Blog posts

• How to set primary (default) and secondary (optional) fonts for TinyMCE in EPiServer CMS 11
  Posted on: Feb 26, 2021
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  Aim The client requirements were to have the generic TinyMCE editors (XhtmlString), across the EPiServer CMS (v11.20) site, to give content editors the ability to have only primary (default) and secondary (optional) custom fonts to use.  Either font is to be used in the following block formats: P, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 Situation There was a...

  

  Jon
  
• Profile Store KQL Cheat Sheet
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 26, 2021

  With KQL support in the Rest API for Episerver profile store we have been given a powerful tool to query against the tracked profiles. In this post I share a collection of cool and useful queries you can use.

  

  Allan Thraen
  
• Security issue with multiple package sources
  Posted on: Feb 25, 2021
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  Scenario You are using a private nuget feed for a single package v 1.0.0 and a public nuget feed for the rest of your packages. An attacker can then upload a new package to public nuget feed using the same name as your private package but with a higher bug fix version v 1.0.1. Unless you have thought about this scenario your build server will lo...

  

  Daniel Ovaska
  
• Episerver solution best practices
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 24, 2021

  Recently I came across great blogs regarding Episerver coding best practices from Adnan Zameer, Khurram Khan & Stefan Holm Olsen. They pretty much covered all code related pain points. I thought I should give my input related to Solution design & software architecture point of view (especially for eCommerce projects – eCommerce projects are more...

  

  Naveed Ul-Haq
  
• Working with newsletter unsubscribes
  Posted on: Feb 23, 2021
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  In the blog post Setting up a newsletter subscription via REST API , I described how to use a double opt-in process to acquire new recipients in a legally secure way. Even if you do not want to lose the recipients you have acquired, it is essential to include an unsubscribe option in the newsletter and on your website. This is a basic requiremen...

  

  Philipp Gaska
  
• Quick Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) workflow for Episerver DXP using Azure DevOps
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 23, 2021

  There are a lot of questions on Episerver World on how to quickly deploy the code on Episerver DXP or more specifically how to set up Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) workflow for Episerver DXP.  Read more

  

  Adnan Zameer
  
• Localize Forms post-submission actors
  Posted on: Feb 23, 2021
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  The "Send email after submission" actor for Episerver Forms are not marked as LanguageSpecific. That's a real struggle for editors when they want to customize the email response for each language version. I'm not sure about the background why this is not translateable by default.  However, there are a few workarounds for this trouble. Use the...

  

  Giang Nguyen
  
• Multi-site Episerver Solutions using MVC Areas: Restricting Content Types
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 23, 2021

  Depending on your architecture and requirements for a multi-site solution in Episerver, you may need to completely separate the content types associated for each site within the editor experience. This was one of the considerations I mentioned when I wrote "Architecting Multi-site Episerver Solutions". Separating content types not only cleans up...

  

  Chris Sharp
  
• Extends order status in Episerver Commerce
  Posted on: Feb 22, 2021
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  The purpose of the blog to create a new custom order status into the Episerver commerce and display that order status into commerce manager area for purchase order. Typically, EPiServer commerce provides some default order status e.g., OnHold, PartiallyShipped, InProgress, Completed, Cancelled and AwaitingExchange but in one of my project we nee...

  

  Sanjay Kumar
  
• Episerver Coupon codes Tool: Delete expired / unused coupons
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 20, 2021

  This blog is the second part of Episerver Coupon codes Tool: Download single-use coupons. Let’s further extend the Coupon codes tool. Once the website starts generating thousands or millions of coupon codes, it’s imminent that we need to create house-keeping functionality. We need functionality to delete expired voucher codes because we do not...

  

  Naveed Ul-Haq