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.…

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…

404 on all subpages after upgrading Optimizely CMS to 11 latest?

by Henning Sjørbotten

Getting a lot of 404 errors after upgrading your Optimizely CMS solution past version 11.20.11? It might be fixed within seconds!…

How to make your custom form elements work after upgrading Optimizely.Forms

by Henning Sjørbotten

Updating Optimizely Forms is not always problem free.This is not something that most solutions have a problem with, but for some projects the custom elements you have written for Optimizely.Forms will stop showing in your views. The reason for this is not always a bug in Optimizely.Forms,…

How to make the XhtmlString <p> tag go away

by Henning Sjørbotten

Optimizely CMS is still using TinyMCE for the rich text (XhtmlString) fields. By default, everything you write in these fields is being wrapped in

tags. These extra tags can be a pain, as they do not always fit with the document structure. You do not need to create a bad…

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…

Quick and dirty output cache in Optimizely CMS12

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

.NET5 and .NET6 has no concept of output caching, and neither does Optimizely Content Cloud 12. Don't let that stop you from caching your output!…

Optimizely CMS 12 can finally convert pages!

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Optimizely CMS 12 can finally convert pages from one page type to another! Great! But what about blocks and media...?…