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    • MVC
    • Portal Engine
    • Documentation
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    • API Examples
    • Kentico development models
      • Supported features on MVC sites
    • Installation
      • Quick installation
      • System requirements
        • Configuring IIS for the installation of Kentico
      • Installing Kentico
      • Installing Kentico MVC projects
      • Installation Questions and Answers
      • Additional database installation
      • Adding and removing components of Kentico installations
      • Installing Kentico from the command line
        • Command line installation - XML configuration
      • Manually configuring Kentico applications in IIS
      • Troubleshooting installation issues
      • Uninstalling Kentico
      • Hotfix Instructions - Kentico 12
        • Hotfix Instructions - Kentico 12 Source Code
      • Upgrading to Kentico 12
        • Upgrading Kentico manually
        • Upgrading custom code
        • Upgrading Microsoft Azure projects
        • Upgrading projects under source control
    • Using the Kentico interface
      • Configuring the application dashboard
      • Managing my profile
    • Developing websites
      • Portal Engine development overview
      • MVC development overview
      • Starting with MVC development
        • Installing Kentico integration packages
        • Adding an administration redirect to MVC sites
      • Preparing your environment for team development
        • Working with object locking
        • Editing object code externally
      • Setting up continuous integration
        • Continuous integration repository structure
        • Object types supported by continuous integration
        • Excluding objects from continuous integration
        • Restoring continuous integration files to the database
        • Using continuous integration with Visual Studio
        • Synchronizing database changes not managed by continuous integration
      • Defining website content structure
        • Choosing the format of page content
        • Creating and configuring page types
          • Creating standard page types
          • Creating content-only page types
          • Creating container page types
          • Configuring page types
            • Reusing existing page content
            • Changing page type icons
            • Creating alternative forms for page types
            • Specifying the URL pattern for content-only pages
            • Extending the page type listing filter
            • Limiting the pages users can create
            • Reference - Page type properties
        • Managing custom tables
          • Creating custom tables
          • Managing custom table data
          • Creating alternative editing forms for custom tables
          • Setting custom table permissions
          • Custom table internals and API
      • Initializing Kentico services with dependency injection
      • Form builder development
        • Developing form components
          • Defining form component properties
          • Filtering form components
          • Using a dynamic data source with selector components
          • Example - Developing a custom form component
        • Developing custom form layouts
        • Defining field validation rules
        • Defining field visibility conditions
        • Customizing the Form widget
        • Assigning editing components to properties
        • Reference - System form components
      • Page builder development
        • Creating pages with editable areas in MVC
        • Developing widgets in MVC
          • Defining widget properties in MVC
          • Creating inline editors for widget properties
          • Example - Developing a widget in MVC
        • Developing page builder sections
          • Defining section properties
        • Developing page templates in MVC
          • Defining page template properties in MVC
          • Filtering page templates in MVC
        • Developing modal dialogs for builder component properties
        • Page and media selectors for page builder components
      • Distributing custom builder components
      • Generating classes for Kentico objects
      • Retrieving content in MVC applications
        • Displaying page content
        • Displaying shared content
        • Displaying page attachments
        • Displaying content from media libraries
        • Adding preview mode support
      • Developing websites using Portal Engine
        • Creating Portal Engine page templates
        • Editing page layouts
        • Using and configuring web parts
        • Creating Portal Engine master pages
        • Inheriting Portal Engine page content
        • Working with layout web parts
        • Using web part containers
        • Adding custom code to Portal Engine page templates
      • Developing websites using ASPX templates
        • Creating master pages for ASPX templates
        • Creating ASPX page templates
        • Adding Portal Engine functionality to ASPX page templates
        • Combining ASPX and Portal Engine templates on a single site
