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Scheduled jobs are a convenient way of performing different tasks in an automated way. Since it's common that jobs performs something with pages it's not uncommon that something changes so the job will break. A website admin should check the statu...
Note: This article extends the blog post by Stefan Torstensson on Adding a new device to the view resolution drop-down Having created your new resolution, you will obviously want to attach a shiny looking device to sit behind it! The way CMS7...
The property system has changed quite a lot in EPiServer 7 and the need for writing custom properties has been greatly reduced. There have been many blog posts about the subject but here is a quick reference guide to help you move from the old...
Over the past 7 or so years of working with EPiServer, I have found myself writing the same code and solving the same problems over and over again. Sometimes the challenge has been to add new but common functionality that is used on most websites,...
In the new and shiny EPiServer 7 user interface there's a feature for changing the size of the preview view port. This is intended to give the editor a quick way of visualizing a page as it would turn out when shown on a smaller screen. A few...
In my current project (EPiServer 6 R2 with PageTypeBuilder 2.0) we need to display all available property setting values for some properties. I ended up getting what we needed but is there a simpler solution? Otherwise this might help someone else...
Need to know if an EPiServer CMS page is being rendered in edit mode or not? Then the PageEditing class is your friend. After trying a number of ways to determine if a page or block is rendered within EPiServer CMS’ edit mode or not I stumbled upo...
Blocks is a new building block introduced in EPiServer CMS 7. A block can be used in several ways, it can be used as a “complex” property when modeling content types. It is also possible to create stand alone instances of blocks (shared blocks) th...