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Latest blogs from our community

Nov 26, 2021 - Syndicated blog

Cache Tag Helpers in Optimizely 12

As developers, we always should look for opportunities to boost the performance of web applications. Caching is one of them. It can significantly improve our application load time and responsiveness and ASP.NET Core helps us with this by providing server-side caching using Caching Tag Helpers in views.

Francisco Quintanilla

Nov 25, 2021 - Syndicated blog

Secret debug tools in Optimizely CMS 12

Secret treasures are always fun. And when I was examining the endpoint list from my previous post, I noticed a few hints that I couldn't leave unexplored. It turns out that just as the previous versions, Optimizely CMS 12 comes with a couple of hidden debug gems.

Allan Thraen

Nov 24, 2021 - Syndicated blog

Listing all endpoints in Optimizely CMS 12 / .NET 5

Routing has significantly changed in .NET 5 - and that affects many parts of Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12. For example we have to get used to endpoints a middleware. As I am working on upgrading a few different add-ons I found it could be useful to see which routes are registered out of the box.

Allan Thraen

Nov 24, 2021 - Syndicated blog

Optimizely CMS 12 – .NET 5.0 – Build/Deploy in DevOps (YAML)

The second I created a NET 5 project, the first anxiety-filled thought that ran through my head was something along the lines of… “How the heck am I going to build/deploy this to anywhere useful?!” As I mentioned in my previous post about the DXCS006 error code, this is one of the first times that I have really started to work with NET 5/Core in...

Eric Markson

Nov 24, 2021 - Syndicated blog

Using virtual containers in page tree

The edit mode page tree is pretty fast when site has hierarchical structure. Even for few levels of nested pages the navigation works really smoothly. Unfortunately it doesn’t look that good when structure is flat. Starting from few hundreds child pages the user experience become worse, the waiting time for server to load children is […] The pos...

Grzegorz Wiecheć

Nov 23, 2021 - Syndicated blog

Optimizely: Page type, Block type and Content area restrictions

As CMS or Commerce developers we work a lot with page types, block types and different in-built properties like content area etc. Sometimes we just create our Page Type, Block Types and properties and a lot of times we need to add restrictions such as what block types are allowed in this content area. Which […] The post Optimizely: Page type,...

Naveed Ul-Haq

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Release Notes

Optimizely - update 385

^{Posted on Nov 23, 2021}

Bug fixes for Optimizely Content Cloud and Optimizely Search & Navigation.

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Optimizely - update 384

^{Posted on Nov 16, 2021}

New features and bug fixes for Optimizely Content Cloud.

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Optimizely - update 383

^{Posted on Nov 09, 2021}

Bug fixes for Optimizely Commerce Cloud and Optimizely Languages.

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Optimizely - update 382

^{Posted on Nov 02, 2021}

Bug fixes for Optimizely Market Testing tool and the Optimizely Avalara Avatax connector add-on.

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Optimizely - update 381

^{Posted on Oct 27, 2021}

Bug fixes for Optimizely Google Analytics and the tracking services Session add-ons.

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Optimizely - update 380

^{Posted on Oct 19, 2021}

New features for Optimizely Content Cloud. Bug fixes for Optimizely Content Cloud and Optimizely Campaign.

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Doc Updates

Implement a third party search provider

^{Nov 24, 2021}

From Optimizely B2B Commerce

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Third party search pipelines

^{Nov 24, 2021}

From Optimizely B2B Commerce

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Content Definitions API

^{Nov 17, 2021}

From Optimizely Content Definitions API

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Property Data Types

^{Nov 17, 2021}

From Optimizely Content Definitions API

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Content Definitions Manifest

^{Nov 17, 2021}

From Optimizely Content Definitions API

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Editor Definitions

^{Nov 17, 2021}

From Optimizely Content Definitions API

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Forum

Optimizely CMS

^{Last post: Nov 26, 2021 by Stotty}

How to show customized text for Allowed Types using UIHint in CMS12 ?

_{Replies: 1}

Tags: cms.12.1.x

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Optimizely CMS

^{Last post: Nov 26, 2021 by Andrew Markham}

Multiple routes to a single controller action

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A solution has been provided in the replies for the discussed issue

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Optimizely CMS

^{Last post: Nov 26, 2021 by Tapas}

Create CMS Block - radio button functionality

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Tags: cms.11.1.x

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Optimizely Search & Navigation

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by Eric Deschambault}

Is there a way to view the automatic related queries?

