Developer summit material

It was a really nice happening out in Saltjöbaden last friday. It was fun to meet some of you engaged EPiServer developer out there and get some feedback on the product. I held two sessions one about Migration tool which you can download here. The other session was about how you can use workflows as building blocks for certain functions when creating your web application. In this presentation (which you can download here) I showed two examples on how workflows can be used. Translation... [ Read full article ]

04 June 2008  2 Comments

CustomPageStore - A way to integrate external data with EPiServer

For some time ago we got some requirement list from a new potential customer. They have a lot (millions) of existing data items that they would like to present through EPiServer, the question for us was how they could achieve this. One approach (that exist today) is to either extend our FURL module (by event handling) or write an own httpModule to get "common" urls and do the routing between EPiServer pages and external data. Then they would also need to write custom navigation controls, edit... [ Read full article ]

04 April 2008  4 Comments

EPiServer Workflows

As you perhaps have noticed we introduced a completely new workflow implmentation in EPiServer CMS 5. This implementation is based on Windows WorkflowFoundation (WF) that was shipped with . NET 3.5. A typical scenario where a workflow can be used is a process that spans over some time and where the workflow at some times becomes idle and waits for input (e. g. by a user through a UI or from an external system through a webservice). A workflow however can also be a shortrun task that does some... [ Read full article ]

17 December 2007  0 Comments

UpdatePanel in EPiServer CMS

In the released version of EPiServer CMS 5 (version 5.1.422.4) there is a problem when using UpdatePanel when FURL (Friendly URL) is activated on the site. The problem occurs because the AJAX callbacks from UpdatePanel will in some cases update the action attribute on the Form element. For normal web requests (repsonses of type HTML) the EPiServer FURL module will rewrite all links to FURL links. The response from UpdatePanel is however not HTML so the FURL module will not rewrite the action... [ Read full article ]

10 December 2007  2 Comments

Content Channel

We have devloped a Sharepoint Connector to EPiServer CMS 5. Part of this project was to design a connection point in EPiServer which the SharePoint connector could use to communicate with EPiServer. This lead us in to the design of Content Channels within EPiServer. A Content Channel is something you can configure in EPiServer. It is possible to set a page root, a file system root and several property mappings. Then you can use the content channel to feed EPiServer with data from a... [ Read full article ]

30 November 2007  1 Comments