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Cannot connect to Windows 10 Pro from MacOSX (Big Sur) using Microsoft Remote Desktop
I’m sure there’s tons of articles out there (I went through several of them but didn’t find one that solved my problem) so I’m putting this out there incase this helps people like me whose brain goes out the window from time to time! Problem I have an Intel Nuc with Windows Pro in my…
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Can’t view Episerver Form Submissions? Check access rights…
I received a question today from one of our clients – he is an in-house developer who have just set up a new Episerver Form for his editors. While he can see the form submissions, the WebEditors cannot view the form submissions. Problem This was his original question – “I noticed that users with web…
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Inconsistent cart behaviour in a load-balanced website
Problem One of the websites we’re looking after is an e-Commerce website running on 5 web servers, load balanced in AWS with sticky sessions enabled, with the architecture shown above (simplified): There’s several issues with running sticky sessions in an e-Commerce website. One of them is the inevitable customer losing his/her session when one web…
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How to exclude shortcuts / redirects from the search results in Episerver
Have you set up shortcuts / redirects for some of your pages in Episerver that you are now seeing duplicate results in your site search? One is the correct page and the other is the shortcut page? There are several approaches to exclude shortcuts / redirects from your search results: I took the first approach…
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How to move an Episerver category under another
Ever needed to move an Episerver Category under another? I could not find a way to do this in the UI so I had to it the old-fashioned way of jumping straight to the database. Warning: You’re not supposed to change data against CMS databases directly as you can easily break sh*t. If you’re in…
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A Chat with Alex about the Common Pitfalls in Digital projects
During the Episerver Ascend APAC 2020 here in Sydney, we did a presentation about “Avoiding common pitfalls to future-proof your next project“, where we went through 5 common issues that shorten the lifespan of CMS and e-Commerce sites based on our experience. As a follow up, we got the chance to chat with the new Episerver CEO,…
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How to make the most of Episerver Find
I’ve recently encountered a few clients who have been using Find for quite a few years now and while the search and filters are working, they are not using much of its optimisation functions. So I’ve decided to write this post to go through out-of-the-box (OOTB) optimisation features of Epi Find, and show sample implementations…
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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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