Latest online resources for Sitefinity
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Form responses: Changing the default template of email notifications for forms responses
Explains how to make a custom template for forms notifications.
KB: Fixing broken permissions inheritance maps in Sitefinity
Explains how to resolve problems when operating with permissions, caused by corrupted permissions inheritance map.
Ecommerce: “Shop By” Filters come to Ecommerce in Sitefinity 5.2
Explains how you can add Faceted Filters to Sitefinity Ecommerce, allowing a merchant to add a product filter to any Sitefinity product listing page, by dragging and dropping a widget onto a page.
Styling: Styling a Sitefinity website
A few tips for best practices when creating a Sitefinity template and quick and powerful ways to control the appearance of page elements.
Personalization: Right Content, Right Person: New Content Personalization in Sitefinity 5.2
Overview of Sitefinity’s new Content Personalization feature
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New articles
Content modules: Implementing “Read more” and “Read less” functions in blog posts
The article explains how to implement “Read more” and “Read less” functions.
Marketing: Marketing 2013: Join the Evolution
“Marketing’s not dead, it’s evolving like never before!”
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Content Block: Supporting Shortcodes in Sitefinity Content
Explains how to to easily add rich content in a simple, user-friendly format, without cluttering up the content areas with cumbersome (and usually error-prone) HTML.
Content Block: Add Custom Tool Buttons to the HtmlField RadEditor Toolbar
Explains how to add a custom tool button to the RadEditor in the HtmlField that will let users add the YouTube shortcode with a single click.
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How to display MVC widget in detail views of content items
When developing sitefintiy MVC widgets for hybrid pages that will host both MVC and web forms widgets you may have stumbled upon the problem that when opening details view of news, blogs or module builder modules the MVC widget is gone, this post will provide very convenient solution to address this.
Update: Overriding the lifecycle decorator for content manager
An update to the Knowledget base article originally covering the use of contentlifecycle decorator class to execute custom logic upon creating different types of content in sitefinity. The update is to give infomation how to use the decorator for modules built with the module builder.
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New KB articles:
Introducing new libraries provider setting for specifiying the blog storage
Explains how to take advantage of the new feature of different blob storage providers in Sitefintiy 5.3.
When deploying a project to a an environment, you are getting an internal server error message when publishing
Explains how to solve problems with IIS internal server error 500.
New Blog post:
Sitefinity Performance optimization checklist
Provides a set of hints of optimizing the frontend and backend performance of a sitefinity site.
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New KB article:
Non-admin users could not see any Images/Videos/Documents libraries
Provides a solution to a problem you may encounter when deleting the default library in either Images, Documents and Video modules
New Blog post:
Sitefinity 5.3 Ecommerce Highlights
Gives an overview of the newly added features in sitefintiy 5.3 ecommerce module.
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Ecommerce: Inventory Management
Provides an in-depth overview of Sitefinity Ecommerce's Inventory management feature
Client-side programming: Working with RESTful Services Part 2 – Claims Authentication and Designing Service Calls
The article is a continuation of our first blog post on the topic, and extends it in the following areas:
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Widgets - Extending the registration widget - adding a country dropdown list
Inspired by a client request, this blog post demonstrates the extensibility of the default Registration widget to accomodate the functionality to allow the newly registered user to choose from a list of items.
Providers - Open Project: Amazon S3 Blob Storage Provider
Blogs about Sitefinity's Amazon S3 Blob Storage Provider - an implementation of a
cloud blob storage provider, which stores the binary blob data of
Sitefinity's library items on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).
Workflow - How to schedule unpublish when an item is published
Demonstrates how you can customize Sitefinity's default workflows. This blog post is about changing the AnyContentWorkflow.xaml in order to
schedule an item for unpublishing right after you click on the
Publish button.
Workflow - Using and Customizing Sitefinity Workflow with Guard Activities
Further elaborates on the workflow implementation in Sitefinity, provides a thorough explanation on how workflow works, and demonstrates how new Guard Activities can be added.
Updated articles
KB - How to check your current Sitefinity version?
Added information about 4.x and 5.x versions of Sitefinity
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Ecommerce : Adding functionality for deleting multiple products at once
Explains how you can add a new CommandWidget in the Toolbar section of the Ecommerce products grid, that allows you to delete multiple selected items.
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Navigation: Including item titles in the Sitefinity breadcrumb
Demonstrates how you can display additional information in the breadcrumb, depending on what is currently visible on the page.
Ecommerce: Taxes and Discount Calculations changed in 5.2 when Including Tax
Provides a thorough explanation on how discounts and taxes are calculated in Sitefinity Ecommerce in versions 5.2 and on
Updated articles
KB: Fixing broken permissions inheritance maps in Sitefinity
Updated information and added a code sample for Sitefintiy versions 5.3 and on
KB: Securing Sitefinity Backend with SSL
Updated information for Claims authentication, and code sample for selectively making all/backend only pages require SSL.
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Security: Redirect unauthorized users to a custom page
Elaborates on the introduced IUnauthorizedPageAccessEvent EventHub implementation for handling unauthorized access on frontend pages.
Upgrade: Post-Webinar Post: Common Issues with Sitefinity Upgrades
This post completes our "Common Issues with Sitefinity Upgrades" webinar.
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Media modules:
Changing thumbnail size in Image Gallery
Demonstrates the ability to modify the default thumbnail size in Image
gallery frontend widget, without affecting the image quality.
Content modules and SEO:
Adding MetaDescription for Blog posts
Explains how the details view for blogs, news, etc can be extended to support MetaDescription tags.
Development:
Updated with a sample demonstrating how two user controls can communicate with each other using UrlParameters.
Security:
Redirect unauthorized users to a custom page
Added information about FrontEndUrl - an option that allows you to redirect to different pages depending on which site you currently are (applies to Sitefinity MultiSite Management licenses)
Updated code sample.
Deployment:
Getting "Bad Request - Request Too Long" error after deployment to new server
Explains how an incorrect server date might affect the site's behavior, resulting in "Bad Request - Request Too Long" with error code of 400 exception.
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Custom Fields:
Dynamically resolving Sitefinity links when using HtmlField
Explains how you can dynamically resolve links inserted in custom fields of type Long Text, andr when using an HtmlField in your custom control.
Search:
Elaborates on how you can create a custom Searcher class that would order the search results by relevance to a passed parameter.
Ecommerce:
USPS service “Parcel Post” renamed to “Standard Post” in 5.4
Provides information regarding the change in USPS "Parcel Post" service, and how it reflects in Sitefinity
Elaborates on how you can fix the incorrect departments count in Sitefinity versions 5.3 and lower
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Ecommerce:
Sitefinity 5.4 Ecommerce Highlights
Goes over the highlight of 5.4 release in Ecommerce module, namely WishList, Salses Summary reports, Advanced Taxes claculation, API and Additional improvements.
Customizing the order confirmation email in Sitefinity Ecommerce
Explains in details how to add custom order fields to the order confirmation email.
