Comments on: Advanced Language Manipulation Tool for EPiServer

By: Adam Najmanowicz

Adam Najmanowicz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:32:42 +0000

About the above comment – we agreed that Øyvind will upload the code to epicode and add the necessary changes, which he has my permission to do.

Nice catch with the search tables, thanks Øyvind!

By: Øyvind Wabakken Hognestad

Øyvind Wabakken Hognestad — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:52:38 +0000

This is a nice plugin, often necessary after migrated a site. The bad thing is that it’s not uploaded to a community source project place like epicode / codeplex etc so the module could be updated by those who use it.

There is a problem when changing a language like this and not updating all the needed tables. In this case, the tblKeyword is not updated so the SearchDataSource will fail for all searches using the default EPiServer search.

Take a look at this bloggpost and my comment.
http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Per-Bjurstrom/Archive/2009/6/Performance-How-to-disable-keyword-indexing-in-SP2/#comment36085

By: Adam Najmanowicz

Adam Najmanowicz — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:03 +0000

Viv, I am afraid the tool won’t solve your problem. How I assume your sites are structured is that they are separate trees in the CMS.

The tool will not integrate such sites into a single structure, the only thing it does is convert a wrongly attributed language tags on a page.

That said – the tool was initially developed on R1, but was significatyly enhanced since then. I suppose I could modify the stored procedure to work with the R1 database again, I would just need the precise revision of the CMS that you use (the database version).

By: Viv

Viv — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:40:04 +0000

Hi. We are still on CMS5 R1 but this tool would be a massive help as I’ve got regional sites that need to be moved into a single global site. Is there anything i can do to get this tool working with R1? It looks perfect but we cant upgrade to R2 for various reasons.

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By: Adam Najmanowicz

Adam Najmanowicz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:06:24 +0000

hi Neil,

I have not so far needed that but by a quick glance in the SDK I would suggest you look at the EPiServer.DataAbstraction.PageLanguageSetting class. it seems to have load and save methods as well as some basic manipulation regarding fallbacks

By: Neal Sanky

Neal Sanky — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:37:24 +0000

As a follow up, does anyone know how to programatically change the Available Languages for the page you’ve just processed with this tool?

For instance, the page to process has set Available Language to English. Then we use the tool to change it, and its children, to French, how can we programatically update the Available Language from English to French?

thanks again Adam for this great tool!

By: Jon Haakon

Jon Haakon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:27:36 +0000

Problem solved. Changed the reference to the system.js file to my relatively to my project.

By: Jon Haakon

Jon Haakon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:55:59 +0000

Downloaded it, and tried it, but the downloadfile lacks some files. In the sourcefile for the page I can see reference to “/to/javascript/system.js” that is important to make it work.

By: Neal Sanky

Neal Sanky — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:09:47 +0000

Brilliant Adam!
I’m relatively new to EPiServer and I was perplexed why EPiServer didnt have this functionality built into it.

Thanks, this has definitely saved me many days of frustration.