Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine Demo

This repository shows how to extend the Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine. It includes:

• Custom tasks
• Integration with external services
• Registering task chains from an external application
• Retreiving the status of a task

This repository accompanies the videos from the Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine series:

• Sitecore Cortex - Processing Engine Architecture
• Sitecore Cortex - Processing Engine Tasks
• Sitecore Cortex - Album Recommendation Example

How to Build

• Add the settings for your xConnect server inside the settings.xml file in the console project.
  • Set the URI inside the /settings/xconnect/uri element.
  • Set the details for the client certificate inside the /settings/xconnect/certificate
• Set the connection string for the message buses inside the settings.xml file in the console project. This must be the same database as the procesing engine uses for the message bus (messaging connection string). The config paths are:
  • /settings/rebus/Sitecore.Processing.Tasks.Messaging.Buses.TaskRegistrationProducer/Transport/SqlServer/ConnectionStringOrName
  • /settings/rebus/Sitecore.Processing.Tasks.Messaging.Buses.TaskProgressProducer/Transport/SqlServer/ConnectionStringOrName
• Build the solution using Visual Studio

How to Deploy

Deploy the xConnect model to the xConnect server

• Run the console project and execute step 'a' to serialize the model to JSON.
• Copy the JSON file (output in the consoles bin folder) to the \Add_Data\Models folder on the xConnect server.
• Restart the xConnect server.

Deploy the xConnect model to the Cortex Processing Engine

• Copy the DLL files from the output folder of the xConnect extensions project to the Processing Engine folder.

Deploy the Processing Engine extensions to the Processing Engine

• Copy the DLL files from the output folder of the Processing Engine extensions project to the Processing Engine folder.
• Copy the App_Data folder from the Processing Engine extensions project to the Processing Engine.
• Set the Spotify ClientID and ClientSecret settings in the \App_Data\Config\Sitecore\Demo\sc.Spotify.xml file of the Processing Engine.