Upgrade Sitecore Project to Version 10.2

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This year, I got the opportunity to work on upgrading Sitecore projects from Sitecore versions 8.2, and 9.X to Sitecore version 10.2. To find the complete details with the steps Sitecore provides Sitecore SC-XP-10.2.0-Upgrade-Guide for Sitecore experience platform 10.2 from Sitecore Experience Platform 8.1.0 or later. You can refer to this PDF file and start working on the upgrade.

While upgrading the projects I have written my all findings, issues, research, and solutions in individual blogs. That you may or may not face while upgrading your project. In this blog post, I am summarizing all these within a single blog.

Upgrade the framework and Database:

  • Dot NET Framework Migrator: To upgrade Sitecore from a lower version to Sitecore 10.2, you need to change the .net framework to 4.8. See the blog post-Dot NET Framework Migrator

  • Upgrade Sitecore XP Database to the XM: The database upgrade is one of the most important steps while upgrading the Sitecore version to the latest 10.2. I have upgraded the Sitecore XP database to the XM. See the blog post-Upgrade Sitecore XP Database to the XM

  • Remove Launchpad Icons from Sitecore: After upgrading the database to the XM, you can find the marketing icons on the Sitecore launchpad and that confuses the client because XM does not have the marketing and analytics-related options so to remove those icons see the blog post-Remove Launchpad Icons From Sitecore

Azure SOLR Cloud:

  • SOLR Search Result Order Different due to the _val_:__boost function: After upgrading the project to Sitecore version 10.2, the SOLR search result comes in a different order due to the query _val_:__boost function. See the blog post-SOLR Search Result Order Different due to the _val_:__boost function

  • Add Custom Fields in SOLR Index on Crawler: In my case, in Sitecore 8.2 lucence configuration fields were added in the document at runtime on SitecoreItemCrawler. To manage those dynamic filed in the SOLR see the blog post-Add Custom Fields in SOLR Index on Crawler

  • Sitecore SwitchOnRebuild Feature with SolrCloud: While rebuilding the index on your Sitecore CMS you may face scenarios where indexing data not populating in website search functionality, the search stops working, or slow down. After completion of indexing again search functionality returns the results. Here Sitecore introduces the very nice concept of SwitchOnRebuild. See the blog post-Sitecore SwitchOnRebuild Feature With SolrCloud

Sitecore Forms:

  • Sitecore Forms are Missing in the Forms Designer: This is a very common issue related to the forms. I faced the same issue related to the Forms that is I was not able to see any forms and it showed a message there are no forms to display. See the blog post-Sitecore Forms are Missing in the Forms Designer

Deploy application on Sitecore Managed Cloud Service PaaS:

I will keep updating this post with new issues and solutions.

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