Control Designers:
Extending Sitefinity ContentSelectorsDesignerViews
Elaborates on how ContentView controls designers work, and how you can extend one of the default views to plug custom business logic on the client.
Design:
Two versions of jQuery are loaded at the same time
Explains how to deal with cases where two jQuery versions are loaded on a Sitefinity page
JavaScript libraries are not loaded for inherited controls
Client-side development:
Exlpains how to handle cases where your control inherits from one of our frontend widgets and uses jQuery, jQuery Cookie or jQuery Validate after the changes in Sitefinity 5.4
Lightning:
Sitefinity Lightning fails when the project is upgraded to 5.4
Explains how to deal with issues running Sitefinity Lightning with version 5.4
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Ecommerce:
Ecommerce Wish List
Blogs about the newly introduced Wishlist functionality to our Sitefinity Ecommerce module.
KB:
Culture with multiple calendars uses the wrong calendar
Explains how to deal with cases where different calendar format is needed for displaying data on the frontend.
Documentation articles
SEO:
Automatic generation of Meta keywords and Meta description tags
Ecommerce:
Importing products
Wish lists
Creating wish lists
Querying wish lists
Modifying wish lists
Deleting wish lists
Using the WishlistAdder class
Wish list details
Creating wish list details for a product
Creating wish list details for a variation
Querying wish list details
Modifying wish list details
Deleting wish list details
Updating the quantity of a wish list detail
Creating a custom tax picker
Creating a custom order calculator
Creating a custom order confirmation e-mail template formatter
Updated articles:
Configuring caching
Setting the size of memory used for caching
Level of caching
Caching custom controls
Cache expiration
Output caching for RSS
System settings
Added a link to Automatic generation of Meta keywords and Meta description tags
Widgets
Added link to configuring meta data
Creating and editing feeds
Added link to RSS caching
Creating products
Added link to importing products
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Ecommerce:
Creating an Ecommerce Store Locator Widget
Explains how to create a basic Store Locator Widget from start to finish. Covers creating a custom Sitefinity widget, using Module Builder, how Sitefinity dynamic data works, and integrating third party API’s such as Google maps into your website.
Security:
KB: Authentication Cookies won`t be saved when using internet explorer when the site is using subdomainwith url containing an underscore
Documentation articles
Ecommerce:
Changing the primary image of a product
Creating custom fields for a customer
Updated articles
Ecommerce:
Adding images to a product
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New articles
Trim the Search Results based on permissions / roles
Explains how to extend the SearchResults widget so you can trim the search results based on permissions or rolesCreating Self-installing Widgets and Modules in Sitefinity
Creating Self-installing Widgets and Modules in Sitefinity
Explains how to use the ASP.NET PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute class to build self-installing modules and widgets for Sitefinity.
Configuring CompareValidation for FieldControls in Sitefinity modules
Explains how you can configure CompareValidation for field controls in Sitefinity static and dynamic modules, using the Advanced settings UI
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Workflow
Sitefinity Workflow: Defining the Scope of the Workflow by Page Groups
Demonstrates how to create custom guard activities with which you can implement complex logic within the elements of the workflow in Sitefinity.
Widget Templates
How to create lightbox gallery in a custom module
Shows how to create a lightbox type of gallery with images from a custom module by mapping an external template for the dynamic module widget.
KB
CDN scritps are not properly returned if using localized version of .NET framework
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Data layer
Post-Webinar Post: OpenAccess Integration in Sitefinity
Provides a review of our OpenAccess Integration with Sitefinity webinar and lists the Q&A
Module Builder
Filtering Sitefinity DynamicContentView on the frontend
Explains how you can achieve frontend dynamic filtering for Sitefinity ModuleBuilder widgets, by extending the DynamicContentView class
Integrating GoogleMaps with Sitefinity DynamicModules
Shows how you can integrate GoogleMaps with Siteifnity ModuleBuilder to add markers for your items on a single map in ListView
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Analytics
A/B and Multivariate Testing with Sitefinity CMS and Google Experiments
Demonstrates ho you can integrate Google Experiments with Sitefinity, to create several versions of your original page that deliver the same information differently (different images, buttons, colors, etc.) and to evaluate which one does the job the best.
ContentView widgets
Social Share for Sitefinity News List Items
Explains how you can integrate Social Share for list mode of the News widget, so users can share a news item directly from the news list on the frontend.
KB: Installation
Troubleshooting “Sitefinity Installation Failed” Errors
KB: Deployment
Getting “The WebResource.axd handler must be registered” after deploying to IIS
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Widgets:
Removing Appended Query Strings When Using Archive and Categories Widget in Sitefinity CMS
Explains how Sitefintiy Archive and Taxonomy widgets can be modified to control their behavior when used in QueryString UrlEvaluationMode
KB: Search
Search does not return results when searching custom fields
KB: Search
Troubleshooting search problems
KB: Security
Page node permission issues when upgrading from 5.0 to 5.2
KB: Ecommerce Product files
Retrieving product files of a product
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Module Builder
Custom URL Formats for Sitefinity Hierarchical Dynamic Modules
Explains how you can control the way the URLs for hierarchical Sitefinity Module Builder items are generated
File upload
Adding File Upload Functionality to the Jobs Module Sample from the Sitefinity SDK
Explains how one can extend the Jobs module sample in the Sitefinity SDK to allow upload of files to the job application and to display a link to the uploaded files in the list of submitted applications.
Widgets
How to Open Sitefinity News Details in a LightBox
Demonstrates how you can integrate lightbox functionality with Sitefinity widgets to show the details page of content items in lightbox.
Design
Creating Responsive Sitefinity Navigation
Demonstrates how you can utilize Sitefinity's built-in responsive design capabilities to solve common problems when building mobile-friendly navigation.
Email campaigns
How to Display Email Campaign Issues on Sitefinity Pages
Explains how one can place links to already sent Email campaign issues on Sitefinity pages. The same approach can be used to link fallback versions of your campaigns, directly in the issue itself
New Documentation Articles
Recommended environment settings for Sitefinity
Sitefinity load balancing
Configuring Sitefinity for load balancing
Ensuring content consistence on all nodes
Configuring security
Non-Sitefinity related configurations
Health monitoring
Uploading Sitefinity based application
Upload and physical location of the application
Updated Documentation Articles
Using Microsoft Web Farm Framework (changed introduction)
Using Network Load Balancing (changed introduction)
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Ecommerce
Sitefintiy 6.0 Ecommerce highlights
Gives an overview of the new features for sitefinity ecommerce module introduced with sitefinity 6.0 release
Integration
Integrating Sitefintiy CMS with Salesforce CRM
Provides a sample implementation of integration scenario between Salesforce and Sitefinity forms module.
Content
Creating categories control to list certain subcategories
Proviedes sample implementation of adding limited set of categories for filtering Sitefinity content
Cloud
Synchronizing Sitefinity data with the cloud
Introduces Sitefinity 6.0 integration with cloud services.
