In our work to automate export and import of the production database into our test environment we had to maintain a test node in the Episerver page tree. This ment that we had to export it before replacing…
Importing the test node package that we exported earlier (see article Exporting Episerver content programmatically through an ApiController) would be the next step in our automated transfer of the production database to the testing environment. I extended our…
As part of the automated transfer of the production database to the testing environment for my current client we found the need to maintain a node in the Episerver page tree that is used for testing. I extended…
Attempting to match timestamps and whatnot to correlate requests over various logs may be quite tedious. Adding a correlation ID to your website makes this easier and may save you quite a bit of time. This is what…
Just a short note on an exception I got after upgrading the Episerver NuGet packages on a few of my client’s websites. All of them worked perfectly, except the one that gave me the following message: It is…
Adding custom information along with the usual message and stacktrace in your exceptions may possibly make it easier to find out what’s happening in your Episerver website. Here is a bit of code showing how it may be…
If you want to pass information between a PublishingContent handler and a PublishedContent handler (EPiServer.Core.IContentEvents) it is quite easy as the internal code provides you with a Dictionary property on the ContentEventArgs object. This may be useful if…
We use the JOS.ContentSerializer to provide JSON for React in a platform project at my current client (7 Episerver websites spread over 5 installations). For this we needed to provide the JOS.ContentSerializer with custom settings via the IContentSerializerSettings…
Some time ago we had a rather elusive bug on one of my client’s Episerver websites: occationally an item would disappear from a menu, even though no editor involvement had been noted for at least 6 months. My…
I had to add a character limit to an XHtmlString property in Episerver on a publish event the other day, and knew I had get rid of the markup to get an accurate count. I was pleased to…
Sometimes you need a sitemap index file for easing access to multiple sitemaps. Here is a way of creating one using a custom generator for GETA SEO Sitemaps, described in Multiple custom sitemap.xml generators with GETA SEO Sitemaps…
At my current client’s, we’re building a common platform code base supporting 5 Episerver multisite installations. These all have different needs when it comes to xml sitemaps. Here is an easy way of adding custom sitemap generation and…
Short note-to-self: if replacing contents of an Episerver license file using variables in Octopus Deploy, make sure the file uses the proper encoding, or you may find yourself facing the following error message: At a client of mine…
This is part of the short dynamic data store article series I mentioned before. The layer mentioned may be found in Simple EPiServer Dynamic Data Store (DDS) layer and was mainly created to ease unit testing of DDS…
This is part of a short article series that have been laying around as drafts for some time, so I figured it was time to actually do something with it. Here is a simple wrapper used for making…
We are trying out the Advanced CMS add-on Advanced Reviews for one of our Episerver websites at my current client. The thing is that we are also using JOS Content Serializer for turning our Episerver content items into…
This article is based on work described in A way of consolidating EPiServer Find Unified Search over multiple websites as well as Example: Pluggable EPiServer Find UnifiedSearch for selected types. If you want to use ajax to retrieve…
In this example on how the pluggable EPiServer Find UnifiedSearch may be implemented we will look at simple type filtering. Previously we did this using TypeSearch, but since we moved to UnifiedSearch in my current project, it had…
At my current client’s we are building a common platform containing shared code between several EPiServer multisite installations. Due to reasons the way we implemented searches with EPiServer Find had diverged to a point where it was necessary…