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Blog entries tagged with EPiServer CMS 5

Sep
08

Localize page type and page property names in EPiServer

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

This post shows how to translate page type and property names and descriptions to have them appear in the correct language in the editor interface when globalization is enabled for an EPiServer web site. Strategy for page type and property names... [Read full article]

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Aug
18

Run a scheduled job as a specific EPiServer user

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

As noted in my post about how to Create a custom scheduled job in EPiServer all scheduled runs will execute as an anonymous user whereas jobs that are executed manually are run as the current EPiServer user. How to log on programmatically as a... [Read full article]

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Aug
15

How to get the simple address of a page in EPiServer

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

The following code snippet shows how to retrieve the simple address of an EPiServer page. If you want to retrieve the friendly URL of an EPiServer page instead, please see my post on How to get the friendly URL of a page in EPiServer CMS. ... [Read full article]

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Jul
24

Implementing a custom URL rewrite provider for EPiServer

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

Introduction I'm a firm believer in avoiding querystring parameters in URLs, especially for public web sites. Security, SEO and esthetics are a few reasons why. Custom URL rewriting can help you avoid those ugly ampersands and question marks, even... [Read full article]

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Jun
30

When the edit interface works but all pages return 404

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

This is just a friendly reminder about what to do when all EPiServer pages return a plain 404 File not found, but the edit and admin interfaces work perfectly well. You may even notice that the site works perfectly well using the ASP. NET... [Read full article]

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Apr
05

Using a single domain strategy with multiple languages in EPiServer

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

Introduction This post covers one way of enforcing a domain strategy for multi-language (or multi-division) sites. There are two common scenarios for multi-language site domain strategies: Use one top domain per language In this case, www.... [Read full article]

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Mar
10

Using LINQ and EPiServer

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

Just as a brief proof of concept I decided to use a LINQ statement to retrieve and sort a list of EPiServer pages. If you haven't yet come across LINQ I would recommend Scott Guthrie's post on using LINQ. LINQ can be used to query a number of... [Read full article]

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Mar
06

Modify and publish a page programmatically

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

Inspired by Marek's post on modifying existing pages I  decided to complement my post on programmatically publishing new pages with a post on how to modify and publish existing pages in EPiServer. 1. Why you can't modify a PageData object As Marek... [Read full article]

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Mar
02

Search by language branch in EPiServer

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

This post is a complement to my previous post about searching pages with EPiServer. I have gotten a few questions about how to limit a page search to include pages from a specific language branch. Since this is truly a basic requirement when... [Read full article]

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Feb
11

Check to see if a page exists for a specific language branch

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

Have you ever wanted to know if a specific EPiServer page exists for a specific language? I recently came across an implementation that looked something like this:try { DataFactory. Instance. GetPage(myPageLink, new... [Read full article]

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Feb
09

Programmatically configure customErrors redirects

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

I previously posted a possible solution for handling 404 exceptions in EPiServer websites, but here's an alternative and possibly more elegant way of configuring custom error redirects for EPiServer. What I wanted to accomplish I wanted to be able... [Read full article]

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Feb
07

How to get the friendly URL of a page in EPiServer CMS

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

Maybe there are other posts about this, but I thought I'd share an easy way of getting the friendly URL of a page since I've gotten questions about it on numerous occasions:public static string GetFriendlyURL( PageReference PageLink, string... [Read full article]

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Feb
06

Use EPiServer Manager when upgrading to CMS 5 SP1

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

... or read this once you've ignored that piece of advice Eager to update to EPiServer CMS SP1 I got a bit careless. I finished my development locally, published and tested it on our staging server and then finally published it to the live server.... [Read full article]

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Jan
17

Disable URL rewriting for specific URLs

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

There comes a time when you need to prohibit URL rewriting for specific URLs within your EPiServer CMS website. For example, I've implemented an ashx handler that is used to deliver vCard files on our company's web site. If I would insert a... [Read full article]

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Jan
10

Status property always returns VersionStatus.Published

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

I ran into some interesting anomalies involving "Access denied" when trying to fetch published pages using the GetChildren() method. I tried to determine whether or not a page was published by checking the Status property and making sure it was... [Read full article]

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Dec
12

Unable to send e-mail without local SMTP server

Posted by: Ted Nyberg

When you try to send e-mail through an external SMTP server using the System. Net. Mail namespace classes, you may encounter an error saying "Cannot get IIS pickup directory". Often this has to do with permissions, but I recently discovered... [Read full article]

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Ted Nyberg

Ted Nyberg

I work for the corporate communications consultancy Hallvarsson & Halvarsson in Stockholm, Sweden. My main focus areas are architecture, design and implementation of online applications such as public web sites and intranets.

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