I'm building an automated task in Sitecore 8.0 Update 2 to automatically send out some emails. These emails need to be in different languages.
I've always used this approach:
Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.TextByDomain("General Dictionary", "some-key");
However, when I try to use this code:
Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.TextByLanguage("some-key", Sitecore.Context.Language);
it doesn't work (even if I simply use the current context language).
I can find little to no documentation about this. What would I have to do to get this to work?
As #jammykam suggested, Maybe you need to wrap your code with SiteContextSwitcher class, since Sitecore.Context.Database might be referencing Core database during Task agent execution because the context site is "scheduler"
So your code should be:
using (var switcher = new SiteContextSwitcher((SiteContextFactory.GetSiteContext("website"))))
{
//Rest of your code
}
I've checked Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.TextByLanguage method and it works.
Could you please, check that translation exist in the 'core' database. Sitecore used to store dictionary items in the 'master' database, but right now it stored translation in the 'core' database.
Switch shell to 'core' database.
Go to the Dictionary: /sitecore/system/Dictionary
Find your key by the first letter in the string: "some-key" -> "S".
Check that translation exists for this key.
Select DictionaryKey item > "some-key"
Switch between languages and check whether translation is exist.
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My django app uses update_or_create() to update a bunch of records. In some cases, updates are really few within a ton of records, and it would be nice to know what got updated within those records. Is it possible to know what got updated (i.e fields whose values got changed)? If not, does any one has ideas of workarounds to achieve that?
This will be invoked from the shell, so ideally it would be nice to be prompted for confirmation just before a value is being changed within update_or_create(), but if not that, knowing what got changed will also help.
Update (more context): Thought I'd give more context here. The data in this Django app gets updated through various means (through users coming on the web site, through the admin page, through scripts (run from the shell) that populate data from a csv etc.). The above question is important mostly for the shell scripts that update data from csvs, hence a solution at the database/trigger/signal level may not be helpful here (I guess).
This is what I ended up doing:
for row in reader:
school_obj0, created = Org.objects.get_or_create(school_id = row[0])
if (school_obj0.name != row[1]):
print (school_obj0.name, '==>', row[1])
confirmation = input('proceed? [y/n]: ')
if (confirmation == 'y'):
school_obj1, created = Org.objects.update_or_create(
school_id = row[0], defaults={"name": row[1],})
Happy to know about improvements to this approach (please see the update in the question with more context)
This will be invoked from the shell, so ideally it would be nice to be
prompted for confirmation just before a value is being changed
Unfortunately, databases don't work like that. It's the responsibility of applications to provide this functionality. And django isn't an application. You can however use django to write an application that provides this functionality.
As for finding out whether an object was updated or created, that's what the return value gives you. A tuple where the second value is a flag for update or create
We have a very weird issue in our Siebel 7.8 application.
In the Application_Start event we define a bunch of profile attributes, which determine if the logged user will be allowed to perform certain operations or not. The code is something like this:
if (userHasSuperpowers) {
TheApplication().SetProfileAttr("CanFly", "Y");
} else {
// CanFly is not set, and GetProfileAttr("CanFly") returns ''
}
Everything works fine, except for one of these profile attributes. The conditions are not met, so we don't set its value. But when we check it using GetProfileAttr... it returns 'Y' instead of ''.
I've checked the code. A lot. I've put traces everywhere, and I'm 100% sure that when the last line of the Application_Start event executes, the attribute is still empty. However, in the first Applet_Load event after the login (in the HLS Salutation Applet (HLS Home) applet), its value has already changed to 'Y'. Why!!? I've looked everywhere, but I can't find anywhere else where we'd be doing a SetProfileAttr. So far, I've ruled out:
Every browser and server script for all our applets, application, BCs and business services.
All the runtime business services (the ones defined directly in the application instead of the SRF).
The Personalization Profile business component fields.
SmartScripts (not that they would matter in this particular scenario, I just mention them to acknowledge that you can set profile attributes there too).
Workflows: every step invoking the SIS OM PMT Service method Set Profile Attribute.
Siebel magically setting its value. The profile attribute name is custom made, in Spanish, and it contains our project name and a row_id. I really don't think Siebel is using the same name for its own profile attributes :).
But wait, there is more, I left the best part for last: the problem only happens in our development environment!
It's not an SRF issue: if we promote the same SRF to our testing or production environments, it works and returns the expected value.
It's not a data problem: still with the same SRF, I can use my local thick client, connecting to our development database with the same login and password, and it works fine too.
