Episerver has several built-in property types you may add to your content types, including DateTime that displays a date and time picker. Sometimes you do not want the time, only the Date!

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Do not confuse your editors. If they do not need the property, the do not need to see it!
Episerver has a lot of built-in properties, that are not used on all websites.

If they do not need the category property, hide it!

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Episerver first released their new refreshed editor ui with version 11.21.0 of Episerver.CMS.UI in June. Due to unintended semantic breaking changes this was (pretty silently) removed from the public nuget feed after a few days.

Weeks, and months, has passed. The refreshed ui has been released (again) and after numerous bug fixes, I finally agreed to update the website for a customer eager to try the new stuff.

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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.

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When running Episerver CMS in the cloud, Episerver Find has become the de facto standard. Find is a highly scalable, multi-lingual, full-featured and easy to use solution that optimizes customer experience​, built natively for Episerver.
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The attributes [SelectOne] and [SelectMany] can be used in combination with a SelectionFactory to create Episerver properties in the form of DropDownLists and CheckBoxLists. This was introduced in Episerver 7.5, five years ago, and should be familiar to most Episerver developers. But, some editors are afraid of «All properties view» and would like to do all their editing in «On-page editing», what about them? They need a little extra work.
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Sometimes the names and texts in the Episerver UI can be confusing for the editors of a specific site. Luckily, we as developers can override all texts stored in Episervers language files, in two easy steps.

1. Locate the text you want to override
2. Add your own translation to an XML file

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A website has content in a lot of different languages, some of the language codes are kind of cryptic looking and the editors don’t recognize all of them. When they view the page tree in a specific language, pages that does not exist in that language are shown in a gray font and the language code of the page’s master language are shown. The editors wants to see the name of the language, rather than the language code.
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Today I discovered a feature I have never noticed before! You can add a placeholder, watermark, or (as Episerver calls it) a prompt to some properties.

[Display(Name = "String", Prompt = "Insert string...")]
public virtual string StringPrompt { get; set; }

[Display(Name = "DateTime", Prompt = "Insert DateTime...")]
public virtual DateTime DateTimePrompt { get; set; }

[Display(Name = "Int", Prompt = "Insert integer...")]
public virtual int IntPrompt { get; set; }

The prompt displays like this:

There is no point in repeating the name (label) of the property as the prompt, but describing the expected format (or validation) of the property, could be useful in some scenarios.
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Life as a web editor can be difficult. Some larger Episerver solutions may have more than 100 different page types, each of which has many tabs with tens of properties. Each property has a label, which is a short text that tells editors what the property are for, for example «Headline», «Main Image» or similar.

Sometimes, the label does not have room for all the information that editors should be presented with, and therefore, Episerver has added the option to display a tooltip, an additional description that appears at mouseover on the label. There are a couple of drawbacks to this solution. There is no visual marking that informs the editors of which properties have such tooltip text and which ones do not have. And since often very few properties have tooltip texts, it’s quite likely that the editors don’t see the ones that are added.

If Episerver can’t fix this for the better of their ediors, other developers will find ways.
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