Few months ago I prepared ContentArea property with image thumbnails and image preview support. The new EPiServer has Content References list property which already implements thumbnails for list items. In Content references list with preview property I tried to extend standard editor and add support for image preview as well. (more…)

The “Display Options” is a global settings list defined in DisplayOptions service. It’s used together with ContentArea property to set the layout for the content items. Sometimes editor should not be able to set options on each ContentArea because in some cases they might not be used in the template implementation. Last week I prepared a code for hiding Display Options for specific ContentAreas.

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Probably in every EPiServer project there will be a need to store a list of links to your content pages. EPiServer.CMS.UI 8.6.0 introduced a new multiple ContentReference property. Usually we could use a single property to store a collection of links. For example when building a media slideshow or when displaying links in a site footer. Using EPiServer there are several possibilities of implementation. Until now there were two built-in properties – ContentArea and LinkItemCollection, and the new multiple ContentReference is yet another interesting solution. I’ll try to compare those properties.

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As we know EPiServer edit mode components, both built-in and custom, are implemented in a modular way. It means that they are isolated to each other. Yet when developing new features sometimes there is a need of creating dependencies between the widgets. It’s necessary when changing state of one widget should affect state of another one. For example when our component depends on current context. When editor selects a node from three structure the component should be notified about this event and take a proper action. (more…)

I prepared a small improvement for Content Selector property. Standard property is a label displaying selected content name and a button used to selecting a content.

After editor selects an item it’s hard to determinate the ID of the selected content. To do this you need to open the content tree dialog once again, hover over selected tree node and check the tool-tip value. You may copy ID, replace it in the browser URL and edit the page… It’s really time consuming. (more…)

A while ago I saw a forum question about how to Enable/Disable SelectItem in SelectionFactory. I thought that it could be interesting to describe how to implement it. (more…)