This last year I havn’t worked much with building new EPiServer websites at all. In fact, this year I’ve only built a single site and that’s the one I just started a few days ago. The christmas rush this year has been crazy!

The project I’m working on is actually a re-design with upgrade from EPiServer 4 to CMS5R2. Which by the way was pretty painless this time. Avantime did the very first (or at least one of the first) upgrades to CMS5 from EPiServer 4, that time using a beta version of the upgrade tool. EPiServer has come a long way with the upgrade tool since then!

Now back to what this post is really about: Ordering properties for page types suck! I had forgotten how terribly boring it is to set up the properties and we’ve discussed this many times at work. A drag-and-drop function would be really sweet. The moment the properties list gets long enough for the page to scroll it takes forever to move a property from the bottom to the top. But there is a pretty simple remedy for that. I just slapped an update panel around EPiServers’ code in EditPageType.aspx (found here C:\Program Files\EPiServer\CMS\5.2.375.7\Application\UI\Admin). Takes most of the pain away!

The big question is, why doesn’t EPiServer just throw an update panel in there themselves? Ajax for cheap!

Related posts