Configuring episerver

The following XML pseudocode describes the <episerver> section of the configuration file. The Configuration topic describes the syntax used in the description of the configuration elements.

<episerver>
   <imageEditor>
   <linkValidator>
   <contentProvider>
   <applicationSettings>
   <tinyMCE>
   <visitorGroup>
</episerver>

<imageEditor>

XML

<imageEditor enabled="bool"
             windowHeight="int"
             windowWidth="int">
   <sizePresets>
      <preset height="int"
              name="string"
              languageKey="string"              
              width="int" />
      ...
   </sizePresets>
</imageEditor>

<imageEditor> element attributes

Note: The imageEditor element is optional. Default configuration values shown in the following table are set in code. These values are overriden if other values are specified in the episerver section of web.config.

Name	Default Value	Description
enabled	true	Indicates if the image editor is used in edit mode.
windowHeight	600	The preferred height and width of the image editor. This is the final fallback; settings on the property level have precedence.
windowWidth	900

The values for the imageEditor section have defaults defined in code equivalent to the following:

XML

<imageEditor windowWidth="900" windowHeight="600" enabled="true">
  <sizePresets>
    <preset width="320" height="240" />
    <preset width="640" height="480" />
  </sizePresets>
</imageEditor>

<preset> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
height		The image preset height in pixels.
name		Name shown in the preset selection list. If not specified, the name shown is width x height.
languageKey		A language key to where localized name strings is found.
width		The image preset width in pixels.

<linkValidator>

XML

<linkValidator externalLinkErrorThreshold="int"
               internalLinkValidation="EPiServer.Configuration.LinkValidator.ValidationType"
               maximumRunTime="TimeSpan"
               proxyAddress="string"
               proxyDomain="string"
               proxyPassword="string"
               proxyUser="string"
               recheckInterval="TimeSpan"
               userAgent="string" />
   <excludePatterns>      
        <add regex="string" />
      ...
   </excludePatterns>
</linkValidator>

<linkValidator> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
externalLinkErrorThreshold	100	The threshold for the number of consecutive errors that need to occur before the job stops.
internalLinkValidation	ValidationType.Api	How the link validator validates internal links. ValidationType enum has the following values: Off. Do not validate internal links. Api. Validate by API by calling GetPage for the referenced page and verify that the page exists. Does not detect errors that occur in page template code. Request. Validate by HTTP request. This method simulates clicking the link. Detects errors that occur in page template code.
maximumRunTime		The maximum time the job runs at one time.
proxyAddress		Optional web proxy address for the link checker to use when validating links.
proxyDomain		Optional web proxy domain to authenticate the proxy connection.
proxyPassword		Optional web proxy password to authenticate the proxy connection.
proxyUser		Optional web proxy user to authenticate proxy connection.
recheckInterval	7.00:00	The time that must elapse before a link is rechecked.
userAgent	EPiServer Link Checker	The user agent string to use when checking validity of links.

<add> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
regex		*Required*. A regular expression matching a link that should be ignored by the link validation.

<contentProvider>

XML

<contentProvider>
   <providers>
      <add capabilities="EPiServer.Core.ContentProviderCapabilities"
           entryPoint="int"
           iconPath="string"
           name="string"
           type="string"
           wastebasketName=string />
      ...
   </providers>
</contentProvider>

<add> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
capabilities	ContentProviderCapabilities.None	The capabilites that are supported by this content provider. ContentProviderCapabilities is a Flags enum, meaning that you can combine any number of values.
entryPoint		*Required*. The ID of the page that acts as a container for the contents delivered from this content provider.
iconPath		The path to an icon image file, which is shown in the page tree to distinguish pages served by this content provider instance. Make the path a relative to the theme folder App_Themes/Default/Images/ExplorerTree/PageTree/.
name		Identify the content provider. If you set name to default, that content provider replaces the DefaulteProvider as the default content provider.
type		The full classname of the page provider class.
wastebasketName		The name of the wastebasket for this provider instance. If this attribute is not present the name is equal to the value of the name attribute.