KB:Widgets
Interacting with blog post view results in error
New Documentation Articles
Installation and Administration guide
Mobile Applications
Upgrading Sitefinity 5.4 to the latest version
Enabling and disabling canonical urls service
Syncing data between two servers
Syncing Sitefinity with Sharepoint site
Syncing Sitefinity with Everlive
Recommended environment settings for Sitefinity
User Guide
Managing event calendars
Address Custom Field
Configuring the event widget
Google maps in Sitefinity
Default pages for content items
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Lightning:
Sitefinity Lightning BETA
Configuring Sitefinity server to work with Lightning
Installing Sitefinity Lightning desktop client
Creating content
Editing content
Uploading and editing Images, Documents, and Videos
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Security
Single Sign On Between Sitefinity and 3rd Party Applications: Part 1 - The Basics
Discusses the different techniques and challenges of achieving centralized access control mechanism, whenever you have the Sitefinity CMS involved in the SSO architecture.
Module Builder
Working with Related Dynamic Content Items in Sitefinity
Extends our previous post on the subject, by offering a full story of how related data can be represented using Sitefinity Module Builder and Sitefinity Thunder
Fluent API
Extending the Fluent API
Demonstrates how Sitefinity's Fluent API can be extended by developers, using extension methods in C.
Field Controls
How to Create a MultiPage Field Control in Sitefinity
Elaborates how one can create a custom FieldControl for Sitefinity, based on our FlatSelector control and with the help of Sitefinity Thunder, that delivers multiple page selection functionality.
New KB articles
Pages with product list throw 404 after upgrade to version 6
Utilizing your Sitefinity CMS License on Various Work Environments
How Does the Sitefinity License Key Work?
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Backend Extension Scripts
Setting a Default Filter for Library Items in Sitefinity CMS
Explains how you can operate with the backend extension scripts, implement backend filtering using a sidebar widget, and set the default filter when a backend view is open.
Mobile App Builder
Post-Webinar Post: Sitefinity's Mobile App Builder
Provides a summary of our may 30th Sitefinity's Mobile App Builder
and demonstrates how the basics of the demonstrated functionality have been implemented.
New KB articles
“Invalid time zone ID” exception on Azure deployed projects
Products cannot be created after upgrading to version 6
Products cannot be created after uninstalling and reinstalling Ecommerce module in version 6
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Blog posts
How to create mega menu
How to Create Mega Menu with sitefinity provides a sample of creating mega menu with tabs.
Managing relations in module builder
One to many relations in module builder explains the concept of relating items in complex relations and provides further explanation on previous blog posts about the same.
Excluding a page from sitefinity search
How to exclude a page from sitefintiy search, provides guidance on the topic of making modification of sitefinity search to exlude certain pages or search under a single group page only.
Working with sitefinity permissions API
Working with sitefinity permissions API extend the explanations from the documentation about permissions API and how to effectively work with it.
Adding intellisence to RadControls in class libraries
Adding intellisence capabilities to RadControls used in class librararies project provides a solution that will enable developers to faster develop custom sitefinity tools and controls.
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Blog posts
Async POST with MVC widgets
The blog post covers a common scenario where two MVC widgets performing a POST of data on a single page perform the POST trough ajax .
Updating related Dynamic Content Items
Updating related Dynamic Content Items explains a scenario where when having relationships between items created with module builder and changes are made to the relations, those changes are reflected into the relations.
Single Sign On Between Sitefinity and 3rd Party Applications: Part 2
Single Sign On Between Sitefinity and 3rd Party Applications: Part 2 covers an integration scenario for achieving SSO between applications.
KB Articles
Twitter widget doesn`t work in Sitefinity for versions pror to 6.0
Twitter widget doesn`t work in sitefinity for versions pror to 6.0 gives s solution to the problem where twitter API have been changed and this reflects all Sitefinity versions prior to Sitefinity 6.0 which uses the new twitter API, the article covers a solution for versions lower than Sitefinity 6.0
Syncing Dynamic Modules in multisite
Syncing Dynamic Modules in multisite provides resolution to a problem when performing site sync of dynamic modules content.
Lists module is not accessible after upgrade to Sitefinity 6.0
Addresses similar issue to the one discussed in Exception is thrown when clicking on an existing blog to view the posts in the backend afetr upgrade to 6.0
When publishing or saving a page you are getting a timeout message for the request channel of waiting for response for some time (updated information regarding search index locks, and upcoming fixes in 6.1)
Documentation Articles:
1. http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles/installation-and-administration-guide/upgrade - added a link to Alon’s “ Common Issues with Sitefinity Upgrades” webinar
2. http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles/subscribers-full-report - removed misleading part “On the right of the screen you can filter the list of subscribers according to the status of the email, according the clicked links, or according to the geographical location of the subscribers.” .Filtering by geographical location is not possible at the moment
3. http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles/developers-guide/sitefinity-essentials/modules/working-with-email-campaigns/working-with-mailing-lists/working-with-subscribers/adding-subscribers-to-mailing-list - fixed code snippet + added namespace reference Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Newsletters as Mailing Lists do not have Subscribers property any more. It’s obsolete.
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Blog posts
Configuring Facebook Feeds in Sitefinity CMS
Configuring Facebook Feeds in Sitefinity CMS describes the steps needed to configure sitefinity facebook feeds widget.
Updating the Store Locator Widget with the GeoLocation API
Updating the Store Locator Widget with the GeoLocation API provides a guide on improving eCommerce experience for sitefinity store locator by adding GeoLocation to it.
KB Articles
Thunder Update
Thunder Update for the currently latest thunder version can`t be performed trough the update window and this article explains how to perform the upgrade.
Creating new content item is not displayed in the list of items
Creating new content item is not displayed in the list of items provides a solution to the problem coming from IIS and web.config setting.
Lists module is not accessible after upgrade
Lists module is not accessible after upgrade provides a solution to a problem accessing lists module after upgrade to Sitefinity 6.0
Documentation Articles
New:
Database changes between 6.0 and 6.1
Sharing modules between sites
Thumbnails
Upgrading your Sitefinity 6.0 project to the latest version
Styling and customizing the Navigation widget
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Documentation Articles
New:
Creating responsive design without Sitefinity Responsive Design feature
Displaying the parent node in the Navigation widget
Setting the levels of the Navigation widget
Navigation widget
Adding trimming spaces for text field
Adding characters counter of the text fields
Customize the Navigation widget
Modified:
Synchronized content
Setup email notification for form responses
Customers and Orders
Product variations
Creating product variations
Installing Sitefinity Desktop Application
Sitefinity Desktop Application
Managing image libraries
Managing video libraries
Dynamic modules
Upgrading your Sitefinity 5.4 project to the latest version
Upgrade
Widget templates
Displaying pages on mobile devices
Old Navigation widget
Automatic generation of Meta keywords, Meta description, and Meta title tags
Configuring the SharePoint connection
Configuring PayPal Payflow Pro payment processor
Creating shipping methods
Multiple site management
Reports
Creating a dynamic content item
Editing a dynamic content item
Using tags
Using categories
Basic styling of the Navigation widget
Settings
Videos on YouTube:
DAM Images Management
DAM Documents management
Sitefinity custom module creation with Thunder
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Blog Posts
Mapping External Template in Sitefinity
The blog post explains how to perform common task for mapping an external template of sitefinity view by using sitefinity API for managing configurations.
