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Episerver Perform Feed Status admin add-in updated
The Episerver Perform feed status admin add-in has been updated to be compatible with v2.x of the EPiServer.Personalization.Commerce package that it depends on. The Episerver Perform Feed Status admin add-in allows admin users to see outstanding feed requests and also download the feed file before its picked up by Episerver Perform:
Useful EPiServer Dojo links (updated 04/06/2015)
EPiServer's UI has always been open to modification, however EPiServer 7 onward introduced a paradigm shift in the UI as the editing interface is now a single page application built with Dojo. If you don't already know Dojo then there is a little learning to get your head around it. So I put together a list of EPiServer Dojo links that may prove useful if you want to work with Dojo in EPiServer.
MenuPin for EPiServer 9 released
A new version of MenuPin is now available. This is is a compatibility release for EPiServer 9 upwards. If you have not heard of MenuPin before then it allows users to pin the menu at the top of the EPiServer UI (as shown in the image).
What's new in v3.0:
- Compatible with EPiServer 9+
Cookie visitor group criteria for Episerver 11
A new version of the cookie visitor group criteria is now available on the Episerver Nuget feed that is compatible with Episerver 11.
The package adds two new visitor groups called "Cookie exists" and "Cookie Value Equals". These visitor groups allow your site editors to personalise content based on whether a cookie exists or on the value contained within a cookie.
SMTP mail configuration for Episerver Digital Experience Cloud Service
When purchasing Episerver Digital Experience Cloud Service customers get access to a SendGrid account to send mail. This configuration is not automatically applied by the standard config transforms applied by Episerver so you need to configure them manually.
This post is a "note to self" to remember the SMTP settings for Episerver Digital Experience Cloud Service in web.config:
Cookie Drop Block for Episerver 11
A new version of the cookie drop block for Episerver is now available on the Episerver Nuget feed that is compatible with Episerver 11.
Cookie drop block allows editors to publish a block that when used on a page drops a cookie on the user machine.
Synchronising EPiServer VPP folders using the Microsoft Sync Framework
I've worked EPiServer projects that often involve load balancing of an EPiServer site either for scalability or resilience. While EPiServer itself is relatively easy to set up in a load balanced configuration the VPP folder configuration appears to be forgotten about. It appears to be left to individuals to decide how to deal with their VPP folders in a load balanced environment.
Video walk through: Optimizely Full Stack event tracking in Episerver
This is a video walk through of how to define Optimizely Full Stack tracking events and configure them in the Episerver user interface.
Watch the video here:
Customising the EPiServer UI
EPiServer provides a powerful framework for adding to the edit and admin mode UI. But this doesn’t always cover our needs and occasionally a requirement pops up that means we have to change the EPiServer UI itself. A great thing about EPiServer is that all the pages and controls that make up the EPiServer UI are installed along with the binaries so we should be able to edit these to meet our exact requirements. I've not seen any official guidelines about this so I thought I'd put together an example on how I've achieved this.
Enhancing the "Create New" screen in EPiServer
In any reasonable sized EPiServer installation its not uncommon that there are a lot of page types available when creating a new page. Often there are a bewildering array of page names/descriptions so I wanted to give editors a visual reference on the content they are creating. I decided to create a simple enhancement to the standard "Create New" screen in EPiServer which would allow users to see an image of the page before they create it.