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DbLocalizationProvider Publish causes error: Conflicting assets with the same target path

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:38:24 GMT

I am using DbLocalization provider on a project with Optimziely CMS 12.16. In order to publish to the DXP, I create a nuget package. The build for this package causes an error:

"D:\J\workspace\MyProject\MyProject_AD\src\MyProject\MyProject.csproj" (default target) (1) ->
(GenerateStaticWebAssetsManifest target) -> 
  C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.401\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor\targets\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.StaticWebAssets.targets(410,5): 
error : Conflicting assets with the same target path '_content/LocalizationProvider.AdminUI.AspNetCore/css/bootstrap.min.css'. 
For assets 'Identity: C:\Users\svc_jenkins\.nuget\packages\localizationprovider.adminui.aspnetcore\7.5.1\staticwebassets\css\bootstrap.min.css, 
SourceType: Package, SourceId: LocalizationProvider.AdminUI.AspNetCore, 
ContentRoot: C:\Users\svc_jenkins\.nuget\packages\localizationprovider.adminui.aspnetcore\7.5.1\staticwebassets\, 
BasePath: _content/LocalizationProvider.AdminUI.AspNetCore, 
RelativePath: css/bootstrap.min.css, 
AssetKind: All, 
AssetMode: All, 
AssetRole: Primary, 
RelatedAsset: , 
AssetTraitName: , 
AssetTraitValue: , 
CopyToOutputDirectory: Never, 
CopyToPublishDirectory: PreserveNewest, 
OriginalItemSpec: C:\Users\svc_jenkins\.nuget\packages\localizationprovider.adminui.aspnetcore\7.5.1\staticwebassets\css\bootstrap.min.css' and 'Identity: 
D:\J\workspace\MyProject\MyProject_AD\src\MyProject\wwwroot\_content\LocalizationProvider.AdminUI.AspNetCore\css\bootstrap.min.css, 
SourceType: Discovered, 
SourceId: myproject.cms.app, 
ContentRoot: D:\J\workspace\MyProject\MyProject_AD\src\MyProject\wwwroot\, 
BasePath: _content/myproject.cms.app, 
RelativePath: _content/LocalizationProvider.AdminUI.AspNetCore/css/bootstrap.min.css, 
AssetKind: Build, 
AssetMode: All, 
AssetRole: Primary, 
RelatedAsset: , 
AssetTraitName: , 
AssetTraitValue: , 
CopyToOutputDirectory: Never, 
CopyToPublishDirectory: Never, 
OriginalItemSpec: wwwroot\_content\LocalizationProvider.AdminUI.AspNetCore\css\bootstrap.min.css' from different projects. 
[D:\J\workspace\MyProject\MyProject_AD\src\MyProject\MyProject.csproj]


In my csproj, I do have

<ErrorOnDuplicatePublishOutputFiles>false</ErrorOnDuplicatePublishOutputFiles>

So I would think this error shouldnt happen. And since the files are from a module, I cant control their behavior?

Any ideas on how to resolve?

Episerver Content Delivery API - 500 Internal server error

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:30:17 GMT

Hello,

I tried to add follwoing nuget packges in an existing project (Dev environment).

1) EPiServer.ContentDeliveryApi

2) EPiServer.ContentDeliveryApi.Search

I am receving 500 Internal Server error when I try to run the site.

Can anyone please help me out here?

Search within CMS not works on Blocks, Media

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:58:43 GMT

Search does not work within CMS within Blocks, Media:

What do I need to make sure to fix it?

Cannot get TedGustaf.Episerver.AdaptiveImages on CMS 11.9.2 to work

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:24:09 GMT

Hello,
I am trying to install nuget TedGustaf.Episerver.AdaptiveImages 1.2.2020.10280 on a Optimizely 11.9.2 site. And I get error message:
"Could not load file or assembly 'TedGustaf.Episerver.AdaptiveImages' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

I have tried deleting bin and obj folders, clean and rebuild and deleting aps.net temorary files.

Is this an error someone recognizes with this addon?

Example code showing SAML2-login for CMS 12 using Sustainsys

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:59:17 GMT

Hi,

We're trying to implement a SAML2-login for CMS 12 using the Sustainsys library (https://saml2.sustainsys.com/en/v2/).

Does anyone have any boilerplate code on how to implement the above?

Right now we're using plain user accounts for logging in to the CMS.

