Optimizely finally releases new and improved list properties!

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

For years, the Generic PropertyList has been widely used, despite the warning at the top of the documentation. It's unsupported functionality. Also, any links and references inside such lists are not tracked by Optimizely, and you will not be warned of incoming links when deleting content. I'll illustrate the difference…

Power Optimizely CMS using the same language model as ChatGPT

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

On March 1st, OpenAI released their Chat completion API using the gpt-3.5-turbo language model, the same language model used by ChatGPT. Learn how you can add ChatGPT-capabilities to Optimizely CMS.…

Blogg – for din egen del!

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Kunnskapsdeling kommer ofte høyt oppe på listen hvis noen skal argumentere for hvorfor utviklere skal skrive blogginnlegg. Tanken om at man må sitte på kunnskap som er helt ukjent for resten av verden, for å ha noe å skrive om, tror jeg kan virke som en unødvendig terskel for mange.…

Kan ChatGPT lage ditt neste favorittspill?

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Fordi jeg misliker kjedelige 404-sider, og fordi min kollega Karl har hatt stor suksess med sin kube-snake, spurte jeg ChatGPT om jeg kunne få hjelp med å lage et retro-inspirert Snake-spill i Javascript.…

Upload files larger than 4MB in Optimizely CMS12

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

In a new version, you would perhaps expect everything to be bigger, better and faster? For Optimizely CMS, that is (for the most part) the case. But when it comes to uploading files in edit mode assets pane, there is a 4MB limit. If you try uploading a larger file,…

Optimizely shortcuts in CMS 12 will get a trailing slash appended!

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

In Optimizely CMS you can manage an optional shortcut for all pages. There are different types of shortcut. * No shortcut (default) * Shortcut to another content item * Shortcut to page on another website * No shortcut, display text only * Fetch content from another content item One use case for the type «Shortcut…

Erstatning for rapportsenteret i Optimizely CMS 12

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

I Optimizely (tidligere Episerver) CMS til og med versjon 11 hadde vi tilgang til et rapportsenter med følgende innebyggede rapporter. Disse rapportene var bygget på, den nå utdaterte, teknologien Web Forms og ble fjernet da Optimizely CMS ble lansert på ny og moderne plattform; .NET 6. Selv synes jeg flere…

If you want to upgrade – do not upgrade upgrade-assistant!

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Today was the day. I was finally ready for upgrading to Optimizely CMS 12! I have read every blog post and watched every YouTube video! My personal blog and some add-ons were upgraded months ago without too much hassle. I attended (and even spoke at) the local Optimizely Tech Forum…

Output cache in Optimizely CMS 12 that vary by visitor group

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

After I wrote a blog post about Quick and dirty output cache in Optimizely CMS12 [https://blog.novacare.no/quick-and-dirty-output-cache-in-optimizely-cms12/], someone reminded me that this would not work well with visitor groups [https://webhelp.optimizely.com/latest/en/personalization/visitor-groups.htm]. All visitors would get the same cached content, even…

Scheduled Jobs in Optimizely CMS 12

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

In Optimizely CMS 12 the admin mode is given a real facelift. The new admin mode written in React has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of the old Web Forms admin mode. The scheduled jobs has gotten a facelift too, where the duration of the last executions are…