For my current client we’re building a component based platform as a common feature hub for serveral large EPiServer websites. For this, we have stripped away the default Razor based rendering that is normally used for the view…
Today I had a bit of a struggle with the Jenkins EnvInject Plugin while trying to inject custom variables from a properties file into my MSBuild step. Everything that I added to the Properties Content field was successfully…
I saw this JavaScript error earlier this week, and thought I’d write a few lines about it. It appears as you try to submit a form created with the EPiServer Forms functionality, that likely has custom validators on…
When you’re developing custom EPiServer Forms field blocks you sometimes need to add your own custom validation as well. In this article you’ll see an example of how to add client side validation for the Luhn algorithm in…
When you’re adding custom EPiServer Forms field blocks to your solution, you occasionally have the need for adding custom validation as well. Here is a sample of how to add a custom server side validation to your textfield…
There may arise situations where your custom EPiServer Forms field blocks make no sense without your custom validation code being applied as the website visitor submits the form. In these cases it may be useful to help the…
I’ve been doing a lot of work with EPiServer Forms for two of my clients recently. They both have more or less complex special form fields they need for their business; ranging from the addition of simple character…
By default, EPiServer Form views goes in the directory /Views/Shared/ElementBlocks/, however if you’d like them placed elsewhere, this is easily done by adding a simple service configuration and extending EPiServer’s CustomViewLocationBase making an addition to it’s Paths array;…
In one of my current projects EPiServer‘s edit mode suddenly stopped working. Only the top bar loaded, while the rest failed due to a JavaScript error (see image below). NetworkError: 500 Internal Server Error caused by GetResourcesDictionary throwing…
When EPiServer web editors creates pages with the shortcut type Fetch content from page in EPiServer CMS, or as they use the Simple address option to create an alternative URL to a page, there is a need to…
I stumbled upon yet another reason for EPiServer‘s edit mode to stop working properly the other day. It is rather stupid really, but unless you know about it, it may take a while to find. Symptoms are as…
We were installing EPiServer Forms in a client’s EPiServer 9 website the other day, and encountered an issue with the binarier not being copied from the NuGet packages directory to the website’s bin folder. If we manually copied…
For my current client’s site we realized that our sitemap.xml was indexed by Google, making it appear in our search result. While we want search engines to crawl the sitemap, we do not want it indexed. We are…
I was investigating a failing Selenium test the other day and ran into a bit of trouble. It occured as the EPiServer content database template had been restored and EPiServer was loading the site for the first time…
I recently got myself a brand new computer at work running the latest Visual Studio – Visual Studio 2015. After setting up a client’s EPiServer 10 environment I found everything working as expected; until I tried editing pages…
Previously I wrote an article about Keeping reliable test data in EPiServer content database for automated UI tests, but recently ran into some issues in regards to new EPiServer properties. A call to the IContentRepository method Save as…
In my current client’s EPiServer 9 website project we are using Selenium to run automated UI tests on our code. For this we keep an EPiServer content database backup which we restore before each execution of the test…
We recently upgraded a client’s EPiServer 8.5 public multilanguage website to EPiServer 9.5 in production. Everything had worked just fine when going through both system testing as well as acceptance testing environments, but for this final step we…
Previously I wrote an article about an Easy way to manage global settings in multilanguage EPiServer website, but have since then had the need to expand this functionality a little (If you feel this article lacks code, check…
We started to experience a problem with a clients ImageVault installation after doing an upgrade to version 4.8.219.113 of the product. Large images being stored on a network share started to cause the MediaStreamService to throw Internal Server…