Experiences of upgrading EPiserver Commerce

4 May 2015 EPiServer, EPiServer Commerce, EPiServer migration 1 comment

We upgraded both CMS and Commerce a few weeks ago. We did not encounter any major issues while upgrading Commerce however I would like to point two issues worth sharing. (more…)

Deploying SQL to production with Export-EPiUpdates

28 April 2015 EPiServer 2 comments

We don’t have the access to our production servers. Thus, we always have to prepare a “one-click” deployment package together with a deployment script that can be passed to our ISP partner to be deployed.

It was a bit time consuming to manually preapre such a script everytime EPiServer schema was changed so we did a little research and found a nice EPiServer tool that helps you with that. (more…)

How to reset views for all users

24 April 2015 Admin mode, EPiServer, EPiServer migration 1 comment

The editors in my current project use gadgets a lot; both built-in and the custom ones developed by us. Those gadgets can be placed anywhere on the screen.

After we updated our EPiServer version to 7.19 and additionally updated .NET framework to 4.5 some gadgets simply disappeared or started to display incorrectly.
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Problem with HierarchicalUrlRewriteProvider

21 April 2015 EPiServer, EPiServer migration 1 comment

We implemented a feature that, based on the request details, detects the user’s device and then redirects him to the mobile version.

After migrating EPiServer version from 7.10 to 7.19 this feature stopped working – we suddenly figured out that this must be a problem related to routing and rewriting URLs.

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Content Area as Image list

15 April 2015 EPiServer, EPiServer properties 4 comments

We have a lot of list properties in my current project. And most of them are edited entirely in the forms view which means that the editors are not able to preview the chosen images before publishing.
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Nullable date property

10 April 2015 EPiServer, EPiServer properties 1 comment

The editors in my current project asked us to give them a way to set a date range that would make certain page contents hidden. DateTime property seemed like an obvious choice. And it was like that for a while. (more…)