Using an EditorDescriptor, it is possible to add a property count to each tab in edit mode. Now, we can easily see how many properties that reside in each tab.
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Property count per tab in Episerver edit mode
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Inspect your Episerver Find index!
Have you ever published a meaningless change to a Episerver page, just to make sure the Find index is up to date? Have you struggled with the Find UI to figure out what’s indexed for the page you just had opened in edit mode?
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«No parameterless constructor defined for this object.» exception after upgrade to Episerver CMS 11
Move property to a non-existing tab!
I’ve previously described how you can move built-in Episerver properties to a different tab. This will only work perfectly if the destination tab already contains another property for the same page. If not, the title will look strange, the sort order will be missing, etc. Today we will move a property to a non-existing tab!
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What’s in your head?
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!
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Episerver DateTime property without the Time!
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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Hiding Episerver’s Category property
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 pagetree search shows encoded html entities after upgrading to the new UI
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.
The horrors of the Episerver Link Validation Job
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.
Episerver Find and The Great Wall of China
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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