Blog posts

• Planned maintenance of Visitor Intelligence data storage in East US
  Posted on: Aug 07, 2020
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  Data storage used by Visitor Intelligence and Profile Store in East US requires maintenance to enable Microsoft to migrate resources to newer hardware in Azure. The maintenance is planned on Monday, August 10, 02:00-04:00 AM Eastern Time Zone, when the traffic is minimal in East US. This maintenance will not affect any other regions. While most...

  

  Dmytro Duk
  
• Extending Episerver Promotions with custom logic and data
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Aug 05, 2020

  When it comes to promotions, Episerver provides a big set of out-of-the-box (OOTB) options in which we can rely. You can review all the OOTB types in here. But depending on the business rules and markets, some implementations may need to add custom properties and apply custom logic on top of what Episerver already provides. […]

  

  Mauro Vieira Gonçalves
  
• Exclusion of the partial routed folder/category from the Geta.Seo.Sitemaps
  Posted on: Aug 02, 2020
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  Purpose of the blog to exclude  routed  commerce catalog folder/category content Urls from the Geta.Seo.Sitemaps sitemap.xml before to it generates. This is out of box functionality in the current Geta.Seo.Sitemaps version thus we have customized it using the`CommerceSitemapXmlGenerator` or `CommerceAndStandardSitemapXmlGenerator` class in my...

  

  Sanjay Kumar
  
• Custom page for schedule job status
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Aug 01, 2020

  Our customer asked for a custom dashboard that shows uses data sources, including ‘Schedule Job’ history. To achieve this we are going to use: And implementation would be quite easy: The schedule job type is ‘ImportUserJob’, and we are getting history data of the execution of the job: And finally return back JSON object of […]

  

  Aria Zanganeh
  
• [Tutorial] Creating your own menu inside the Episerver UI using MVC
  Posted on: Jul 31, 2020
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  A few weeks ago we started a project to create a new solution for the Episerver Education store (more on this in upcoming blog posts) and one of things we had to do was to create a new administrative system to handle this. In order to make it easily acceissble for everyone working for the Education department at Episerver we decided to add links...

  

  Patrik Fomin
  
• Dynamic UI menu in MVC
  Posted on: Jul 31, 2020
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  I am writing this blog post to explain how to create a MVC UI menu in Episerver that works with dynamic routes. In this blog post, I will go through one way to achieve this by using a MenuProvider, however there is another way to achieve this by using the MenuItemAttribute. I will not go down but not go into too much detail on that as it require...

  

  Patrik Fomin
  
• DeveloperConsole - CLI
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jul 31, 2020

  This is the second post about my new pet project - the Episerver Developer Console. In this post we'll learn how you can connect to the Developer Console from a local CLI on your own computer.

  

  Allan Thraen
  
• Episerver Labs - LinkProperty
  Posted on: Jul 24, 2020
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  We would like to introduce a new Episerver Labs add-on. LinkProperty is a simple extension that allows editors to work with a single LinkItem instance. The property is just a new UI Editor that still use PropertyLinkCollection as a backing type. It means that in the database it is a LinkItemCollection property with just one item. The new editor...

  

  Grzegorz Wiecheć
  
• New ReferenceConverter method in Commerce 13.21
  Posted on: Jul 23, 2020
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  As you might have heard - ReferenceConverter is your friend. It is very lightweight way to map between the ContentReference and code of catalog content, instead of having to load the content - which is both slow and expensive. Whenever you have chance, ReferenceConverter should be used. But it is now even better. In Commerce 13.21, ReferenceConv...

  

  Quan Mai
  
• Welcome to the 3 new EMVPs!
  Posted on: Jul 20, 2020
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  On behalf of the EMVP Board, I have the honor of announcing and welcoming 3 new EMVPs today in recognition of their dedication and knowledge sharing within the Episerver community. Congratulations to the new EMVPs: Ravindra Rathore , Rightpoint, India, Developer EMVP Praful Jangid , Rightpoint, India, Developer EMVP Mark Ryan , Extractable, USA,...

  

  Chris Sharp