EPiServer CMS 6 introduced new tools for site and license administration. One not so known feature in these tools are the ability to generate demo licenses. In admin mode, click Site Information under the Config tab. Select the License Information tab and scroll down to Download License section. Select Demo license and hit Download License. [...]
In my previous post I described how the number of clicks within edit mode can be reduced by adding keyboard shortcuts for common tasks like switching between tabs and saving pages. Another very common and click intensive task in EPiServer CMS is to set the value of PageReference properties. First the editor has to click the [...]
One thing editors sometimes ask me is if it’s possible to reduce the number of mouse clicks within the EPiServer edit mode. We all know that creating even the simplest page requires a lot of clicks to get the page created and saved. One way to solve this could be the use of keyboard shortcuts. [...]
Nowadays almost all EPiServer projects involves some kind of interactivity powered by jQuery and AJAX. When it come to frameworks, there are a lot of alternatives to choose from on both the client- and serverside. On the clientside, jQuery has emerged to be the alternative to use. On the serverside, Microsoft offers a couple of different alternatives [...]
In my current project I need to know when the latest change was made on any page on the entire site. My first thought was to use FindPagesWithCriteria or maybe to do a recursive GetChildren to find the latest value of the PageData.Changed property. But since EPiServer CMS 6, there is a change log you [...]
Today I installed Page Type Builder 1.2 Beta 2 on my ongoing EPiServer CMS 6 project. I dropped the Page Type Builder assemblies in the bin folder, recreated the references, did an iisreset and then tried to start the site. I got the following exception: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. [...]