Content in Episerver CMS is organized using pages and blocks. Pages are instances of page types, and blocks are instances of block types. If you by accident create the wrong page type, or you want to move existing pages to a new and enhanced page type, Episerver provides a feature…
Today, a colleague asked how to remove the «Reports» menu item from the global menu in Episerver, but only for users not belonging to a specific group. I did not know how to do that. But, I do know that the people who hang out in the Episerver World forum,…
After the introduction of TinyMCE editor v2, creating an initialization module is the recommended way of configuring TinyMCE in Episerver. This works well when you want the same configuration for all your XhtmlString properties, but that is not always the case.…
A module for Episerver CMS that uses Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision API to generate automatic metadata for uploaded images.…
MediaData, the base class for files and images in Episerver, does not implement ILocalizable and thus does not have the option to include culture-specific properties. I will present a workaround.…
In Episerver CMS, properties may be added to Images. Images may be enriched with descriptions, etc that are displayed with the images on your website. Editing this kind of information would be more intuitive if we could see both the image and the properties at the same time! Guess what? We can!…
When upgrading both Episerver CMS and Episerver Find at the same time. Do not trust Episerver to handle updating both database schemas, things might blow up!…
There are several methods that will give you an URL to a Episerver content, but they do not all work the same. I dive into the details.…
In Episerver CMS, you are probably familiar with the fundamental concept of grouping properties into tabs. You may place your own properties in the existing tabs (Content, Settings etc) or create your own tabs with descriptive names. You may, however also tamper with the special tab PageHeader! What if editors…
Preventing broken links is an important part of maintaining a website. Episerver's Link Validating job tries to help us, but unfortunately, it has its shortcomings. How it works Episerver keeps track of all links and stores them a database table called tblContentSoftlink. This table has multiple uses. It…