This is likely related to Bug #35 but creating as a separate bug just in case not related.

We're running xGenerator for a client on Sitecore 9.0.2 but having a problem. It's not actually generating anything and the xConnect logs are filled with identifer should not be empty. I did a bunch of debugging and it seems in ContactDataProcessor.cs, the value for emailValue is empty in

Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs("xGenerator", emailValue);

based on what i'm seeing in the code:

requestInfo.SetIfVariablePresent("ContactEmail", email =>
{
    emailValue = email;
});

it would seem that the variable "ContactEmail" is not getting populated before ContactDataProcessor is being run.

Periodically not all countries are loaded from this document and the resulting issues are:

• xProfileGen - not all countries listed when creating a new contact
• xGen - Data generation will fail and stop the generator if trying to load a continent code that has not been loaded from the document (when attempting to select a city). A temporary workaround is to scope the geolocations small to an area that has been loaded (make change in Locations tab in xGen tool)

This issue is mostly hidden but has the following results:

• The JSON return from polling a Job is that the Contact count is double what you would expect
• Duplicate contacts with the same email are merged in xConnect but Anonymous contacts (no email in xProfileGen) do not get multiple visits as they cannot be merged by email.

The EXM generator fails.
I traced it to the GetRandomCity method. The issue is where it is loading cities by subcontinent from GeoIP cache. The error is fired when no cities exist.
It appears to be looking for the City data from a file named "ExperienceGenerator.Data.countryInfo.txt"
Where does this text file come from?

ManagedPoolThread #9 12:25:55 ERROR EXM Generator failed for campaign: 71b62829-0550-4c3a-8328-0cfb0d49d615
Exception: System.InvalidOperationException
Message: No items specified
Source: Colossus
at Colossus.Statistics.WeightedSetBuilder`1.Build()
at ExperienceGenerator.Services.GetRandomCityService.GetRandomCity(String subcontinentCode)

This is with Sitecore 8.1 update 2.

1. Configure a contact in xProfile Generator

2. Set contact to multiple visits

3. Run xProfile Generator

Actual: multiple (new) contacts get generated for each visit

Expected: Single contact with multiple visits should be created.

Hello,

Does the 10.0 release support 10.2?

https://github.com/Sitecore/xGenerator/releases/tag/10.0.0

Thanks

Using version 9.3 of the xGenerator results in the following error message:

{ "Message": "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'https://web-local.onvz.nl/clientapi/xgen/countries'.", "MessageDetail": "No type was found that matches the controller named 'ExperienceGeneratorActions'." }

Been trying many different ways to get the route correct but nothing seems to work.....any ideas?

Not sure if this is something I've done wrong or not, so I've no issue with this being closed if I've just misread the instructions - but here's the issue I'm seeing:

I have an instance of V9.1u1 installed onto a single machine using the "XP1-SingleDeveloper.ps1" script. It's vanilla Sitecore - not a Habitat site. As far as I can see it's running ok. No errors in the logs for the CM or CD roles at least, after I browse about a bit.

I installed the package currently linked from your repo's root page (which is described as compatible with v9.1) and it completed ok. I then followed the instructions the package shows for scaled deployments. I unzipped the "files" folder from the package onto the CD instance, and edited the config on the CM instance to say it was a scaled deployment.

When I go to the Experience Generator page, and configure it to look at the CD URL, I can start a generation operation, but the CD server's log gets errors like this:

10388 15:21:59 ERROR [Sitecore Services]: HTTP GET
URL http://sc911.cd/clientapi/xgen/websites

Exception System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find configuration node: databases/database[@id='core']
   at Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.GetConfigNode(String xpath, Boolean assert)
   at Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.CreateObject(String configPath, String[] parameters, Boolean assert)
   at Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.GetDatabase(String name, Boolean assert)
   at Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.GetDatabase(String name)
   at Sitecore.Sites.SiteContext.get_Database()
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.SiteRepository.<>c.<GetSites>b__9_1(SiteContext site)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.SiteRepository.GetSites()
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.SiteRepository.get_Sites()
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.SiteRepository.GetValidSites()
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.SiteRepository.get_ValidSites()
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.ExperienceGeneratorActionsController.Websites(Boolean all)
   at lambda_method(Closure , Object , Object[] )
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.<>c__DisplayClass6_1.<GetExecutor>b__3(Object instance, Object[] methodParameters)
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ExecuteAsync(HttpControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 arguments, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ApiControllerActionInvoker.<InvokeActionAsyncCore>d__1.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.<CallOnActionExecutedAsync>d__6.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.<CallOnActionExecutedAsync>d__6.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.<ExecuteActionFilterAsyncCore>d__5.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ActionFilterResult.<ExecuteAsync>d__5.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Filters.AuthorizationFilterAttribute.<ExecuteAuthorizationFilterAsyncCore>d__3.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.<SendAsync>d__15.MoveNext()

That looks to me like the code makes reference to the Core DB - but I don't think V9.1 deploys a connection to Core with the CD role any more? I can see some references directly to the Core DB in the SettingsRepository classes - could they be the issue here perhaps?

