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Property Dependency in Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12

Sometimes you want to hide some properties in your CMS depending on the value of other properties. There are multiple ways to do this, but here is a rather simple approach that doesn't require advanced dojo skills.

C#Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

November 2 2022

Customizing Property Lists in Optimizely CMS

Generic property lists is a cool editorial feature that has gained a lot of popularity - in spite of still being unsupported (officially). But if you dig a bit deeper you can actually customize the editor experience even more...

Tips and Tricks C#Website Improvements Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

October 2 2022

Preview multiple Visitor Groups directly while browsing your Optimizely site

Visitor groups are great - it's an easy way to add personalization towards market segments to your site. But it does come with it's own set of challenges if used intensively. For example it can be hard to predict how any given page will look for visitors with a specific combination of visitor groups - and viewing it in a proper way often requires more than what you see in the quick preview mode. Here's a bit of code that will help you out.

Tips and Tricks C#Personalization Optimizely (Episerver)

September 26 2022

Content Report Generator v.2.

When you are about to migrate a site from CMS 11 to CMS 12, it's not unusual to want to do some rewriting and re-implementation to clean up the architecture as part of the project. When you do that (and in many other cases) it can be incredibly helpful to have a handy overview of your content, it's usage and your visitor groups and their usage. Here is an easy way to get that.

Vision Demos & Prototypes Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)Addon Development

June 3 2022

Optimizely Developer Meetup Copenhagen - June

Calling all Optimizely (Episerver) Developers in Copenhagen and surrounding area. It's once again time for a real-life meetup!

.NET Development CMS Optimizely (Episerver)Vision Demos & Prototypes Tech Talk

June 2 2022

Optimizely CMS: List content recursively on a page - and list the visitor groups used

Quite often a lot of the content on pages in Optimizely Content cloud (aka Episerver CMS) is structured in blocks placed in content areas. And often even blocks in blocks. Sometimes it's needed to quickly get a list of all the content items on a page - and sometimes you might also be interested in which visitor groups are used. Here is a couple of extension methods to help you with that.

Optimizely (Episerver)C#.NET Development Tips and Tricks

June 1 2022

Self service with Fluid Templating for editors in Optimizely CMS

A classic need in many websites - especially self-service sites - is a placeholder mechanism, so editors can use placeholders in their text to be replaced with user specific data. Recently, working with a client, we ran into this problem and tried out a new approach to empower the content creators to solve this themselves.

Tips and Tricks CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

April 24 2022

Switching Redirect Handler in Optimizely CMS (Episerver)

This is just a quick code-stub on how to migrate redirects when moving from Verndales Redirect manager to Geta's 404 handler.

Optimizely (Episerver)Tips and Tricks

February 21 2022

Secret debug tools in Optimizely CMS 12

Secret treasures are always fun. And when I was examining the endpoint list from my previous post, I noticed a few hints that I couldn't leave unexplored. It turns out that just as the previous versions, Optimizely CMS 12 comes with a couple of hidden debug gems.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

November 25 2021

Listing all endpoints in Optimizely CMS 12 / .NET 5

Routing has significantly changed in .NET 5 - and that affects many parts of Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12. For example we have to get used to endpoints a middleware. As I am working on upgrading a few different add-ons I found it could be useful to see which routes are registered out of the box.