KB articles
MVC routing changes in sitefinity 6.1
The KB article provides a solution to routing problems encountered with MVC widgets in sitefinity 6.1
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Blog Posts
Developing Javascript widgets for Sitefinity
The blog post is the first in a series of blog posts that will eventually lead to developing a full set of javascript widgets for your Sitefinity.
Using sitefinity Personalization module with custom criteria
The blog post provides a walktrough of how to implement custom personalization criteria for the personalization module in sitefinity.
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Blog Posts
Partial caching for content items
The blog post explains how to partially cache part of the rending for user control in sitefintiy.
Developing JavaScript Widgets for Sitefinity CMS: Async Search Results
The blog post samples the implementation for a widget that display asynchronously search results using MVC.
KB articles
USPS API changes July 28, 2013
This KB articles announces the API changes for united states postal services and how this affects sitefinity ECommerce module usage of shipping methods.
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Blog posts
Server-site captcha for sitefinity forms
The blog post provides a sample of how to create captcha form control in sitefinity and customize the forms widget so the captcha validates the whole form.
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Blog posts
How to modify item template in sitefinity for showing custom data
The blog post gives a tutorial on how to customize the widget for modules built using the module builder module, attach code behind to the widget templates and customize the rendered output for the widget.
Building Sitefinity MVC Widgets with KendoUI Grid
The blog post explains the specific for binding datasource to Kendo UI Grid in sitefinity and provides a sample of the implementation for binding kendo grid in sitefinity.
New documentation articles
Search indexing in sitefinity load balancing
How two or more developers to work on the same sitefinity project at once
Creating message templates for siefinity notification service
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Blog posts
Configuring language selector lead you to translated detail item page
The blog post describes the modification needed for making sitefinity language selector open the correct language version of the detail page for sitefinity content items in detail
KB articles
Search box missing for document libraries in sitefinity 6.0
This KB article gives a solution to the problem where document libraries can`t be searched in sitefinity 6.0, the issue is fixed in sitefinity 6.1
Solving 401 error when setting up sitefinity SSO
The KB article solves a configuration problem for configuring sitefinity SSO.
Moving Azure connection string in web.config
The KB article samples the correct connection string assignment when moving the connecting string from DataConfig to web.config
New Documentation articles
Manually deploying your sitefinity projects to windows Azure
Updated Documentation articles
Create new or select existing project
Prepare the project for deployment
Migrate your DB to SQL Azure
Deploy the project
Deploying Sitefinity projects to Windows Azure
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Blog Posts
Filtering Sitefinity ContentView controls on the frontend
The blog post provides a sample and tutorial on how to implement filtering for the frondend widgets used by news, blogs, events modules.
Dashbord responsive design
The blog post provides a tutorial on how to add responsive design for the new sitefinity dashboard in version 6.2
New Documentation articles
Installation and Administration Guide:
Upgrading your Sitefinity 6.1 project to the latest version
Synchronizing Sitefinity with SalesForce
Synchronizing Sitefinity with Marketo
User Guide:
The main navigation
The Dashboard
Comments widge
Dashboard Widgets Group
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How to make sitefinity forums responsive
The blog post provides css styling guidelines for adding responsive design for sitefinity forums widget.
MVC updates in sitefinity 6.2
The blog post provides an over of the new MVC features that are available in sitefinity 6.2 release.
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Responsive design for sitefinity ecommerce module
The blog post provides a sample css tyling guidelines to make sitefinity ecommerce module responsive for mobile devices.
Sitefinity partial match search
The blog post provides customization to sitefinity built in search box widget that allows every user that searches in siteinity to search for all available matches of certain search term.
Rejecting item sent for approval in module builder trough the API
The blog post provides a customization to sitefinity static method for moving dynamic items in different workflow states (Published, AwaitingApproval, etc) to provide the ability to add rejection reason when rejecting an item trough the API.
-----Create a simple widget designers
---------Create a custom widget
---------Create a template
---------Implement the ControlDesignerBase class
---------Reference the template
---------Implement the client component
---------Reference the client script
-----Create multiple view widget designers
---------Create a view
-------------Create a custom widget
-------------Create a template
-------------Implement the ContentViewDesignerView class
-------------Reference the template
-------------Implement the client component
-------------Reference the client script
---------Create the designer
-------------Create a custom widget
-------------Override the AddViews method
-------------Override the ResourceAssemblyInfo property
-------------Override the ScriptDescriptorTypeName property
-----TextField
-----DateField
-----FlatTaxonField
-----AddressField
-----Build a custom field widget
---------Implement the field widget class
---------Implement the template
---------Implement the client widget
-Utility widgets: ResourceLinks widget
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Using routing for static files in sitefintiy
The blog post provides a sample on how to implement custom routing for static web forms in sitefinity.
Working with sitefinity layout controls programatically
The blog post provides a sample on how to work with layout controls on pages, how to query and create them in code.
Updated documentation articles,
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Blog Posts
Retrieving custom fields from revision history trough the API
The blog post provides a sample query using sitefintiy API for retrieving custom field values from revision history.
Making widget templates editable trough the UI part 2
The blog post samples the implementation of registration for editable custom widget templates together with all necessary prerequisites that make up those custom widget templates behave like the built in widget templates.
KB articles
String was not recognized as valid DateTime when configuring Analytics.
The KB article provides a fix for this problem when encountered using Analytics module.
The type System.SerializableAttribute exists in both assemblies
The KB article provides a fix if the problem with exception "System.SerializableAttribute exists in both assemblies" is encountered.
Updated Documentation articles.
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Displaying Additional User Information in a Sitefinity Forum Post
In this blog post the author sample how you could display additional user information in a Sitefinity forum post. This user information is coming from a custom field in the users’ profile.
Automatically Select All Parent Taxa When Selecting a Taxon in Sitefinity's HierarchicalTaxonField
The blog post provides a solution to the case when its essential to auto select all parent taxons of a selected hierarchical taxonomy.
Working with products module API
Update to the whole documentation section with CRUD operations over products in sitefinity
Configuring Dropbox library file hosting service
The documentation article is updated by adding more key points.
Adding comments widget and comments counter in widget template
Updated documentation article for how to add comments functionality on widget templates.
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Forms Duplication in Sitefinity CMS
In this blog post a sample query for duplicating forms built with sitefintiy forms module is provided to allow users to duplicate forms.
Right to left writing format for sitefintiy backend
This blog post explains the steps needed to customize sitefinity backend to support write to left display of all backend text.
