Blog posts

• Optimizers...ASSEMBLE! Digital Meetup Oslo on April 21st 2021
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 14, 2021

  New group name, now digital - but same spirit of sharing knowledge!

  

  Arild Henrichsen
  
• Episerver Coupon codes Tool: Dynamically assign coupon codes to customers
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 12, 2021

  This blog post is continuity of last two blog posts regarding extending Episerver Coupon Codes Tool. Episerver Coupon codes Tool: Download single use coupons Episerver Coupon codes Tool: Delete expired / unused coupons Episerver foundation team has now added extended code in Foundation starter website. Now we have a tool to create bulk coupon...

  

  Naveed Ul-Haq
  
• Previewable TextArea Properties
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 12, 2021

  Inline editing is an awesome feature in Episerver because it creates a great editor experience. Because the inline editing happens in the context of the page, it delivers a close WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring view. As you edit property values the page updates to show you what the new updated values. Unfortunately, this isn't...

  

  Daved Artemik
  
• Mediator Design Pattern for CMS builds
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 06, 2021

  After being recommended Mediatr a while back I have been finding more and more use cases for it. the most recent has been for CMS development where the CMS supports 'dynamic areas' such as Content Areas in Episerver (Optimizely), and multi reference fields in Contentful. These has always been awkward as you don't know the type of the child...

  

  Andy Blyth
  
• Restore point-in-time backup for Azure SQL database
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 06, 2021

  If you are doing manual updates directly to your Episerver database, or performing an upgrade that updates the database schema it could be a good idea to have a backup from the exact time right before the change is made. In Azure, you always have!

  

  Tomas Hensrud Gulla
  
• DXP Deployment API – Azure.Storage Error Fix
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 02, 2021

  As of March 29th, Microsoft made the decision to publish new VM’s which archived a bunch of Az, Azure, and AzureRM modules. The side effect of this was that when the deployment API scripts were run in Azure DevOps, it would throw an error. Script Updates Until Optimizely (Episerver) puts in a fix to their EpiCloud scripts, I have put a fix into ...

  

  Eric Markson
  
• Extending Contact or Organization entity in business foundation Episerver commerce
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 02, 2021

  Hi Guys, Business Foundation is the main part of Episerver commerce solution because it is used for contact management, organization management but some time we need to extend its out of the box entity properties and add some custom properties according to our needs....

  

  Ravindra S. Rathore
  
• EpiServer DXP Deployment API – Direct Deploy
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 01, 2021

  As of Update 357, Optimizely (EpiServer) released Direct Deploy into their Deployment API, Episerver.PaaS.EpiCloud. This update changes a couple of my scripts to allow major speed improvements when deploying into the integration environment. In this post, we will go through the following: How does the current deployment to Integration work? Why...

  

  Eric Markson
  
• EpiCloud - Azure.Storage v4.4.0 or greater is required
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 01, 2021

  If you are using Epinova DXP deployment extension or you custom written PowerShell script against EpiCloud. You may experience the error message “’Azure.Storage version 4.4.0 or greater is required’”.

  

  Ove Lartelius
  
• CookieDropBlock for Episerver updated with an important bug fix
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 01, 2021

  TLDR; Update CookieDropBlock if you want to keep using it. Over five years ago I released a simple tool called CookieDropBlock who's sole purpose was to allow editors to create a block to drop a cookie for an end user. You can read more about it here: https://www.david-tec.com/2015/09/cookie-drop-block-for-episerver/ . This has worked largely...

  

  David Knipe