Category Archives: EPiServer CMS 6 R2

Revisited and improved: PageType based filtering of EPiServer’s EditMode PageTree

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Mathias Kunto

Some time ago I developed a small plug-in to EPiServer‘s edit mode page tree, allowing web editors to filter its pages based on all available page types. I decided to spend this weekend in the sun on my balcony with … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.Net, EPiServer, EPiServer CMS 6 R2, Plugins | Tagged C#, Dynamic Data Store, EPiServer, EPiServer user profiles, PageTypeTreeFilter | Leave a comment

Supplying EPiServer scheduled jobs with parameters through Admin Mode

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Mathias Kunto

I have always missed a way of supplying arbitrary input parameters to EPiServer scheduled jobs through the Admin Mode scheduled job interface. As Stefan Forsberg laughingly pointed out to me when I told him about my POC for this functionality … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.Net, EPiServer, EPiServer CMS 6 R2, Scheduled jobs | Tagged automation, C#, Control Adapter, EPiServer, Scheduled job | Leave a comment

GeoIP database update in multiple webserver environment using Windows PowerShell scripting

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Mathias Kunto

The MaxMind GeoIP database (shipped with EPiServer Framework) is rather useful when wanting to show geographically specific information to visitors as they surf around the site. Since mapping the correct requests to the proper regions may be rather important generating … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, EPiServer, EPiServer CMS 6 R2, Powershell script | Tagged automation, EPiServer, GeoIP, MaxMind, Powershell, script | 2 Comments

Programmatically created pages getting wrong master language in migrated EPiServer environment

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Mathias Kunto

I ran in to a problem with my migrated EPiServer 4 website when creating new pages programmatically. The old site was using English as the master language, but my new one would be all in Swedish. I had used the … Continue reading →

Posted in EPiServer, EPiServer 4, EPiServer CMS 6 R2, Language | Tagged C#, EPiServer, Globalization, Legacy, Master Language, Migration | Leave a comment

Changing default values on built-in EPiServer properties

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Mathias Kunto

A client was using CurrentPage.Changed.ToShortDateString() for displaying a Last updated date in the inner footer of their pages. They often, however, forgot to select the Mark page as changed-checkbox on the Settings tab, and asked me if it was possible … Continue reading →

Posted in EPiServer, EPiServer CMS 6 R2 | Tagged C#, EPiServer, Event Handlers, EventArgs, Global.asax | 2 Comments

Must select Show data for all pages checkbox in Edit mode to find submitted EPiServer XForms Form Data

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Mathias Kunto

I noticed a problem with a customer’s XForm earlier; no matter how many times I posted data, I was not able to find it through the Edit mode Form Data-tab. It was not until I marked the checkbox Show data … Continue reading →

Posted in EPiServer, EPiServer CMS 5, EPiServer CMS 6 R2 | Tagged C#, EPiServer, EPiServer database, tblXFormData, XForms | 1 Comment

Allowing web administrators to dynamically update EPiServer language files

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Mathias Kunto

When working with EPiServer sites, a not all that uncommon type of support case is the need to change text on a page which is not editable through the Edit mode. Quite often, this text is located in language files … Continue reading →

Posted in EPiServer, EPiServer CMS 6 R2, Language, Plugins | Tagged C#, Dynamic Data Store, EPiServer, language files, plugin, XML | 10 Comments