Himmat Singh Dulawat (3x Sitecore MVP)

Sitecore xConnect provides several default facets like personal information, AddressList, EmailAddressList, etc. Avatar is one of them and it comes under the IContactPicture Legacy facet. If you are new with Sitecore xDB and xConnect and need more insight on the Custom facet, How to create and set/update the facet then you can refer blog post Work with Custom Facet in Sitecore and Create Custom Facet in Sitecore. In this article, I am going to describe how to set the contact picture in the Avatar facet which we can see in the details tab in the experience profile window. private bool SetAvatarFacets(byte[] imageBytes, string mimeType, Contact contact, IXdbContext client) { var pictureData = imageBytes; var pictureMimeType = mimeType; var avatar = contact.GetFacet<Avatar>(Avatar.DefaultFacetKey); //Facet is null if (avatar == null) { avatar = new Avatar(pictureMimeType, pictureData); ...

In this blog, I will let you know how to completely remove the Sitecore instance from your machine manually. While installing the new instance we face the error regarding SQL Server, Sitecore Identity Server, etc. To overcome this situation, perform the below steps to entirely clean the old Sitecore instance and you can go with a smooth installation of the new instance. Stop the IIS and remove the configuration: Open the IIS server and in the right panel Action tab click on Stop. Again, in the left panel right-click on the Sitecore instance and choose the Remove option. In the left panel go to the application pool, select all respective Sitecore Instance application Pool and choose the remove option from the right panel. For example, in this blog, I am deleting the "sc1011sc.dev.local" instance. Delete Sitecore Service: Go to the Service window, Press the Win + R key, it will open the run windo...