New ways to add content from within TinyMCE in Optimizely CMS 12

by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Optimizely CMS has a weekly release cycle, today's release had a few updates regarding the rich text editor, TinyMCE. One update that caught my attention was: Allow selecting content from TinyMCE If you use the default settings, you will get this new button on the toolbar. If you…

Auto-suggestions for properties in Optimizely CMS

by Henning Sjørbotten

After developing in Episerver and Optimizely for nearly 13 years, I recently stumbled upon a feature that has been a part of Optimizely CMS for ages, yet many developers seem to be unaware of its existence. It's the remarkable auto-suggestion functionality for string properties within the CMS. Typically,…

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'…

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…

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…

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!…

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…

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

by Henning Sjørbotten

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, it could be your own fault... The Optimizely.…