<applicationSettings>

XML

<applicationSettings
              disableVersionDeletion="bool"
              enableScheduler="bool"
              globalErrorHandling="RemoteOnly|On|Off"
              googleMapsApiV3Url="string"
              httpCacheability="System.Web.HttpCacheability"
              httpCacheExpiration="TimeSpan"
              httpCacheVaryByCustom="string"
              httpCacheVaryByParams="string"
              IISHiddenSegments="string"
              mirroringMonitoringMaxDataPerJob="int"
              mirroringSource="string"
              operationCompatibility="EPiServer.Configuration.EPiServerCompatibility"
              pageCacheSlidingExpiration="TimeSpan"
              pageUseBrowserLanguagePreferences="bool"
              pageValidatePageTemplate="bool"
              permanentEditRetainPeriod="TimeSpan"
              remotePageCacheSlidingExpiration="TimeSpan"
              remoteWebServiceCulture="int"
              sgmlParserDecodeCharEntities="bool"
              stringCompressionThreshold="int"
              stringDelayedLoadThreshold="int"
              subscriptionHandler="string"
              uiEditorCssPaths="~/Static/css/Editor.css"
              uiKeepUserLoggedOn="bool"
              uiMaxVersions="int"
              uiOptimizeTreeForSpeed="bool"
              uiSafeHtmlTags="string"
              uiShowGlobalizationUserInterface="bool"
              uiTheme="string"
              uiUrl="Uri"
              UrlPreventRewriteAttribute="string"
              urlRebaseKind="string"
              urlRewriteExtension="string"
              utilUrl="Uri"
               />

<applicationSettings> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
backgroundCopyThreshold	50	The maximum number of pages that you can copy in the current thread. If you request a copy operation with a larger number of pages than the threshold, the copy operation performs in a background thread.
disableVersionDeletion	false	Set to true to disable tools that allow page and file versions to be deleted.
enableModelSyncCommit	true	Set to false to disable the commit phase when synchronizing typed models. Block types and page types will not be updated automatically in the database. This can be useful when a team of developers shares a database.
enableScheduler	true	Set to false to disable this application's connection to the scheduler service. Use this setting typically in a load-balanced scenario when you want to ensure that scheduled jobs are run only on a specific machine.
globalErrorHandling	RemoteOnly	Set one of the following values for Episerver CMS error handling: On. Episerver CMS hides the original error and a generic error message is displayed instead. Off. Errors are not handled by Episerver CMS. Errors are handled by ASP.NET. RemoteOnly. Error handling is On for all visitors except for those accessing the site from the web server itself.
googleMapsApiV3Url	http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.1&sensor=false	The URL for Google Maps API v3, possibly site-specific.
httpCacheability	HttpCacheability.Server	The HttpCacheability enum for the Cache-Control HTTP header.
httpCacheExpiration	0:0:0	The amount of time that a page is cached in the outputcache. This value is set in the http request policy. It activates both client-side caching and server caching outputcache. Policy only applies to anonymous users and when http request method is GET. The cache automatically updates when you make changes to a page in Episerver CMS.
httpCacheVaryByCustom	browser	A custom text string to vary cached output responses by. Passed to Response.Cache.SetVaryByCustom.
httpCacheVaryByParams	id	The parameters to the page (in other words query string) that the cache should vary by. HttpVaryByParams should read httpCacheVaryByParams. Forwarded to Response.Cache.SetVaryByParams.
IISHiddenSegments	bin, app_code, app_globalresources, app_localresources, app_webreferences, app_data, app_browsers	Defines IIS’ hidden segments in comma-separated format.
mirroringMonitoringMaxDataPerJob	1000	The maximum number of monitoring data messages that are kept during a mirroring session. For example, if mirroringMonitoringMaxDataPerJob is set to 100 and the 101st monitoring data messsage is received, the oldest/first message will be pushed out of the log.
mirroringSource	mirroringSourceEndpoint	The name endpoint to use when communicating with the mirroring service. A client endpoint with the specified name must be registered in the <system.serviceModel> element in web.config.
operationCompatibility	EPiServerCompatibility.None	A set of EPiServerCompatibilty flags that enables compatibility features. None. There are no compatibility features enabled. DynamicProperties. Enables dynamic properties, both in the user interface and in the API. Dynamic properties only support the pre CMS 7 user interface. LegacyPropertyValueType. Experimental feature that forces properties to return value types as before CMS 7. Not compatible with typed models. LongStringLegacyControl. Forces long string to create text area in legacy WebForms user interfaces. Full. Enable all compatibility flags. Not recommended.
