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Scheduled jobs with input parameters in EPiServer 7.5
The other day I got a question from a collegue of mine whether or not the piece I wrote on supplying scheduled jobs with input parameters (EPiServer CMS6R2) would still work for version 7.5. I suspected it would, but since I wanted to make sure I set up two of EPiServer’s Alloy template sites; one…
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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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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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Visual aid for finding page usages directly in EPiServer edit mode page tree extending node tooltips
Recently, I have found myself wanting to know what pages are referencing certain other pages, or sub pages for that matter, while surfing around in the EPiServer edit mode. Having worked with control adapters to extend built-in EPiServer functionality quite a lot lately, I decided to create a simple one that would make my life…
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Being friends with the PropertyControlClassFactory, or: 101 ways to change EPiServer built-in property appearances
As I have been playing around with using ControlAdapters to change the rendering of built-in EPiServer properties lately, I got curious on what else I could possible do to modify them. As it turns out, the EPiServer PropertyControlClassFactory is a great ally in doing this. Hence, this post mostly revolves around different ways of getting…
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Supplying EPiServer scheduled jobs with parameters through Admin Mode
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 (something in the lines of “Oh, I see you have found yourself a hammer.”), I…
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Allowing web editors to apply PageType based filtering on the EPiServer edit mode PageTree
When you have an EPiServer installation containing thousands of different pages built up by far-too-many page types, locating pages of just one of them may turn out to be just a little too time consuming. Since I have grown to like the adaptive control approach more and more lately, I decided to create a filtering…
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Surviving IE, or: How to render different markup depending on devices and browsers
The short answer would be, “Create a control adapter, add it to your .browser file and have it applied using browser recognition”. If you want the longer verion, you will have to continue reading. First, let us start with some basics on control adapters. I find them extremely useful tweeking built-in EPiServer (the CMS that…
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Keeping your hair from turning gray, or: How to style the asp:FileUpload control using control adapters
The other day, I got a question from a former collegue of mine who was having trouble styling the ASP.NET FileUpload control, as it renders into a particulary nasty bit of HTML; i.e. an <input type=”file” /> tag. He told me that he would love for it to be just another textbox along with a…