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Thoughts on moving from EPiServer 6 R2 to EPiServer 7.5
We put a little time in my current project looking into what it might mean if we were to upgrade our site from EPiServer CMS 6 R2 to the current version 7.5; we were to identify benefits, risks, potential money sinks and so on specific for this client. As I suspect this is not an…
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How to install EPiServer on Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
I put a some effort in finding out how to install an EPiServer CMS 6 site on a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core; there was a question about it on the EPiServer World Forums and I thought I’d help out a bit. The whole process turned out to be a little…
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New Relic’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) breaks the EPiServer’s File Manager in Edit Mode
Update: There is a hotfix available for this, see Per’s comment further down. We noticed a weird problem on one of our test servers in my current project some time ago. For some reason there was a massive output of JavaScript in the EPiServer ActionWindow, in addition to the normal functionality making it impossible to…
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EPiServer 7 Installation Error – $accountName is not a valid user or group
I ran into some problems the other day trying to install an EPiServer 7 site onto an old Windows 7 developer machine using EPiServer‘s Deployment Center. Everything seemed to be going well until I was hit with an account related error. Opening up the installation PowerShell script file in question (\EPiServer\CMS\7.0.586.1\Install\System Scripts\Install Site (No database).ps1)…
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Insert links to bookmarks in other EPiServer pages
EPiServer‘s insert link dialog has an option that allows web editors to insert links to anchor tag bookmarks contained within the page currently being edited. This option, however, is not yet available when using the Page on this website alternative as a Link target. A client requested similar functionality for their EPiServer CMS 6 R2…
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Please explain yourself: Reasons and audit logging in EPiServer scheduled jobs
There are times when I’ve found that well considered and thought-through EPiServer scheduled job settings have been changed in environments where they really shouldn’t be. People usually have some reason for doing what they’re doing but it’s hard to follow if you’re unable to figure out why, and if nobody can remember doing it. I’ve…
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Child pages of forbidden PageTypes in EPiServer after PageType convertion
In my current project we do quite a bit of automatic copying of EPiServer pages as well as creation of child pages triggered by various web editor actions (part of the review functionality that Stefan Forsberg talks about in a series of posts starting with Reviewing pages in EPiServer – background). This is not a…
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Moving the ImageMap editor custom property to EPiServer 5
I was recently asked by a collegue of mine to see if I could help him move the custom EPiServer image map property to his current EPiServer 5 project (originally built for EPiServer CMS 6, see EPiServer custom property: Allowing web editors to create image maps with flexible hot spot areas). There were a few…
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Unsupported languages: Arabic, Tigrinya or Chinese characters in SiteSeeker search result using EPiServer
The latest version of the SiteSeeker search engine supports indexing and searching in a variety of different languages; however, languages that are not using the latin alphabet, for instance arabic, hebrew, japanese as well as chinese, cannot be indexed. If you still try, you will be getting a bunch of nonsense characters instead of your…
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Deploying an EPiServer website in a load balanced environment using master slave licenses without downtime for visitors
When working with large EPiServer websites having hundreds of tousands of visitors each month, you will want to make sure that you get as little downtime as possible while deploying your new releases; especially if the website’s content is of a nature that downtime may cause unnecessary damage, financial or otherwise, to the visitors. As…
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Duplicate IIS 7.5 request filtering rules causes useless standard IIS 500 error page
We’ve been having loads of meaningless search engine indexing traffic caused by various web crawlers from around the world, resulting in unnecessary load on the production servers in my current project; meaningless in the sense that the site is mainly in swedish and hence rather uninteresting for people living in for instance Russia, Ukraine or…
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Short notes on mass updating the EPiServer AccessControlList from codebehind or directly in the database
Our client recently went through a few rather large organizational changes which naturally had some rippling effects running down into the security management of their EPiServer based website; i.e. when the editor role responsible for national content no longer could be considered an independant organization, but rather had to be merged into one of the…
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Simple adapter for showing hidden EPiServer properties in edit mode for administrators
The project in which I am currently working has an elaborate custom built system for allowing web editors to plan, review and discuss their articles in EPiServer‘s edit mode (as described by my collegue Stefan Forsberg in his post series about Reviewing pages in EPiServer). For this functionality to work, we are maintaining a number…
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How to get URL to FuBuMVC input model endpoint in a view
I wrote a small extension method for retrieving the URL to an input model endpoint in FuBuMVC together with my collegue Christer Bermar today. What we wanted to achieve was to have the relative address without the leading slash added to a custom attribute placed on a span tag. Note: If you don’t enjoy reinventing…
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EPiServer custom property: Allowing web editors to create image maps with flexible hot spot areas
This is something that I developed mostly together with a two of my collegues* at Valtech in Stockholm before the summer holidays. It will be added to the production environment of the Swedish national health care website 1177.se some time early this fall; most likely in a different form. It was rather fun coding, so…
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How to open those EPiServer Edit Mode selector browser popups in your custom properties
Constructing custom properties for EPiServer often gets you to a point where you would much rather just use built-in EPiServer functionality instead of reinventing wheels; especially when it comes to things such as adding page selectors, XForms selectors, or just for picking things like files or images from the EPiServer VPPs. I have assembled some…
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Short and simple: Note-to-self on selecting the proper TableRowLayout in EPiServer Edit Mode for custom properties
Styling the EPiServer edit mode table layout to make your custom properties look pretty may not always be as easy as one would like. Even though it works well for smaller fields, if you are creating a property of the wider and higher proportions it will probably turn out rather bad if you are using…
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How to make EPiServer surveil your config files notifying you on change
I have been a little bit dry on coding inspiration lately, until the other day when my collegue Karl Ahlin gave me an interesting idea concerning monitoring of configuration files. While I enjoyed coding it, I will leave it unsaid if and where it could actually create value. There may still be a few what…