I can't make Sitecore Analytics working. I have Sitecore 6.6.0 (rev. 121015) and installed Sitecore DMS.
1) when i go to Sitecore->Marketing Center i get error XML Parsing Error: no element found
2) when i go to Sitecore->Content Editor, choose element and press Analyze->Reports I get error You do not have permission to see any item reports
3) In Content Editor when press Analyze->Goals get Cannot use Analytics with a database that has no definition items error
4) in logs I see following:
"Exception: System.InvalidOperationException
Message: Cannot use Analytics with a database that has no settings"
5) If I change url that i get trying to open Marketing Center (changing Marketing%20Center.aspx to Marketing%20Center/default.aspx) I get Cannot use Analytics with a database that has no definition items error
6) I have in my Sitecore.Analytics.config this tag:
<setting name="Analytics.DefaultDefinitionDatabase" value="web" />
I tried to give access to analytics database from SQL Management Studio, but didn't help.
What could be the reason of this error, and how to solve it?
Your errors seem to suggest that the database is missing data. Did you use the database provided on this page, http://sdn.sitecore.net/Products/Sitecore%20V5/Sitecore%20CMS%206/Update/6_6_0_rev_121015.aspx ?
Go to the link above, scroll down to Download DMS 6.6.0 rev. 121015 for Sitecore CMS 6.6.0 rev.121015 and click the Download DMS 6.6.0 rev.121015 under SQL Server. Attach this database to your server and try again.
I haven't seen these errors, but it sounds to me like Sitecore is not able to access the Analytics database at all. You do have a connection string in ConnectionStrings.config named "analytics"? Try using the sa account just to make sure it's not a permissions issue. Don't forget to change it back from sa either way.
(caveat: I haven't used DMS yet, just OMS... it's possible I am way behind the times)
Publish your site (to web). You might be trying to analyze data that isn't live.
I just erased my previous answer as that was a consequence of what was wrong, but not the actual cause...
In the Analytics code, the Marketing Center node is requested from the current database. If it cannot find that item (which IS in the master database), you get the error.
But the code will NOT find the marketing center item if the security settings prevent the anonymous user read access...
That is where the error occured for me, when I was an anonymous user... And effectively, when looking at the security settings for the Marketing Center Item I found that inheritance had been blocked, hence preventing read access for the anonymous user...
Another reason this error sometimes occurs is when you have a production environment where there is no access to the master database.
Since the Analytics code uses the "master" database as the default definition database unless otherwise specified in the config settings, you could add the following to analytics.config:
<setting name="Analytics.DefaultDefinitionDatabase" value="web" />
That way, it will fallback to the web database in case of a production environment without master database.
Hope this helps...
Erwin
The issue is due to Sitecore not being able to read the definition items in the master/web database (depending on the Analytics.DefaultDefinitionDatabase setting).
The items it is looking for are:
/sitecore/system/Marketing Control Panel
/sitecore/system/Settings/Analytics
When the request is running, the user is default\Anonymous. Using Access Viewer, make sure there are no security settings disabling read access to these items. This includes parent items that would have a trickle-down effect.
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I am trying to publish sharepoint2016 website including Power View reports which created by SQL server services service (SSRS). there is top level site and bi center as sub-site; both are working fine but problem is that when I try to view the report it said the error:
"the web application at [url] could not be found. verify that you have typed the url correctly. if the url should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request url mapping to the intended application."I search about the error but It does not reach my target.
https://forums.asp.net/t/1970799.aspx?SQL+Reporting+Service+Runtime+Error+The+item+reports+Report1+cannot+be+found+rsItemNotFound+
note that the whole site is working fine in domain.
Please help...
Thanks...
Sorry for late guys...
i found that Power shell of SP cannot execute any command related to SSRS
it just need to reinstall SSRS service compatible with SP2016. then every thing is fine.
I would like to accesss the sitecore DB and items from console application like
Sitecore.Data.Database db = Sitecore.Context.Database
or
Sitecore.Data.Database db = Sitecore.Data.Database.GetDatabase("master")
how do I configure and setup my console application to access the DB as above?
Thanks Everyone for the suggestion, I am really interested in config changes, I used webservice, but it has very limited methods. For example, if I would like create an Item with the template and insert the item with prepopulated value, there is no such option. The reason I am looking for the console apporach is I would like to import the contents from XML or excel sheet and push those to the sitecore tree, eventually use the scheduled task to run the console app periodically. I do not want to copy the entire web.config and app_config. If anyone has already done this, could you please post your steps and necessary config changes?
You have two options I think:
1) Import the Sitecore bits of a website's web.config into your console application's app.config, so that the Sitecore API "just works"
I'm sure I read a blog post about this, but I can't find the reference right now. (I will have another look) But I think the simple but long winded approach is to copy all of the <sitecore/> element and all the separate files it references. I'm fairly sure you can whittle this down to a subset of the config required for data access with a bit of thinking.
2) Don't use the Sitecore API directly, connect to a web service that exposes access to it remotely.
There are a few of these that already exist. Sitecore itself exposes one, Sitecore Rocks has one, and Hedgehog TDS has one too. And you can always write your own (since any web service running inside the Sitecore ASP.Net app can make database calls and report values back and forth - just remember to consider security if this web service might end up exposed externally for any reason)
John West links to some relevant stuff here:
http://www.sitecore.net/Learn/Blogs/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2013/09/Getting-Data-Out-of-the-Sitecore-ASPNET-CMS.aspx
-- Edited to add --
I've not found the blog post I remember. But I came across this SO thread:
Accessing Sitecore API from a CLI tool
which refers to this blog post:
http://www.experimentsincode.com/?p=232
which I think gives the info you'll need for option 1.