Product types
Update to the API samples for working with product types in sitefinity
Products
Update to the API samples for working with products with sitefinity API
Product attributes
Update to the API samples for working with products attributes in sitefintiy ecommerce
Product variations
Update to the API samples for working with products variations in sitefintiy ecommerce
Departments
Update to the API samples for working with product departments in sitefintiy ecommerce
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Visual Studio integration tip - Control Designers
This blog post provides an explanation for generating control designers for sitefinity widgets with sitefinity thunder in visual studio.
Registration widget with integrated Captcha spam protection in sitefinty CMS
The blog post provides a sample of a customized registration widget that have integrated captcha in it.
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Hide custom field sections for different providers in multisite
Sitefinity search results widget renders search results for content that is saved in sitefintiy search index. In order to make the search result widget render a result which is not located in sitefinity search a search result can be added on the fly while searching.
Adding custom search results into sitefinty search results widget
In multisite scenario all sitefinity modules have the same custom fields and built in fields for all sites because custom fields are added to a whole type (NewsItem, BlogPost, etc.) and are not unique per site. A customization can be added to make certain fields hidden in some sites to
Upgrade
Added update to the new release of 6.3
Registering a new widget in Sitefinity
Updated article
Backend languages
Updated section
System requirements
Updated system requirements
Database changes between 6.2 and 6.3
New documentation article
Upgrading your Sitefinity 6.2 project to the latest version
New documentation article
Set rules for site URLs
New documentation article
Logging
New documentation article
Configure ELMAH on your site
New documentation article
Test error logging with ELMAH
Filter synchronized content
New documentation article
Synchronize SharePoint tags to Sitefinity classification
New documentation article
Synchronize items, filtered by a tag or classification
New documentation article
Complex filter conditions
New documentation article
Filter Sitefinity content
New documentation article
Filter SharePoint content
New documentation article
Importing and exporting taxes
New documentation article
Breaking changes in Sitefinity 6.3
New documentation article
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Global search and replace in Sitefinity content blocks
The blog post samples how to go through all pages, finding the content blocks and doing a search and replace in the html.
Adding image to a blog RSS feed
This blog post samples how to implement custom search pipe that will allow rendering of an image in Rss feed generated by sitefinity.
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Copy page groups between sites in multisite scenario
This blog provides a sample web form that can be used to copy a specific page and all of its child pages between two sitefinity sites in multisite scenario.
Include script tags in RadEditor in Sitefinity backend
In this blog post I will show you how you could customize RadEditor in Sitefinity backend.
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Implement Related Comboboxes in Widget Designer For Page Control in Sitefinity CMS
This blog post provides a tutorial and a sample on how to create related dropdowns in sitefinty widget designer.
Working with the Sitefinity Event System
The blog post provides tutorial on working with sitefinity events, subscribing and working with the event arguments.
Reordering Controls In Sitefinity Page Toolboxes
This blog post provides a sample query and functional sample on how to reorder sitefinity page toolbox controls and working with the configuration API.
Disable the backend UI
Newly added documentation article
Automatically mapped file
Newly added documentation article
Managing roles
Updated documentation article
Synchronized content
Updated documentation article
Prerequisites and restrictions
Updated documentation article
Inline editing
Updated documentation article
Multiple site management
Updated documentation article
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Custom form widget with dependent dropdowns
The blog post provides a sample on how to implement Sitefinity form widget that have two dependent dropdowns.
Create a Sitefinity Theme in a Class Library
The blog post provides a tutorial on how to create Sitefinity theme embedded into class library.
Forcing all site's traffic under SSL prevents publishing content and pages
This KB article resolves the problem when the whole site is set to be served under HTTPS and this results in a problem executing Sitefinity workflow service under HTTPS. The article provides a fix for this.
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Change how URLs of dynamic items are generated
This How To article outlines how to change the way URLs of dynamic items are generated to allow articles with the same title.
Filter by data provider the items displayed on backend pages
This How To article describes how to achieve filtering the backend when multiple providers are present.
Add a flat taxonomy as a custom attribute to a page
New documentation article.
Web Services
Updated documentation article
Querying pages
Updated documentation article
Forums events
Updated documentation article
Modifying images
Updated documentation article
Setup email notification for form responses
Updated documentation article
Tutorial: Add or remove tags and categories programmatically
Updated documentation article
Tutorials: Taxonomies
Updated documentation article
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Customize the label of the search button in a multiple site project
New how-to documentation article on customizing Sitefintiy search widget.
Subscribe to published comments submitted for news items
New documentation article.
Subscribe to news items' comments that are waiting for approval
New documentation article.
Forms events
New developer article on how to subscribe for the events of Sitefinity forums.
Profile events
New developer article on how to subscribe for the events of Sitefinity user profiles.
Comments events
New developer article on how to subscribe for the events of Sitefinity comments.
Comments REST service API
New Documentation article on using the Rest API for comments.
Customize Sitefinity workflow notifications
New how-to article.
List of web services
Updated documentation article.
Comments module
Updated documentation article.
Create an image selector for content items
Updated documentation article.
Web services overview
Updated documentation article.
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New articles
Explains how to resolve a problem with Sitefinity ModuleBuilder module items caused by enabling filter queries by view permissions in versions 6.x and 7.0
KB: How to resolve high CPU after sharing page link on Facebook
Elaborates on a problem caused by Byte Range Serving functionality being enabled and images stored on the File system, which reproduces when sharing links to Sitefinity pages in Facebook.
KB: How to Enable Manual Image/Document/Video reorder in Sitefinity’s backend
Explains how one can enable manual sorting of Sitefinity media items in the backend
Blog Posts:
What Happens When the Sitefinity User Limit Is Reached
Describes what happens when the maximum number of concurrent backend users is reached.
How to Add the Visual Studio MVC Features for a Sitefinity Project
Shows how to modify a Sitefinity project and enable all the nice productivity tools natively available in Visual Studio for ASP.NET MVC web applications
How To Display a Specific Selected Form From a Dropdown in Sitefinity CMS
Shows how to extend the built-in Forms widget to allow dynamic selection of the form to be populated by the user on the fronted of a Sitefinity page
Redirect unauthorized users to a custom page
Demonstrates how you can use Sitefinity out of the box functionality to directly control the logic of prompting users for login, when they are trying to access a restricted resource or action
How to check whether URL parameters are resolved in pages with MVC widgets
Explains how you can programatically check whether URL parameters are resolved in cases where we have pages with MVC widgets and widgets in details view mode
Indexing Content of Excel Files In Sitefinity CMS
Shows how you can create a custom text extractor to extend Sitefinity's Search functionality with indexing contents of *.xlsx files
Sitefinity Authentication Expiration
Explains what is the behavior controlled by the "Remember me on this computer" check box on Sitefinity's Login form
Give Your Visitors What They Want – Relevant Content
Shows how you can create explicit relationships between items and then display that information to visitors using Sitefinity CMS' Related content functionality
Unit Tests Using Unity Dependency Injection In Sitefinity CMS
Demonstrates how you can use dependency injection mechanisms for the code you write with Sitefinity to achieve better Unit testing.
