Blog posts by Epinova2011-11-10T22:30:21.0000000Zhttps://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Epinova/ Optimizely World 17 Easy steps for setting up xdt transformations in your web projects  So, what is xdt used for?  Xdt is a way to generate the correct .config (or other xml-files) when you have different servers you need to deploy your web project to. So, what is xdt used for? Xdt is a way to generate the correct .config (or other...2011-11-10T22:30:21.0000000ZBlog post New features for the Meridium.FolderBrowserPropertyI have togheter with Håkon Nordli at NorgesGruppen, made som new features for the Meridium.FolderBrowserProperty. The property itself lets you choose a folder from the filearchive in EPiServer. Our expansion lets you choose multiple folders using...2011-10-23T14:58:38.0000000ZBlog post Handling EPiServer users and roles - a reference listHandling users and roles are very common tasks in EPiServer and .NET projects in general. Here's a reference list of various useful membership related operations done in code. 2011-10-09T11:45:52.0000000ZBlog post Problems with dashboardHave you ever had problems with the Dashboard giving you 404 in EPiServer before? That is probably because you have forgotten to configure  the IIS correctly 2011-09-30T00:00:08.0000000ZBlog post IIS loopback problem with Windows AuthenticationA website configured with Windows Authentication in IIS caused HTTP 401.1 errors when browsing to it from the local machine. The problem was caused by a security feature in .NET 3.5 SP1. 2011-09-16T16:03:09.0000000ZBlog post Create your own Copy Page Event  I got into a case where I needed a copy page event, something EPiServer does not provide as a page event. I was making a changelog functionality that read a text-property from all the existing versions of a page, and listed it out as an overview...2011-09-15T22:50:35.0000000ZBlog post ChangePassword mails blocked by anti-virus softwareImplementing the asp:ChangePassword control on an EPiServer site is fairly straight-forward, but I was left wondering why no mails were sent. 2011-06-23T13:42:30.0000000ZBlog post The power of integrating your EPiServer website and your CRM systemAfter the economic recession, the importance of a CRM system has become clear to many. Companies have had an increased focus on building customer loyalty while at the same time increasing their customer portfolios. While most large and medium...2011-04-27T23:49:50.0000000ZBlog post EPiServer eCommerce installation - redoux!  After spending (wasting) some time tinkering with the eCommerce installation, having to begin all over a few times before finally getting it right, I decided to write down a step by step installation guide as a reminder to myself and hopefully...2010-09-23T13:21:51.0000000ZBlog post EPiServer Commerce installation - redoux!Installation of EPiServer Commerce is actually quite straight-forward, but there are a lot of steps involved and there's a good chance you'll miss a few details. 2010-09-23T13:21:51.0000000ZBlog post Problems with TMCore EPiServerModule and PageTypeBuilderSome time ago I participated in project where we used the TMCore EPiServerModule and PageTypeBuilder. Whenever we mapped up new associations nothing was shown on the page. When we went back to the Topic Map tab everything looked fine. This meant...2010-05-30T21:32:42.0000000ZBlog post Settings for your application or moduleI have a module for showing scaled and cropped pictures. This module has two settings in its own config section: <ImageResizerSettings>     <add key="AllowedPictureFormats" value="jpg,jpeg,png,gif,tif,tiff" />     <add key="ScaledImagesProviderNam...2010-05-30T19:31:40.0000000ZBlog post Google mapsYou can get a marker on a country based on the country code by calling Google API's geocoder.getLocations(countryCode, addToMap); and were addToMap processes the response from Google on the country code and created a marker and added it to the map...2010-04-27T13:36:12.0000000ZBlog post VPP for dummies So this time I was the dummy. The solution was of course a missing section in the web.config-file: <location path="Upload">     <staticFile expirationTime="-1.0:0:0"/>     <system.webServer>       <handlers>         <add name="webresources"...2010-04-27T09:44:32.0000000ZBlog post EasySearch and EPiServer: Scoped search and Globalization issuesFallback languages: We quickly discovered that EasySearch doesn't include any fallback languages in the search. To make this work we needed to make one main query for current language and one for the fallback language (if the the language had a...2010-04-22T14:06:59.0000000ZBlog post Extended PageTreeEPiServer's PageTree class has a function called CreateItemRecursive and this is where you can add your logic to include or exclude elements from the tree. In my example I added two properties to mye ExtendedPageTree control which takes in a comma...2010-04-22T11:02:58.0000000ZBlog post FancyBox tipsI have a list of images where I've attached a FancyBox lightbox so the users can click and get a larger preview. My FancyBox were working fine in FireFox, but when I tried it in IE8, it only worked for the first element on the page. After reading...2010-04-22T09:47:08.0000000ZBlog post Google Custom Search Iframe problemThe problem in question was that the search result displayed in full screen, instead of inside the IFrame, as supposed. The solution was as simple as adding the following line (bold below) in the results part of the code: <script type="text/javasc...2010-04-21T14:56:04.0000000ZBlog post Lower case URLs in EPiServerThis issue can be fixed with a few simple steps. To get all your site urls to display in lower case do the following: 1. Add the following in your Global.asax.cs: void UrlSegment_CreatedUrlSegment(object sender, EPiServer.Web.UrlSegmentEventArgs e...2010-04-20T14:37:50.0000000ZBlog post Require HTTPS on only some pagesWhy not just use HTTPS for the entire site, you might ask? The reason for this is that they use Google Maps and the Google Maps Premium Subscription was not an option due to the high cost for this service. To solve this I wrote a HttpModule that...2010-03-23T14:36:13.0000000ZBlog post