        • Exporting Portal Engine templates as ASPX
      • Loading and displaying data on websites
        • Loading page data
          • Writing page path expressions
        • Building website navigation
        • Loading data using custom queries
        • Displaying data from custom tables
        • Writing transformations
          • Creating transformations for pages
          • Using hierarchical transformations
          • Writing transformations for custom tables
          • Using transformations in macro expressions
          • Displaying context menus in transformations
          • Adding custom methods to transformations
            • Example - Displaying categories in page lists
          • Reference - Transformation methods
        • Filtering and paging data
        • Creating wizards on websites
        • Setting up syndication feeds
          • Syndication transformations
          • Usage example - CMS RSS feed
          • Usage example - RSS feed + Data source
          • Usage example - RSS repeater + Data source
          • Usage example - External RSS feed
          • Syndication web parts and widgets
          • Creating custom RSS feed pages manually
        • Displaying related pages
        • Displaying image galleries
        • Displaying maps
          • Displaying static maps
          • Displaying dynamic maps
      • Configuring page URLs on MVC sites
        • Avoiding duplicate URLs on MVC sites
        • Enabling alternative URLs for pages
      • Testing MVC controllers
      • Managing responsive images
        • Defining image filters
        • Defining image variants
        • Generating image variants
        • Displaying image variants on pages
      • Designing websites using CSS
        • Combining stylesheets from multiple sources
        • Using printer friendly CSS styles
        • Creating printable versions of pages
        • Creating skins using ASP.NET themes
        • Adding CSS to page components
        • Registering CSS preprocessors
      • Previewing design changes
      • Managing page templates
      • Developing web parts
        • Creating new web parts
        • Working with web part properties
        • Customizing web parts
        • Creating inherited web parts
        • Using custom web part layouts
        • Developing layout web parts
        • Developing data source web parts
        • Developing custom filters
        • Connecting web parts with the page wizard
        • Web part internals and API
      • Preparing widgets for users
        • Creating widgets
        • Setting up widget zones on pages
        • Configuring permissions for widgets
        • Widget internals and API
      • Validating website code and accessibility
        • Validating HTML code
        • Validating CSS
        • Validating links
        • Validating accessibility
      • Developing websites for mobile devices
        • Creating device profiles
        • Resizing images for devices
        • Creating page layouts for devices
        • Mapping shared mobile layouts
        • Creating mobile pages
        • Creating separate website sections for mobile devices
        • Device macros
        • Configuring 51Degrees device detection
      • Managing JavaScript files
      • Rewriting application URLs
      • Troubleshooting websites
        • Viewing system information
        • Working with the system event log
        • Debugging
        • Debugging SQL queries with Glimpse on MVC sites
      • Kentico Controls
        • Adding Kentico controls to the Visual Studio toolbox
        • Generic controls
          • UniView
          • Paging controls
            • UniPager
              • Implementing the IUniPageable interface
            • DataPager
            • TemplateDataPager
        • Basic controls
          • BasicTabControl
          • BasicCalendar
          • BasicDataGrid
          • BasicDataList
          • BasicRepeater
          • BasicUniView
        • CMS controls
          • CMS controls - Navigation
            • CMSBreadCrumbs
            • CMSListMenu
            • CMSSiteMap
            • CMSTabControl
            • CMSTreeView
          • CMS controls - Listings and viewers
            • CMSDocumentValue
            • CMSCalendar
            • CMSDataGrid
            • CMSDataList
            • CMSRepeater
            • CMSUniView
            • CMSViewer
            • Using nested controls
          • CMS controls - Listings and viewers with custom queries
            • QueryDataGrid
            • QueryDataList
            • QueryRepeater
            • QueryUniView
          • CMS controls - Edit mode buttons
            • CMSEditModeButtonAdd
            • CMSEditModeButtonEditDelete
          • CMS controls - Editable regions for ASPX templates
            • CMSEditableRegion
            • CMSEditableImage
          • SQL search controls
            • CMSSearchDialog
            • CMSSearchResults
      • Reference - Web parts
    • Configuring Kentico
      • Managing sites
        • Installing new sites
          • Creating new sites using the wizard
