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Installing Sitefinity Thunder into Visual Studio 2015
If you have tried to install Sitefinity Thunder (v 1.5.0.1) from the Nuget package manager inside of Visual Studio 2015, you might have gotten the error below that “the extension is not supported on...
View ArticleComplex Custom Properties for Sitefinity Content
In my previous post I talked about basic access of custom properties in Sitefinity. Namely, strings and numbers. Those alone cover a lot of what you’d use when it comes to custom fields on built-in...
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Relating Data in Sitefinity Content
In my previous post discussing properties on custom content, I delved into some of the more complex types that can be properties, including classifications and related media. This post will get into...
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Working with Hybrid Forms in Sitefinity Widgets
Throughout the course of web development, you often find yourself in a situation where you need data input from your user. Scenarios range from a simple contact form, to something as complex as a...
View ArticleCustomizing Search Result URLs in Sitefinity
One of Sitefinity’s many features is its search capabilities. Using Lucene under the hood, Sitefinity indexes your site content, both built-in content types and dynamic content types, along with static...
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Sitefinity Status Page HTTP Response Codes
When working with the new Web Services module or WCF services in Sitefinity, you want to be able to allow the requesting clients to properly respond to and handle a failed request. This is generally...
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Accessing Sitefinity Roles in Code
When developing custom solutions in your Sitefinity application, you may need the ability to work with Sitefinity roles. As a developer, you would reach out to the RoleManager that Sitefinity provides,...
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Lock Down Content Widgets with UrlKeyPrefix
When you’re working with your content in Sitefinity, a very common practice to display said content is to provide a list and details view. On the page (or pages) containing these views, it is often...
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How to Customize Sitefinity Search Templates
If you ever tried customizing Sitefinity search templates, you quickly realize there isn’t a way to do it through the search widget. Almost all other widgets have an option to update the template or...
View ArticleGet Images from Custom Field in One Query – Sitefinity
Consider a situation where we have a custom image field (let’s call it ImageGallery) and we would want to get all images from all items of the module. Let’s take an example of the News module with the...
View ArticleAdd Namespaces to Sitefinity RSS Feed
Alternative Publishing is a useful feature of Sitefinity. I’ve been using it since a long time but recently I had a situation where I needed to add Dublin Core Metadata Element Set elements like...
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Document Selector Field in Sitefinity
Sitefinity Thunder lets you create field controls very easily which can be added to custom modules. However some work is required particularly when you need to have a selector field. Recently I built a...
View ArticleUsing AngularJS with Sitefinity – FalafelCON slides and resources
I had a blast at FalafelCON. I met some wonderful developers who are using Sitefinity and had very in-depth talks with most of them. I also had the privilege to talk about Using AngularJS with...
View ArticleSitefinity Feather an Introduction – FalafelCON slides and resources
I had a wonderful opportunity to talk about Sitefinity Feather at FalafelCON 2014. If you attended my talk and are looking for slides and code for the samples we covered in the talk, here they are PPT...
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Sitefinity: Page Selector Field for Multisite
Multisite is a great feature in the Sitefinity, which helps you centrally manage multiple sites using one administration panel. Few days ago I was working in a same environment where I needed to add a...
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Fix for Sitefinity Backend Search Bug when Removing Fields from Dynamic...
I ran into an issue in Sitefinity recently, where removing a field from a custom content type caused made the backend search on that type fail. I reproduced this issue on a fresh Sitefinity site, to...
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Live On-Site Sitefinity Training with Lino Tadros Announced
Falafel is offering four days of training comprised of training for your entire web team. Day one: Dedicated to business users Day two: Focused on designers and admins Day three and Four: Two full 8...
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Free Webinar: SharePoint & Sitefinity, the Perfect Match
Much like the perfect union of peanut butter and jelly, some development tools — like Microsoft SharePoint and Telerik Sitefinity CMS — are a match made in heaven. The perfect complement of...
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Sitefinity 8.0 has arrived at Falafel.com
Telerik recently released Sitefinity 8.0, adding a whole lot of great features to the already powerful CMS. We were so excited for Sitefinity 8.0 that the same day it came out, we offered classes on...
View ArticleSitefinity Custom PageInboundPipe
Sitefinity search is very handy which is powered by Lucene. It indexes the pages content by rendering them in-memory – creates index named folder with files in App_Data\Sitefinity\Search. I recently...
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Falafel Software and Mammoth Mountain named a 2014 Telerik Sitefinity Website...
Every year Telerik, a Progress Company, honors those websites that have gone above and beyond to create an innovative and unique web experience using the Telerik Sitefinity CMS. This year we are...
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Storing Sitefinity Sites In Source Control
Issues with Content Management Systems and Source Control When developing a Sitefinity web site, you run into some challenges when it comes to properly storing your work in source control. Out of the...
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How to Upload Files to your Sitefinity Document Library Asynchronously
Sometimes, it is necessary for users of your site to be able to upload files to Document Libraries in an asynchronous manner. They could be creating user-generated content and require a space to...
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Retrieving Simple Custom Properties from Sitefinity Content Items
Sitefinity offers many extension points to its core content types, as well as letting you create completely customized content types of your own via the Module Builder. You can add custom fields to...
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Quick Links to Sitefinity Resources
Whether you’re setting up your very first Sitefinity website or upgrading to the latest version, at some point you’re probably going to need to hunt down one or more of these items. Hopefully this post...
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