Replacing a default view of a Sitefinity ContentView-based widget
Demonstrates how you can create custom Sitefinity widgets that behave just like the default ones, but can have your custom views set as default.
Creating a Responsive MVC Based Image Carousel in Sitefinity
Demonstrates how one can easily create a Sitefinity MVC based, responsive image carousel widget for a Sitefinity project.
Explains in details the Sitefinity CMS memory usage on startup
Slower website startup times when uploading to live
Lists useful tips from our development team that could help you investigate slower startup times when deploying your asp.net application to your live environments.
Creating a Custom Widget Designer using Sitefinity and Sitefinity Thunder Part 1
Creating a Custom Widget Designer Using Sitefinity and Sitefinity Thunder Part 2
Covers in details the newest way to create custom Designers for your widgets using Sitefinity Thunder.
31 Practical Uses for New Sitefinity 7.0 Features - Part 1
31 Practical Uses for New Sitefinity 7.0 Features - Part 2
31 Practical Uses for New Sitefinity 7.0 Features - Part 3
Provides a list of the practical uses for some of the new features available with Sitefinity CMS 7.0
How to speed up the build of your solution in Visual Studio
Elaborates on some essential settings to your project that could reduce the build time in Visual Studio by 5 minutes.
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KB: HttpContext issue in MVC Controller in 7.0
Since the launch of “Project Feather” there are significant breaking changes in Sitefinity 7 MVC API. This article explains how to revert back our “obsolete” functionality to overcome some reported issues related with HttpContext used in MVC Controller.
Latest blogposts:
Blog Post:Accent Insensitive Search in Sitefinity
This blogpost describes how to achieve accent insensitive search in Sitefinity CMS in a result of many client requests.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article: Create a custom widget to display responsive images
Describes how to create a custom image widget adapting to any device & resolution.
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Blog post:Extend Sitefinity SmtpSender
This article provides a workaround to retry sending mails that are marked as failed.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
KB:Related data cannot be retrieved in the DynamicContentUpdated event
This article provides a workaround to a known issue as related data cannot be retrieved from the dynamic item when the IDynamicContentUpdatedEvent is fired.
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KB:High CPU utilization and slower startup in version 6.2 and 6.3
This article explains how to deal with slow application startup (on Sitefinity 6.2 and 6.3)
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Cart Orders
This section provides you with an overview of the Cart Orders API in Sitefinity 7.0.
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Blog post:Library Selector for Sitefinity back-end
This article explains how to to select all media items in a certain folder or album without going through each of the items.
Blog post:Custom URL Formats for Sitefinity Content Modules
This is an updated blogpost how to generate custom url for a content type.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
KB:An exception is thrown when updating dynamic module fields on multilingual Sitefinity projects with configurations stored in the database
This article explains how to deal with an issue when you update the fields of your modules created with Module Builder.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Create custom fields for subscribers
Provides tutorial how to programmatically create a custom field for email subscribers.
Documentation article:Extend Sitefinity's data model
Provides tutorial how to create your own model with custom table definition and properties and persist your items in the database.
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Blog Posts
Library Selector for Sitefinity back-end
The blog post shows how a library selector field control could be implemented and used in Sitefinity. The selector covers use-case scenarios in which we want to select all media items in a certain folder or album without going through each of the items. It also allows you to select directly an entire album and its child folders, from which to retrieve all images, for instance.
KB articles
The NodeClick event of RadTreeView does not fire
The KB shows how Sitefinity users developing controls based on Telerik's RadTreeView can address a problem of the TreeView's server-side NodeClieck event does not fire
Documentation articles
The section contains various samples on how you can programatically work with controls on Sitefinity page, including:
Add a new user control to page
Add a layout control to a page
and their helper articles
Get the last control in a placeholder
The section contains updated and restructured information to allow for easier understanding and working with Sitefinity's Module Builder, including:
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Blog post: Taxonomy Field Control for Sitefinity Front-End
The blogpost shows how to implement a "lightweight" field control displaying all types of classifications.
Blog post:The Ultimate Guide to Managing Related Content on Your Website
This blogpost explains how to integrate a centralized resource library in Sitefinity CMS, thus avoid managing related content at the page level (by clicking multiple links and pages to post your new resources).
Blog post: Extending Page Route handler – configuring the page output cache to be non-browser specific
This blog post demonstrates how you can change the default behavior and implement a custom page route handler that will create non-browser specific cache.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Configure Sitefinity sitemap generator
This article explains how you can configure Sitefinity sitemap generator on site, page, or content item level. For more detailed information, you can check the following articles:
Documentation article:Reuse content
This section explains how in Sitefinity you can reuse content in another page or site or use a variation of the content instead of having to create the identical content all over from scratch. You can find how to perform the following:
Documentation article:Dynamic content widgets
This section section contains updated information about:
and new articles about:
Documentation article:Display child items in the widget template of the parent
This article explains when you have hierarchical dynamic content types and, instead of using the generated widgets to display the hierarchy, you want to use only the parent widget template.
Documentation article:Use CDN storage for content libraries
Provides steps to set Content Delivery Network storage for your content items. This section also includes how to:
Documentation article:Recycle bin
Provides information for the newly introduced "Recycle bin" module, which stores deleted objects, and allows the user to restore previously deleted data items. It also contains information how to:
Documentation article:Audit Trail module
This article provides information for the newly introduced Sitefinity module for keeping track of changes and actions in the system, recording who did what and when. It also includes detailed information about:
Documentation article:Enable debugging and tracing for applications
In this article, you will learn how to enable instrumentation for your application - both debugging and tracing with all necessary steps:
Documentation article:Submit forms using AJAX call
This article provides information on how to enable AJAX forms submit, by that reducing traffic and increase the performance.
Documentation article:AJAX Forms events
This article contains information about all events fired when a form is submitted and provides samples how to add custom logic.
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Blog post:Preselect field value in dropdowns using a Form Field Widget
This blog post explains how to add a preselected value to a form control.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Error loggingThis article explains how to implement ELMAH to keep all error events in your system. It contains the following helper articles:
Documentation helper article:SystemManager events
The article is about the SystemManager helper class, which exposes several events - ApplicationStart, ModelReset, ShuttingDown, Shutdown, where a user can hook up any custom logic.
Documentation helper article:Performance improvements in Sitefinity 7.1
The article contains a brief summary of the performance improvements made since Sitefinity 7.0
Documentation helper article:Modify the status of a cart order
The article provides detailed information of the cart order status values and also an API sample how to modify it trough code.
Documentation helper article:Enable multilingual search results in media libraries
The article provides an information of the necessary configuration steps to enable media library search results in other than the currently selected language.