pageCacheSlidingExpiration	12:0:0	The page cache for the local database.
pageUseBrowserLanguagePreferences	false	Determines if the browser language should define which language is used.
pageValidateTemplate	true	Defines if the current template has to match the page type template.
permanentEditRetainPeriod	30.0:0:0	The amount of time that a page's permanent edit status should be retained. The permanent edit status will be cleared by the Remove Permanent Editing scheduled job if the status has been active longer than the time span specified in permanentEditRetainPeriod.
remotePageCacheSlidingExpiration	2:0:0	The page cache for remote sites.
remoteWebServiceCulture	0	The culture to be used when communicating with a remote web service.
sgmlParserDecodeCharEntities	false	Defines whether SgmlParser should decode character entitities (like " ") or not.
stringCompressionThreshold	0	The threshold value for the number of characters required in properties deriving from PropertyLongString to enable compression. A value of 0 turns string compression off.
stringDelayedLoadThreshold	255	The threshold value for the number of characters required in properties deriving from PropertyLongString to enable delayed loading of the property value. A value of 0 turns delayed loading off.
subscriptionHandler	EPiServer.Personalization.SubscriptionMail, EPiServer	Full class name to the class that should handle subscription mail. The class must implement ISubscriptionHandler.
uiEditorCssPaths	~/Static/css/Editor.css	Defines which css file to use when rendering the editor.
uiKeepUserLoggedOn	true	Sets if the current Windows-authenticated user must reauthenticate after session timeout.
uiMaxVersions	20	The maximum number of page versions that Episerver will retain. Set to 0 for unlimited number of versions.
uiOptimizeTreeForSpeed	false	Defines if page tree controls should evaluate if tree nodes have children. If set to false, tree controls will not evaluate if a node has children when it becomes visible. Only nodes that have children will display an expand icon ([+]), i.e. [+]NodeName. If set to true, tree controls will not evaluate if a node has children when it becomes visible. Thus all nodes will display an expand icon, regardless of if it has children or not. This behavior will increase performance when displaying large tree structures.
uiSafeHtmlTags	b,i,u,br	Defines which tags should not be encoded.
uiShowGlobalizationUserInterface	false	Defines if the globalization tools should be available in the user interface.
uiTheme	String.Empty	Setting for what graphical theme should be used. The value must correspond to a name of a subfolder in the App_Themes folder. The Default theme is used if no other value is specified.
uiUrl	~/UI/	*Required*. The URL to the relocateable UI folder. It must be a Web URL, and may include scheme and port.
UrlPreventRewriteAttribute	EPiNoRewrite	This setting only applies to the Episerver CMS 5 editor. For internal use, do not use. Defines the HTML attribute name that is used by the CMS 5 legacy editor when writing / parsing content.
urlRebaseKind	Default	Defines the type of rebasing to do for links when using Friendly URLs. Possible values are any combination of EPiServer.UrlBuilder.RebaseKind flags.
urlRewriteExtension	String.Empty	Defines an extension that is mapped to ASP.NET for the URL. During the URL rewrite step, before a HTTP response is sent to the client, the urlRewriteExtension value will be added as a suffix to all links that points to pages on the site. Likewise, during the URL rewrite step at the beginning of a request, the suffix is removed.
utilUrl	~/Util/	*Required. The URL to the relocateable Util* folder. It must be a web URL, and may include scheme and port.

<tinyMCE>

XML

<tinyMCE mergedConfigurationProperties="string" />

<tinyMCE> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
mergedConfigurationProperties	valid_elements, extended_valid_elements, invalid_elements, valid_child_elements	Properties that will be mergable for plugins in TinyMCE. If several TinyMCE plugins set different values for any of the configuration options listed in this attribute, these values will be merged.

<visitorGroup>

XML

<visitorGroup>
   <searchKeyWordCriteria pattern="string" />
</visitorGroup>

<searchKeyWordCriteria> element attributes

Name	Default Value	Description
pattern	([#?&](amp;)?(q\|p)=(?<query>[^&]+))	Regular expression used by the Search keyword visitor group criterion to extract search keywords from the referrer adress. If you choose to write your own regex to replace the default one, make sure that each keyword is caught by the "?<query>" capture group.

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Configuring episerver

<imageEditor>

<imageEditor> element attributes

<preset> element attributes

<linkValidator>

<linkValidator> element attributes

<add> element attributes

<contentProvider>

<add> element attributes

<applicationSettings>

<applicationSettings> element attributes

<tinyMCE>

<tinyMCE> element attributes

<visitorGroup>

<searchKeyWordCriteria> element attributes