Monthly Archive: September 2011
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 for all pages that I got any hits. The XForm data exist in a table called tblXFormData in the EPiServer database. Checking the content of …
An annoying problem that sometimes occur in EPiServer websites happened to my new EPi 6 R2 the other day. I have seen it before but always seem to forget what the reason is, and have to waste valuable time looking to solve it. So, here it is. Hopefully it may save somebody a bit of pain; or me, the next time I stumble upon it. …
I got two exceptions today trying to use an EPiServer SearchDataSource in order to find files in the VPP directories. Not rocket science solving them, but I thought that I would make a short post anyway hoping it might make somebody’s life easier. System.IO.IOException: \\server\VPP\Global\index not a directory The first exception occured as my VPP folders did not yet contain index directories. The EPiServer Indexing …
I got this exception when setting up an old website on a new 64-bit Windows Server. The system was using an old Access database for keeping statistics information, which did not seem to like the new environment. As I did not have Microsoft Office installed on the server I had to download the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components from the Microsoft website. After …
Tinkering around with a small EPiServer tool plugin that I am building (will be found in a later post), I decided that I wanted to try out the PageTree control; I have not been using it that much, and wanted to know what it could offer me. Nice, easy to use, and lots of work already done. Sweet. What it did not give me however, …
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 on the web server, and it may be rather tiresome for web editors having to send change requests to the support or development team just …
When a customer wants to move their site from version 4 of the EPiServer platform to a later one, the URLs will change. It is very likely that so will the ids for the migrated pages. Here is a simple method for retaining functioning bookmarks, unbroken links from other websites, keeping RSS readers happy, while at the same time feeding search engines 301 – Permanently …
A customer asked me to see what I could do for their XForm order notification e-mails today. Apparently the department handling their incoming orders was receiving really long e-mails with loads of superfluous information; this as every field in the XForm was being submitted to them, and not just the ones containing data. This is the default behaviour of the XForm functionality, which of course …