          • Creating new sites from templates
          • Creating web templates
        • Setting domain names for sites
        • Managing site licenses
          • Kentico licensing for MVC applications
        • Setting up multiple websites
          • Running multiple sites on a single domain
          • Configuring nested websites
        • Setting a site favicon
        • Switching sites to off-line mode
        • Configuring settings for sites
          • Settings - Content
            • Settings - Content management
            • Settings - Media
            • Settings - Blogs
            • Settings - Translation services
          • Settings - URLs and SEO
          • Settings - Security & Membership
            • Settings - Passwords
            • Settings - Protection
            • Settings - Authentication
              • Settings - OpenID
              • Settings - Windows LiveID
              • Settings - Claims-based authentication
              • Settings - Facebook
              • Settings - LinkedIn
          • Settings - System
            • Settings - Performance
            • Settings - Emails
            • Settings - Files
            • Settings - Health monitoring
            • Settings - Output filter
            • Settings - Search
            • Settings - Debug
          • Settings - On-line marketing
            • Settings - Contact management
              • Settings - Activities
              • Settings - Geolocation
              • Settings - Inactive contacts
            • Settings - Email marketing
            • Settings - Web analytics
          • Settings - E-commerce
            • Settings - Authorize.NET
            • Settings - PayPal
          • Settings - Community
            • Settings - Avatars
            • Settings - Chat
              • Settings - Web parts
            • Settings - Forums
            • Settings - Groups
            • Settings - Message boards
          • Settings - Social marketing
            • Settings - URL shorteners
          • Settings - Intranet & Collaboration
            • Settings - Events
          • Settings - Versioning & Synchronization
            • Settings - Staging
            • Settings - Object versioning
            • Settings - Web farm
          • Settings - Integration
            • Settings - Integration bus
            • Settings - Microsoft SharePoint
            • Settings - REST
            • Settings - WebDAV
            • Settings - Salesforce.com
            • Settings - Strands Recommender
      • Managing files
        • Storing files
        • Uploading files
        • Resizing images on upload
        • Adding watermarks to images
        • Administering files globally
        • Editing file metadata
      • Configuring the environment for content editors
        • Enabling on-site editing
        • Configuring blogs
          • Allowing users to create blogs on the live site
          • Allowing users to contribute to blogs on the live site
          • Blog comment notifications
            • Allowing users to subscribe to blog comment notifications
          • Allowing users to moderate blog comments on the live site
        • Configuring categories
          • Creating global and site categories
          • Viewing pages assigned to global and site categories
          • Allowing users to categorize pages via fields
        • Configuring events
          • Creating an Events page
          • Displaying various page types in a Calendar web part
        • Configuring forms
          • Configuring permissions for forms
          • Configuring the Form builder
        • Configuring grouped page attachments
        • Configuring media libraries
          • Configuring supported file types in Media libraries
          • Allowing group members to create group media libraries on the live site
          • Allowing users to upload media library content on the live site
          • Displaying media library content on the live site
          • Allowing users to insert media links in page fields
          • URLs of resized images in media libraries
          • Assigning permissions to media libraries
          • Securing media libraries
        • Configuring polls
        • Configuring tags
          • Creating tag groups
          • Displaying tags on a page
          • Allowing users to tag pages via fields
        • Configuring the editor
          • Personalizing the editor toolbars and buttons
          • Installing editor plugins
          • Defining styles for the editor
          • Adding dictionaries to the spelling checker
        • Configuring workflows
          • Creating workflows
          • Applying workflows to pages
          • Defining basic workflow steps
          • Designing advanced workflows
            • Adding advanced workflow steps
            • Connecting advanced workflow steps
            • Defining if/else conditions in advanced workflows
            • Defining user decisions in advanced workflows
            • Defining automatic decisions in advanced workflows
            • Setting timeouts for automatic approving in advanced workflows
