Blog entries posted during 2008

Status property always returns VersionStatus.Published

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

I ran into some interesting anomalies involving "Access denied" when trying to fetch published pages using the GetChildren() method. I tried to determine whether or not a page was published by checking the Status property and making sure it was... [ Read full article ]

10 January 2008  2 Comments

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Disable URL rewriting for specific URLs

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

There comes a time when you need to prohibit URL rewriting for specific URLs within your EPiServer CMS website. For example, I've implemented an ashx handler that is used to deliver vCard files on our company's web site. If I would insert a regular... [ Read full article ]

17 January 2008  5 Comments

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Use EPiServer Manager when upgrading to CMS 5 SP1

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

... or read this once you've ignored that piece of advice Eager to update to EPiServer CMS SP1 I got a bit careless. I finished my development locally, published and tested it on our staging server and then finally published it to the live server. I... [ Read full article ]

06 February 2008  2 Comments

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If you're getting full postbacks with ASP.NET AJAX and EPiServer 4.62

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

After having 1) referenced System. Web. Extensions and 2) added all the necessary entries to web. config, we still got full postbacks when submitting through an UpdatePanel in an EPiServer 4.62 website. The solution As it turns out, the culprit... [ Read full article ]

07 February 2008  1 Comments

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Handle 404 exceptions in EPiServer CMS

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

As many of you know, there is a comprehensive 404 handler available for download through EPiCode. However, I just wanted a simple way of specifying a PageID and have that page act as a 404 response. Easier said than done it seems I actually got my... [ Read full article ]

07 February 2008  9 Comments

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How to get the friendly URL of a page in EPiServer CMS

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

Maybe there are other posts about this, but I thought I'd share an easy way of getting the friendly URL of a page since I've gotten questions about it on numerous occasions:public static string GetFriendlyURL( PageReference PageLink, string... [ Read full article ]

07 February 2008  6 Comments

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Programmatically configure customErrors redirects

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

I previously posted a possible solution for handling 404 exceptions in EPiServer websites, but here's an alternative and possibly more elegant way of configuring custom error redirects for EPiServer. What I wanted to accomplish I wanted to be able... [ Read full article ]

09 February 2008  5 Comments

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Check to see if a page exists for a specific language branch

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

Have you ever wanted to know if a specific EPiServer page exists for a specific language? I recently came across an implementation that looked something like this:try { DataFactory. Instance. GetPage(myPageLink, new... [ Read full article ]

11 February 2008  2 Comments

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Search for EPiServer pages based on properties

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

This post aims to clearly illustrate a way of searching for EPiServer pages based on property values. By specifying search criteria and a place to start the search you'll get a PageDataCollection containing all matching pages. The concept The... [ Read full article ]

26 February 2008  5 Comments

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Search by language branch in EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

This post is a complement to my previous post about searching pages with EPiServer. I have gotten a few questions about how to limit a page search to include pages from a specific language branch. Since this is truly a basic requirement when... [ Read full article ]

02 March 2008  3 Comments

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Create and publish a page programmatically

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

This post explains in detail how to programmatically create a page in EPiServer CMS 5. It also shows how to publish a page through code, even when the current user lacks the necessary permissions. 1. Specify where to publish the page Start off by... [ Read full article ]

05 March 2008  7 Comments

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Modify and publish a page programmatically

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

Inspired by Marek's post on modifying existing pages I  decided to complement my post on programmatically publishing new pages with a post on how to modify and publish existing pages in EPiServer. 1. Why you can't modify a PageData object As Marek... [ Read full article ]

06 March 2008  1 Comments

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Using LINQ and EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

Just as a brief proof of concept I decided to use a LINQ statement to retrieve and sort a list of EPiServer pages. If you haven't yet come across LINQ I would recommend Scott Guthrie's post on using LINQ. LINQ can be used to query a number of... [ Read full article ]

10 March 2008  3 Comments

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Using a single domain strategy with multiple languages in EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

Introduction This post covers one way of enforcing a domain strategy for multi-language (or multi-division) sites. There are two common scenarios for multi-language site domain strategies: Use one top domain per language In this case, www.... [ Read full article ]

04 April 2008  4 Comments

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When the edit interface works but all pages return 404

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

This is just a friendly reminder about what to do when all EPiServer pages return a plain 404 File not found, but the edit and admin interfaces work perfectly well. You may even notice that the site works perfectly well using the ASP. NET... [ Read full article ]

30 June 2008  0 Comments

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Implementing a custom URL rewrite provider for EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

Introduction I'm a firm believer in avoiding querystring parameters in URLs, especially for public web sites. Security, SEO and esthetics are a few reasons why. Custom URL rewriting can help you avoid those ugly ampersands and question marks, even... [ Read full article ]

24 July 2008  3 Comments

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Create a custom scheduled job in EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

This post explains how to create a scheduled job in EPiServer CMS. Introduction A scheduled job in EPiServer is essentially a piece of code that will be executed repeatedly at a given time interval, or when an administrator manually executes it... [ Read full article ]

08 August 2008  2 Comments

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How to get the simple address of a page in EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

The following code snippet shows how to retrieve the simple address of an EPiServer page. If you want to retrieve the friendly URL of an EPiServer page instead, please see my post on How to get the friendly URL of a page in EPiServer CMS. ... [ Read full article ]

15 August 2008  2 Comments

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Run a scheduled job as a specific EPiServer user

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

As noted in my post about how to Create a custom scheduled job in EPiServer all scheduled runs will execute as an anonymous user whereas jobs that are executed manually are run as the current EPiServer user. How to log on programmatically as a... [ Read full article ]

18 August 2008  0 Comments

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Using web parts in EPiServer

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

As Stein Viggo points out in his EPiServer on Steroids post, traditional page type templates can limit editor creativity. Having editors enter values for page properties and placing these values within well-defined templates can do miracles for... [ Read full article ]

26 August 2008  4 Comments

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