Blog posts

• Content Manager, the greatest thing since sliced bread?
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jun 14, 2021

  No! Optimizely Content Manager is a lightweight editing UI that aims to make publishing content easier, as it takes away some of the complexity. I like the idea, but here are two main issues left before Content Manager could be used in a production environment.

  

  Tomas Hensrud Gulla
  
• How to download blobs from Optimizely (Episerver) DXP environment
  Posted on: Jun 13, 2021
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  Ever wanted to download the blobs from Optimizely DXP environment but don't know how to? In this post I will clarify the process how to download blobs from DXP environment and what tools you need to accomplish it. As we develop our customer solutions there quite often comes the situation that instead of creating some dummy content we would like ...

  

  Antti Alasvuo
  
• Triggering Webhooks from custom events
  Posted on: Jun 10, 2021
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  In my previous post I introduced the Kin and Carta Webhooks add-on and showed how it can be used to fire webhooks based on one of 5 out-of-the-box content events. But what if you want to trigger a webhook based on something else? While those 5 events cover the more common scenarios, there are plenty of situations which they don’t cover so in thi...

  

  Paul Gruffydd
  
• DnD support for PropertyList<T>
  Posted on: Jun 10, 2021
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  Hi all, As you might know then PropertyList is very powerfull. It is help us to easy to manage and organize a list of complex property data but the limitation as I am facing with is that it is not official support sorting via drag and drop (or atleast I don't know how to turn it on - although take hour to googling). Drag and drop not working on...

  

  Ha Bui
  
• 20 Twitter Accounts You Should Follow If You Like Episerver/Optimzely CMS
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jun 10, 2021

  Twitter is only as good as the people you follow. To get the best value from Twitter, you need to follow the right people. In this article, I have compiled a handful of 20 Twitter accounts from people that I think deliver great Tweets about Episerve...

  

  Jon Jones
  
• More on custom Style Formats in TinyMCE
  Posted on: Jun 09, 2021
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  One of the problems we come across, when adding in our custom style formats for TinyMCE in the EPiServer CMS, is that this overrides the default settings.  For example, a client may require the following style format options: Headings Heading 1 Heading 2 etc... Inline Bold Italic Underline Strikethrough Superscript Subscript Code Blocks Paragrap...

  

  Jon Sexton
  
• Video: Adding Optimizely Data Platform to Optimizely Commerce Cloud
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jun 09, 2021

  This post is a video walk through to show the steps required to add Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) to Optimizely Commerce Cloud.  See the video below:

  

  David Knipe
  
• Enrich models upon indexing - Optimizely Search & Navigation
  Posted on: Jun 07, 2021
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  Need a clean and simple way to enrich your indexed model using Optimizely Search & Navigation (formerly known as Episerver Find)? Please read the full blog post here: https://www.getadigital.com/blog/enrich-models-upon-indexing/ .

  

  Mari Jørgensen
  
• Adding a honeypot to Episerver Forms
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jun 04, 2021

  Honeypots are a convenient and lightweight way of eliminating (or at least reducing) spam in form submissions, this post will take you through implementing a version in Episerver Forms.

  

  Jake Jones
  
• How to easily remove the extra DIV tags for Content Areas
  Posted on: Jun 03, 2021
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  Extra DIV tags around Content Areas From time to time we've all had issues with the extra DIV tags EPiServer generates around Content Area items, namely blocks.  Depending upon the required output this 'feature' (that is actually there for on-page editing in the CMS) may cause some extra padding around the output of the blocks in the Content Are...

  

  Jon Sexton