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Developer to developer

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by David Knipe}

Merging of texts via CMS

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Tags: cms.11.14.x

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Developer to developer

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by ZZ}

Remove empty div if ContentArea has an active visitor gourp and block is hidden

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Tags: cms.11.14.x

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Optimizely Commerce

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by Tobias Lindberg}

Commerce Catalog UI not showing properties when using batch api

_{Replies: 11}

Tags: commerce.13.31.x

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Add-ons

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by JariH}

XLIFF exports via Languages add-on: special characters as entities

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Optimizely CMS

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by Johan Petersson}

How to create List of Block Data in CMS12

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Tags: cms.12.1.x

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Optimizely Forms

^{Last post: Nov 25, 2021 by Tomas Hensrud Gulla}

Set Textbox field with regex pattern to disallow URL's (http/www)

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CMS

Improve user experience with ContentArea and ContentReference

_{Posted on Nov 17, 2021}

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Loading indicator whenever view or context is changed

_{Posted on Nov 02, 2021}

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Developer update by Optimizely Norway

_{Posted on Nov 01, 2021}

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Block Enhancements Update

_{Posted on Oct 27, 2021}

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How to resolve current content context

_{Posted on Sep 28, 2021}

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Refresh current editing context on property value change

_{Posted on Sep 07, 2021}

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New "feature" in Commerce 13.16: Marketing UI statistics has been reworked

_{Posted on May 06, 2020}

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Fallback languages for catalog content

_{Posted on Apr 17, 2020}

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Come Back Stronger - Free Developer Webinars for both CMS and Commerce Developers

_{Posted on Apr 15, 2020}

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Configurable Episerver Find Facets

_{Posted on Dec 15, 2019}

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New simple batch saving API for Commerce

_{Posted on Oct 15, 2019}

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Commerce Developer with a valid Commerce certificate? Get a 75 % discount on a Commerce Developer Subscription

_{Posted on Oct 09, 2019}

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Want to find out more about our Commerce? Take a look at the blog posts from the entire Optimizely community, as well as from the Optimizely development teams.

Every DXP website just got faster

_{Posted on Nov 11, 2021}

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.Net 5 public preview

_{Posted on Jul 01, 2021}

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Friday's EMEA Developer Happy Hour cancelled due to Walpurgis Night - welcome to the the North American one instead!

_{Posted on Apr 28, 2021}

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How to load test your sites at DXP

_{Posted on Apr 22, 2021}

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Now you can Deploy Smoothly to Content Cloud

_{Posted on Apr 19, 2021}

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How to address web performance and security in China

_{Posted on Apr 15, 2021}

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Want to find out more about our DXP? Take a look at the blog posts from the entire Optimizely community, as well as from the Optimizely development teams.

Search & Navigation Backend Migrations

_{Posted on May 19, 2021}

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How to make Find 13.x play nice with Find on-premise

_{Posted on Oct 13, 2020}

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Improving synonyms and overall search experience

_{Posted on Jun 24, 2020}

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Why is my Find indexing job freezing and dying?

_{Posted on Apr 03, 2020}

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The journey ahead for Search & Navigation (A.K.A. Find)

_{Posted on Mar 02, 2020}

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Key Rotation on Episerver Find

_{Posted on Feb 03, 2020}

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Want to find out more about our Search & Navigation? Take a look at the blog posts from the entire Optimizely community, as well as from the Optimizely development teams.

Latest Forum Posts

Thread	Room	Replies	Last Update
How to show customized text for Allowed Types using UIHint in CMS12 ?	Optimizely CMS	1	Nov 26, 2021 By: Stotty
Multiple routes to a single controller action	Optimizely CMS	5	Nov 26, 2021 By: Andrew Markham
Create CMS Block - radio button functionality	Optimizely CMS	0	Nov 26, 2021 By: Tapas
Is there a way to view the automatic related queries?	Optimizely Search & Navigation	0	Nov 25, 2021 By: Eric Deschambault
Merging of texts via CMS	Developer to developer	1	Nov 25, 2021 By: David Knipe
Remove empty div if ContentArea has an active visitor gourp and block is hidden	Developer to developer	0	Nov 25, 2021 By: ZZ

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