How to profile user location and IP data using hidden visitor form fields and geolocation

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Description

If you are using hidden visitor form fields and are using the EPiServer.Personalization.MaxMindGeolocation nuget package you may notice the hidden visitor fields are not tracked in form submissions.

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See below for the necessary configuration to get this working. 

Steps

Add the geolocation section in the web.config under </virtualPathProviders>, inside <episerver.framework>. If there is already an existing section, overwrite it.

<geolocation defaultProvider="freegeo">
  <providers>
    <add name="freegeo" type="EPiServer.Forms.Internal.GeoData.FreeGeolocationProvider, EPiServer.Forms" geoApiUrl="http://freegeoip.net/json/{0}" />
  </providers>
</geolocation>
 
 
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