Any help appreciated!

Regards

Markus

Adding Sigin and Signout button in ViewComponent

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:51:09 GMT

Hi guys,

I was integrating Azure B2C to a site. The B2C setup is ready. I am trying to add a sign in and out buttons.

So I created a ViewComponent with two buttons and get it involved in the start page.

The ViewComponent is like below. It is not working and the attributes (asp-controller, asp-action) are not recognized as well. How can I make it work?

@if (@Model.IsAuthenticated)
{
        <div class="d-flex flex-row-reverse">
            <div class="p-1"><h4 class="mt-1">@Model.Name</h4></div>
            <div class="p-1">
                 <form method="get" asp-controller="Account" asp-action="SignOut">
                     <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Sign Out</button>
                 </form>
            </div>
        </div>
}
else
{
    <div class="d-flex flex-row-reverse">
        <div class="p-1">
            <form method="get" asp-controller="Account" asp-action="SignIn">
                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Sign Up/In</button>
            </form>
        </div>
    </div>
}

Any ideas and suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Choosing the cheapest active entry level discount

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:42:16 GMT

I'm wondering if there is a way to have two separate entry discounts with their own independent conditions and rewards, but when evaluating the discounts, we pick the cheapest one once calculated for an entry.

Meaning, if we have two entry discounts "A" and "B" with their own independent conditions - if there are two items in a basket that both discounts are eligible for, we might find the first item is cheaper for discount "A" whereas for the second line item the discount "B" might be cheaper - in this case the first item should have discount A applied and the second line item should have discount "B" applied.

Key point is that both discounts cannot be applied together - it's only going to be one or the other for any given entry/lineItem.

I don't think priorities and exclusions help with this as that usually means the first applicable discount is applied and the other would be skipped entirely.

I can give better examples if the above doesn't make sense but hopefully this simplified explanation saves getting confused in the weeds - let me know if I need to elaborate more.

Issues with PropertyFor after upgrading from CMS 11 to 12

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:25:40 GMT

Hi,

we have run into some problems with PropertyFor after upgrading from CMS 11 to 12, where we get the following error message for many types:

InvalidOperationException: The model item passed into the ViewDataDictionary is of type '[Type of block returned from expression]', but this ViewDataDictionary instance requires a model item of type '[Type declared as model in cshtml-file that called PropertyFor]'.

For example, if we called Html.PropertyFor like this in a cshtml file:

@model StartPage
<div>
@Html.PropertyFor(x => x.Heading)
</div>

where Heading is a string, we would get the error:

InvalidOperationException: The model item passed into the ViewDataDictionary is of type String, but this ViewDataDictionary instance requires a model item of type StartPage.

We could solve the issue with strings and XhtmlString by placing views for them in Shared/Views/displayTemplates which is where Html.DisplayFor looks for views to match types, but we run into the same problem for blocks inheriting from BlockData.

We are able to match blocks to controllers when rendering in a content area, which is the only type PropertyFor seems to work with out of the box.

There could be issues with how the project is set up, but we've tried to look through most custom code, and stripped away custom classes that inherit from IViewTemplateDescriptor (for mapping blocks to view paths without controllers) and PropertyRenderer (overloading html.propertyfor for custom handling of tags), but the problem persists.

Ideally we would want to use the templates registered in Register of a class inheriting from IViewTemplateModelRegistrator, so we don't need to use block components since most of the views take blocks directly.

It might be worth mentioning that we also have a feature folder structure, that requires some custom setup with extra paths added to ViewLocationFormats on RazorViewEngineOptions, but from what I understand this is mainly for resolving paths for controllers when calling View(model), so not sure if it's relevant.

It seems the problem here is caused by something lacking in the setup perhaps, since it can't render String or XhtmlString by default either, but we can't seem to find the cause.

Anyone familiar with the issue?

Issues with commerce database when installing CMS and Commerce

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:30:37 GMT

I am trying to set up a CMS + Commerce site using the following step-by-step guide: https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/content-cloud/v12.0.0-content-cloud/docs/installing-optimizely-net-5
Also: https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/commerce/v14.0.0-commerce-cloud/docs/creating-your-project

Also referenced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7kMj57KhPo&list=PLEEGLP10s_W1uf9OpjGDAIhXcRTswsZ33&index=2 but the same issues came up.

