Month: July 2020

Form Designer Fails to Load

We were recently greeted with an error from the Sitecore Forms Designer, and it made me scratch my head a little bit. The whole “You must have Sitecore xDB installed and robot detection in Experience Analytics configured to enable robot detection” message made no sense given our setup. That’s…not ideal I scratched my head because…


Fixing the Name of your sitecore_testing_index and sitecore_suggested_test_index Indexes

I was combing through our log files this afternoon and came across the following errors filling the sucker up: 21044 16:31:43 ERROR ActionRunner: Execution is failed. Exception: SolrNet.Exceptions.SolrConnectionException Message: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html;charset=utf-8″/> <title>Error 404 Not Found</title> </head> <body><h2>HTTP ERROR 404</h2> <p>Problem accessing /solr/Sitecore-sitecore_testing_index/schema. Reason: <pre> Not Found</pre></p> </body> </html> Source: SolrNet at SolrNet.Impl.SolrConnection.Get(String…


Remove the Sitecore Log Noise from Application Insights

I was looking through our Fresh Dev Environment and noticed the following message in Application Insights: Nobody Samples my Data! Looking at the latest items showing up, it was pretty clear that the ever-so-loved chatty nature of Sitecore was causing Application Insights to throw a bit of a fit. Rightly so. We all know how…


Non-static method requires a target

There was way too much time spent debugging this issue today. We were working on some custom facet data in xDB and our Sitecore.Tracker.Current was continuing to come up null. Not fun. Here’s the code we were using: public class XConnectFormDataModel { public XdbModel Model { get; } = BuildModel(); private static XdbModel BuildModel() {…