Blogs

Today we have released a preview build for the Sitefinity Windows Authentication (WA) and Single Sign-On (SSO) feature. You can download the preview build and test drive the WA & SSO between multiple Sitefinity instances feature. This preview build is already available in your Client.NET accounts. The download ...

The following blog post will cover the scenario of creating a custom workflow and activity for your content items. Consider the scenario, where you want to extend the notifications within the workflow to include a comparison of the previous version of the item sent for approval ...

The following blog post will examine how to implement notifications for Forms responses. We are going to implement this feature to be available out of the box, and you can use this quick and easy approach to have the notifications until we release them as part ...

Recently there have been a number of requests for adding a CAPTCHA to the Sitefinity Forms widgets. Since the standard CAPTCHA controls that work with postback are not suitable for the Forms control, I am going to walk you through the process of implementing a client-side ...

This blog post, as many others, is inspired by a client support request. I've decided to put post it, so others can use the code to create their own sidebar widgets for their custom modules. In this post I am going to sample how you can ...

With the release of Sitefinity 4.0 we have moved from storing Sitefinity related configurations in web.config to providing our on configuration persistence in the Sitefinity config files.This is the default setting for storing configurations and all of your settings are stored in the ~/App_Data/Sitefinity/Configuration/. When we ...

Back in Sitefinity 3.x control designers for content view controls allowed you to set Summary Settings for your list view, which allowed you to cut of the first N words from the content item's content or other meta field. This is described on Sitefinity Watch here: ...

In this week's Tip of the Week blog post we will sample a custom control which adds social bookmarks to any page within Sitefinity. In order to achieve this we will create a custom control and reuse some of the already available social bookmarks markup. First ...

In this blog post we will sample a custom control which allows users to select files uploaded to images and documents module and send them as e-mail attachments. We will create a custom control and make it look similar to the built in Download List control. ...

In the following blog post I will sample the creation of a custom WebUITypeEditor which will select roles from the default roles provider and return them as a string array. Then I will use this selector in a control derived from Generic Content Control in order ...