The only difference being I'm on .NET 6 - I followed the steps exactly and CMS installs and works fine. When I install Commerce, I already have a pre-existing database with a global sql user assigned to these db as db_owner. My command looks like this:

dotnet-episerver create-cms-database -S . -dn a -du admin -dp admin .\CmsScratch.csproj

dotnet-episerver create-commerce-database -S . -dn CmsScratch.Commerce -du admin -dp admin .\CmsScratch.csproj

I've also tried using these commands for the db stuff too:

dotnet-episerver create-cms-database ProjectName.csproj -S . -E

dotnet-episerver create-commerce-database ProjectName.csproj -S . -E --reuse-cms-user

dotnet-episerver add-admin-user ProjectName.csproj -u username -p password -e user@email.com -c EcfSqlConnection

Can anyone help with installing both CMS and Commerce on the same site? I keep running into issues, it is not recognizing Commerce once I log in and only shows the CMS menu item in the Navbar

B2B Commerce Developer Exam

Mon, 24 May 2021 13:37:13 GMT

Hello,

I am taking the exam next week and was wondering if anyone had any advice or feedback from their own experience with the exam. I was hoping to find a study guide or practice exam of some sort, but I have fallen short, and I haven't been able to find much in my Googling on what to expect from the exam more recently (all the articles I have found have been a few years old at least).

Any help/advice would be great! I do not have any real-world experience with the platform... I only have a local dev environment I've set up and have been working with.

Thank you!

How to achieve CMS validation in container block level

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:39:12 GMT

Hi Team,

I need your suggestion on how we can achieve CMS validation in block level.

Scenario:

As per the requirement, I must create a container block which contains minimum one card and maximum ‘n’ number of cards. The container won’t be displayed if it has less than one card.
As per the actual functionality in CMS, when we create container and cards in separate folder and then map cards to the container it works as expected.
But when the container is directly created from the page level, I see the below error.
Error: "Unable to load /episerver/cms/Stores/contentdata/ Status : 404"

Question: When the container is directly created from the page level, how can we put a CMS validation message to have at least one card in that container block?

For example, instead of the above error, I must be able to see the validation message saying, “Minimum one card is required to create a container.”

Please help.

Thanks!

Trouble with ContentRepository.Save

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:51:48 GMT

Hi guys

I'm creating some commerce content via a Api controller which is called from a third party system. I\m experiencing two problems:

1. When calling ContentRepository.Save(content, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess); I get an exception if I don't set the SecurityPrincipal manually first.

2. Even though SaveAction is set to publish, the content is not published. It's visible through the backend catalog browser but I have to publish the content manually.

I've tried pretty much everything.

Where can I try to debug this?

Thanks
/Thomas

Tinymce 6 tries to import a non existing file

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:31:21 GMT

Hello,

I am using the paste plugin with the following buttons and the editor tries to load a plugin.min.js file which seems to be missing in the package:

paste pasteword pastetext

Does anybody else have this issue?

IContentRepository - Thread safe?

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:20:57 GMT

When using IContentRepository in a service injected by th constructor (Depencency injection).
Our service is registrated as Transient.

When calling:
_contentRepository.GetReferencesToContent(content.ContentLink, includeDecendents);

Sometimes we get the following stacktrace:
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Call on database executor not created on current context and on different thread. Possible rooted IDatabaseExecutor, which is not thread safe.)
---> System.InvalidOperationException: Call on database executor not created on current context and on different thread. Possible rooted IDatabaseExecutor, which is not thread safe.
   at EPiServer.Data.Internal.ConnectionScopeResolver.AssertThreadSafe()
   at EPiServer.Data.Providers.Internal.SqlDatabaseExecutor.CreateCommand()
   at EPiServer.DataAccess.Internal.ContentSaveDB.<>c__DisplayClass20_0.<GetReferenceInformationForContent>b__0()
   at EPiServer.Data.Providers.Internal.SqlDatabaseExecutor.<>c__DisplayClass24_0`1.<Execute>b__0()
   at EPiServer.Data.Providers.SqlTransientErrorsRetryPolicy.Execute[TResult](Func`1 method)
   at EPiServer.DataAccess.Internal.ContentSaveDB.GetReferenceInformationForContent(ContentReference contentLink, Boolean includeDecendents)
   at EPiServer.Core.Internal.DefaultContentProvider.GetReferencesToLocalContent(ContentReference contentLink, Boolean includeDecendents)
   at EPiServer.Core.Internal.DefaultContentRepository.GetReferencesToContent(ContentReference contentLink, IEnumerable`1 descendents, Boolean includeDescendants)

Is it intended by design that the DbContext inside IContentRepository should not be thread-safe?

