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Mediachase.Commerce.Manager.Apps.Reporting.ReportingBaseClass.GetDaylightSavingsOffsets() method is no longer supported in Optimizely 12 .net core

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:33:01 GMT

Hi All,

I need to use the GetDaylightSavingsOffsets() method, we're currently doing a migration from Opti10 to Opti12 .net core but that method does not longer exist in the Mediachase.Commerce. Does anyone know if the method exist in other namespace? Or doesn't the method exist anymore? If the method is no longer available does anyone else was able to replace the method with another one or does exist a workaround to replace its funcionality?

Any help is really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Shortcuts with query string are automatically converted to Content Item losing the parameters

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:33:44 GMT

Hello all,

I am migrating our sites to CMS 12. In CMS 11, we utilize page shortcuts extensively, and a common setup is:

Use "Shortcut to page on another website"
URL is to internal page using a relative path with query parameters
The URL is automatically rewritten

In CMS 12, the shortcut pages that were migrated work as they did before likely due to the rewrite. But if I want to create or edit a page shortcut, the external URL is automatically converted to "Shortcut to another content item", and the query params are lost.

Does anyone have suggestions for dealing with this?

I wonder why not just have a params input in the shortcut dialog?

Thanks in advance!

-Kevin

Visitor Groups vs. cookie consent

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:50:13 GMT

Hello, I am reaching out to see if anyone has insights to share regarding the usage of Visitor Groups without cookie consent.

We plan to use the Visitor Groups to personalize multiple areas of our website, including personalized promotions. In this case, some promotions will be personalized using a Visitor Group based on the criteria "Customer properties", using the "Customer Group". Obviously, the visitor has to be signed in in this case.

We are using a cookie banner to manage the consent, and we were wondering if the Visitor Groups will still work without cookie consent (I suppose it won't...)?

Thanks!

Are there any external tools or something that allows us to search for content and export out the paths/names?

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:50:01 GMT

The business wants a command line interface or something that they can use to search for content by name or by path and export those content names to a text file. For example, they want to be able to pull up all forms in a path like this:

_Forms / Membership Forms / ABC

And have a text file populate with

Form1

Form2

Form3

etc

Is there anything like this or do we need to build something? I tried looking for any existing tools, Powershell cmdlets, and even third party addons, but came up with nothing.

Promotions based on Customer Groups

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:57:19 GMT

I am trying to find a solution to allow merchandizers to restrict a Promotion for one or many Customer Groups.

I was initially planning to create Visitor Groups for each Customer Group, and personalize the promotion based on Visitor Groups, but I've recently realized that the Visitor Groups will not work if the customer didn't Allow Cookies (or "Do not track" is enabled). Therefore, I'm reaching out to see if anyone here has customized the Promotion engine to allow the merchandisers to select one or many Customer Groups when setting up a promotion (Campaign), or if you have found other workarounds?

Thanks!

Format äöå

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:41:05 GMT

CMS 12, on IIS

what is the solution when it looks like this? (localhost no issue)

Normally this works out of the box: [Display(Name = "Göm i lokal sök" ....

SetChangedOnPublish is not being set neither in SetDefaultValues method nor in the publish events

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:47:52 GMT

Hi!

I want the property SetChangedOnPublish to be true by default, but because the uIDefaultValueForSetChangedOnPublish is removed in cms12 , i tried to set it in the SetDefaultValues method it didn't work , then i tried t set it in the publish events and it didn't work , is this a bug in cms12?

Media reference generating invalid external link

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:50:15 GMT

Hi,

In optimizely i have an issue where i select some media content, in this case a PDF file.

Steps:

Add a hyperlink in the description area which ive linked to a pdf media reference.
publish the page
hover over the link and it shows an external link with the following format:

/EPiServer/CMS/Content/siteassets/pdfs/- {name of the pdf file}

It seems that its translating the media reference to a weird link. When published the first time the link works, but if published a second time it will concatenate "/EPiServer/CMS/Content/siteassets/pdfs/" at the beginning of the link.

Does anyone know why this may be occuring?

Thank you.