            • Adding action steps in advanced workflows
            • Creating custom action workflow steps
          • Configuring workflow step permissions
          • Configuring workflow email notifications
        • Configuring and using page versioning
          • Configuring content versioning without workflow
          • Content locking
        • Setting up content notifications
          • Creating notification message templates
          • Defining notification gateways
          • Allowing users to subscribe to content change notifications
          • Developing custom notification gateways
            • Creating custom notification gateway forms
            • Creating custom notification gateway classes
            • Registering custom notification gateways
          • Notification internals and API
        • Configuring page status icons
        • Configuring UI data export
        • Configuring WebDAV
          • WebDAV requirements and limitations
          • Adjusting WebDAV settings
          • WebDAV integration with workflow and versioning
          • Editing files using WebDAV edit mode
          • Editing metafiles using WebDAV edit mode
          • WebDAV browse mode
            • WebDAV browse mode specifics and limitations
            • Mapping a WebDAV network drive
            • Example - WebDAV browse mode editing
          • Installing and running WebClient service
      • Setting up search on your website
        • Enabling search indexing
        • Using Azure Search
          • Creating Azure Search indexes
          • Integrating Azure Search into pages
          • Integrating Azure Search into MVC projects
          • Customizing Azure Search
            • Adding scoring profiles to Azure Search indexes
            • Implementing suggestions for Azure Search
            • Setting analyzers for Azure Search
            • Registering custom data types for Azure Search
        • Using locally stored search indexes
          • Creating local search indexes
            • Defining local page indexes
            • Defining forum indexes
            • Defining custom table indexes
            • Defining on-line form indexes
            • Defining user indexes
            • Defining local general indexes
            • Creating custom smart search indexes
            • Creating custom smart search analyzers
          • Building a search interface for local indexes
          • Building a search interface for local indexes in MVC
          • Setting up predictive search using local indexes
          • Configuring search assistance features for local indexes
          • Adding filters for local search indexes
          • Smart search syntax
          • Displaying local index search results using transformations
          • Searching according to page permissions
          • SQL search
            • Configuring SQL search for attachment files
        • Monitoring search indexing tasks
        • Searching attachment files
          • Adding custom search text extractors for files
        • Customizing the content of search indexes
        • Smart search database tables and API
      • Setting up web farms
        • Configuring web farm servers
        • Troubleshooting web farms
        • Debugging web farms
        • Creating custom web farm synchronization tasks
        • Web farm internals and API
      • Configuring caching
        • Caching on MVC sites
        • Caching the output of personalized content
        • Caching on Portal Engine sites
          • Caching page output
            • Using output cache substitutions
          • Caching the data of page components
          • Debugging cache
          • Caching best practices for typical projects
          • Reference - Cache settings
        • Caching files and resources
        • Setting cache dependencies
        • Caching in custom code
      • Optimizing performance of MVC sites
      • Optimizing performance of Portal Engine sites
        • Loading data efficiently
        • Using code minification and compression
        • Selecting a content archival approach
      • Data protection
        • GDPR compliance
          • Personal data in Kentico
          • Creating consents
          • Working with consents
          • Working with consents on MVC sites
          • Revoking consent agreements
          • Logging web analytics based on consent
          • Implementing personal data collection
          • Implementing personal data erasure
        • Working with cookies
        • Adding cookie law consent to web pages
        • Registering custom cookies
        • Reference - Kentico cookies
      • Search engine optimization
        • Configuring websites for SEO
        • Google Sitemaps
        • Managing robots.txt
      • Configuring page URLs
        • URL format and configuration
        • Setting page aliases
        • Wildcard URLs
        • Extensionless and custom URLs
        • Linking pages and files
      • Scheduling tasks
        • Processing scheduled tasks in MVC
        • Configuring scheduled task execution
        • Installing the Scheduler Windows service
        • Reference - scheduled task properties