It's not a concurrency problem: we are testing with only one user logged in. And even if we had more, they wouldn't share sessions. And even if they did, the value wouldn't be always 'Y'.
It's not a temporary glitch, or something due to a wrong incremental compilation or a corrupted SRF: we have been experiencing this for at least 6 months (obviously, in that time frame, we've had dozens of different SRF files... all of them having the same problem, but only in development, and only if you use the server and not the dedicated client... seriously...).
Where else could I search the profile attribute being set? I've read that they can be persisted to the DB, but in order to do so, you have to define them as a field in a BC based on an S_PARTY extension table, right?
Is there any way to trace profile attribute changes somehow? Maybe rising some loglevel?
How can I find out at least what's being executed after the Application_Start, before loading the first applet?
Any other ideas? I tried checking the SQL spool file too, but didn't find anything suspicious there either (i.e., any of the queries we use to check the conditions, being run twice with different parameters).
Update: following Ranjith R's suggestions, I've also checked:
Other vanilla business services which could be also invoked from a workflow to set a profile attr: User Registration > SetProfileAttr, SessionAccessService > SetProfileAttr and ISS Promotion Agreement Manager > SetProfileAttributes.
Runtime events setting profile attributes directly or using a business service (we don't have any runtime events apart from the vanilla ones).
Business services being called from DVMs (we only have vanilla data validation rules, and none of them apply to our buscomps).
Still no luck...
Ok... finally we found what's happening:
We access the URL to our server and get to the login page. This triggers a first Application_Start event, for the SADMIN user.
We set the profile attributes in that session. SADMIN is the Siebel administrator user, so yes, he hasSuperpowers and therefore we do TheApplication().SetProfileAttr("CanFly", "Y");.
The Application_Start event finishes.
We enter our username and password in the login screen to access into Siebel. This triggers a second Application_Start event, this time for our user. This is the one I was monitoring with the trace files.
We set the profile attributes again in the new session. Our user doesn't hasSuperpowers, so we don't set any value for the CanFly attribute.
The Application_Start event finishes, and CanFly is still empty.
Siebel merges both sessions into one before loading the first screen!! Or at least, it transfers over the profile attributes we had set for SADMIN.
I'm sure it happens that way, for two reasons. First, we changed the profile attribute name to include the username too. And second, instead of storing just an "Y", we are storing now the current date:
var time = (new Date()).getTime();
TheApplication().SetProfileAttr("CanFly_" + TheApplication().LoginName(), time);
We end up having CanFly_SADMIN, but no CanFly_USER, and the time value stored is the same we see in the log file for step 2... which is smaller than any of the values for the *_USER attributes.
So that's what happening. I still don't know why Siebel behaves this way, but that would be matter for another question. According to the Siebel bookshelf:
The Start event is called when the client starts and again when the user interface is first displayed.
...but it doesn't say anythign about it being called from two different sessions, different users too, and then merging them together. It must be something misconfigured in our dev environment, considering it doesn't happen in the other ones.
Does Siebel 7.8 have runtime Events? I can't recall. Runtime events have an action set for setevent, which can set/clear profile attributes.
There are still other vanilla business services which can set profile attributes, try searching in tools flat under business service methods for *rofile*tt*.
The SIS OM service can also be invoked from DVMs for from RunTime events directly, so thats also a possibility.
There is no logging system to see values of Profile Attributes changing, testing is the only way out.
I recently noticed there is a difference in Item Id for a Sitecore template field between 2 environments (Source and Target). Due to this, any data changes to the field value for the dataitem using the template is not reflecting to target Sitecore database.
Hence, we manually copy the value from source to target and which takes lot of time to sync the 2 environments. Any idea how to change the template field Item Id in Sitecore without data loss in target instance?
Thanks
The template fields have most likely been created manually on the different servers, as #AdrianIorgu has suggested. I am going to suggest that you don't worry about merging fields and tools.
What you really care about is the content on the PRODUCTION instance of your site (assuming that this is Target). In any other environment, content should be regarded throwaway.
With that in mind, create a package of the template from your PRODUCTION instance and the install that in the other environments, deleting the duplicate field from the Source instance. The GUIDs of the field should now match across all environments. Check this into your source control (using TDS or Unicorn or whatever). You can then correctly update any standard values and that will be reflect through the server when you deploy again.
If your other environments (dev/qa/pre-prod) result in data loss for that field then don't worry about it, restore a backup from PROD.
Most likely that happened because the field or the template was added manually on the second environment, without migrating the items using packages, serialization or a third-party tool like TDS or Unicorn.
