few default reports within the Engagement Analytics. Depending on the report you can get insights about the website or its visitors. You can filter those reports with the standard filters like business classification, country and state. But did you know that adding your own filters is fairly easy. Let’s say we have the following case: We have a standard Sitecore installation in which we define two seperate websites. To make this work we need to make More Info »

When talking to business users (people that actually work with Sitecore on a day to day base) I created a small list of minor custom changes that would help the business users with there day to day work. One of the items on this list is the condition for User Profile fields, by default the input of this field is a manual typed String. Which is a painful process for the business user They are not sure of the fieldname and go More Info »

For my presentation about the DMS datamodel I created a great amount of slides. I didn’t have time to show all the slides because I only had about 60 minutes to do the talk. I uploaded the complete slidedeck to Slideshare including additional slides about Profiling and Automation. The complete session has been recorded and will be shared after the Symposium. Thanks for attending the session and for the great questions. Hope you have enjoyed the session. If you have any feedback More Info »

With this test we want to check what Sitecore DMS does with Wildcards. How are Wildcard URL’s and shown on the Analytics Reports? Wildcard items in Sitecore are a convenient way to handle dynamic URLs. They let you pass data through the URL instead of relying on query string values that are appended to the URL. More information about the Wildcards and a introduction to the Wildcard Shared Source Module can be found in this article (written by Adam Conn). Creating a More Info »

This entry is part 5 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis article is part 3 of Sitecore How To: Track Exteral links with DMS series. Before starting with this step you need to be finished with Step 2. Otherwise you don’t have any report data. Show the outgoing links in a report The easiest way to generate a report is find a report that matches your needs, copy the report and change the datasource and layout. For this POC More Info »

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis article is part of Sitecore How To: Track Exteral links with DMS series. Before starting with this step you need to be finished with Step 1: Save outgoing click to the DMS analytics database. For this solution I want to measure all the outgoing link using the Analytics Database of Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS). Based on this data I want to create a report in the Sitecore Engagement More Info »

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSThis step is the first of the series: How to track External Links with Sitecore DMS. In this step we are going to create a page (link.aspx) that will register the outgoing traffic into the Sitecore Analytics database and redirects the visitor to the external website. Save the outgoing click information to the Analytics database Create the custom page event Open the content editor, go to /sitecore/system/Settings/Analytics/Page Events and More Info »

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Sitecore: Track External Link with DMSIn this How To I’ll show you how to extend Sitecore to track outgoing links trough the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (DMS). First of we start with creating a sublayout that saves the outgoing link clicks to the Analytics database. Next step is creating a solution for tracking the outgoing link. There are multiple solutions of tracking external links but in this series we are creating the More Info »

In this article I’m going to explain how to convert .mrt reports from the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite (Sitecore 6.4) to the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (Sitecore 6.5). Report related changes between OMS and DMS Both the OMS and the DMS use .mrt reports for Analitics reporting. There are two mayor changes between the OMS and DMS reporting; a full redesign of the datamodel and the location of the SQL query for the report data. Mapping the datamodel of the OMS with More Info »