        • Scheduling custom tasks
      • Configuring SMTP servers
        • Reference - SMTP server properties
        • Configuring sender email addresses
        • OAuth for email servers
      • Managing email templates
      • Working with widget dashboards
        • Managing widget dashboard content
        • Adding widget dashboards to the interface
      • Configuring time zones
        • Managing time zones
        • Displaying correct time in your code
      • Configuring countries
      • Working with object versioning
        • Using object versioning
        • Objects recycle bin
      • Creating alternative forms
        • Code names of automatically used alternative forms
        • Displaying filters using alternative forms
      • Working with system reports
        • Creating reports
        • Creating report categories
        • Defining report parameters
        • Storing data from reports
        • Displaying reports on websites
        • Subscribing to reports
        • Example - creating a simple report
        • Reporting security
      • Banning IP addresses
      • Using output filters
      • Configuring Windows Communication Foundation
      • Configuring the code editor
      • Health monitoring
        • Registering performance counters
        • Installing the Health monitoring Windows service
        • Enabling health monitoring
        • Monitoring using the Performance monitor
        • Reference - default performance counters
        • Adding custom performance counters
      • Reference - Web.config application keys
    • Managing users
      • Permission model overview
      • User registration and authentication
        • Integrating Kentico membership
        • Setting up authentication
        • Enabling user registration
        • Configuring forms authentication
          • Using the Registration form and Custom registration form web parts
          • New user registration approval and email confirmation
          • Customizing user registration emails
        • Configuring multi-factor authentication
        • Configuring Windows AD authentication
          • Securing a website section using Windows authentication
          • Configuring mixed-mode authentication
        • Claims-based authentication
        • Configuring third-party authentication services
          • Windows Live ID authentication
            • Registering your application to use Microsoft accounts
            • Configuring Windows Live ID authentication
            • Web parts available for Windows Live ID authentication
          • OpenID authentication
            • Web parts available for OpenID authentication
          • Facebook authentication
            • Loading user information from Facebook profiles
          • LinkedIn authentication
            • Creating your LinkedIn application
            • Web parts available for LinkedIn authentication
          • Managing user accounts created via third-party authentication services
        • External authentication on MVC sites
        • Configuring single sign-on
        • Configuring autocomplete for user names
        • Sign-in troubleshooting
      • User management
        • Impersonating a different user
      • Role management
        • Managing roles from MVC applications
      • Membership management
      • Adding custom fields to users
      • Authorizing live site actions via roles
      • Configuring permissions
        • Configuring page permissions
          • Permissions for all content
          • Permissions for page types
          • Page-level permissions (ACLs)
            • Checking page permissions
            • Restricting pages based on permissions
        • Configuring design permissions
      • Monitoring on-line users
        • Enabling monitoring of on-line users
        • Managing on-line users
      • UI Personalization
        • Example - UI personalization
      • Sharing user accounts between sites
      • Allowing user profile customization
      • Sending emails
      • User internals and API
        • Checking permissions using the API
    • Securing websites
      • Designing secure websites
        • Securing and protecting the system
          • Autocomplete deactivation
          • Screen locking
          • Event log and security debug
          • Flood protection
          • Spam protection (CAPTCHA)
          • Banned IPs
          • Clickjacking protection
          • Session protection
          • Preventing duplicate poll voting and content rating
        • Securing user accounts and passwords
          • Setting the user password format
          • Enabling password resets
          • Implementing password reset functionality for MVC sites
          • Password strength policy and its enforcement
          • Password expiration
          • Invalid sign-in attempts
          • Unlocking user accounts
          • Custom password calculation
        • Configuring permissions securely
          • Special security permissions
        • Securing the Staging and REST web services
        • Configuring email confirmations
        • PCI compliance
