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Episerver Languages and XLIFF support

• Development

• Optimizely

The popular Episerver Languages addon has added supported for exporting and importing content using the widely supported XLIFF format.

3 new years resolutions for your ecommerce site in 2017

• E-commerce

• Experimentation

It is time to start a new and exciting e-commerce year, and hopefully break some records. After a hectic holiday season, why not start the year by doing some technical tiding up? Here are three technical new years resolutions for your e-commerce site to make it more secure, slimmer and more visible.

Extending the Episerver global menu

• Development

• Optimizely

Extending the Episerver global menu is easy. You can add menu sections and sub-menu items such as menu sections, drop-downs, URLs and pop-up menu items. In this short blog post I will demonstrate how you can keep your menu context while navigating between several MVC actions.

Third year Gaselle status

Geta has three years in a row been picked out by Dagens Næringsliv to be included in the Gaselle list of aspiring businesses.

Import redirects for 404 handler

• Development

• Optimizely

This is more a reminder for me, but could be useful for others as well. We use the Episerver 404 handler in most if not all of our projects. It does a good job of handling URL redirects and custom 404 pages.

Content reference selector with direct file upload

• Development

• Optimizely

Sometimes when developing Episerver solutions you find the need to extend the behaviour of already existing property editors. In this blog post I will briefly describe how I extended the built-in content selector with direct upload functionality using drag and drop. This way you don’t have to create your "Media"-items before being able to select them. You can just upload them directly to the property editor and they will be added to the assets folder of the content you are working on and selected automatically.

Insert your view engine at correct position

• Development

• Optimizely

The other day I had to deal with a mysterious error with the Episerver Shell search function. You know the little search icon to the right in the dashboard drop-down menu. When I clicked it nothing happened. I looked at the request in developer toolbar, discovered the exception and this is how I fixed it.

Episerver Commerce - Retrieving all parent catalog nodes

• Development

• Optimizely

• E-commerce

From time to time I get asked; 'How can I retrieve all parent catalog nodes for a product in Episerver Commerce?' Achieving this using the current version of Episerver commerce API is a bit cumbersome. Luckily Episerver is working on a relation overhaul for the next major version of Commerce, but until then I'll provide some sample code that does the trick.