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Blog post:Infinite scroll widget for Sitefinity supporting sorting and searching
This blogpost explains how to implement infinity scroll listview widget which supports also sorting and searching.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
KB:Sitefinity Image service does not return images
This article explains how to perform an image service call to retrieve the images in a specific library.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Infrastructure >> Audit Trail API
Provides samples how to use newly introduced Audit Trail module trough code
Documentation article:Dynamic module manager
This article provides samples for managing child items for specific type. It contains the following helper articles (with API examples):
Updated documentation articles:
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Blog post:How the new Sitefinity XML Sitemap Generator can improve your SEO
Provides information about newly introduced Sitemap Generator module - how it works and what are the benefits using it.
Blog post:Customizing Sitefinity’s dialogs
This blogpost is an answer to commonly asked question about customizing any Sitefinity’s dialog and offers a sample how to extend CustomSortingDialog for Events module.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
KB:Unable to install Sitefinity 7.1 version using the Sitefinity installer
This knowledge base article provides a solution to a common installation issue using SItefinity Installer on a non compatible OS.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:API changes in Sitefinity 7.1
Includes all API changes made since Sitefinity 7.0
Documentation article:Database changes between 7.0 and 7.1
Includes all database changes made since Sitefinity 7.0
Documentation article:Handle Recycle bin data events
Provides a valuable information for events firing when an item is recycled.
Documentation article:Scheduled permanent deletion of items in the Recycle bin
Contains a sample code how to schedule a deletion of recycle bin content
Documentation article:Modify Recycle bin items
This section describes how you can manipulate recycled items trough code.
Documentation article:Content types supported by Recycle bin for recycling and restoration
This section provides information about supported content types available for moving in or out of Recycle bin
Documentation article:Tutorial: Create Travelling Agency site
This article contains a step-by-step tutorial how to create up and running Traveling Agency site. It also includes the following helper articles:
And finally, here is a list of all updated articles:
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Blog post:Dynamic content in navigation
This post describes how you can display dynamic content in custom navigation control.
Blog post:EventHub - capturing global (aplication-wide, non type-dependent) events using IDataEvent
This post describes how you can attach to an event when Creating/Updating/Deleting any content item and execute some custom logic.
Blog post:Change the date portion of the Date/Owner column in Sitefintiy backend list of Pages to LastModified
This article provides a way to modify backend list view to show different data (e.g. change DateCreated to LastModified) with minimum development effort.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
KB:Custom FormsControl JavaScript error in Sitefinity 7.1
This article provides a solution of common problem when a custom form widget is used and after upgrade "Uncaught ReferenceError" in the browser console is thrown.
KB:How to fix the issues related to using Related Data fields in Sitefinity Multisite
This article explains how to overcome a bug reported (Dynamic Modules: Issue with Related Data in Multisite environment) when a RelatedData field is used for dynamic modules.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Styling guidelines
This helper articles provides styling information about "Tutorial: Create Travelling Agency site"
Documentation article:Create a search index that applies to group of pages
This article explains how to extend the default search functionality in Sitefinity and implement a custom InboundPipe to search in child pages of specific group page.
Documentation article:Extend Inline editing
Provides information about how to extend default inline editing toolbar to include a custom tool.
Documentation article:Filter dynamic content items
This article explains how you can apply filtering on hierarchy of dynamic types.
Documentation article:Display manually reordered media files in the backend
This article provides information how to apply custom ordering in Sitefinity backend for media files.
Documentation article:Authentication sign out API
This article offers an easy approach how to sign out a user using REST service.
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Blog post:Adding custom dialogs to Sitefinity ContentBlock. Any content link selector for ContentBlock
This blogpost demonstrates how to implement a custom Content Block tool, which could open new dialog with additional setting.
Blog post:Implement custom "System is restarting..." message in Sitefinity
Demonstrates an easy way to change the default "System is restarting..." message with a custom one.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
KB:How to fix incorrectly resolved on the frontend multilingual links to the non-default culture on the frontend in Sitefinity Ecommerce products
This KB addresses cases which have experienced the following bug, where inserting links for cultures other than the default in Ecommerce Long Text Fields is causing them to be resolved incorrectly on the frontend.
KB:Return Code 0 error when editing dynamic items after upgrade to 7.1
This article addresses a case when after upgrading to Sitefinity 7.1, users are unable to edit child items in hierarchicaldynamic modules. When an item is opened for edit, they user is presented with the Return Code 0 popup.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Localization
Provides information how to localize your site using Sitefinity API.
Helper article:Localize pages
Provides information how to localize page using Sitefinity API.
Helper article:Localize content items
Provides information how to localize content items using Sitefinity API.
Helper article:Localize dynamic content items
Provides information how to localize dynamic content items using Sitefinity API.
Helper article:Create a localized department
Provides information how to localize Ecommerce department using Sitefinity API.
Helper article:Add a translation to a localized department
Provides information how to add a translation to a localized Ecommerce department using Sitefinity API.
Helper article:Query, modify, and delete a localized department
Provides information how to query, modify, and delete a localized Ecommerce department using Sitefinity API.
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Blog post:Create search indexes that apply to different groups of pages
This blog post describes how you can extend the default page inbound pipe in Sitefinity in order to be able to create search indexes that apply to different groups of pages.
Blog post:Sitefinity Thunder - why you need it, how to install and set it up
This post, summarizes some of the most important features Sitefinity Thunder holds, taking you through the installation process and explains which features of Thunder you might use in different cases.
Blog post:Extend Sitefinity security. Add a custom claim
In this blog post you will see how the default simple web token service handler could be overridden by adding a custom claim. Then the claim will be validated by a custom token handler.
Blog post:Extend the Archive widget to use Dynamic Items
In this article is shown the way how to extend the Archive widget in order to show the Dynamic Items. The currently supported Items and setting up of the Build-in widget is described in that documentation article.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Change URL format for built-in modules with single content type
This article explains how to configure the URL format for built-in modules that have single content type. For example, News or Events.
Documentation article:Change the URL format of hierarchical dynamic modules
The article contains two samples you can use to change the URL format of dynamic content items.
Documentation article:Change URL format for modules with multiple content types
This article contains a procedure to configure the URL format for modules that have more than one content type. For example, Blogs module that has Bogs and Blog posts content types.
And finally, here is a list of all updated articles:
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Blog post:Extend Sitefinity security. Add a custom claim
In the blog post is shown how the SitefinitySiteMap and navigation could be extended to show nodes depending on custom criteria - specific user roles, page's view permissions role and other.
Blog post:Extend the Archive widget to use Dynamic Items
In this article is shown the way to extend the Archive widget in order to show Dynamic items. The currently supported items and setting up of the Build-in widget is described here.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Query localized items
This article contains an API sample how to query all dynamic items that have a localized field with a value that applies to a specific culture.
Documentation article:Retrieve image URL
This article contains two API samples how to programmatically retrieve the media URL or the thumbnail URL of an image using the image ID.
Documentation article:Retrieve page URL
This article contains information how to programmatically retrieve the URL of a specific page.
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Blog post:Extend the Archive widget to use Dynamic Items
In the blog post is shown how the SitefinitySiteMap and navigation could be extended to show nodes depending on custom criteria - specific user roles, page's view permissions role and other.
