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Minor change in the pages architecture

Jaroslav Kordula — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:22:58 GMT

In the Content Management team, we have spent some time analyzing the gaps in the Pages API performance and we have implemented the first steps to bring some improvements into Kentico 8.1.

Kentico 8 Technology – Custom tables data API

Jaroslav Kordula — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:00:00 GMT

Read this article if you are interested in details about custom tables and managing custom table data using the API.

Kentico 8 Technology – DocumentQuery API

Jaroslav Kordula — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:00:00 GMT

If you like the concept of DataQuery API discussed in previous articles by Martin Hejtmanek, you should definitely read this article about the benefits of new document API using DataQuery.

Kentico CMS 8: How to Keep Your Content Consistent and Well-structured

Jaroslav Kordula — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 05:25:11 GMT

In this blog post I will show you what restrictions can be applied to content editors to ensure your site structure remains consistent and well-structured.

Visual Workflow Designer: Improved usability in hotfix 7.0.11

Jaroslav Kordula — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:03:53 GMT

One of our team members, Jiri Slapak, implemented two minor usability improvements for the Visual Workflow Designer during "innovation time". We decided to integrate these changes into the recently released hotfix 7.0.11, so you can benefit from them. Read further to see what's new.

How to: Affect Logging of Staging Tasks

Jaroslav Kordula — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:45:46 GMT

In this blog post I will show you how you can easily affect the logging of staging tasks for documents and objects using the LogChange handler(s) introduced in version 7.

How to Customize the Workflow Manager

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:42:45 GMT

In this last blog post from the series of blog posts focused on Advanced Workflow module, I will show you how you can customize the WorkflowManager class to provide the last missing piece in the process of creating a custom Parallel Approval action.

How to Create Custom Workflow Action

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:31:24 GMT

In my previous blog post about the new Advanced Workflow module, I gave you a quick overview on how to register a custom workflow action. Today, as promised, I will guide you step by step through the complete process of implementing and registering the custom action. As you will see, it's pretty simple and straightforward.

Kentico CMS 7: Advanced Workflow

Jaroslav Kordula — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:02:57 GMT

Building the content of a website with several editors usually comes with the need to approve this content before publishing, to provide reliable and consistent information to site visitors. This is one of the many scenarios where the Workflow module can be applied. The Advanced Workflow module, with features like branching based on macro conditions, user choices, automated actions and timed actions, brings more power in defining document approval processes to cover even advanced scenarios.

Kentico CMS 7: Minor Workflow Improvements

Jaroslav Kordula — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:25:56 GMT

In addition to the new Advanced Workflow module, which will allow users to create advanced workflow processes including branches based on macro conditions, automated actions and timed actions, version 7 comes with several minor improvements to the current basic workflow.

Displaying custom data

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:06:32 GMT

Sometimes you may want to display the data stored in the database within your custom table. This brief article describes the way how you are able to achieve this using the portal engine development model without need to use any additional development tool.

Using different graphics for different site sections

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:06:31 GMT

In some cases, you may want to display a different header or graphics for different site sections. This article explains how you can easily achieve that using the Kentico CMS portal engine.

Styles according the client's browser

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:06:03 GMT

Sooner or later every web developer realizes that variety of the browsers used by the clients make CSS styling quite complicated. The compatibility between browsers is a problem today and different ‘hack’ techniques need to be used to achieve your page is displayed the same in every browser.

Adding custom fields into RegistrationForm web part

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:05:47 GMT

Following article shows how you can add new field (UserCity in our example) into 'User' system table and then allow user to enter value of this field when he is registering to the site using RegistrationForm web part.

Integrating 3rd party components in Kentico CMS

Jaroslav Kordula — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:05:47 GMT

Example of integrating ComponentArt menu. This article describes how to add a 3^rdparty menu control in Kentico CMS. In this example we will add a menu control from ComponentArt.