In this article I’d like to describe new Episerver extension for converting pages in edit mode. It can be useful for Editors to simplify updates of site structure and keeps links to the content.
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Converting pages in edit mode
20 February 2018 EPiServer 3 comments
Reverting property to a specific version
7 February 2018 EPiServer, EPiServer properties 1 comment
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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Switch button property
9 January 2018 EPiServer, EPiServer properties No comments
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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Icons in Edit Mode Tabs
I’ve implemented a small extension for edit mode. In All Properties view you can set an icon for tabs.
Additional header properties
4 January 2018 EPiServer, EPiServer properties 3 comments
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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Content ChildrenGrid View
27 November 2017 EPiServer 7 comments
You haven’t seen much from me for a while, it’s because I was working on a bigger feature. Haven’t include much text or code snippets this time. Rather wanted to present overall functionality. Lot of images and animated gifs. Take a look on ChildrenGrid custom view. View displays a configurable list of children for current content.
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Edit link for blocks in HTML Editor
3 September 2017 EPiServer, EPiServer properties 2 comments
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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How to use SelectMany to work with flags enum
31 July 2017 EPiServer, EPiServer properties No comments
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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How to turn off autopublish in ContentArea
25 July 2017 EPiServer, EPiServer properties No comments
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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Generic PropertySoftLinkIndexer for ListProperty
6 July 2017 EPiServer, EPiServer properties No comments
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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