Blog posts

• When NOT to use Episerver Search & Navigation (Find)
  Posted on: Mar 05, 2021
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  I was having a conversation recently with a Technical Architect around Product recommendations and website performance. There was some inefficient code retrieving the product display based on the results from the Optimizely Product Recommendations tracking response.  The first thought was to utilise Episerver Search & Navigation (formerly Find)...

  

  Janaka Fernando
  
• What countries does your site leak data to?
  Posted on: Mar 05, 2021
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  A modern website built using your favorite Episerver CMS has a lot of external script resources that are being fetched from all around the world. This is both a good and a bad thing. You can get a lot of value from tools such as google analytics, hotjar, google translate etc but since you are running this scripts in the users browser you are als...

  

  Daniel Ovaska
  
• Images with view data parameters in Episerver CMS
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 28, 2021

  In my previous blog post I explained how you can reduce the size of your images using webp transformation of the fly provided by CDN cloudfare in Episerver DXP, which can be checked in this link. In this blog post, we will work upon the code of my previous post in order to make the […] The post Images with view data parameters in Episerver CMS...

  

  dYnAc
  
• Delete Multiple Variants From Product & Catalog
  Posted on: Feb 28, 2021
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  In EpiServer sometimes you need to Delete Multiple Variants from a Catalog and Product . We can do that by using CatalogSystem. Here I am going to show you how we can remove the Variants from Product & Catalog. We may have two things: Delete Variants by Product Delete all Variants under Catalog To perform this we will pull all the catalog items...

  

  Sunil
  
• Digital Transofrmation in Learning
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 28, 2021

  We are in an era of horizontal learning and now we are going to vertical learning. Digital transformation on learning is not optional anymore as community and business are going faster than education. There is no time to wait for HR to send you to the course, and we need to own our learning ownership! […]

  

  Aria Zanganeh
  
• Optimizely Integration within Episerver – Part 1: Full Stack Feature
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 28, 2021

  With the rebranding of Episerver to Optimizely there have been several questions floating around about the Optimizely stack and how it can be used in a traditional Episerver project.  This is a quick four part series where we look at some potential ways the products can be integrated.  Here are the links to all of the… The post Optimizely...

  

  David Lewis
  
• Transform images to webp on the fly using Cloudfare in Episerver DXP
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 27, 2021

  Webp is a format which is now compatible with almost all recent browsers in the market. It is a lossless image format which allows to reduce the size of images considerably and therefore reduce the size of your sites while improving loading speeds and better user experience. You can find a more in detail explanation […] The post Transform images...

  

  dYnAc
  
• Add a Copy Preview Link to the Navigation Pane
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 26, 2021

  Recently a friend posted on the forums about the idea of being able to share a preview link to an item.  While the solution outlined below may not meet his exact needs, it illustrates how easy it is to tap into Episerver plug-in areas to and add additional functionality.  For reference,  the code below is… The post Add a Copy Preview Link to the...

  

  David Lewis
  
• 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