Blog post:Extend Sitefinity security. Add a custom claim
In this article is shown a way to extend the Archive widget in order to show dynamic items. The currently supported items and setting up of the build-in widget is described here.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Query localized items
In this article you can find information about query items that have a localized field in multiple cultures.
Documentation article:Retrieve image URL
Here you find find two API samples how you can programmatically retrieve the media URL or the thumbnail URL of an image using the image ID.
Documentation article:Retrieve page URL
Here you can find two samples about programmatically retrieving URL of a specific page.
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Documentation article:Create a localized page
This article contains a sample how to create a localized page trough code.
Documentation article:Add a translation to a localized page
This article contains a samples how to add a translation for other languages to a page.
Documentation article:Resolve dynamic links
Sitefinity enables you to automatically update the references you make from your content item to other content - media or pages - thus avoiding the need to update links manually every time referenced content is modified.
Documentation article:Insert a tooltip in the navigation
This article demonstrates how to insert a tooltip in the navigation
Documentation article:Sitefinity version compatibility with RadControls and OpenAccess versions
This article contains a list of all Sitefinity release since Sitefinity 4.0, showing the RadControls and OpenAccess version each uses.
And finally, here is a list of all updated articles:
Include pages in the sitemap
What's new
Built-in content modules
Localize pages
Localize products
Migrate a single site to a multisite instance
Creating a template using Master pages
Personalization of the website content
Prerequisites and restrictions
Blog posts widget
Automatic generation of Meta keywords, Meta description, and Meta title tags
Settings
How to create a CoverFlow control - Hosting the Silverlight application in the custom control
How to create a Book widget - Querying the images from an album
How to create a NewsRotator control - Creating an empty custom control
How to create a Book widget - Using RadBook for Silverlight
Creating pages
How to create a date picker control - Defining the date picker control
How to create a date picker control - Implementing the features of the control
How to create a CoverFlow control - Creating a custom control
Duplicate pages
How to create a CoverFlow control - Using RadCoverFlow for Silverlight
How to create a Book widget - Registering and using the control
Getting the value of a custom field
Creating Page Templates
Filter products widget
Product list widget
Example: Retrieve and create child items
Filtering and sorting products
Deploying Sitefinity projects to Windows Azure
System requirements
Querying users
Styling and customizing the Navigation widget
Twitter
Search indexes
Configure caching
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Blog post:Comment Notification Based on ApprovalStatus
The article depicts how all comments send their notifications while the comment is waiting to be approved.
Blog post:Removing product tax based on user role
A sample that removes tags for customers in an eligible role.
New documentation articles:
Documentation article:Revision history
This section demonstrates how to work programmatically with the revision history of the built-in content modules and pages.
Helper article:Manage the revision history of content items
This article contains several samples how to manage revision history of content items using the API.
Helper article:Manage the revision history of pages
This article contains two samples how to manage revision history of pages using the API.
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Extending Sitefinity SiteMap and navigation. Simple MVC navigation
In the blog post is shown how the SitefinitySiteMap provider and navigation could be extended to show nodes depending on custom criteria - specific user roles, page's view permissions role and specific user.
Minification of layout_transofrmation.css
In this blog post is explained how to minify layout_transformation.css as a result significantly decrease the file size and therefore the page load time.
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Customize Related Image thumbnail size
In this article is demonstrated how to manage various static and dynamic thumbnail sizes when display the related images of Dynamic Module content type.
Resolve any item Related Data with a single widget
In this blog post is shown how you to create a generic related data control that will resolve a related data fields items and display them on the front-end.
Modify Ecommerce Discounts - add or remove using specific criteria
In this blog post is explained how to modify the ecommerce discounts applied based on a custom criteria.
New articles:
and finally the updated articles:
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Extend the Sitefinity back-end forms grid and include an action to display subscribers
The blog post describes how to add a new Action command under the Forms Actions menu which on click will display the emails of the forms subscribers.
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This KB addresses a bug in Visual Studio 2013 reported by Microsoft, causing Sitefinity eCommerce to malfunction.
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This KB addresses cases which have experienced an issue, when creating
or editing content items using AlbumService in Sitefinity 7.2.5300 -
7.2.5310.
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This blog post will show how to customize the default subscribe widget such that front end users have the ability to select the mailing list they wish to subscribe to.
Progress Software Announces Agreement of Intent to Acquire Telerik
You may have seen some exciting news in the media recently – Telerik has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Progress Software.
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This KB addresses cases which have experienced an issue, when your Windows environment may be configured to use FIPS encryption that is conflicting with some part of the code in Sitefinity.
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Blog post: Showing the Selected Taxa in Sitefinity Module Items' Backend Grid
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KB: Unable to access Forms when the database is deployed on Azure
This knowledge base article provides a solution for a problem which might be encountered after an upgrade to Sitefinity 7.2 if your database is deployed on Azure and you are trying to access Forms list section or pages where forms control is placed.
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Blog post:Creating a Sitefinity MVC Slider with Parallax Effect
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Updated KB articles: Securing a Sitefinity Backend with SSL
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Upload and physical location of the application
Turn on database storage for configuration files
Libraries and Storage
Register the Analytics module
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Blog post: Multiple Media selector for Sitefinity Widget designers
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KB: Unable to access Pages section in Sitefinity
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Blog post: Publishing Sitefinity Content to Twitter with Tweetinvi
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KB: Events Calendar does not show the correct event time after Fall DST end has applied
This KB addresses an issue related with Calendar widget not showing correct event date
KB: Missing styling of tables inside content block on Firefox
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How to customize the UserProfile widget Edit mode templates using out of the box FieldControls
The blog post explains in details how one can customize Sitefinity's UserProfile widget template to facilitate user input when the widget is in Edit mode.
Improve the application start-up and the effects of page templates changes for websites with heavy load
The blog posts explains how to improve the application start-up and what are the effects of page templates changes for websites with heavy load
Get template layout controls by css class. Get and Set layout control html markup
In the blog post you could find useful information how to get the template layout controls by css class and how to get and set layout control html markup.
Latest Knowledge base articles:
White spaces in front of inline tags are being deleted in Content block widget
This KB addresses cases in which when a plain text is added in the Content block's text area which is not wrapped by a paragraph and which have some styles added, the space in front of the bolded words are being deleted.
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Get template layout controls by css class. Get and Set layout control html markup
This blogpost shows a way to get a control by css class programatically.
Products of a specific product type cannot be opened.
This KB demonstrates how to overcome a problem, related with opening a product from the product grid.
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How to add predefined values to the backend create view of Dynamic content items
This article explains how to add predefined values to text fields in dynamic item.
Extend Content Block Media Upload Logic: Pre-selecting a Default LIbrary
This blogpost demonstrates how you can extend the default logic of the Image/Video/Document upload of Sitefinity's content blocks.
New KBs:
This KB article addresses an issue if you have upgraded to Sitefinity 7.3 and dynamic content items’ permissions are ‘Administrators only’ when the type itself has set different permissions, and as a result the upgrade has failed.