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- Configuring episerver.packaging
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- Configuring episerver.shell
- Configuring module.config
- Configuring staticFile
- Configuring episerver.basicAuthentication
- Configuring .NET SignalR
- Configuring Image Service
- Configuring link validation
- Reading application settings programmatically
- Content
- IContentRepository/DataFactory interface
- Persisting IContent instances
- Synchronization
- Selecting content
- Validation
- ContentType attribute
- Grouping content types and properties
- Page types and templates
- Creating page templates and block controls
- Block types and templates
- EditHint in MVC
- Creating a page programmatically
- Converting page types for pages
- Refactoring content type classes
- Multilingual content
- Properties
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- Installing and deploying Search Service
- About EPiServer Full-Text Search Client
- About EPiServer Full-Text Search Service
- Configuring EPiServer Full-Text Search Client
- Configuring EPiServer Full-Text Search Service
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Content model
The content model is based on inheritance from model classes for content types, and provides flexibility to create customized content types in website implementations.
Content in EPiServer are pages, blocks, media files, and folders in CMS. It also is catalog content in EPiServer Commerce. The content type defines a set of properties that an item, for instance a page, consists of.
You can create a content type by adding a model class to your solution. You also can add and customize modify a content type using the administrative interface.
During site initialization, EPiServer scans the assemblies in the bin folder and adds classes with the EPiServer.DataAbstraction.ContentType attribute by the synchronization engine. A content type is constructed by merging the settings from the model class with any settings that were defined in the administration view.
Settings defined in the user interface take precedence over settings from your model. (In the admin view, you can restore the content type to the state described by the model class.) You can see model types that were created in the admin view. For example, the URL segment follows the name of a folder, which means that the URL segment changes when the folder name is changed.
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Last updated: Feb 23, 2015
