Blog posts by Ravindra S. Rathore

Extend TinyMCE in Optimizely CMS 12

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:13:10 GMT

Since technologies are upgraded to newer versions the ways to extend or override the out-of-the-box functionality are also changed a little bit so today I am going to write a small blog article to extend the TinyMCE/RTE. Create a class called "TinyMCEServiceCollectionExtensions.cs"....

Optimizely Dev Meetup India - 21st June 2022

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:59:36 GMT

Hi Folks,

Optimizely User Group India is organizing Optimizely Dev meetup this month.

Our presenter 🤘 valdis iljuconoks, Presenting - The Journey of the Optimizely Plug-in: How to survive in hybrid environments?

https://www.meetup.com/optimizely-user-group-india/events/286540048/

please do join us on 21st June at 11 AM IST

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Optimizely User Group India

Extending Contact or Organization entity in business foundation Episerver commerce

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:13:10 GMT

Hi Guys, Business Foundation is the main part of Episerver commerce solution because it is used for contact management, organization management but some time we need to extend its out of the box entity properties and add some custom properties according to our needs....

Lesson learned while working with Episerver Commerce Service API

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:13:10 GMT

Hi Guys, Recently I got a chance to work with Episerver Commerce Service API to import the Catalogs and Products from XML to the Commerce manager. Episerver provided very detailed documentation for the APIs so you will not face issues while working with these APIs....

Possible ways to login into Episerver Commerce Manager

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:13:10 GMT

Hi Guys, Today I am going to tell you all the possible solutions that you can try if you don't have admin access to Episerver Commerce account using some small SQL queries. This is useful when you have restored the databases from any other server or you are working on a local environment setup for further development...

Episerver Developers Meetup India

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:57:43 GMT

Hi All,

I am pleased to announce the second Episerver developers meetup this year in India on Friday, 10th July 2020.

Please feel free to reach out to us at epiusergroupindia@gmail.com for any further queries.

Meetup Poster

Meetup Event

https://www.meetup.com/Episerver-Meetup-India/events/271644521/

Please do RSVP on the event.

If you are interested in presenting in any of the future meetups this year. please reach out to us here. I am more than happy to discuss this with you further.

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Thanks

Episerver User Group India

Unlock locked Episerver Commerce user account

Mon, 25 May 2020 12:13:10 GMT

Hi Guys, Today I am going to tell you a quick way to unlock the Episerver commerce user account using a small SQL query. This is useful when your account is locked through multiple invalid password attempts. So for this, you need to find two values...

Reset/Update Episerver Commerce Manager admin password

Sat, 23 May 2020 12:13:10 GMT

Hi Guys, Today I am going to tell you some simple SQL query to reset/update the Episerver Commerce Manager admin password. This is useful when you forgot the admin password or you pulled the latest database copy from the production server and you don't have the admin password...

Use of Episerver URL property in PropertyList

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:13:10 GMT

Hi Guys, As you all know that some time we need to define custom properties model and then use those properties in Episerver CMS and for that we are using PropertyList.But PropertyList doesn't support complex property and we need custom implementation to support this…

First-ever Episerver CMS Meetup in India

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 06:38:40 GMT

Hi All,

I am pleased to announce the first-ever Episerver meetup in India on Monday, 10 February 2020.

If you are living in Jaipur or have any plan to come here on 10 Feb. we'd love to see you on this meetup.

Please feel free to reach out to us at epiusergroupindia@gmail.com for any further queries.

Meetup Event

https://www.meetup.com/Episerver-Meetup-India/events/268289077/

Meetup Agenda -

Meetup details-

We are planning quarterly meetup this year so if you have any topic and you want to present please reach out to us here. I am more than happy to discuss this with you further.

