Blog posts by Kim Gunnarsson

Episerver Find UnifiedSearchFor with configurable operator

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:26:26 GMT

When using UnifiedSearch in Episerver Find, I prefer to use the method IClient.UnifiedSearchFor() because it takes care of necessary logic without exposing implementation details, rendering in lower risk of introducing bugs and unwanted behaviour.

By default, multiword queries is concatenated using the operator OR, but in this case we

Generic EditorDescriptor for custom SelectionFactories

Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:50:00 GMT

We are extensive users of the feature of implementing custom selection factories by using the EditorDescriptor-attribute in Episerver.

The use-case is quite simple and provides the editor with the ability to single select a value within multiple alternatives using a drop down. But as the selection stores grow, the

Make Episerver SelectionEditor support HTML-labels

Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT

Somewhere between the releases of Episerver 7.5 and latest, a small but subtle change in how the epi-cms/contentediting/editors/SelectionEditor displays labels in associated drop downs was made.

The line label: item.text was replaced with label: entities.encode(item.text) rendering in everything put in a label

IContentMedia and Required fields is not the best idea

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:10:57 GMT

Sometimes when working with MediaData or other inherited IContentMedia in EPiServer you need to add extra fields and properties. If you do – resist the temptation to make them Required.

The standard behaviour when uploading a document it becomes Published upon upload completion. When adding properties (fields) with the [Required] attribute,

Working with Categories in EPiServer CMS 8 – a nice 'gotcha'!

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:54:41 GMT

I am currently working with the category functionality in EPiServer and ran into a small hiccup with the new CategoryRepository introduced in EPiServer CMS 8. Nothing large, just a small heads up if you are working with a site where your editors are using and updating categories.

A small but

Using page properties as dynamic properties

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:59:00 GMT

Sometimes in EPiServer you need properties that inherit values.Dynamic Properties is great for that, but as Anders Hattestad claims (and proposes a solution), it's a bit tricky working with these in EPiServer CMS 7+ versions.

In a current project, we needed just that; have a variety of inherited property