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The past few years has seen fairly wide adoption of Sitecore Helix by the community. Helix is a set of recommended practices and conventions for the solution architecture of Sitecore product implementations. There are many benefits to following these practices, reducing both project complexity, tight coupling and maintainability in the future.

SiteCron 3.2.0 has been released. SiteCron is a scheduling module based on Quartz.NET Job Scheduler. SiteCron can be used to create precision schedule jobs in Sitecore.

Temecula, California, USA – 13th March, 2020.

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed the COVID-19 (coronavirus) a pandemic, we felt it prudent to let you, our valued customers, colleagues and friends, know that at Konabos, health and safety is our top priority. We are closely monitoring the coronavirus pandemic and have activated our Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and other precautionary measures.

Temecula, California, USA – January 3, 2020.

Konabos Consulting, announced that four of its team members have been named Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Strategy and Technology categories by Sitecore®, the global leader in digital experience management software. Founders Akshay Sura and Kamruz Jaman were recognized as two of only 154 Technology MVP’s globally for their seventh and eighth consecutive Sitecore MVP wins respectively. The power-packed consulting firm’s Strategy Team led by four-time MVP Dennis Augustine and repeat winner Kennith Gray also took home two of the 46 Strategy MVP awards this year with.

Akshay Sura and Jason Wilkerson are going on a Sitecore User Group

Tour in Europe starting September 25th to October 4th 2019.

Once you have successfully installed the Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.1, the next step is to setup your local development environment.

Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.1 was released in April 2019 and runs on Sitecore 9.1 Update 1.

Make sure you have a valid working instance of Sitecore 9.1.1 running before we begin. Download the Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.1 Initial Release On Premises Packages for On Premise 2019.04-3.0.163 and the Installation Guide - On Premise using the link below:

Sitecore has made the process of installing Sitecore 9.1.1 much easier than the previous 9 versions. This blog post demonstrates the installation of a Sitecore 9.1.1 instance on a developer workstation. I wanted a single post where I have all the resources I need to install Sitecore 9.1.1 (other than the Sitecore install files download links).

SiteCron 3.1.0 has been released. SiteCron is a scheduling module based on Quartz.NET Job Scheduler. SiteCron can be used to create precision schedule jobs in Sitecore.

If you are looking to create a new customer entity in Sitecore Commerce 9.x, this is the post for you. I spent some time searching for code using my friend Google but couldn’t find much. Hope this helps.

Ever since its release there has not been much information published about the Sitecore Universal Tracker. This post hope to cover some the Questions related to the Sitecore Universal Tracker Initial Release Version 1.0 which was released along with Sitecore 9.1 on November 28th 2018.

This is a quick post, and I am hoping that it can help others who are searching for similar fixes. While working with a huge commerce implementation, I ran into an issue where the Sitecore Commerce Minion was timing out and recycling itself every 20 minutes. This meant that the Import I was running restarted every 20 minutes.

Sitecore Universal Tracker Initial Release Version 1.0 was released along with Sitecore 9.1 on November 28th 2018.

Sitecore Universal Tracker is an API first, a micro-service-based tracking service to track actions from mobile apps, IoT, AR, VR and other emerging channels.

WHAT’S NEW?

Lets look at what was added and modified. Please remember to Merge – Append when installing the package if you are upgrading.

To Reference, or to NoReference, that is the question
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous NuGet references
Or to take arms against a sea of DLLs

Sitecore Universal Tracker 1.0 was released along with Sitecore 9.1 on November 28th 2018. The best definition I found that fits what the Universal tracker is:

Sitecore Experience commerce 9.0 Update 3 was released today (December 4th 2018). This post outlines the process of upgrading Update 2 to Update 3 as described in the Sitecore Experience Commerce Upgrade Guide. We will only concentrate on the engine upgrade and not the SXA Storefront upgrade.