Is there something I should be doing on my deployment to fix / work around the error? Or is it a bug that needs resolving in the code?

Any help appreciated...

In the scope of LaunchPad redesign work the icons of all apps were changed. I would like to ask to update items of icons that appear on LaunchPad to align them with the new design.

Please, use the following icon paths:
LaunchPadIcons/32x32/EXM Experience Generator.png
LaunchPadIcons/32x32/Experience Generator.png
LaunchPadIcons/32x32/Profile Experience Generator.png

Note: All icons are located at Sitecore.Themes repository.

Please, reach me out if you need more details.

It seems that xGen doesn’t work with Sitecore 8.2.1. The following exception can be found in the log files:
Exception System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Api.Resources.RegionResources.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Api" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed.
at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.HandleResourceStreamMissing(String fileName)
at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.GrovelForResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Dictionary`2 localResourceSets, Boolean tryParents, Boolean createIfNotExists, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Resources.ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo requestedCulture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Resources.ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents)
at System.Resources.ResourceManager.GetResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents)
at ExperienceGenerator.Data.GeoDataCache.LoadRegionsFromResource()
at ExperienceGenerator.Data.GeoDataCache.FromResource()
at ExperienceGenerator.Repositories.GeoDataRepository.get_Cache()

It seems it’s due to the fact that the Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Api.dll assembly doesn’t have resources

whereas 8.2.0 does have...

Installed the package on 9.3 initial release with habitat home demo, and getting error that says:

Exception System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Sitecore.Jobs.JobOptions' from assembly 'Sitecore.Kernel, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
   at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Infrastructure.XGenSitecoreJobManager.StartJob(JobInfo info, JobSegment segment)

Sitecore 10 package is only available as WDP, we should add a regular package to allow manual install.

Please submit comment if you intend on helping out, to avoid duplication of effort!

{"Message":"An error has occurred.","ExceptionMessage":"Could not load type 'Sitecore.Jobs.JobOptions' from assembly 'Sitecore.Kernel, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.","ExceptionType":"System.TypeLoadException","StackTrace":" at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Infrastructure.XGenSitecoreJobManager.StartJob(JobInfo info, JobSegment segment)\r\n at ExperienceGenerator.XGenJobManager.StartNew(JobSpecification spec)\r\n at ExperienceGenerator.Client.Controllers.ExperienceGeneratorJobsController.Post(JobSpecification spec)\r\n at lambda_method(Closure , Object , Object[] )\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.<>c__DisplayClass6_1.b__3(Object instance, Object[] methodParameters)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ExecuteAsync(HttpControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 arguments, CancellationToken cancellationToken)\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ApiControllerActionInvoker.d__1.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.d__6.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.d__6.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.d__5.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.d__6.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.d__6.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.d__5.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ActionFilterResult.d__5.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.AuthorizationFilterAttribute.d__3.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.d__15.MoveNext()"}

Temporary workaround is to add at least one campaign to Sitecore in order for the error to go away.

Deleting an interaction for a contact in xProfileGenerator does not work

• It appears to be deleted at first but remains there and will re-appear if you close and open the interaction editor again.
• Also apparent if removing interactions and then saving a preset - old interactions listed when loading the preset.

Issue must be that the contact specification is not updated when deleting interactions. Need to investigate how to trigger an update of the specification in JS on deleting.

When adding a Sitecore Campaign in the interactions editor in xProfileGenerator, campaigns were never saved and run.

Approx results:
10000 contacts for 1 page per visit generated in 2 mins
10000 contacts for 5 page per visit - generation time 4:10

1. Configure an xProfile Generator entry
2. Set the visit to 10 days ago
3. Execute xGenerator

Actual: Visit is created 10 days in the future

Expected: Visit should be created 10 days in the past

If more than one interaction is created for a contact, the duration (time on site) is incorrect and somehow tied to the recency of the visit. This leads to duration time is days or hours. For example, If the interaction recency (time since visit) is 28 days, the duration (time on site) is usually something like 27 days, 23 hours.