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EPiServer Default Controller to avoid dummy controllers

EPiServer MVC site often have controllers that do not have any logic and so they shouldn't even exist. EPiServer have done great job to allow inheritance and covariance in controller selection. So you can set up your default controller which is used when you haven't created explicitly controller.…

EPiServer Edit Mode Language and Culture Selection Bug Fix

EPiServer 7 have annoying bug that it uses wrong culture for showing resource texts and datetimes etc. You can read more about the bug from here: http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=71724. This problem can be fixed with couple of small modifications. I have use this fix…

Block Preview Thumbnail Images

Wouldn't it be nice to see preview images which kind of page or block type are you creating? If you are creating new block, would you like to see this kind of view?

Jon Menzies-Smith has made a great EPiBoost library which include many nice features but one thing I really admire is a f…

Why do I prefer using blocks in EPiServer

In EPiServer 7 there are several ways to design and implement features and because of such a wide scale of ways to do it, it's often hard to find the most suitable way for specific case. As a developer/architect perspective these are the most important reasons why I prefer to use blocks:

Blo…

Using Indexing Service With Both HTTP and HTTPS

In my previous article I showed how to modify Indexing Service when SSL is used, but in some cases you might want to use Indexing Service simultaneously with SSL and without it. Example if you allow users to access EPiServer back-end with HTTP and HTTPS protocols or your environments (local, test, s…

We just launched new responsive web site www.lemminkainen.fi. It has lot of great features but one of them which you might not notice is the adaptive images. With the site like lemminkainen.fi there normally are lot of different kind of content and there are also many different size of images…

EPiServer 7 Convert Pages doesn't limit to selected page

I started to worry this conversion when I notice that conversion log announced removing 14 properties although I had selected only I page to convert.

Just to test page conversion I marked to remove MainBody property

So when I converted ONLY "convert test page" it also removed the MainB…

EPiServer Indexing Service Stops Indexing with SSL

We were having problems with EPiServer 7 indexing service because it suddenly stops indexing content without any error message. Global search work perfectly but search results didn't update. Error log told us "There was no channel actively listening at 'https://www.example.com/IndexingService/Ind…

EPiServer 7 admin language settings are disabled when backend uses https

EPiServer 7 seems to have some problem with interpret language versions with SSL connection. Symptons are that the "Show All Languages" link is grey (and disabled) and translate page feature is hidden.

Solution

Modify the framework.config file siteUrl to use https protocol:

<sites>
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EPiServer 7 Language Bug - Empty property value removes also master language value

We have discovered quite serious bug in EPiServer CMS 7 (7.0.586.1). The bug could effect a lose of data. The bug affects only sites that have multiple languages. When user removes value from a property in another language version it will also remove the property value from the master languag…

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