As #SitecoreClimber mentioned above, you can use Razl to sync the two environments and see the differences, but I don't think you will be able to change the field's GUID, to have the two environments consistent, without any data loss. Depending on the volume of your data, fixing this can be tricky.
What I would do:
make sure the target instance has the right template by installing a package with the correct template from source (with a MERGE-MERGE operation), which will end up having a duplicate field name
write a SQL query to get a list of all the items that have value for that field and update the value to the new field
Warning: this SQL query below is just a sample to get you started, make sure you extend and test this properly before running on a CD instance
use YOUR_DATABASE
begin tran
Declare #oldFieldId nvarchar(100), #newFieldId nvarchar(100), #previousValue nvarchar(100), #newValue nvarchar(100)
set #oldFieldID = '75577384-3C97-45DA-A847-81B00500E250' //old field ID
set #newFieldID = 'A2F96461-DE33-4CC6-B758-D5183676509B' //new field ID
/* versionedFields */
Select itemId, fieldid, value
from [dbo].[versionedFields] f with (nolock)
where f.FieldId like #oldFieldID
For this kind of stuff I sugest you to use Sitecore Razl.
It's a tool for comparing and merging sitecore databases.
Razl allows developers to have a complete side by side comparison between two Sitecore databases; highlighting features that are missing or not up to date. Razl also gives developers the ability to simply move the item from one database to another.
Whether it's finding that one missing template, moving your entire database or just one item, Razl allows you to do it seamlessly and worry free.
It's not a free tool, you can check here how you can buy it:
https://www.razl.net/purchase.aspx
I'm building a web application on app engine.
In my case, that's built on django-nonrel, but the key point is that it's using Google's datastore.
I love the fact that I don't need to deal with replication, sharding, backups and such, but one thing that is always getting in my way is the eventual consistency, which seems to get in the way of implementing a common web app pattern which I'm calling "Add & Reflect".
Let's say I have a project management app. The Project is its central model.
Now there's a web page page where I see a list of all projects, can add a project, and then I'll reflect back the list of all projects, which should include the project I just added (assuming no errors).
So the pattern goes like this:
Get and display list of existing projects
User adds new project (using a form on that page)
New project is created
As a response, get and display list of existing projects (now includes the new project)
Now the thing is, that due to eventual consistency, there is no guarantee whatsoever that I will get that new project when I get a list of all projects right after adding a new project.
Now that would be fine if this momentary inconsistency happened when another request (e.g. another user: user B) requested the list of projects one second after the project was added by the first user (user A), but it's really a problem when user A performs an operation, and does not see the results of his action, therefore does not get feedback.
I have gotten used to doing something like this to work around this problem:
def create_project(request):
response_context = {}
new_project = Project(name=request.POST['name'])
project.save()
response_context['projects'] = Project.get_serialized_projects()
# on GAE, eventual consistency means we are not guaranteed to see the
# new projects while querying for all projects, therefore we might need
# to add it manually...
if project.serialize() not in response_context['projects']:
response_context['projects'].append(project.serialize())
return render('projects.html', response_context)
The problem is that this happens in many places in my code, so I'm thinking maybe I'm missing something there, since this pattern is such a basic web app pattern.
Any suggestions for other ways to handle this?
Yes its a common issue. No theres no magic fix.
From client-side once you know the commit succeeded you can save the item locally (globals or storage) and then when querying from datastore merge your saved data. Put an expiration on it so its temporary. Its not trivial to make it work in all cases (say added an item then removed/renamed it so also update cache etc).
From server-side its common to cache recent saves in memcache and also merge with your queries.
I just started to use WebRatio and I am facing a simple problem, with easy solution if I was not using this fabulous framework .... I was asked to do some sort of glosary app, and what I am trying to do right now is a simple index where appears all letters from A-Z and how many entries starting with each letter there are in my database, quite simple.
I aleady started a database with my entity: name, description and last_modified. I had been looking for some information on how to do this but I found nothing. So what I am trying to do is to fill a list with a custom query that I made (it works good on my sql editor) but I am not able to list the results in a WebRatio list. I tried to use a "query" object linked to a "simpleList" object but when I run the app it gives me error: "Expected at least one element .. inside " I would appreciate any help or resource that explains how to do this.
Thanks in advance
You shouldn't link the query unit with list because the list will make it's own database query. Instead you should specify outputs for query unit and write your custom style template for query unit to visualize the results as html. Or also (not recommended) you can link the results of query unit with a script unit and output desired html within a script unit.