Every now and then I bump in to a “problem” where I have to delete children from a node or copy/move children from one node to another. The first time I ran into this problem, I made a gui plugin for the action window to solve this for me. And now, a few years later, …
When browsing through google analytics, it’s interesting to see what people search for to find your blog. So, I will try to make a few blog posts about the most frequent search terms so it will be easier to find. 🙂 If you have a property that you need to use all over the site, …
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The other day we were upgrading a site for a customer from EPiServer 5 to EPiServer 6. In the upgrade process an exception was thrown telling us: At C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.0.530.0\Upgrade\System Scripts\Upgrade Site (SqlServer).ps1:361 char:29 + $newUiUrl = $uiUrl.Replace <<<< ($uiPath, $uiPath+”/CMS”) System.Management.Automation.ParentContainsErrorRecordException: Cannot convert argument “1”, with value: “/CMS”, for “Replace” to type …
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Updated: 2011-09-21, Lee Crowe has updated this plugin. Please check out his blog post: Introducing Page Type Builder UI Updated: This can now be found on GitHub: https://github.com/eriknordin/PTB-Helpers Updated: 2010-11-10 16:23, see more at the end of this post! Using PageTypeBuilder when creating EPiServer web sites? Then you’re probably aware of when removing properties in …
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The default style for PropertyNumber in EPiServer is often a bit short if you have number larger than 999 and it also aligns the text to left. An easy way around this is to use EPiServer PropertyControlClassFactory. Just create a “PropertyNumberWideControl” that inherits PropertyNumberControl and override CreateEditControls to modify the style as you feel like. …
Just realized that in web.config you can specify a directory to “send” mail to instead of using a smtp-server, pretty neat. Just change to the following where you specify the smtp settings and you won’t have any troubles with smtp-servers. Just don’t forget to change this when you really need to send a mail. <system.net> …
In EPiServer there is a easy way to create a checkbox list property by extending some existing classes. In this example I will fetch the children for the start page and display them. In a future blog post I will show you how to do the same with a dropdown list control, and also show …
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Update: This can now be found on GitHub: https://github.com/eriknordin/PTB-Helpers While everyone else is creating cool gadgets for the new site center I was appointed to update an “old” site with some new functionality. And since PageTypeBuilder was introduced in my EPiServer life, and don’t feel like working without it in any project. If this would’ve …
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As you may have noticed over the last month, Joel Abrahamsson has created a module to EPiServer called PageTypeBuilder. In a short explanation PageTypeBuilder brings joy into developing with EPiServer! No more need for ranting around in admin mode, no more need of synchronizing page types between dev – test- stage – live! You get …
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UPDATE: The code snippets are updated, read more in this blog post. Since the way of including properties in PageTypeBuilder has been changed, so has the snippets. This ZIP-package includes nine different snippets: ptpbool – Selected/Not selected ptpdate – Date ptpimage – URL to image ptpnumber- Integer ptpobject – You decide.. 🙂 ptpstring – Short …