As part of the process of preparing the Sitefinity Toolkit 1.1 update for release later this weekend, I needed to upgrade my sites to the latest Sitefinity SP3 update. For those of you who’ve done this, you know it’s MOSTLY a simple process, but can get tricky when copying the /Sitefinity folder files, because, like […]
Category: Sitefinity 3
It’s no secret that I am a devout fan of the Sitefinity content management system by Telerik. But in developing a handful of sites over the past few years, I’ve discovered that I’m doing a lot of things over and over that I wish were part of the Sitefinity core. That’s where the Sitefinity Toolkit […]
As a developer, one of the things I hate most about my job is when people call me to fix their login errors, especially when the problem is a forgotten password: Are you sure you remember your password? Yes. Are you sure you typed the password correctly? YES! Are you SURE? YES!! Do you have […]
If you need to ensure that the RadPanelBar control (which I use for sidebar navigation) remains expanded, check out the RadPanelbar1_ItemDataBound method in the control located at /Sitefinity/UserControls/Navigation35/SitePanelBar.ascx. This control checks the hideUrlForGroupPages, removing the link if set to true on your control. However, this doesn’t prevent the link from being active, collapsing the nodes […]
One of the recent features added to Sitefinity that I’ve recently begun making use of is the Viddler video integration. However, the module itself stands alone, and I was in need of a way to link the individual videos to specific news stories, and vice-versa. Fortunately, after spending some time with my favorite tool Reflector […]
In case you are using some of the Custom Index Providers I blogged about previously, you may encounter some errors when upgrading to the new Sitefinity 3.6 SP1 that was released this week. The problem is that the IIndexerInfo interface how requires a new method, ResolveIndexPath(). Since the Sitefinity team is still catching up on […]
On my personal website I have a section where I feature my music, categorized as songs I’ve written, remixed, and mix sets that I’ve produced. Using the built-in category view for generic content, I can show different lists of my music based on the selected category passed via query string. Unfortunately, Sitefinity currently shows the […]
NOTE: This post has been superceded by the Sitefinity Toolkit whcih contains a search provider for news, events, and generic content items. This post remains for reference only. Sitefinity has a very useful search-indexing feature that works pretty much out-of-the-box to index pages, blogs and news. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any built-in provider […]
One of the more interesting challenges I’ve encountered with Sitefinity has been how to handle error pages, specifically the 404 error that should be returned if a page is not found. Sitefinity uses the built in ASP.NET error handling mechanism, which allows you to redirect to a specific page based on the error code returned […]
After reading part 1 of this SiteFinity File Manager series, you should now have the file manager in Sitefinity’s RadEditor dialog set to load in a default folder. The only thing left is to restrict access to other folders. Additionally, we need to set the default upload folder for incoming files. FileManager Permissions By default, […]