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How To Disable Updating of Page Types When Using Page Type Builder

Posted September 16 2009 in EPiServer CMS . 3 comments.

I’ve mentioned it before, but as I keep getting questions on the subject I thought I’d dedicate a post to it. It being the question whether it’s possible to tell Page Type Builder not to update page types when the application starts. And the answer is yes :)

Doing so is also one possible solution to another question I’ve gotten a few times: do I have any suggestion on how to handle the problem that properties that one developer have removed is recreated when another developer, that doesn’t have the latest version but who uses the same database, browse the site after compilation.

Disabling updating of page types is done by adding a new configuration section called pageTypeBuilder to web.config and setting it’s disablePageTypeUpdation attribute to true, like this:

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="pageTypeBuilder"
type="PageTypeBuilder.Configuration.PageTypeBuilderConfiguration,
PageTypeBuilder"/>
  </configSections>
    <pageTypeBuilder disablePageTypeUpdation="true" />
</configuration>

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  1. Marius's avatar

    Marius 1 years ago

    How does this work for the opposite: when you remove a property from your pagetype code, it remains as a property in EpiServer - is there a way to automagically remove the page property on build?

  2. Joel Abrahamsson's avatar

    Joel Abrahamsson 1 years ago

    Hey Marius!

    I'm afraid there isn't. For an explanation of why please see my comment here: http://pagetypebuilder.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=6070

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    Marius 1 years ago

    Well, that I can understand. Manual labor it is :)

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