Questions tagged [sitefinity]

Use this tag for questions related to Sitefinity development including those related to templates, API, widget designers, Thunder, etc. Sitefinity is a CMS developed by Progress Software

Sitefinity is a CMS developed by Progress Software using .NET. It's an ASP.NET-based web content management system that is used for the construction and management of commercial websites, community portals, intranets, etc.

The product's architecture leverages the .NET development patterns, including Master Pages, templates, standard and user controls, themes and CSS. It also supports an array of database systems, unlimited page layout freedom and the ability to integrate custom external applications. These externally pluggable applications can vary in complexity from custom .NET controls and ASP.NET MVC controllers to complete web applications. Sitefinity has been designed for both the developer and the end user, providing a comprehensive development platform.

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Sitefinity 4.4 upgrade to 5.1 - Forums not loading

So I've upgraded from Sitefinity 4.4 to 5.1 and the new built-in Forums aren't loading. Here's what I'm seeing: I've compared my configuration files and everything seems to be in order. The only item I see relating to forums in the…
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User controls Stopped working after Migration from 3.7 to 5.2

I recently Migrated my 3.7 sp4 project to 5.2, but I had issues while doing so. Currently, my user controls are not working after migration in 5.2 project. Below is the code: User Control Code: <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"…
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Apply Class Items in Sitefinity 3.7 not appearing in webkit, works everywhere else

I am working with sitefinity 3.7. I have added some custom classes to the Apply Class drop down menu in the radeditor. The problem is that they appear in firefox, the drop down gets populated and you can apply them to elements. However in Chrome…
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LayoutTemplatePath for ImageControl Sitefinity

We're trying to create an extended version of the built in Sitefinity ImageControl by creating a separate toolbox.config entry with a custom LayoutTemplate specified. This essentially works, however when dragging the control from the toolbox in the…
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Feeding an XML document in Sitefinity 5

I have an XML document in my "Feeds" folder of the root App_Data folder in Sitefinity v5. How can I get this to feed on my page? Do you know of any online tutorials? I have tried using the Feeds settings, Javascript in a block, and other techniques.…
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Sitefinity get classification and all pages related

We are testing Telerik Sitefinity CMS to maybe use in a client and I have tried to create a custom widget to get a classification that I created and show all contents title as link. Ex.: Countries United Kingdom London Oxford Brazil Brasilia…
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Custom Content Block in Sitefinity

I want to create a custom content block in Sitefinity so I can wrap an tag around it and pick up my CSS. I created a custom widget, but I'm not sure how to make it a content block. I cannot find documentation on this, but I'm sure it is a common…
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Sitefinity: Need to make a PDF available on a very specific URL but can't do it

I have a website on SiteFinity 4.4. I need to make a document available on a very specific URL, i.e. http:www.example.com/reports/the-report.pdf If I just create a directory in the root of the site it does not work (503 error). Also when I try to…
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Sitefinity A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (?)

I am using Sitefinity 5.1 and RadGrid in this example. I have been troubleshooting one of our pages on development server this morning and I have confirmed that it behaves differently on the page with the styling (template) than on the barebones…
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Issue with: Cannot create an instance of Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI.Config.ContentViewDefinitionElement because it is an abstract class

I am working on a project using sitefinity and I have run into an error I can't seem to solve. I tried to implement this Comment Notification fix and something has happened. After changing the ViewType name with my own I get this error: Cannot…
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IIS 7 URL Rewrite for 404 and Sitefinity

We have a new Sitefinity site that is replacing our marketing site. The switchover happened last friday, and we uncovered a problem today: there is content (pdfs, jpgs) on the old site that can no longer be accessed, and did not make it into the…
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SQLDriver not initialized with server version

I am getting the following error on sitefinity 4.4 SQLDriver not initialized with server version. I checked on sitefinity forums but I cannot find any fix for this issue SQLDriver not initialized with server version. Description: An unhandled…
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SiteFinity: What is the easiest way to include the contents of a local file in a Content Block?

Is there an easy way to include the contents of a local txt snippet file within a content block in a siteFinity page? A bit like the old HTML server-side includes (I'm assuming that wouldn't work!) Anyway to…
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Add email regular expression to Sitefinity Registration widget

Does anyone know how to add an email regular expression to Sitefinity's Registration Widget? I'm new to both Sitefinity and regular expressions, but I'd like to restrict users registering to a specific email address domain during registration,…
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HttpParseException with Telerik.Web.UI after production deploy

Posted 0 minutes ago (permalink) We did a deploy this morning, and one of four servers was unresponsive, with this exception: Event Type: Warning Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Event Category: Web Event Event ID: 1310 Date: …