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Introducing the DeveloperConsole for Episerver

Often you find yourself creating Scheduled Jobs in Episerver, only intending them to be run manually - and often annoyed that they don't support parameters. This blog post introduces a new approach to solving the same problem: The Developer Console.

Vision Demos & Prototypes C#Optimizely (Episerver)Addon Development

June 30 2020

Showing the right block types at the right time

Often, it can be handy to have very exact and dynamic control over what editors can see or do. One of my weapons of choice for this is the good, old and trusted Virtual Roles. In this scenario we have a multi-site Episerver, where some of the block types it should only be possible to use on one of the sites.

Optimizely (Episerver)C#Tips and Tricks

May 26 2020

Enrich Episerver Forms with additional system fields

Episerver forms adds a couple of system columns to each form submission when you export the submissions. But it happens that the people that need the form submission reports want additional data - for example the url of the page the form was on - and for some reason they don't know all Episerver page Guids by heart.

C#Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

May 15 2020

Exploring the Episerver Nuget Feed

The best thing about Episerver is the community and all the great contributions coming from it. Many of them make it into packages on the Episerver nuget feed - along side Episervers own packages. I have for a long time worked on building tools to explore and visualize this more - and now I'm finally ready to one-by-one share some of the tools coming out of it.

Optimizely (Episerver)Big Data Vision Demos & Prototypes Information Retrieval

April 30 2020

Using Episerver Forms to book meetings in Outlook with Microsoft Power Automate

It's not as hard as you might think - and doesn't require any code - to connect your Episerver Forms with hundreds of other systems, using services like Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Flow), Azure Logic Apps, IFTTT or Zapier. I made a 5 minute video, showing how you can let your visitors request a meeting on a given date from a form on your website, and then having it being automatically booked in your Outlook 365 calendar.

CMS Optimizely (Episerver)Tips and Tricks Integrations Tech Talk

March 30 2020

Idio: First look on Content Analytics and Recommendations

I recently got a chance to try out Episervers latest acquisition, Idio, right here on codeart.dk. In this post, I'll share my first impressions.

CMS Big Data AI Optimizely (Episerver)Vision Demos & Prototypes

February 28 2020

Attribute to set XHTML property settings in Episerver

A pretty normal task is to have an XHTML property that uses only a very specific subset of the normal TinyMCE functionality. For example a text field that also allows the editors to create links - but nothing else. I came up with what I think is an elegant solution here.

Optimizely (Episerver)C#CMS Tips and Tricks Vision Demos & Prototypes

January 23 2020

Powerslice: Identify unused blocks

Powerslice might have a few years on it's back, but it's still a great editorial tool, when you are working with large amounts of content and have access to Episerver Find. Here's an example of a recent slice I made that let's editors easily identify unused blocks.

ElasticSearch Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

January 10 2020

Introducing the Profile Manager tool

Episerver Insight and the Profile store are powerful tools. But to make them even more powerful, we @ CodeArt have been developing a few tools to make them easier to work with. Here is the first one.

Tips and Tricks Vision Demos & Prototypes Optimizely (Episerver)Big Data

December 20 2019

Episerver Forms: Adding custom validators to existing elements

It's easy to extend Episerver forms with custom validation types. But it's a little bit harder to add the new validation types to the existing elements. In this blog post I'll add an ultra simple letter-only validation option to the existing TextboxElement.