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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…
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Episerver CMS Audit NuGet package
In my last Episerver post, I talked about a tool that provides visualisation on how content types are used across multiple sites. I finally got the chance to package it up and make available as a NuGet package. I haven’t published it in any feed as I’m not sure how stable it is so please use…
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How to setup an Umbraco CMS from scratch and host in Azure
In this blog post, we will go through what it takes to setup a new Umbraco CMS for hosting in Azure. If you can’t be bothered hosting this on your own, you can always use Umbraco’s cloud offering, and skip this entire tutorial. There are three steps: Azure – prepare your resources (web app, database,…
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How to setup your Umbraco media folder with an Azure storage account
In this blog post, we will go through how you can setup your Umbraco media files to use an Azure storage account. This process involves installing the NuGet package UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure. Pre-requisites: Before proceeding below, make sure you already have an Azure Blob storage account with at least one container (i.e. media) and that you have…
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