Smooth Deploy Internal Exception

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:58:39 GMT

Hello,

We are trying to implement Smooth Deploy and we believe we have made the necessary updates to our codebase. However, there is an exception thrown by EPiServer Initialization that we cannot seem to get around. The stack trace is as follows:

EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationException
  HResult=0x80131500
  Message=Initialize action failed for Initialize on class EPiServer.Data.DataInitialization, EPiServer.Data, Version=12.12.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8fe83dea738b45b7
  Source=EPiServer.Framework
  StackTrace:
   at EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationEngine.InitializeModules()
   at EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationEngine.ExecuteTransition(Boolean continueTransitions)
   at EPiServer.Framework.Initialization.InitializationEngine.Initialize()
   at EPiServer.Hosting.Internal.EPiServerFrameworkHost.StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Internal.Host.<StartAsync>d__12.MoveNext()
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostingAbstractionsHostExtensions.<RunAsync>d__4.MoveNext()
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostingAbstractionsHostExtensions.<RunAsync>d__4.MoveNext()
   at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostingAbstractionsHostExtensions.Run(IHost host)
   at ProductPlatform.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Projects\FranklinElectric\ProductPlatform.Net6\ProductPlatform\Program.cs:line 15
  This exception was originally thrown at this call stack:
    [External Code]
Inner Exception 1:
NotSupportedException: Automatic database schema update is prevented since the application is set to ReadOnly mode. The mode can be changed by setting DataAccesssOptions.DatabaseMode.

After decompiling EPiServer.Data.dll and following the initialization calls I arrived at the following line from EPiServer.Data.SchemaUpdates.Internal.DatabaseSchemaManagerImplementation:

List<DatabaseSchemaManagerImplementation.DatabaseUpdater> list2 = list1.Where<DatabaseSchemaManagerImplementation.DatabaseUpdater>((Func<DatabaseSchemaManagerImplementation.DatabaseUpdater, bool>) (s => s.Status.ApplicationRequiredVersion > s.Status.DatabaseVersion)).ToList<DatabaseSchemaManagerImplementation.DatabaseUpdater>();

To me, this sounds like its trying to update the DB schema because it sees that the DB version is out of date. Thats not too surprising because we have our own code-first migrations. However, is there a way to get around this when the database is in read only mode?

Collect Order Per Promotion Statistics AND Collect Subscription Data for Reports Jobs are showing multiple times in UI

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:34:50 GMT

Both Collect Order Per Promotion Statistics AND Collect Subscription Data for Reports Jobs appear multiple times in the Admin -> Scheduled Jobs UI (https://www.screencast.com/t/ZaLRWk93). Issue seems to be due to missing GUID in the [ScheduledPlugIn] attribute where these 2 jobs are defined.

Problem with preview for custom content provider media

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:07:43 GMT

Hi,

So I have a custom content provider that serves media of various kinds. This content provider is read only so its capabilities are "None". I have registered a custom content route like so:

    public class AssetContentRouteRegistration : IContentRouteRegister
    {
        private readonly ContentRootService _contentRootService;
        public AssetContentRouteRegistration(ContentRootService contentRootService)
        {
            _contentRootService = contentRootService;
        }
        public ContentRouteDefinition ContentRouteDefintion => new() {
            Name = "AssetContent",
            RouteRootResolver = _ => _contentRootService.Get(AssetContentProvider.PROVIDER_NAME),
            ContextMode = RouteContextMode.All,
            SupportMultiLanguage = false,
            SupportContentAssetUrl = true,
            StaticSegments = new[] { AssetContentProvider.PROVIDER_KEY },
        };
    }

Next I have a controller for the view of the file like so:

    [TemplateDescriptor(TemplateTypeCategory = TemplateTypeCategories.MvcPartialComponent, Inherited = true)]
    public class AssetContentController : AsyncPartialContentComponent<Models.Content.AssetContent>
    {
        protected override async Task<IViewComponentResult> InvokeComponentAsync(Models.Content.AssetContent currentContent)
        {
            return await Task.FromResult(View($"~/Views/xxxxx/AssetContent.cshtml", currentContent));
        }
    }

These above things work just fine, I can render my content as I want to using content areas and whatnot. If i enter the url of an asset it also get downloaded like it should, great!

Now, for the problem: I want to have a custom edit mode preview for this content, where it shows editors some metadata I have on the content. If I do nothing, I get a "preview is not available...", and I can donwload the file if I open the options menu and click "Download this file".

Now, I do as suggested and add a preview controller for this content type like so:

[TemplateDescriptor(
        Inherited = true,
        TemplateTypeCategory = TemplateTypeCategories.MvcController, //Required as controllers for blocks are registered as MvcPartialController by default
        Tags = new[] { RenderingTags.Preview, RenderingTags.Edit },
        AvailableWithoutTag = false)]
    public class AssetContentPreviewController : ActionControllerBase, IRenderTemplate<Models.Content.AssetContent>
    {
        public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext context)
        {
            base.OnActionExecuting(context);
        }
        public IActionResult Index(IContent currentContent)
        {
            var viewModel = new AssetContentPreviewViewModel(currentContent as Models.Content.AssetContent);
            return View($"~/Views/xxx/AssetContentPreview.cshtml", viewModel);
        }
        public IActionResult Preview(IContent currentContent)
        {
            var viewModel = new AssetContentPreviewViewModel(currentContent as Models.Content.AssetContent);
            return View($"~/Views/xxx/AssetContentPreview.cshtml", viewModel);
        }
        public IActionResult Edit(IContent currentContent)
        {
            var viewModel = new AssetContentPreviewViewModel(currentContent as Models.Content.AssetContent);
            return View($"~/Views/xxx/AssetContentPreview.cshtml", viewModel);
        }
        public IActionResult RenderContent(IContent currentContent)
        {
            var viewModel = new AssetContentPreviewViewModel(currentContent as Models.Content.AssetContent);
            return View($"~/Views/xxx/AssetContentPreview.cshtml", viewModel);
        }
    }

