Don't miss out Virtual Happy Hour this Friday (April 26).

Try our conversational search powered by Generative AI!

Per Nergård
Sep 10, 2015
  1551
(1 votes)

Tool for creating page content in a web site.

This year I've been doing quit alot of writing specifications and testing implemented solutions and doing sprint-demos. Much of the work consists of entering content, and prepping content.

In an earlier post I did a small tool that made it possible for developers to use shorthand to generate lorem ipsum content. It's atleast some help but still dummy data.

So I have created another tool. The idea of the tool is that it should be easy to select any number of "template pages" for all or some pagetypes and then just click the go button to let the tool find all pages for that type and replace it's content with a randomly selected "template page".

You can set the start page from where the tool should start to work and "template pages" are added to a content area propert (all in forms mode). Template pages are grouped by type and it's possible to create content for on or many page types.

Usage scenarios: Create content for a demo or internal test, you could also use it to quickly debrand a entire site.

Example:

Start screen (In this case Ive only added one page for the standard page type and pointed it to a shallow structure).

Image ContentCreatorStart.jpg

The "template page" Per Original

Image PerOriginal.jpg

The page that's going get new content (Note that EPiServer builtin properties like PageName etc aren't replaced).

Image PageToBeReplaced.jpg

Start screen after tool is done

Image ContentCreatorEnd.jpg

And finally the page after it got it's content replaced

Image PageAfterReplace.jpg

Code is available at bitbucket.

Sep 10, 2015

Comments

Please login to comment.
Latest blogs
Solving the mystery of high memory usage

Sometimes, my work is easy, the problem could be resolved with one look (when I’m lucky enough to look at where it needs to be looked, just like th...

Quan Mai | Apr 22, 2024 | Syndicated blog

Search & Navigation reporting improvements

From version 16.1.0 there are some updates on the statistics pages: Add pagination to search phrase list Allows choosing a custom date range to get...

Phong | Apr 22, 2024

Optimizely and the never-ending story of the missing globe!

I've worked with Optimizely CMS for 14 years, and there are two things I'm obsessed with: Link validation and the globe that keeps disappearing on...

Tomas Hensrud Gulla | Apr 18, 2024 | Syndicated blog

Visitor Groups Usage Report For Optimizely CMS 12

This add-on offers detailed information on how visitor groups are used and how effective they are within Optimizely CMS. Editors can monitor and...

Adnan Zameer | Apr 18, 2024 | Syndicated blog