en https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Dejan-Caric/60Optimizely World https://dejan.blog/how-to-set-principalinfo-currentprincipal-in-optimizely-cms-12/ Back in the days, we could use PrincipalInfo.CurrentPrincipal = PrincipalInfo.CreatePrincipal(...). In CMS 12, PrincipalInfo.CurrentPrincipal has become read-only. https://dejan.blog/how-to-set-principalinfo-currentprincipal-in-optimizely-cms-12/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:58:09 GMT Blog post https://dejan.blog/optimizely-forms-how-to-generate-submitted-from-page-links-instead-of-ids/ When exporting Optimizely Form submissions in XLSX format, Optimizely will export page IDs instead of proper page links. This blog post will show you how to extend the XLSXDataExporter and export page links instead of just IDs. https://dejan.blog/optimizely-forms-how-to-generate-submitted-from-page-links-instead-of-ids/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 06:53:00 GMT Blog post https://dejan.blog/optimizely-singleton-pages/ When developing Optimizely websites, we usually have to create single-instance page types like Settings Page, Checkout Page, etc. There are many ways to implement this, so let's see the most popular ones. https://dejan.blog/optimizely-singleton-pages/ Sun, 22 Aug 2021 13:56:03 GMT Blog post https://dejan.blog/optimizely-world-community-stats-2021/ Which companies have the most CMS and Commerce certified developers? Who are the top 100 contributors? Check out the latest Optimizely World Community Stats for 2021! https://dejan.blog/optimizely-world-community-stats-2021/ Sun, 08 Aug 2021 13:08:43 GMT Blog post https://dejan.blog/how-to-delete-expired-prices-in-optimizely-commerce/ Episerver (now Optimizely) doesn't have any built-in scheduled jobs for deleting expired prices. So even though expired prices are not returned when using IPriceService, the PriceDetails table can become pretty big over time, and you might be asked to do some clean-up anyway https://dejan.blog/how-to-delete-expired-prices-in-optimizely-commerce/ Sun, 08 Aug 2021 10:07:09 GMT Blog post https://dejan.blog/optimizely-managing-users-from-the-code/ A list of useful code snippets for unlocking and creating user accounts from the code. https://dejan.blog/optimizely-managing-users-from-the-code/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:29:07 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/testing-your-content-types-for-the-missing-allowedtypes-attribute When defining new content types, we usually decorate all page types with the AvailableContentTypes attribute and all ContentAreas with the AllowedTypes attribute. Here's how you can unit-test your content types for the missing AllowedTypes and AvailableContentTypes attributes. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/testing-your-content-types-for-the-missing-allowedtypes-attribute Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:49:59 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/testing-your-content-types-for-the-missing-allowedtypes-attribute When defining new content types, we usually decorate all page types with the AvailableContentTypes attribute and all ContentAreas with the AllowedTypes attribute. Here's how you can unit-test your content types for the missing AllowedTypes and AvailableContentTypes attributes. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/testing-your-content-types-for-the-missing-allowedtypes-attribute Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:49:59 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/episerver-world-community-stats-2019 A list of top community members by CRP points, based on publicly available data from Episerver World. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/episerver-world-community-stats-2019 Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:18:15 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/creating-episerver-forms-programmatically I recently had to automate the process of creating Episerver Forms. In this blog post, I will show you how to create Episerver Forms from the code. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/creating-episerver-forms-programmatically Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:21:40 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/scheduled-jobs-cleaner-for-episerver Cleaning up the tblScheduledItemLog and tblScheduledItem tables is a boring task, and sometimes we don't have direct access to the production database. For that reason, I’ve created an add-on that automatically removes ghost scheduled jobs from an Episerver database. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/scheduled-jobs-cleaner-for-episerver Sat, 10 Nov 2018 08:18:37 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/application-logging-in-episerver-dxc In standard DXC Service setup, application logs are stored in BLOB storage with 90 days retention. They can be inspected in the PaaS portal using custom Log Stream or downloaded in CSV format for offline analysis. DXC Service comes with an Application Insights account, which can be used as a nice alternative to standard application logging. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/application-logging-in-episerver-dxc Sun, 21 Oct 2018 21:12:34 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/property-name-overlay-in-on-page-editing-mode In On-Page Editing mode, Episerver will create a blue border around all editable properties. This feature is very useful. However, if you have a lot of properties on the page, it may be challenging to locate the correct property, and editors may be using All Properties mode more often than On-Page Editing. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/property-name-overlay-in-on-page-editing-mode Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:45:48 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/testing-your-visual-studio-solutions-for-files-that-are-missing-or-not-included When some files are missing in a git repository, or they don't have the correct Build Action in the project, a build server may deploy a bad artifact to the production environment. One way to detect this and stop bad deploys is to set up unit tests. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/testing-your-visual-studio-solutions-for-files-that-are-missing-or-not-included Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:43:21 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/hiding-properties-in-episerver-edit-mode-based-on-the-language-branch Building a multi-language website is always challenging. Among other things, we need to think about date formats, language analyzers, and full-text search. However, we must also not forget the site editors and provide them the best possible editing experience. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/hiding-properties-in-episerver-edit-mode-based-on-the-language-branch Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:51:35 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/creating-episerver-page-types-using-resharper-file-templates When creating new page types, developers mostly use the EPiServer CMS Visual Studio Extension or copy and paste the code from existing files. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to create EPiServer page types using ReSharper file templates. Once you learn all the shortcuts, it becomes much faster to generate code using ReSharper, rather than copy and pasting. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/creating-episerver-page-types-using-resharper-file-templates Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:57:29 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/retrieving-available-content-types-in-episerver After a few development iterations it can be difficult to keep an overview of all content types and their properties. We can always look in Visual Studio or click through different menus in edit and admin mode, but that’s just too time-consuming. It would be nice to have all that information in one place, in a user-friendly format, and be able to filter and export the data to a PDF file. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/retrieving-available-content-types-in-episerver Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:14:24 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/retrieving-file-url-from-edit-mode Many people wonder how to retrieve the file URL from edit mode. I’ve created an add-on which provides a quick and easy way to do that. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/retrieving-file-url-from-edit-mode Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:34:53 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/logging-to-console-using-log4net Logging can be very useful when debugging C# code. ColoredConsoleAppender logs all messages to the console and highlights error, info, and debug messages with different colors, which makes the debugging experience a bit more pleasant. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/logging-to-console-using-log4net Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:56:45 GMT Blog post https://www.dcaric.com/blog/removing-extra-divs-from-episerver-content-areas The default ContentAreaRenderer implementation renders div elements around the content area and every content area item. It is possible to control the rendering of wrapping elements, but not to disable them completely. https://www.dcaric.com/blog/removing-extra-divs-from-episerver-content-areas Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:32:24 GMT Blog post