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  • Posted on: Jul 02, 2015
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    Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a very handy image format when working with icons or logos that need to be used in different sizes. Adding support for SVG image files in EPiServer is very easy to do. Adding a vector image content type is done in...

  • Posted on: Jul 02, 2015
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    An update to let you know what breaking changes we are doing in CMS later this year. For many sites the changes will go unnoticed, just another major version number, the latest version of the Alloy templates for example requires no code changes -...

  • Posted on: Jun 12, 2015
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    I have recently received a lot of questions via support and on the forums about how to change the components that are available by default in the CMS view, e.g. removing the media component. Most people believe that this is not something we suppor...

  • Posted on: Jun 01, 2015
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    Automatic database updates When we first starting shipping database updates in our NuGet-packages we said that we would like to get back to this area: "We have discussed building automatic database schema updates into the products but based on the...

  • Posted on: May 25, 2015
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    Lets say you wanted a simple block to show a title, just to let your editors break up a long content area with some contextual spacing. Simple stuff. However, you want to let the editor decide the background color, and that means the editor need t...

  • Posted on: Feb 12, 2015
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    As a few already have noticed, we have released pre-release packages of EPiServer CMS 8 in our Nuget feed. Given that EPiServer started to use a continous release process about a year ago and is now following semantic versioning, I want to explain...

  • Posted on: Feb 11, 2015
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    Currently in the typed model you are limited to defining sort order on individual content types and properties. The order defined then indirectly defines in which order groups are displayed when creating new content, and in which order the tabs ar...

  • Posted on: Feb 04, 2015
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    TL;DR The latest pre-release version of the EPiServer.CMS.UI package contains the new and improved allowed types attribute. If you are feeling adventurous then upgrade and try it out. The improvements are: Clicking the "create a new block" link of...