Sitecore Universal Tracker 1.0 was released along with Sitecore 9.1 on November 28th 2018. Sitecore Universal Tracker is an API first, a micro-service-based tracking service to track actions from mobile apps, IoT, AR, VR and other emerging channels.

Sitecore 9.1 was released today (November 28th 2018) and I wanted to take this opportunity to cater to a specific need that we get asked about. How do non-Sitecore developers install Sitecore when they get the Developer Trial license. I hope this video helps that group.

A Nor’easter is coming, blowing these three musketeers to a #Sitecore user group near you!

Kamruz Jaman, Mike Reynolds and Akshay Sura are going on a Sitecore User Group tour in the north east starting December 11th 2018. The following are the dates and links.

In this post we will look at how to extend a SellableItem’s Schema, in this case a Variant in Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.0.2. There are many ways to extend a SellableItem but this one concentrates on how to do it via code. With Sitecore Commerce, moving data between instances is challenging and to avoid this, a code based solution makes a lot of sense.

In this post we will look at how to remove the sample projects from the Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.0.2 (Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.SDK.2.2.72).

This past weekend I was playing with the Azure IoT hub and decided to load test it to see how much throughput can be achieved.

Our Sitecore Symposium 2018 talk from Orlando. How to create customer loyalty programs using Sitecore Experience Commerce and Email Experience Manager?

Akshay Sura and Jason Wilkerson are going on a Sitecore User Group Tour in Europe starting October 24th to November 2nd.

In this video I am going to walk you through how to use the SiteCron module to run Sitecore Commerce Engine Minions. Sitecore jobs along with Sitecore Commerce Minions run on an interval basis. If you need a way to accurately run your Minions based on CRON expressions or at a specific date and time, you would need to use SiteCron. Here is come code:

In this post we will look at how to display the custom contact facets in the Sitecore Experience Profile. We looked at the posts by Jonathan Robbins AKA ISlayTitans (Obviously he likes slaying Titans) and we needed to customize it for Sitecore 9.

In this post we will look at how to create a custom personalization rule to run based on the current user’s points. Based on the previous blog posts, we already update a user with their points on a scheduled basis.

Kamruz and I are presenting at the Sitecore Symposium on Wednesday October 10th at 10AM. Our presentation topic is:
How to create customer loyalty programs using Sitecore Experience Commerce and Email Experience Manager.

In this video I am going to walk you through how to use xConnect in a Sitecore Commerce Engine solution.

In this video I am going to walk you through how to create a contact facet in xDB and use xConnect to add that facet value for an existing contact in Sitecore 9 Update 2.

In this video I am going to walk you through how to create a Sitecore Commerce Minion for Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 9 Update 2.

In this video I am going to walk you through the second part of creating a custom Loyalty plugin for Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 9 Update 2. We will work on the Sitecore Commerce Experience Accelerator (SXA) side of the project and extend commerce to show the points for the Order.

In this video I am going to walk you through creating a custom Loyalty plugin for Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 9 Update 2. We will work on the engine side of the project and extend commerce to calculate and show the points for the Order entity and the order lines.

Sitecore Commerce Base solution for Visual Studio 2017 has been released on GitHub for Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 Update 2. As I have been working on a few Commerce solutions, I realized that Sitecore Experience Commerce provides an out of the box Visual Studio 2017 solution in the SDK zip file.

In this video I am going to walk you through setting up your development environment for debugging Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 9 Update 2. As you are writing custom code to work in Sitecore Commerce Engine, you would also need to debug and test your code. For this purpose, it would help if you setup your solution to run the engine instance with your custom code. We will walk through:

This week Kamruz Jaman and I were in San Franciso for the Sitecore Commerce (XC) Developer 300 training. We are glad that we were the first public class in the world to take the Commerce 300 course. So first handful to certify!

In this video I am going to walk you through installing Sitecore Habitat Home and Habitat Home Commerce on Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 9 Update 2.

In this video I am going to walk you through installing Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 Update 1. Previously in one of our Unofficial Sitecore Training, we went through installing Sitecore 9 using SIF.