Previously a blog about understanding and extending Episerver. Not anymore.
In my previous post I described how to solve “The value ‘NaN’ is not valid.” when an int parameter contains NaN. My colleauge then convinced me to solve this with a custom ModelBinder instead. So, here is the solution. First we create a custom modelbinder. This can now be used directly in your endpoint by …
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So, we’re in the progress if migrating a big project from .NET 4.5 to .NET 5 (.NET Core). In this process we’ve stumbled upon a few problems that could be solved by changing frontend and apps, but that would break older versions of them. So… EDIT: I’ve added a new post with another solution which …
The current TinyMCE version in Episerver has some flaws which are a bit of a pain for editors. One of them is when using Chrome/Safari and pasting content into the TinyMCE editor. The content is pasted where the cursor is, but the page scrolls to the top. We have customers that frequently updates long articles, …
Searching in the navigation bar with multiple sites, multiple languages and a lot of content rarely gives you the result you want. Or.. To be honest. Just having the same name on two pages gives you headache. Luckily we have the power to change that! As you can see, we have two pages with the same name. I know that …
Here are two code snippets to help you make a XhtmlString display external links instead of the internal ones and also render blocks, dynamic content etc. This could be helpful if you don’t have access to a HtmlHelper like in a WebApi. The first one just converts links. It loops through all fragments and converts internal …
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We just migrated a system from a custom built CMS into EPiServer. If the editor added a link to an unpublished page in the old CMS, it was automatically unlinked for the visitor until the page was published. We tried to find a built in way of doing in this in EPiServer, but could not …
With the old VPP file system you could create a new version of a file by right click the file and select Create new version. With the new file system this function has disappeared. You can however update a file by uploading a new file with the same name. A customer to us needed the old method back because …
EPiServer Find has a limit when indexing files (last I heard this was 50MB), but nothing really happens if you try to index a large files except that you get an error message from the indexing job. But if you have some very large files, you might bump in to performance problems on the server. …
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Recently we built a globalized site in EPiServer 7. When the page was filled with content, the client wished that the block area should be the same for all languages. Once the page was launched the customer realized that they needed to have different blocks in different languages, which meant that we needed to make …
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A customer had an URL to a page file, but couldn’t locate the page where the file was stored. And somehow the search in EPiServer didn’t give any hits on the file, so started digging around in the database and found the column ExternalFolderID in the table tblPage. So a simple query like “SELECT pkID …