C#

Optimizely Search & Navigation - Get autocomplete suggestions in right language

When you are using Optimizely Search & Navigation (Find) to help you generate autocomplete suggestions server side in a multi-language scenario it can be tricky (and poorly documented) to figure out how to get the suggestions in the correct language.

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

June 5 2023

Using System.Text.Json to do polymorphic Json conversion in .NET 6

When using System.Text.Json to serialize complex objects you sometimes need to go a bit beyond how the default serialization works. Here are a few helpful converters - for example for doing polymorphic conversion.

.NET Development C#

March 30 2023

Make some asset types download automatically in Optimizely CMS 12 using the Digizuite integration

Here is just a quick tip for how you can do custom blob http handling when using the Digizuite integration to Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12.

C#Tips and Tricks Digizuite Optimizely (Episerver)

March 2 2023

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

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

Anti-Pattern: Don't modify Optimizely CMS (Episerver) content objects in the Controller

Using your content object (CurrentPage / CurrentBlock) as a makeshift viewmodel where you change settings or extend it with user data in the controller before passing it to the view, is unfortunately (and to my surprise) a pretty wide-spread practice among developers implementing Optimizely (Episerver) web sites. But it really needs to stop.

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

October 28 2021

New Project: Optimizely (Episerver) Health Checker

Wouldn't it be nice if there was just one place you could go and get an instant overview of the health of your Optimizely (Episerver) installation? With checks that are both technical, functional, business and covers product, addons and implementation? Here it is. Or at least the start of something that could be very useful.

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

May 31 2021

Using custom domains when developing in Visual Studio using IIS Express

A classic problem when building asp.net applications in visual studio and IIS Express is how to configure it so you can use a custom domain name, in case the default "localhost:port" doesn't suit you. I might be getting old, but every time I need to do this, I spend time looking it up in multiple places and trying to remember what I did last time - so this blog post is a simple guide on how to do it - both for my own future benefit and perhaps yours.

Tips and Tricks C#

November 19 2020