When I add the above controller, and click the "view" option from the asset pane hamburger menu for my content, I get a 404 for the content, also the "download this file" link stops working as it also 404s. I have tried various action methods as can be seen above, but If I attach a debugger, not even the "OnActionExecuting" method gets called. So simply adding the above controller will break the /EPiServer/CMS/Content/... URL for my content. I assume any call to my content with contextmode set to "edit" will break. Note: The "view" mode things still work just fine as before.

In my cms 11 project, there was this route registered, which worked (built before my time so cant say anything else about it), but the routing extensions is not avialable in CMS 12 anymore:

            RouteTable.Routes.MapContentRoute(
                "AssetContentEdit",
                GetCmsHomePath() + AssetContentProvider.PROVIDER_KEY + "/{language}/{medianodeedit}/{partial}/{action}",
                new { action = "index" },
                s => rootFolder.ContentLink);

I am suspecting that something is trying to route to the controller and fails to find the method it needs, but I dont know how to find out what method signature I need to add.

Any ideas?

Clarification on changes in EPiServer.Forms 5.5.0

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:41:01 GMT

We upgraded to EPiServer.Forms 5.5.0 and did not verify e-mails from forms before going live.

If we try a new form and put in variables they get formatted with :: instead of the old #-markers seemingly making old placeholder markers not work, e-mails show up without replacement made.

Example of new insert vs. before:
::Sammanställning av samtliga svar::
#Sammanställning av samtliga svar#

Suspect that this is related to this item:
https://world.optimizely.com/documentation/Release-Notes/ReleaseNote/?releaseNoteId=AFORM-3260

Is there is some kind of announcement/guide/documentation available on what to do after getting this update?

Are we expected to edit all placeholders?

LocalDB is not supported on this platform

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:51:57 GMT

I'm new to development on Optimizely CMS and I use macOS. We are currently in the middle of migration from CMS v11 to v12. The new dev environment is using docker and until a few days ago there was no issue in compatibility and no limitations. Now I'm not able to run the project as I get the PlatformNotSupportedException "LocalDB is not supported on this platform". Yet our partners who are technical responsible for this platform, have not made any changes to the database or setup

I get that SQL Server LocalDB is a feature of SQL Server, which is Windows only, that's the solution is containerized which should avoid that issue, and did until now.

My question is if anyone can think of or know reason why this suddenly could be a problem when it has worked fine until now.

Any help/comment/suggestion is highly appreciated

Thanks

Attempting to embed an iFrame into a rich text block

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:44:51 GMT

Hi,

im currently working on a project and have been asked to insert an Iframe onto the webpage. At the moment everything is showing up fine, however the only thing which isnt working are the hyperinks. What should be happening is when either one of them are clicked they should autoscroll to a specific section on the page, which they arent doing. If i zoom into the iframe, It does auto scroll to a section but not the correct part. Does anyone know why this may be?

Is there anything in optimizely which i should be turning on so that the links work properly? Do i need to do some FE work so the links are responding as expected?

Below is the code I currently have in the CMS. Like i said the Ceros Iframe shows up fine, its just the auto scrolling which isnt working as expected.

<div style='position: relative;width: auto;padding: 0 0 567.81%;height: 0;top: 0;left: 0;bottom: 0;right: 0;margin: 0;border: 0 none' id="experience-64147e982e4fc" data-aspectRatio ="0.17611447" data-mobile-aspectRatio="0.05212406"><iframe allowfullscreen src='https://view.ceros.com/weir/annual-report-2022?heightOverride=7268&mobileHeightOverride=15348' style='position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;bottom: 0;right: 0;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0 none;height: 1px;width: 1px;min-height: 100%;min-width: 100%' frameborder='0' class='ceros-experience' title='Weir Annual Report 2022' scrolling='no'></iframe></div><script type="text/javascript" src="https://view.ceros.com/scroll-proxy.min.js" data-ceros-origin-domains="view.ceros.com"></script>

Another thing which i found bizarre is on the standlone site, the links are seen within a hyperlink tag <a> however when pasting the code snipped above in the html string within the CMS, the links turn into buttons.

