Hidden Foundry
There could be numerous reasons why this Episerver Find error message pop ups for you. Your Find nuget packages could need reinstalling. Maybe you forgot to include the index details in the web.config? or your index itself is expired.
For me, my adblocker extension in Chrome was blocking any communications to the Find Index. Turn it off and hey presto:
To fix; Inside web.config set optimizeCompilations to false
Since Umbraco 7.7, gone are the old ways you can reset your password by simply updating directly against the DB. Clear passwords no longer works and the admin tool created for easily doing this needs an update too since time of writing this post.
Here’s what you can do in the mean time if you can’t get into the back office and your password isn’t working on your local.
<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="">
<network defaultCredentials="false"
host="<smtp server" port="587"
enableSsl="true"
password=""
userName="" />
Email Contents:
Any issues, give me a shout and I’d be happy to help out.
Prior to EPiServer Forms 4.5, we were forced to inject in our own styling by editing the less files. This often resulted in breaking functionality where javascript were dependant upon these base CSS classes. EPiServer last year changed this by binding javascript to data attributes freeing us from styling shackles.
This article is for those that are struggling to put the pieces of styling EPiServer Forms together and want a straight forward example.
Create the follow class anywhere in your solution:
[ServiceConfiguration(ServiceType = typeof(IViewModeExternalResources))]
public class EPiServerFormsViewModeExternalResources : IViewModeExternalResources
{
public IEnumerable Resources
{
get
{
var rcList = new List();
rcList.Add(new Tuple("css", "/YourCssPath/CustomEPiServerForms.css"));
return rcList;
}
}
}
Create a css class anywhere in your solution and update the path in step where the text is bold in the previous step.
So here is where your front end designer comes in. You’ll need to provide the markup that will allow them to identify which classes style check section of the form.
Here’s an example for the textbox element
/* Textbox Element */
.FormTextbox .Form__Element__Caption {
color: orange;
}
.FormTextbox .FormTextbox__Input {
color: red;
}
The TextBox element will appear as follows on the episerver form:
Examples of other elements with their css classes:
| Form Element | HTML Tag | class name |
| Textbox | label | .FormTextbox .Form__Element__Captio |
| Textbox | input | .FormTextbox .FormTextbox__Input |
| Number | label | .FormTextbox–Number .Form__Element__Captio |
| Number | input | .FormTextbox–Number.Form .Textbox__Input |
| Submit | button | .Form__Element .FormSubmitButton |
You can investigate the remaining elements by looking at the ascx files located in EPiServerForms module folder in the ElementBlocks section:
Run the solution and navigate to the page where you’ve setup your EPiServer Forms example.
You will find that your css should be getting loaded in along with the page.
If a style isn’t getting applied but you know it’s being attached to the html tag then try applying the css keyword !important. Sometimes you may be using bootstrap classes and that is overriding your styles.
I was asked once by a client to build some functionality that allowed editors to create forms on the fly without developer effort. EPiServer did the work for us. Here’s an overview on Forms.
Out of the box EPiServer Forms boast the following form elements ready to use:
All in all, covers most scenarios.
To get started:
This is your basic form done. Within that you can configure all the out of the box form elements. There are lots of options such as setting Required flags, range limits, regular expressions and even formats.
EPiServer documentation as a create selection of how-tos for different types of forms: http://webhelp.episerver.com/latest/addons/episerver-forms/form-examples.htm
System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot find compilation library location for package ‘Microsoft.AspNetCore’
Most likely you’ve upgraded your aspnetcore version and you have not cleared the existing files before deployment.
If you’re using Azure DevOps as your build and release server you can enable “Remove Additional Files at destination” on your release step.
Whilst upgrading from AspNetCore 2.0 to 2.1, some of the StartUp configuration had changed slightly and part of the upgrade required me to refactor code into the webhost builder. However as a result I didn’t quite do everything and after deploying to azure web app, I was hit with a 502 response. An exception being thrown in main(). This was a problem because it was happening before it could get to my logging initialization and therefore no logging was happening.
So in order to debug Azure Web App AspNetCore startup issues we need to enable stdout logging which throws all exceptions to a log file. This method of logging is unfiltered and gets heavy very quickly. Therefore it is inadvisable to keep it turned on.
true and stdoutLogFile to \\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout
Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/azure-apps/troubleshoot?view=aspnetcore-2.1#aspnet-core-module-stdout-log
Anyone updating to AspNetCore 2.1.3 to an Azure Web App may want to hold off. Azure Deployments hasn’t been updated yet and is scheduled to be completed in a weeks time.
Downgrade to Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.0 for now.
Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/21/net-core-august-2018-update/
This particular nugget has screwed with me for a few days. When attempting to run a standard EPiServer Find index, my log files were getting flooded with this:
An exception occurred while indexing (Content): MapperParsingException[failed to parse [Blocks.Items.Blocks.Items.DefaultPrice.UnitPrice.Currency]]; nested: ElasticSearchIllegalArgumentException[unknown property [CurrencyCode$$string]]; .
Contact episerver support to get them to move your index to a new cluster. In my case it was confirmed by EPiServer support that it was a timeout issue with regards to a bad cluster the index is sitting on.
Similar: https://support.episerver.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004105763-Find-Index-Timeout-with-OnPublish-Event
Getting the above issue on your local machine? Install WebSocket Protocol via Windows Add/Remove Features. Should solve your issue.
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