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...
By - Ravindra Rathore
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...
By - Ravindra Rathore
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...
By - Ravindra Rathore
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…
By - Ravindra Rathore
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…
By - Ravindra Rathore
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…
By - Ravindra Rathore
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…
By - Ravindra Rathore
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…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hi Last Friday, I wrote a blog post related to "Reindex a target site in Find" using is works job. It works well but you need to update the site definition every time when you want to rebuild the indexes for any site. So I received some feedback to convert it to Episerver Admin Tool…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hey Guys, We all use Episerver Find as a search provider and it is a very handy tool for the site search. I also prefer Find over all the other search provider in Epi. But index rebuild is very time consuming if you have multiple sites hosted in the Episerver CMS. I am working on…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hi All, If you haven't visited the Paasportal in last few days or weeks then there are some new features those are added in Paasportal can be very handy for the developers More tabs for the categorization Now you will see these three tabs- DeploymentsHostnamesTroubleshoot Deployments tab Deployment This tab has the deployment options from…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hi All, Today, I am writing a blog post to create a dictionary block to manage static text like - "Read More, Learn more, View More, etc...". This is very helpful when you have multiple CTA blocks or pages those have this kind of static text and you want to give the control to the…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hi, If you've ever tried to get the full URL of a current page then this blog post may come handy. So basically you will need VirtualPathArguments, That will have ContextMode facility to enable it based on our needs. For instance Default mode, Edit mode, Preview mode and obviously an Undefined mode if the Context…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hey guys, In past i learned about the validation attributes and to try it out i have created a validation attribute for disabling the duplicate items(page/block/media) in the ContentArea property. Yesterday some of my colleague asked me about this so thought to write this post. So first of all i have created a class called…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hi All, I have a scenario in our website where I need to display the Episerver tree on our view. Like- So I thought that we can use the "GetDescendents" method and it will render the tree but i was wrong. It basically give you all the page items in a single list so you…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hey Guys, To create first page type in your EmptySite solution that is created in my last blog post. Please follow the below steps- Open the EmptySite solution in visual studio.Right click on the pages folder inside Models->Pages. Please refer below screenshot for reference. Now click Add-> New Item.Now select "Episerver" template from installed template.Then…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hey guys, In today’s post, I will describe how to host an Episerver site in the IIS. In my last post, I have created two solutions one is blank site and one Alloy site so I am using the alloy site for this blog post. First of all, you have to attach the Episerver databases…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hi guys, If you are new to Episerver and wanted to start your career in the Episerver then you can refer my blog series to learn some basic thing of Episerver. Please refer my first blog post if you already not referred this configure-your-development-environment-episerver-for-beginners/ Once you are done with your configuration then move forward with…
By - Ravindra Rathore
Hey guys, I am writing a blog series on episerver cms development for beginner. So here is my first blog post about the basic configuration/software required for Episerver development. These are the two things that we need to start the development in Episerver- 1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 (with latest updates) 2. Episerver…
By - Ravindra Rathore