Tips and Tricks

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.

Tips and Tricks C#CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

November 21 2019

Episerver Forms: Adding Datasource for hidden field with Profile Store data

Some times, it can be handy to track additional data about the visitor along with a form submission. If you have Profile Store, stuff like DeviceId, sessionId and maybe even the ProfileId can definitely come in handy later when you are later processing the form submissions. Here is a code sample on how to do that.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

November 6 2019

Ascend 2019: Code Mania

Yesterday, I had the honor and pleasure of giving the traditional Code Mania demo at Episerver Ascend 2019 in Miami together with Fredrik Haglund. After popular demand, here is a blog post about some of the components we showed.

Tips and Tricks Tech Talk CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

October 29 2019

Getting more Insight (pun intended) into Episerver Profile Store

Profile Store, Insight, Tracker, Advance - Episerver offers a myriad of different (but connected) REST services for managing and tracking your visitors and prospects. It can be slightly confusing at first - and some of the documentation might be a tad misleading - but once you get the hang of it, they are really powerful tools. I've recently had a chance to explore them in depth. Here is what I've learned so far.

Tips and Tricks CMS Behavior Analytics Optimizely (Episerver)

August 29 2019

Episerver Forms and Pardot Form Handlers

Episerver comes with a wide range of connectors that allows you to connect Marketing Automation systems to Episerver through multiple integration points. However in some cases you might want to hook directly into the Marketing Automation systems form handler. In the case of SalesForce Pardot it's very easy to do!

Tips and Tricks Integrations CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

August 13 2019

The tricky redirect

Sometimes, when you are troubleshooting you forget the obvious in search of more complex reasons. Recently I had a case of that where an Episerver site kept redirecting the moment it was launched.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

July 8 2019

Site Map Generation with Custom Filter

There's a handful of great add-ons I use in almost every Episerver project - and several of them are from Geta. Here is a useful hint if you, like me, use the Geta SiteMap generator.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

July 3 2019

Routing in Episerver Addon Modules

When your build your own addons, modules and extensions for Episerver CMS, you often want to include controllers - and naturally you want to call these controller - but which url should you use? I always forget this, so here is a little reminder.

Addon Development Tips and Tricks CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

March 19 2019