36 results found
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CMS 12 removed the fallback language in content area UI
In our solution, we have 31 different languages, and thus a lot of language fallbacks both for pages and blocks. In CMS 11, we could easily spot the blocks in a content area that were a fallback, it would be a slightly darker grey and also had the locale name it was falling back to on it. In CMS 12, this functionality disappeared. Our editors use a lot of blocks on their pages and are missing this sorely. Could you please consider readding this feature?
4 votes -
Adding multiple blocks under Personalization group
EPiServer.CMS version 12.22.7
When trying to add multiple blocks under one personalization group with the same visitorgroup, they can't be merged together as it is today. And when trying to do this as in the attached image, it is just the top item of the same visitorgroup that renders.
There is something that does not play well here. The correct behaviour we think should be to easely merge items with the same visitorgroup.13 votes -
More efficient loading of content area items
As a developer with aims for high performance, I would like the IContentAreaLoader interface to have a batch load method, to load all content area items at once, whether from inline content, cache or database. All while keeping the internal order of the items.
If I want to load all content area items at once, using IContentLoader.GetItems, then the order of the items is not guaranteed to be kept. So I am left with enumerating the list of items, and then calling IContentAreaLoader.LoadContent for each item.
If this is done, then I would like you to also use in in…1 vote -
Shared Blocks no longer showing UI hint that block is "Shared"
I've noticed that blocks that are "shared" and coming from a folder no longer show that they are shared in the UI.
EPiServer.Cms.Shell.UI: Version 12.24.0.0
This appears to be happening on multiple projects running CMS 12. See attached.4 votes -
Preview of documents when edititing.
In the previous version there has been an icon like a globe in the top right corner of Epi's editor where you have been able to open the current page you are editing in a new window with its external link (without seeing it in the editor. That ability is gone in version 12.22.3 but was present in version 12.20.0 of the EPIserver.CMS package.
We need that to preview our documents and to get the exakt url to the webpage.5 votes -
Provide status icons for content in content area editor
When content is expired in the CMS content tree, it displays a red clock icon to indicate expired status. When editing content in "All Properties" mode references inside content areas that are expired becomes hard to spot unless explicitly switching to "On-Page Editing". Having the status icons present inside content areas would be great assistance to editors that want to work with clean content.
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Convert blocks
As a developer/administrator, I want to be able to convert blocks like I can convert pages so that I can merge blocks resulting in a cleanup of content and less work for our content editors.
This isn't a new feature request and has been popular on the old forum; see: https://world.optimizely.com/forum/legacy-forums/Feature-requests/Thread-Container/2014/9/Convert-Blocks/. (https://world.optimizely.com/forum/legacy-forums/Feature-requests/Thread-Container/2014/9/Convert-Blocks/
In May 2020, Tomas Hensrud Gulla did a blog post on how he took the existing Convert Pages and made his own Convert Blocks variant with relatively little effort. See https://www.gulla.net/en/blog/convert-episerver-blocks/. (https://www.gulla.net/en/blog/convert-episerver-blocks/11 votes -
Easier cleanup of unused blocks
Maintaining the number of blocks is important to editors. When using Powershell module you can get a list of blocks that are not in use so editors can maintain content on the site.
The problem is that blocks that are located in "For This Page" folders does not contain the page information in the breadcrumb (see attachment. This means that it's hard to find the folder containing this block if you want to delete the block. Extending the breadcrumb to include the owner (page of the folder "For This Page" would help the editors to know the location.4 votes -
Set a default time zone for date/time editing
Currently in the CMS, time/date pickers are associated to the editors local time. This is problematic, because we have editors all over the US. Entering in time/date information incorrectly will lead to our event registration announcements displaying the wrong time.
For example, our servers are set to Central Standard Time, so we display date/times, we need to assume they were entered in as that time zone as well, or the time will be off.
Ideally we should be able to force the date/time picker to use the same time zone as the server.9 votes -
Add all the current .NET cultures to the CMS languages list
For example: We need to add the culture en-ES for a customer. It exists as a valid culture in .NET but is not available to select as a language in the CMS.
(In our setup it is not an option to use the default en language code for English on the spanish site.4 votes -
Remove multiple items in Content Area in one go
You can select multiple blocks, images and products from the asset pane (ctrl + click or shift + click and drag them into the Content Area. However, there is no way of doing the same thing if you want to remove them from the Contet Area. This is often the case for commerce customers that add 100 products to a campaign page and want to remove them some time after. Attached video shows CMS 11 but its the same for CMS 12.
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Unable to Delete a Block that with the 'not used anywhere' message
There are blocks that have the message 'not used anywhere' at the top. They were incorrectly created and need to be deleted. But from the offending block's edit URL, we're unable to find the Parent Block/Folder it was created under.
We're needing a 'link' that takes you directly to the Parent of this block. Otherwise, I can't easily delete the block.6 votes -
Default time zone should be changeable
Default time zone should be CET instead of UTC for CMS in Preproduction/Production
2 votes -
Add built in support for timezone agnostic DateTime
Episervers standard behaviour is to convert DateTime between database, application and editors depending on what time zone the application and editors are in. If would be nice if there would be built in properties (or editor hints to enable timezone agnostic date+time or date only selections. There's a blog post how to enable this written by Casper Aasgard (https://fellow.aagaardrasmussen.dk/2016/04/23/get-predictive-time-zones-in-datetime-properties/, but this requires you to add custom editors to the site. However, there's no premade extension for date-selection only.
This is probably quite easy to add as a standard functionality to the product, which would save a lot of…16 votes -
On-page comparison tool improvement
When comparing a submitted version of a page to the published version of a page, it would be helpful to have an indication of what content has been added, edited, or deleted. Currently we need to eyeball it to see what the submitter has changed and I'm sure edits are being missed. If we only had to check the places that were changed, it would streamline the process and lower the amount of time spent on each page.
5 votes -
As an editor, I'd like to see where my content blocks are used in the Catalog.
Currently, if we author a block within the catalog but then go to make edits to that block we often see "this block isn't used anywhere" but that is false. It would be helpful to know all the placements within the catalog.
9 votes
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