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Template Limitations

The following limitations exist on the demo templates.

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General Information

Prerequisites

The following conditions must be met before installing the Demo Package.

  • EPiServer CMS 5 SP2 is required.
  • Templates from the Public Package must be installed. These templates are used by the Demo templates.

Note! If you have modified the templates from the Public Package you may get unexpected results when compiling or viewing the web site. The Demo Package installation does not overwrite any files included in the Public Package.

Known Limitations

Alphabetical Index

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Multi language limitations.

The “PageAlphaNumericChars” property needs to be specified for non sv, fi, no, dk and en alphabetic lists. English alphabet will be used by default.

Calendar

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Usability limitations
    CalendarView selection won't work without JavaScript.
  • Performance Limitations
    Using two calendar lists may not be optimal performance-wise.
  • Architecture limitations
    Calendar item pages must be visible in menu due to a bug in the EPiServer core.

Changed Recently

The template has no known limitations.

Flash Video Page

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Usability limitations
    The page requires that the flash plug-in is installed.
  • Performance Limitations
    The player uses download to get the video file, which puts strain on the server in high volume scenarios.

Mixed Portal Page

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Import/Export limitations
    EPiServer CMS 5 does not export Web Parts, which leads to the page throwing an error if it is exported with a Web Part selected and then imported again.

My Settings

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Architecture limitations.
    Only uses the standard properties from EPiServerProfile. It is possible to specify your own in web.config, but this template will not make use of those.

Portal Page

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Usability, Browser and Design limitations.
    Due to Microsoft's implementation of Web Parts, this template has limited support for non-Internet Explorer browsers and for Internet Explorer version 5 and older. The drag-and-drop implementation does not factor in the scrolling of the page. Web Parts also renders table elements for design purposes and deprecated design attributes on these elements, which makes it impossible to properly set the desired design. The usability is also affected negatively.

Slide Show

The template has the following known limitations:

  • Usability limitations.
    Requires JavaScript to be enabled on the client. Lack of usability since the user cannot prevent or pause the update of page content.

Start Page

The template has no known limitations.

Known Limitations for the Blog Templates

General Limitations

The blog templates in general have the following limitations:

  • Usability limitations
    “On page edit” is disabled for all blog templates.
  • Multi-language limitations
    Due to the nature of a blog, the templates have not been designed and tested with multi-lingual considerations in mind.

Blog Item

The template has the following known limitation in addition to the limitations stated above.

  • Added comment doesn’t show up until the page is reloaded.

Known Limitations for Workrooms

General Limitations

  • Performance limitations
    The workroom uses single user security for its membership functionality, which is a limitation with a large number of members in the workrooms.
  • Usability limitations
    Various tasks such as add, edit and delete do not work without JavaScript.

Start

  • Performance limitations
    Since the file list control must retrieve all files added to the workroom to be able to sort them properly, there might be performance issues with many files.

Calendar

  • Usability limitations
    Calendar date selection does not work without JavaScript.
  • Performance limitations
    The page uses two calendar lists, which is not optimal performance-wise.
  • Architectural limitations
    Calendar items have to be visible in menus due to a bug in the EPiServer core.

File manager

  • Usability limitations
     Depends on javascript.
  • Functionality limitations
     Uploading of more than one file at a time is not supported. 
     The size of the uploaded file can not exceed the maxRequestLength configured in web.config.
  • Validation limitations
     The asp:Linkbutton control produce invalid html when setting enabled = false.

Known Limitations for Forums

Performance Limitations

  • The forum templates have been tested with a setup of ~45 000 pages.

    They were set up in the following structure:
    1 root forum with 5 sub-forums. Each sub-forum has 1000 threads with 5 replies and 2 threads with 1000 replies.

    This setup was tested on a development environment and showed very good performance.
    Larger sites have not been tested and if such are expected further tests are needed.

Usability Limitations

  • The moderation functionality doesn't work without JavaScript.

Multi-language Limitations

  • Due to the nature of a forum, the templates have not been designed and tested with multi-lingual considerations in mind.