Version: 12.4.1
.Net 6.0

Add a custom css to the Backend Admin UI

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:56:22 GMT

Hi,

I would like to add a custom CSS file to the backend of optimizely cms. I have read, it should be included in some "modules.config" file, but it seems not to be included in the backend view.

Where should this modules.config file be and is there anything more to do?

Documentation on this is very rare. If there are some suggestions, I would be happy to read them.

Best, Ralph

Custom form rendering using the built in FormContainerBlock

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:16:19 GMT

I'm trying to perform some custom rendering of a form using Epi Forms 5.4.0. I do not want to copy the contents of the FormContainerBlock.cshtml located in the EPiServer.Forms.zip but rather just render the block using what's already there.

This is the controller:

[TemplateDescriptor(AvailableWithoutTag = true,
    ModelType = typeof(LeadsFormBlock))]
public class LeadsFormBlockController : FormContainerBlockController {
    protected override IViewComponentResult InvokeComponent(FormContainerBlock currentBlock) {
        if(currentBlock is LeadsFormBlock leadsFormBlock) {
            var viewModel = new LeadsBlockViewModel { CurrentBlock = currentBlock, OtherProperty = leadsFormBlock.OtherProperty };
            return View("Index", viewModel);
        }
        return base.InvokeComponent(currentBlock);
    }
}


And the view:

@model LeadsBlockViewModel
<div class="custom-class">
    <h3>This is the wrapping form!</h3>
    <strong>@Model.OtherProperty</strong> @* Works *@ 
    @Html.PropertyFor(x => x.CurrentBlock) @*Does not work/Renders nothing*@
    @await Html.PartialAsync("FormContainerBlock", Model.CurrentBlock) @*Crashes because cannot find the view*@ 
</div>

Sequence contains more than one matching element - AntiforgeryToken

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:24:10 GMT

Hello!

I have a problem that has occurred after a migration from Epi v10.x.x to Epi v11.x.x and it only appears once I am logged in as an editor or admin to the site.

Navigation around the page as a visitor is working fine. But when navigating as an editor/admin our _footer.cshtml file throws an error. (See stack trace). Pretty much the same error appears if I try to navigate to /Cms/VisitorGroups or /EPiServer/AddOns view.

I have tried to reinstall all modules and packages and a lot of other stuff. Do you know what I can do? Or have any tips to push me in the right direction? Any help is appreciated

