Blog posts by Daniel Badro

EPiServer Custom Property for Dynamic Content Plugin

Tue, 03 May 2016 09:47:41 GMT

We needed to give the editors a simple way of using variable amounts that could change over time inline in the text. These amounts needed to be placed inline (RenderAsBlockElement) in the Tiny MCE text editor for example: You need to pay $1000 to us by the end of august. The EPiServer documentation for CMS … Continue reading

Override TinyMCE settings for Paste in EPiServer CMS 8

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:00:22 GMT

During the last days I have revived complaints from our editors regarding that to much junk gets pasted into the XHtml text-editors. I decided to try to clear all the class and styles and other junk during paste (CTRL+ V) in to XHtml editor. Eliminating the old paste to notepad first approach. It is of great concern … Continue reading

Get the “owner” of this content

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:33:39 GMT

Sometimes you want to know if a certain content is used somewhere on the website, in my case I wanted to get the language from the page where a certain PDF was used to decide if it should be presented in the search result for that specific language. There is no complete way to accomplish this … Continue reading

The mysteri of Caching in EPiServer

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:42:07 GMT

There are 3 different settings that is good to know about when working with EPiServer. Outputcache IIS will generate static content of pages and serves them faster that way. To enable this feature add httpCacheExpiration=”0:20:0″ (for example cache for 20 minutes) to the applicationSettings section in episerver.config Yo can also use the [ContentOutputCache] in the … Continue reading

Working with Categories and languages

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:55:16 GMT

Our editors want the list of categories to be simple to work with, to reduce the steps we can preselect the root of each language so that when working with a page in a specific language, only the language specific categories are displayed. You can then create a structure in the category tree as following. … Continue reading

Displaying file size for your MediaData

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:56:01 GMT

Creating a document link as file.pdf(230kB ) may seem like a simple task… Well now it is… My Generic media Helper to get the file size And som magic sprinkle of events Usage Enjoy!

New web site built on bootstrapjs

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:50:26 GMT

New web site built on bootstrapjs Randomit.se is my latest web site built completly with Bootstrap js. The whole site took about 1 hour to set up and runs well on all platforms with responsive design.

EPiServer 7 MVC Top menu

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:04:06 GMT

Export to Excel

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:51:31 GMT

There are a couple of different ways to do this, but if your data is contained in a GridView then the most convenient way to accomplish this is simply to:

Export XForms data to Excel fails when more than 1000 rows

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:55:33 GMT

I have notice that an exception is thrown if you try to export more than 1000 rows of data to excel in EPiServer CMS 6.0 R2. The problem can emerge if you have a lot of answers in a XForm survey for example. The exception info that is shown is: The URL-encoded form data is not valid. And System.InvalidOperationException: … Continue reading

FindPagesWithCriteria works different in CMS 6 R2

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:05:25 GMT

I am currently upgrading a site to run under EPiServer CMS 6 R2 One thing that struck me was that I got zero results back when using code that earlier had been tested and worked. The code below works fine in CMS 6.0: DataFactory.Instance.FindPagesWithCriteria(PageReference.StartPage, criteria); After the R2 upgrade that code yielded no results. The [...]

Epi R2 and TinyMCE stop working properly

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:43:00 GMT

I am struggling with an R2 upgrade and have faced a lot of problems lately. We use a TinyMCEPlugin to configure Tiny and the CSS. We use: uiEditorCssPaths=”site.css” to display the styles in the editor and on the web, note we are not using an editor.css here. (Because EditMenuName is not a valid CSS-entity and wont [...]

Upgrading EPiServer CMS 6 To 6R2 For dummys

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:17:24 GMT

Ok so its time for an yearly upgrade, here is my resume on how I succeeded with the whole process. 1. Download the installer from Episerver. 2. If you are using TFS Check out the whole project for Edit. 3. If you are using some form of config transform the chances are that you have [...]

MVC3 Validation using data annotations

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:13:41 GMT

I recently created a contact form for my latest project bankrutt.se I used a model for my contact entity and the view was auto-generated nicely. One thing that struck me was that the form only validated if any text was entered, how about e-mail validation? It seems that you would have to create your own [...]

MVC3 asp.net 4.0 Entity Framework 4.02 SQLCE 4 and SEO part 2 MVCSitemapProvider

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:08:14 GMT

I am currently playing around with the MVC Sitemap provider for my new website bankrutt.se and have discovered the easiest way to create a top menu in MVC3. The top menu shipped in the default MVC3 template don’t have support for highlighting the selected node in the menu. This is a must and the easiest way to achieve this is [...]

MVC3 asp.net 4.0 Entity Framework 4.02 SQLCE 4 and SEO part 1

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:58:11 GMT

I am currently struggling with an idea to create a SEO-friendly site Bankrutt.se with asp.net 4.0 running MVC3 with razor and Entity Framework 4.02. The database is the new SQLCE 4.0. The whole solution is hosted externally running asp-net 4.0 x64. I had a nice SQLite solution earlier but as you might noticed SQLite is still only shipped as X86. Since my web hosting haven’t [...]

Create PDF direct from HTML with IText

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:30:21 GMT

The most convenient way to produce a PDF from web content must be the use of IText.HTMLWorker. This is a sample to get you going. Download the IText library for .net here http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/

Jquery datetimepicker calendar

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:32:31 GMT

Among a lot of cool things the datetimepicker can show week numbers and have culture support.

Simple clean AJAX with jquery and [WebMethod]

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:59:52 GMT

Include Jquery.js Add this to your aspx $(document).ready(function () { $.ajax({ type: “POST”, url: “WebForm1.aspx/DoShit”, data: “{source:’web’}”, contentType: “application/json; charset=utf-8″, dataType: “json”, success: function(msg) { alert(msg.d); } }) }); And on the server side [WebMethod] public static string DoShit(string source) { return DateTime.Now.ToString() +” ” +source; }

View Event logs in EPiServer admin mode

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:39:41 GMT