Martin Danko Customer Success Manager at Kentico Software

Is the Kentico 8 installer ignoring IIS that is already installed on your computer, and instead it tries to set up its own IIS Express, bound to port 8080.

Are you experiencing problems where some methods or macros return false or NULL, or a different value is returned for authenticated and public user and these methods worked before applying a hotfix for version 7?

Are you wondering if it is possible to export the reports in Kentico to Microsoft Excel?

For this Example scenario, let's say you want to place multiple repeaters with carousel to render content from different paths with different properties.  In this scenario, all the carousels on the page will scroll when you scroll the desired carousel, so let me explain how you can change this behavior.

In some specific scenarios the SUM of the poll percentages is not 100%.  This is due to the default rounding set and only integer numbers are displayed.

You would expect this Gallery to work in a similar way as Lightbox Gallery, so you can simply open the image in the Lightbox pop-up, and then navigate through the images.  However, this is not the default behavior for the Attachment image gallery.

When using SSL with a load balancer and sending a non HTTPS request to the other nodes within the web farm, it’s possible that src: url() link in CSS style sheets and the style sheet itself, will be rendered under both HTTP and HTTPS protocols. 

Add a custom field to Orders tab in Kentico 7

Many clients think that minification is not working correctly because when they try open the CSS/JS file with minification setting enabled; it’s exactly the same so they don’t see any “optimizations”.

This process can be used to restore one or more databases from an existing SQL backup file. This is an efficient way to make copies of a database under separate names for testing purposes.

By default the Media selection control contains an alternate text field, unfortunately the purpose of this field is to enter alternate text directly in combination with CKEditor in an Editable region.  Since this alternate text is stored in the CMS_Document table with the document's content, the text is rendered directly on the page and it cannot be used within transformations.

By default only a global administrator, blog author, and users with Manage comments permission are able to delete comments on Blog.  What if you would like to allow all users to be able to delete their own comments, but not anyone else's unless they have the manage comments permission?

When you are using Workflow (WF) with versioning along with check-in/check-out functionality, product documents are checked-in so they cannot be edited.  In this case it’s necessary to follow the WF process and update not just the SKU, but also the related document.

As we do not want to store the same data in the database multiple times (to avoid duplicity) we are also doing  some changes on-the-fly directly via hotfixes. These are not major changes, just minor ones, but in some cases, this could affect your custom code depending on the database fields you are using.

This article gives you instructions on how to restrict access to the CMS Desk (or to any other area within Kentico CMS) for non-authenticated users:

If you are using Gmail as your e-mail and you don’t have your own SMTP server, you can take advantage of using Gmail as your SMTP server in Kentico.

jQuery in the mobile version of the E-commerce example site contains two fields with a watermark (e-mail and comment) that are located in the contact section.  This KB article provides a step-by step guide on how to add your custom field(s) with custom watermark.

The default behavior that occurs after submitting a new post/reply is, the whole page gets refreshed and it goes to the top of the forums page.  This article describes how to change the default behavior, so the page will load the latest post in the forum, after the page is refreshed.

Kentico’s core jQuery libraries are loaded once a user is authenticated, since they are used by the CMS Desk.  In some cases, this may inadvertently break the functionality of your custom JS. The following is a workaround to prevent the CMSPortalManager control from rendering the default JavaScript libraries when a user is authenticated, but not when a user enters into the CMS desk.

Our built-in jQuery is loaded by default, so it’s not possible to use a simple jQuery “$” quotation in version 7 with your custom JS.  Instead you need to use the noConflict() mode.

Do you want to allow the exporting of reports to others users besides global administrators?  Unfortunately, it’s not about having the correct permissions.  In this case, the functionality is only available for the Global Administrator user by default.  It’s necessary to make some modifications to the code file below.

There is a similar solution in the Kentico forums which will not work when using newer versions of Kentico CMS; this is because the Date Picker was changed from the default .NET, to a JavaScript file using the jQuery library.

Do you know that Kentico CMS has a built-in jQuery library? This article provides you with some details on how to correctly implement jQuery into your website, to avoid any conflicts with other JavaScript libraries.

This article provides an example of getting the first TreeNode from the TreeNodeCollection of CMSContext.CurrentDocument.Children using LINQ method FirstOrDefault().

This article provides an example of displaying SSRS report in Kentico.

This article provides an example of excluding (deleting) events of a specific user from the Event log.

This article describes how to hotfix setup files when applying a hotfix via the Kentico Installation Manager (KIM).  These setup files include external utilities, like: ADImport, Import Toolkit, and the KIM utility itself.