Blogs posted in July 2015
Restricting the total number of items in an EPiServer media folder
EPiServer gives our users a tremendous amount of power and flexibility. However users can occasionally do things that may affect performance or their experience of EPiServer. One of these things is adding a large number of images/documents into a folder in the media library. By adding too many items to a folder the folder not only becomes cumbersome to browse and use but can also affect performance in extreme circumstances.
MenuPin v2.1 for EPiServer 8 released
A new version of MenuPin for EPiServer 8 is now available on the EPiServer Nuget feed.
What's new in v2.1
Without using MenuPin clicking the globe by default takes you to view the selected page in the tree:
However when using MenuPin v2.0 clicking the globe icon took you to the site homepage. MenuPin v2.1 makes the globe icon at the top work in the same way as the globe on the pull down menu and takes you to view the selected page.
Creating a custom promotion with the new EPiServer Commerce 9 promotion engine (BETA) - Part 2
In my previous post I desribed how to programmatically create a custom promotion in EPiServer Commerce 9 beta. The post was developer focussed and showed how we can create custom promotions/discounts in EPiServer 9 than previously possible. In this post I will contrate on the experience of our editors and merchandisers as we want them to see something nice in the UI when working in their campaigns than a forms view right?
Creating a custom promotion with the new EPiServer Commerce 9 promotion engine (BETA) - Part 1
The latest version of EPiServer Commerce (v8.13.4 at the time of writing) has an all new promotion engine that is currently in beta. The best part about the new engine is that the EPiServer Commerce 9 promotion engine is designed to be more developer friendly and extensible than the previous one.
This post is a quick example of how we can build a custom promotion with the new EPiServer Commerce promotion engine.