There are few ways for grouping properties in edit mode. You could place properties that should be grouped in a separate tabs. Another option is to define new block type that contains related properties and use the block on page. But when you don’t want to have too many tabs or block types you could try to use my custom implementation. In this article I will show functionality of grouping properties using header.

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Today I’d like to show you a new extension that allows to programmatically hide tabs and properties in edit mode. Using this feature, the editor won’t see the unused controls when working with content.

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When editing complex types like ContentArea or XHtmlString it would be good to have preview of all available property value versions. The Editor would be able to revert the property to older version or copy property from other language or even another page. In this article I will show an extension to All Properties mode that allows reverting property value to a specific version.

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By default Episerver use dijit checkbox when rendering boolean property. I wanted to add a possibility of defining labels for true and false values. That’s why I prepared a switch button property that displays configurable label for the selection. It can be useful to highlight the selected value.

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Not all properties are visible in the page template and can be edited using PropertyFor helper. Some of them have to be edited through All Properties mode. I thought that it would be useful for editors to have quick access to some properties in On Page Edit. I introduced a way of adding additional header properties.

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When adding a block to HTML editor it’s rendered as a DIV element with name of the block. After a while it could be hard to determinate from where the block was referenced. I improved block rendering by adding “Edit” link to the block element.

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EPiServer provides a build-in SelectionFactory for enums and SelectOne attribute for selecting single value. But for flags enum we want to have a checkbox list and be able to select more than one value. In this article I’d like to show how to use SelectMany attribute for editing flags enum property.

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When creating new block directly from ContentArea, the block is automatically published and added to ContentArea. This behavior is not configurable. In this article I will show how to add new block as a draft.

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When creating new property type that stores content references then it’s recommended to implement PropertySoftLinkIndexer class. It will be used for indexing links to other content. For example when item type of PropertyList has ContentReference property then we should implement PropertySoftLinkIndexer returning all links from the list. In this article I will show how to implement generic PropertySoftLinkIndexer for PropertyList.

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When creating page shortcut, Editor has to open setting tab, then click Manage link on shortcut property and then find a destination page in tree. So when he found a target page in Navigation Pane, then to create a shortcut he has to find it once again in the dialog. I prepared a functionality of creating shortcuts using D&D directly from Navigation Pane.

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