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Quick tip: how to easily enable content filtering for your editors

Jeroen Fürst — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:00:00 GMT

Almost everytime when I am providing editor training I am being asked if and how it's possible to filter content. In this post I will show you how easy it is to configure custom filters for your content types using alternative forms and achieve extreme fast result.

Help! My Kentico database is corrupt after importing the CI repository

Jeroen Fürst — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 06:00:00 GMT

Quite recently, one of our development teams panicked when all of a sudden they were confronted with the Kentico Database Setup wizard. After having a quick look we noticed that the database and contents was still there except the CMS_SettingsKey table which was empty...

Content Personafication

Jeroen Fürst — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 06:00:00 GMT

Influencing the output of content based on the target audience in Kentico is very easy. This post contains the basics to get you familiar with personas and personalisation using two handy Kentico macros.

How to create your own cool custom report module in Kentico

Jeroen Fürst — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 06:00:00 GMT

This post contains steps to create a new Kentico module using a custom UI template and custom UI web part to display a sample report. It will allow you to grant access to single reports by simply configuring roles and permissions. No coding required!

Update: Tips for becoming a Kentico Certified Developer

Jeroen Fürst — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 07:00:00 GMT

It seems like a hot topic at the office these days. Everyone wants to get certified in their specific areas. As my team specializes on development with Kentico, i'd like to help them out by providing my experiences hopefully resulting in a succesfull outcome.

Upgrade to 9: How to handle the missing page related views

Jeroen Fürst — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:00:00 GMT

Over the last couple of weeks we have worked on several upgrades of our existing sites to Kentico 9, which was released last month. While the upgrade process overall went pretty smooth, one issue popped up in almost all of our cases. In our projects we tend to leverage page related views (View_[ClassName]_Joined) in repeaters/univiews with custom queries which are removed during the upgrade process. This post will give you insights on how we handled this.

Quick tip: how to export a media library with files

Jeroen Fürst — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:00:00 GMT

Exporting stuff in Kentico is super easy if you know your options. Almost every screen or grid provides you with the option to export the desired object. In the case of the media library we not only want the object definition but also the files that are uploaded. Follow the steps below to get the complete set.

Using K# transformations in form fields

Jeroen Fürst — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:24:51 GMT

Have you ever struggled with transforming the selected value of a drop down list into a human readable form? The combination of K# and Kentico forms allows you to just do that without even breaking a sweat.

Clean unused memory automatically (or not?)

Jeroen Fürst — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:21:02 GMT

About a month ago I showed you how you can easily reduce the number of project files by uninstalling modules using the Kentico Installation Manager. The goal was to reduce the memory usage of the application pools and to speed up the build of your Kentico projects. In this post I will continue the road to a better performing website and show you how you can leverage the scheduled tasks in Kentico to keep your memory profile as low as possible.

Pages crawler not returning search results

Jeroen Fürst — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:37:08 GMT

We are a big fan of widgets in our projects and this typically requires us to use a specific smart search index type to scan our content. In these scenarios it is recommended to use the pages crawler index type which indexes the HTML output of the pages. The pages crawler is more accurate than the standard pages index type as it also indexes content rendered via web parts and widgets.

Choose your modules wisely!

Jeroen Fürst — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:30:17 GMT

A couple of performance related topics seem to catch my attention lately. It concerns questions about the choice of using a website versus web application project type, reducing the memory usage of the application pools and speeding up the continuous integration build speed. My plan is to post a couple of blogs in the next couple of months to help you understand the requirements and provide you with practical tips that you can start using today.

Mobile layouts in Kentico 7

Jeroen Fürst — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:32:07 GMT

Hi everyone, my name is Jeroen Fürst and I am Kentico MVP & lead engineer at IBL-Software in The Netherlands. With this post I would like to share my view on the new mobile features of Kentico version 7. For more information, tips & tricks and my overall Kentico experiences I would like to invite you to follow my blog.

Tips and Tricks: Building Highly Scalable Websites

Jeroen Fürst — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:11:26 GMT

15 tips for optimizing your websites performance.

Copying web parts via the context menu

Jeroen Fürst — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:34:16 GMT

This tweak is similar to the "Widgetizer!" script I posted and allows you to copy web parts from one page template to another.

Widgetize!

Jeroen Fürst — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:22:10 GMT

This tweak will allow you to create configured widgets from your configured web parts.

Integrating the Google translate service

Jeroen Fürst — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:48:01 GMT

This post will show you how I integrated the Google translate service with Kentico CMS 5.5R2.

WebDAV and custom file extensions

Jeroen Fürst — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:02:23 GMT

With version 5.5R2 it will be possible to modify documents via the WebDAV protocol. I have been playing around with this feature and wanted to share some experiences that I have come across.