(And it reminds me that, of course, when you copy the config stuff you have to copy the Sitecore binaries into your app's folder as well)
I would just like to expand on #JermDavis' post and note that Sitecore isn't a big fan of being accessed when not in a web application. However, if you still want to do this, you will need to make sure that you have all of the necessary configuration settings from the web.config and App_Config of your site in your console application's app.config file.
Moreover, you will never be able to call Sitecore.Context in a console application, as the Sitecore Context sits on top of the HttpContext which means that it must be an application and have a valid request for you to use it. What you are looking for is something more along the lines of Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master").
Good luck and happy coding :)
This sounds like a job for the Sitecore Item Web API. I use the Sitecore Item Web API whenever I need to access Sitecore data from the master database outside the context of the Content Management server or outside of the context of the Sitecore application. The Web API definitely does not allow you to do everything that the standard Sitecore API does but it can act as a good base and I now extend upon the Web API instead of writing my own custom web services whenever possible.
Thanks to JemDavis's advise.
After I copied the configuration and made changes to config section to get rid of conflicts. I copied almost all of Sitrecore, analytics and lucene dlls, it worked great.
Only thing you have to remember is, copy the app_config folder to the same location where your dlls are.
Thanks again JemDavis....
I'm still new to Liferay and using Liferay 6.2
what i'm doing:
I am trying to add a document manually into my database using insert statement.
I inserted into dlfileentry, dlfileversion and AssertEntry.
Also, i created a folder with the valid name and file.
The issue:
upon entering the Documents and Media portlet, i can see the document name there but when i click on checkout, it will prompt a error saying that Documents and Media is temporarily unavailable. however i am still able to download the valid document.
Am i doing something wrong? Personally, i feel that i am missing one more table for the database but i'm not sure .
Thanks!
Yes, you're doing something wrong: You should never write to Liferay's database with SQL, as there might be more data required than what's directly visible to you. Obviously, you're running into exactly such an issue.
Liferay has an API which you can use locally, from within the same application server, or remotely as JSON or SOAP service. You should exclusively use this for write access to the database.
Alternatively, you might consider WebDAV access to your document repository as the way to add more documents to the document library.
This question may be a dublicate, but no recent post leads to a working answer for my case.
I have a Sharepoint 2013 running on a Windows Server 2012. Following issue appeared:
I made a new Site-Collection as wiki. Everything (links,...) works fine on the server but when I want to access the wiki from outside (not localhost) the server runs in a 404 Not found error.
http://localhost/sites/wiki/Pages/Home.aspx - works fine(localhost)
http://10.38.0.15/sites/wiki/Pages/Home.aspx - doesn't work.
I checked the IIS settings, all servers are up and running. The log file has no errors in it.
Does anyone know, how to solve this problem?
thx
Jürgen
The most common cause for this is that you don't have the IIS host header configured correctly. The 404 will appear because you are hitting a different IIS web site and not the one you intended to.
If you go into IIS Manager and click on "Sites" in the right hand pane there will be a column called bindings and a column called ID.
IIS will check in the order of ID for the first site that matches. Make sure the default site is stopped. If you see bindings that look like the following:
ID 1: Bindings: *:80
ID 2: Bindings: www.yoursite.com:80
www.othersite.com will match ID 1. Any other site that doesn't specify a port or https: will be directed to ID 2. You need to ensure that the site you are trying to access matches your bindings. The "www.yoursite.com" is added to the site via "New Web Application" in SharePoint. There is a field called Host: in Central Administration. This should match what you are typing from inside and outside the server. If you need the site to respond to multiple names, you need to extend the web application.
Assuming you used the default of claims authentication, here are the instructions for that:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276325.aspx
I am not sure if this is still required in Server 2012, but disabling the loopback check might also help, although this usually results in a 401, and repeated attempts to log in. Here are the instructions for that.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861
Сheck the alternate access mapping in SharePoint administrator.
It should be something like this:
http://yourservername default
http://10.10.1.30:80 internet
http:// so on ..
I am using SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and set mode remotely. All is going fine and reports running on my machine. I am not using report viewer control, but switch to browser.
Problem is that when I access the report from any other system in browser by providing required url. I m getting the following premission error:
Server Error in /ReportServer Application. Access is denied:
Description: An error is occured while
accessing the resources required to
serve for this request. You might have
not premission to view the requested
resources. Error message: 401.3 : You
dont have the premission to view this
directory or page using the
creditinals you supplied.
I have go through all step of this article "http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365170.aspx" and set remotly premession but after all changes no success and getting same error.
Please some one can tell me or provide step list, that how can I set the premession? that the report can run from other machine. Quick and detail response will
This link should give you some more steps to follow to set up the permissions as this sounds like a permissions error.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337491.aspx
Also .... does it prompt for a username and password when you visit the site from another machine? if not you may need to add the required authentication methods into IIS (just an idea)
Then create a local (or domain) account for people to use to browse reports and use the properties tab on the report server home page to add them as 'Browser' type members.
When you visit the reports site from another PC it should prompt for sign in details (may not on a domain - not sure), if it errors before showing the home page then it is a security config issue, once you get in you may have a bit more tinkering to do to get the reports to run, but you tend to get slightly more verbose descriptions then so its not too hard to figure out and it normally database security permissions related.
Best of luck.
CB