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Updates in developement - Q1 2023

We are currently upgrading the CMS backend. Here are some highlights.
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Office 365/Azure AD Login

It is now possible to use Azure AD (Office 365/Microsoft) for secure login in entity/eRedaktør.
It needs a few steps to set up, and can be customized to your needs.
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Next version on .NET Core 6/7

We are currently working on the brand new version of our CMS.
The rendering engine is a complete rewrite in Razor Pages, and the backend is built with Blazor.
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Webhooks

Our CMS supports webhooks that can be used with Microsoft Teams, Slack and others. It is useful for notifications from the eCommerce, the forms module, or other actions that needs your attention.
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Server-side analytics

To make a great website you need to know how your site is being used by the visitors, and the most common tool for this is Google Analytics. Entity CMS also includes basic server-side analytics. This allows for tracking of page views and referrer sites even if Google Analytics is blocked or not installed.
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More GUIDs

Most tables in our database have GUID fields, but we didn't use them very much, untill now. It is now possible to use GUIDs in itemlists, multieditors and more to define the template(s).
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New attributes for er:value

You can now define custom content or html before and after the value, if value is defined.
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Using Sass/SCSS on the developement server

We have installed Web Essentials in our developement environment. This gives access to compiling Sass (and more) on publish or on demand.
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Vipps payment integration

We have now added direct Vipps mobile payment integration for Norwegian customers. To active it, make sure the website is running the latest version.
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.NET 5 and the road ahead

By the end of 2020 Microsoft will have released their brand new version of .NET. The final unification of .NET Framework and .NET Core.
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Extracing only some files or images

Sometimes you are upgrading a site, but plan to just create a new site and move parts of the images and/or files. Here we will cover both the database and file-part.

Upgrading from Entity Framework 4 to 6

There are some functions that have gotten new names in EF5 and EF6, but we don't want custom code on websites crash. So what do we do?

Database errors after upgrading

If you receive a standard asp.net error message (yellow page) that some fields do not exist, it is most likely a database upgrade that has not gone as it should. There may be various reasons for this, so here is a tool that will allow you to retry upgrades.

Adding a site to Azure DevOps

Just a short description for one way to do this for Enterprise sites.