The standalone site they have provided works fine, which can be seen here: https://view.ceros.com/weir/annual-report-2022/p/1?heightOverride=7268&mobileHeightOverride=15348

It seems that Optimizely is blocking a tool from CEROS, which is preventing us from being able to test this properly.

Any answers would be massively appreciated!

Thank you

Blocks under 'For this page' missing after copying the page.

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:46:44 GMT

We have a slightly odd problem on one of the solutions we look after running 11.20.16

After the client copys a page the blocks copied from the original 'For this page' folder cannot be found in the Assets pane. We are able to see that the have copied, and they're in the content areas on the copied page and can be edited from there. We can also confirm they are copies as we can see the IDs have changed from the original page and they have their own version history starting from the copy - but they do not show in the 'For this page' folder on the newly copied page.

Has anyone encountered this behaviour before or have any advice on identifying the issue and resolving it?

The problem was noticed as the client was wanting to copy an existing page to use a template for a new page they were working on, then after they did this they were looking to copy one of the blocks - but without it showing in the asset panel there is no easy way for an editor to copy the block.

Get references to references that is referencing content

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:33:44 GMT

Hello there! I am trying to make an image sitemap for our website. We are using CMS 10.

So I've gotten the all our images and I can get the references for them using IContentRepository.GetReferencesToContent(), and I've filtered through so that I've gotten the once that are being used somewhere and are published. So that all works.

However, Images that are used in a block will always get through the filter since they are always used, and a block has to be published in order to exist.
But the block itself may not be used on a published page, and in that case I would not want to index the Image that is in the unused block to the sitemap..

I could just run another "GetReferencesToContent" on the referencing block too, but I can't know how many levels I have to go in order to cover all the references.

One image may be inside a block that is referenced by another block that referenced by a page like:
Image > Block > Block > Page

And another may be inside a Bock that is just referenced by a page like
Image > Block > Page

It may be even more levels also, and I dont want to build a freakin' pyramid of "GetReferencesToContent" in order to cover all possible levels, obviously.
It would be awesome if there were a function like GetAncestors() but for references and not parents, or something similar.

Does anyone have a clever idea as to how to tackle this issue?

private IList<ImageFile> GetImages()
        {
            var repository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
            var assetsRoot = SiteDefinition.Current.GlobalAssetsRoot;
            var repo = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
            var allImages= repo.GetDescendents(assetsRoot).Where(x => repo.Get<IContent>(x) is ImageFile).Select(x => x.ToReferenceWithoutVersion()).Distinct().Select(repo.Get<ImageFile>).ToList();
            var imagesInUse = new List<ImageFile>();
            foreach (ImageFile image in allImages)
            {
                var referencingContentLinks = repository.GetReferencesToContent(image.ContentLink, false).Where(x => IsContentPublished(x.OwnerID.GetContent(true, null)));
                if (referencingContentLinks.Any())
                {
                    imagesInUse.Add(image);
                }
            }
            return imagesInUse;
        }

EntryAmount correct in SerializableCarts, but not populated/zero in lineItem

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:07:24 GMT

I am debugging on my local environment why _lineItemCalculator.GetDiscountedPrice(lineItem, cart.Currency); returns 0 for a discounted item. The calculator is the default one(DefaultLineItemCalculator). When I check in the database the entry amount is correctly set:

LineItems:
          - LineItemId: -1
            Code: 86658
            DisplayName: Varmelampe 1500 W
            PlacedPrice: 989.000000000
            Quantity: 1.0
            Properties: {}
            EntryAmount: 179.000000000
            TaxCategoryId: 1
            SalesTax: 162.00
            IsSalesTaxUpToDate: true

But in the code, i.e.

cart.GetAllLineItems().First()

shows zero.

I also notice that 'IsSalesTaxUpToDate' is false so it seems some extended properties are set to defaults.

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?

multi-channel content gadget problem

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:22:01 GMT

Hi,

We have just upgraded to cms.core.12.13.1 & cms.ui.12.17.1 and we have an issue with the multi-channel content gadget. It now displays a folder named "content" as the top level folder and nothing more. Before the upgrade it was "root" that was displayed as the top folder. All our folders that where prev. created under "root" are no longer visible. However the prev. created folders are still visible in admin in the access right view.

The "content" folder is also visible in the assets pane. According to the documentation multichannel content and folders should only be visible in the multi-channel content gadget.

Is there a bug in the latest cms.ui.12.17.1 version? Our are we missing some configuration changes? Any ideas?

(reverting to 12.15.0 restores "root" page)

Regards

Magnus

One Trust cookie consent integration

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:51:53 GMT

Hi,

We will be integrating with the One Trust cookie consent banner to manage the cookie requirements. I'm reaching out to see if anyone here has had experience in the past integrating Optimizely with One Trust, and if there are any recommendations, insights or challenges you should share from that experience.

Thanks!