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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
Book Image

Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By: Yogesh Patel

Overview of this book

This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices. Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore’s backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more. By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating section-specific analytics reports using custom dimensions


In previous recipes, you learned how to create simple dimensions, where every interaction in a visit had a common key to aggregate browser details. In this recipe, you will learn how to create dimensions where interactions in each visit can have different keys. We will consider an example of creating a detailed report based on website sections, where a visitor can visit pages from different sections of the website in a visit.

How to do it…

First, we will create dimension and segment definition items:

  1. Create a new segment and dimension in the /sitecore/system/Marketing Control Panel/Experience Analytics/Dimensions/Pages item, as shown in the following image. Now deploy this segment:

  2. Now we will create a Dimension class, which will actually process xDB data. In the SitecoreCookbook project, create a new ByWebsiteSection class in the Dimensions folder in the Analytics folder and inherit it from the DimensionBase class and create...