@{ var token = Html.GenerateAntiForgeryToken(Model.FeedbackForm); }

[InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains more than one matching element]
   System.Linq.Enumerable.SingleOrDefault(IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate) +370
   System.Web.Helpers.AntiXsrf.ClaimUidExtractor.GetUniqueIdentifierParameters(ClaimsIdentity claimsIdentity, String uniqueClaimTypeIdentifier) +156
   System.Web.Helpers.AntiXsrf.ClaimUidExtractor.ExtractClaimUid(IIdentity identity) +141
   System.Web.Helpers.AntiXsrf.TokenValidator.GenerateFormToken(HttpContextBase httpContext, IIdentity identity, AntiForgeryToken cookieToken) +215
   System.Web.Helpers.AntiXsrf.AntiForgeryWorker.GetTokens(HttpContextBase httpContext, AntiForgeryToken oldCookieToken, AntiForgeryToken& newCookieToken, AntiForgeryToken& formToken) +133
   System.Web.Helpers.AntiXsrf.AntiForgeryWorker.GetFormInputElement(HttpContextBase httpContext) +77
   System.Web.Helpers.AntiForgery.GetHtml() +148
   System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper.AntiForgeryToken() +28
   EPiServer.Forms.Internal.Security.AntiForgeryService.GenerateToken(HtmlHelper html, HttpContextBase httpContext, IFormContainerBlock formContainerBlock) +62
   EPiServer.Forms.Helpers.Internal.HtmlExtensions.GenerateAntiForgeryToken(HtmlHelper html, IFormContainerBlock formContainerBlock) +212
   ASP._Page_Views_Shared__Footer_cshtml.Execute() in C:\Projects\RiksTv\Web\rikstv.web\src\RiksTV.Web\Views\Shared\_Footer.cshtml:5
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() +252
   System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage.ExecutePageHierarchy() +148
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) +122
   StackExchange.Precompilation.PrecompilationView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) +148
   System.Web.Mvc.Html.PartialExtensions.Partial(HtmlHelper htmlHelper, String partialViewName, Object model, ViewDataDictionary viewData) +136
   ASP._Page_Views__EdgeSkeleton_cshtml.Execute() in C:\Projects\RiksTv\Web\rikstv.web\src\RiksTV.Web\Views\_EdgeSkeleton.cshtml:39
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() +252
   System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage.ExecutePageHierarchy() +148
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) +122
   System.Web.WebPages.<>c__DisplayClass3.<RenderPageCore>b__2(TextWriter writer) +309
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.Write(HelperResult result) +108
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.RenderSurrounding(String partialViewName, Action`1 body) +89
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.PopContext() +310
   StackExchange.Precompilation.PrecompilationView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) +148
   System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) +378
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +91
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilterRecursive(IList`1 filters, Int32 filterIndex, ResultExecutingContext preContext, ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) +793
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionResult actionResult) +81
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.<>c__DisplayClass21.<BeginInvokeAction>b__1e(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +188
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.EndInvokeAction(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +38
   System.Web.Mvc.Controller.<BeginExecuteCore>b__1d(IAsyncResult asyncResult, ExecuteCoreState innerState) +32
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.WrappedAsyncVoid`1.CallEndDelegate(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +73
   System.Web.Mvc.Controller.EndExecuteCore(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +52
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.WrappedAsyncVoid`1.CallEndDelegate(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +39
   System.Web.Mvc.Controller.EndExecute(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +38
   System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.<BeginProcessRequest>b__5(IAsyncResult asyncResult, ProcessRequestState innerState) +46
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.WrappedAsyncVoid`1.CallEndDelegate(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +73
   System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.EndProcessRequest(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +38
   System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +651
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(IExecutionStep step) +220
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +134

CatalogContentProvider does not respect IPrincipalAccessor name change

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:58:45 GMT

For some automatic tasks, we would like to know, that the content has been recently modified by the task rather than by an editor user.

To achive this in CMS content one can use IPrincipalAccessor and this works for PageData.
However it does not work for Catalog content (EntryContentBase), and after saving the content, it still uses name of last user.

Package versions:
EPiServer.Framework 12.13.1
EPiServer.CMS 12.17.1
EPiServer.Commerce 14.10.0

Consider following code:

private readonly IContentRepository _contentRepository;
private readonly IPrincipalAccessor _principalAccessor;
private readonly ReferenceConverter _referenceConverter;
// injection omitted for brevity 
_principalAccessor.Principal = new GenericPrincipal
(
    new GenericIdentity("AutomaticTask"),
    new[] { Roles.Administrators }
);
var pageReference = new ContentReference(1414);
var productReference = _referenceConverter.GetContentLink("Product2_1");
var page = _contentRepository.Get<StandardPage>(pageReference); // StandardPage inherits PageData
var product = _contentRepository.Get<FancyProduct>(productReference); // FancyProduct inherits ProductContent
var writablePage = page.CreateWritableClone() as StandardPage;
writablePage.MainBody = new (DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks.ToString());
_contentRepository.Save(writablePage, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
var writableProduct = product.CreateWritableClone() as FancyProduct;
writableProduct.MainBody = new (DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks.ToString());
_contentRepository.Save(writableProduct, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

Before running the code, after content has been created by editor:

And after running the code:

What do you do if/when Find is unavailable or slow?

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:22:16 GMT

Occasionally we run into an issue that our page is unaccessible or incredibly slow. Optimizely support tells us in these cases that it is a Find issue. We have been suggested to wrap all code related to Find in try-catch blocks or to implement a custom request timeout.

Has anyone else run into this problem and implemented some kind of solution?

How to control the rendering layout of the blocks in a contentarea

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:59:12 GMT

Hi experts,

I need to render some tiles on a normal page. I added a contentarea property to the page and create a tileblock with image and links.

I would like to render it like layout with certain horizontal size * vertical size, e.g. 2*3 or 3*3.

Trying to use this code piece @foreach (var item in Model.MainContentArea.FilteredItems.OfType<BlockData>()) , but do not know how to render the item properly?

Any help or idea would be apprecaited.