The first event is being sponsored by RIGHTPOINT INDIA

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Thanks

Ravindra S. Rathore

Exclude/Disable specific items from index in Episerver Find

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:58:10 GMT

Hi Guys, As you all know that Episerver Find is a preferred indexing tool for Episerver solution and we all use this in our search implementation. Sometimes we want some pages will not index in our search indexes. Like - Search Landing page itself. So today I am going to tell you the approach in…

Disable Indexing for specific item in Episerver Find

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:44:59 GMT

Hi Guys, As you all know that Episerver Find is a preferred indexing tool for Episerver solution and we all use this in our search implementation. Sometimes we want some pages will not index in our search indexes. Like – Search Landing page itself. So today I am going to tell you the approach in… Continue reading

Exclude/Disable specific items from index in Episerver Find

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:44:59 GMT

Hi Guys, As you all know that Episerver Find is a preferred indexing tool for Episerver solution and we all use this in our search implementation. Sometimes we want some pages will not index in our search indexes. Like – Search Landing page itself. So today I am going to tell you the approach in… Continue reading

Categorizing the user-defined properties in All-Properties view Episerver CMS

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:43:10 GMT

Hi Guys, As you all know that Episerver provide GroupName attribute to categorizing the content based on the tabs. It's works well till we have limited property in a particular tab. But in some cases, we have lots of properties in a single tab and it's very difficult to manage these properties so we can…

Categorizing the user-defined properties in All-Properties view Episerver CMS

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 06:36:36 GMT

Hi Guys, As you all know that Episerver provide GroupName attribute to categorizing the content based on the tabs. It’s works well till we have limited property in a particular tab. But in some cases, we have lots of properties in a single tab and it’s very difficult to manage these properties so we can… Continue reading

Playing with Episerver webconfig settings programmatically

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:44:29 GMT

Hi Guys, Sometimes we need to read, write or update some of the property from the Episerver web.config so Episerver provided a class called “EPiServerFrameworkSection“. By using this class we can achieve this. I found this class very handy and I used this many times when I have to read, write and update the settings… Continue reading

Playing with Episerver webconfig settings programmatically

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:54:14 GMT

Hi Guys,

Sometimes we need to read, write or update some of the property from the Episerver web.config so Episerver provided a class called "EPiServerFrameworkSection". By using this class we can achieve this.

I found this class very handy and I used this many times when I have to read, write and update the settings on web.config programmatically.

This exists in "EPiServer.Framework.Configuration" namespace.

Some Examples-

Reading providers from config-

ProviderSettingsCollection virtualRoles = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.VirtualRoles.Providers;
ProviderSettingsCollection blobProviders = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.Blob.Providers;

Reading connections string -

var ConnectionStrings = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.CurrentConfiguration.ConnectionStrings;

Reading Appdata path-

string appData = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.AppData.BasePath;

There are lots of other options as well that you can explore on your own. Here are some great documentation from Episerver

https://world.episerver.com/documentation/class-library/?documentId=cms/11/4E02FB31

https://world.episerver.com/documentation/class-library/?documentId=episerverframework/7/09b6aa52-2249-641a-ed99-d6ebe9afc589

Thanks and Regards

Ravindra S. Rathore

Playing with Episerver webconfig settings programmatically

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:28:10 GMT

Hi Guys, Sometimes we need to read, write or update some of the property from the Episerver web.config so Episerver provided a class called "EPiServerFrameworkSection". By using this class we can achieve this. I found this class very handy and I used this many times when I have to read, write and update the settings…

Improve editor experience for DateTime property

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:02:07 GMT

Hi All, As you all know that the default DateTime widget in Episerver provides the DateTime picker. And if you want to select the date only, it still selects the time so if you want a separate field for date and time then you can use the “EditorDescriptor” to achieve this. Here is the things… Continue reading

Improve editor experience for DateTime property

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:13:10 GMT

Hi All, As you all know that the default DateTime widget in Episerver provides the DateTime picker. And if you want to select the date only, it still selects the time so if you want a separate field for date and time then you can use the "EditorDescriptor" to achieve this. Here is the things…