Author: Nicola
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My Episerver Ascend 2019 Notes
The original post was published in the Niteco website but I’ve decided to also add it here in my own blog. This is a 5-min read, which hopefully helps those who have missed the conference. CMS Updates There have been several updates made to the CMS lately, and here’s my favorite: enhancements to block editing…
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How to fix the Mac error – “You can’t open the application because it may be damaged or incomplete”
All of a sudden my husband’s macbook could no longer open any OSX apps, including Safari, App Store, iMovie, Photos, etc. Once attempted to be opened, the app icons show a ? instead of the usual app icon. He would then get the following error: You can’t open the application because it may be damaged…
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Azure DevOps – The command “gulp build” exited with code 134.
I had a CI/CD pipeline working for a long while now without any issues in Azure DevOps. All of a sudden, my build starts breaking with the following error: The command “gulp build” exited with code 134. GulpBuild: gulp build gulp build[3232]: src\node_contextify.cc:633: Assertion `args[1]->IsString()’ failed. Probably spent a good 2 hours getting to the…
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The element DataSyncEncryptionKey is not supported in Microsoft Azure SQL Database v12
Bump. Did you also get the following error after trying to export a database in Azure? Could not extract package from specified database. The element DataSyncEncryptionKey_XXX is not supported in Microsoft Azure SQL Database v12. I’ve had to contact Azure Support recently who were able to help me fix this problem. Even though there was…
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How to localise your 404 custom error page in Episerver
I feel like there is a better / easier way of doing this but I couldn’t find a resource online that works (and there isn’t much I could find at the time of writing). So I’m sharing this post as an option that works, incase you haven’t found a better solution. For those who have…
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A simple editable robots.txt in Episerver
This post will show you how you can easily author a robots.txt content for your Episerver site. Step 1: Add a CMS property “Robots.txt” In my case, I added this property to my StartPage [Display( Name = “Robots.txt”, GroupName = Groups.MetaData, Order = 835)] [UIHint(UIHint.Textarea)] public virtual string RobotsTxt { get; set; } Step 2: Create…
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Episerver Forms – Cannot set property ‘$workingForm’ of undefined
This took me a little while to figure out and there isn’t any helpful resource online at the time of writing (according to Google anyway) regarding this error so I think this deserves a blog post… Problem I am on Episerver.Forms 4.18.0 and I’ve been getting this error on my browser console intermittently. Sometimes it…
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Expose FontAwesome icons to the Episerver rich text editor (TinyMCE)
For those who need to expose font icons to your Episerver rich text editor, the below might help… My plugin uses FontAwesome 5.3.1. The code is on Github. References that helped direct me to this solution: Josh18 (TinyMCE for Joomla) – https://github.com/josh18/TinyMCE-FontAwesome-Plugin FortAwesome (ofcourse) – https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/advanced-options/metadata/icons.yml TinyMCE doco – https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/
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How to extend Episerver Forms
UPDATE: On the 31st July, Episerver released Form field dependencies, which is available on Episerver.Forms version 4.15.0. So if you got here because you’d like to have a dropdown that has dependencies on other elements, just update your Episerver.Forms package. Otherwise, if you’re here to see how you can extend Episerver Form fields, the below…
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Azure – Horizontal vs Vertical scaling
Yesterday, the Azure South Central datacenter got impacted by a severe weather event which caused a lot of systems going down, including 7 of my personal websites, 1 of them being this blog. I mentioned this to a few colleagues on separate conversations and interestingly both conversations ended up with a discussion around auto-scaling in…