      • Developing secure websites
        • Macros and security
        • Query string hashing
        • Handling error messages securely
          • Designing secure error messages
          • Handling 404 errors in MVC applications
          • Creating custom error handling pages
        • Cross site scripting (XSS)
        • SQL injection
        • Argument injection
        • Command injection
        • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) injection
        • XPath injection
        • Cross site request forgery (CSRF/XSRF)
        • Unvalidated redirects
        • Directory traversal
        • Enumeration
      • Deploying websites to a secure environment
        • Configuring SSL
          • SSL accelerator support
        • Restricting access to directories
        • Disabling unnecessary services and keeping the system up-to-date
        • Hiding system information
        • Minimal secure configuration
        • Web.config security settings
      • Security checklists
        • Security checklist - designing a website
        • Security checklist - developing a website
        • Security checklist - deploying a website
    • Deploying websites
      • Deploying MVC sites
      • Deploying Kentico sites to a live server
      • Publishing projects from Visual Studio
      • Deployment mode for virtual objects
      • Running Kentico behind a proxy server
      • Content staging
        • Configuring content staging
        • Bi-directional content staging
        • Synchronizing the content
        • Automatic content synchronization
          • Synchronizing content using the API
        • Staging large files
        • Using X.509 authentication
        • Content staging security
        • Troubleshooting staging
      • Exporting and importing sites
        • Export folder structure
        • Export/import package directory browsing
        • Excluding files and folders from export
        • Exporting sites
        • Exporting objects
        • Exporting single objects
        • Importing a site or objects
        • Importing to web application projects
      • Running Kentico on Microsoft Azure
        • Microsoft Azure web hosting options
        • Running Kentico in Azure Web Apps
          • Setting up Kentico in Azure Web Apps
          • Deploying existing Portal Engine projects to Azure Web Apps
          • Deploying existing MVC projects to Azure Web Apps
          • Migration of Kentico projects from Azure Cloud Services to Azure Web Apps
          • Adjusting the web hosting plan mode on Azure Web Apps
          • Increasing storage capacity on Azure Web Apps
          • Enabling web farms on Azure Web Apps
          • Azure Web Apps problematic folders
        • Running Kentico in Azure Cloud Services
          • Architecture of Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
          • Requirements and limitations for running Kentico in Azure Cloud Services
          • Lifecycle for developing Kentico projects in Azure Cloud Services
          • Preparing the Azure cloud environment
          • Installing Kentico Azure projects for Cloud Services
          • Configuring Kentico Azure projects for Cloud Services
          • Deploying Azure projects to Cloud Services
          • Installing the database for Azure projects
          • Developing Kentico Azure projects locally
          • Scaling Azure Cloud Services
          • Converting an existing project to an Azure project
          • Troubleshooting Azure projects
        • Developing for Microsoft Azure - best practices
        • Configuring Azure CDN
        • Mapping the Web analytics storage folder to the server file system
        • Preventing Azure cache folders from bloating
        • Recommendations on using Azure SQL Database tiers
        • Storing session state data in an Azure environment
        • Troubleshooting local search indexes on Azure
      • Using Amazon web services with Kentico
    • Managing website content
      • Using the My desk dashboard
      • Working with pages
        • Creating new pages
        • Creating new pages in MVC
        • Editing pages
        • Editing pages in MVC
        • Deleting pages
        • Editing metadata of pages
        • Copying and moving pages, creating linked pages
        • Working with page relationships
        • Multiple page operations
        • Working with pages on the live site
        • Using workflows
        • Scheduling pages for publishing
        • Reusing other pages when editing content
        • Sending links to unpublished pages
        • Searching in pages
        • Setting page aliases for content-only pages
        • Adding alternative URLs for pages
        • Categorizing pages
          • Creating personal page categories
          • Assigning pages to categories
          • Viewing pages assigned to personal categories
        • Tagging pages
      • Using the editor
        • Working with text
          • Pasting text
          • Searching and replacing in text
          • Using the spelling checker
          • Removing text formatting
        • Creating tables
        • Inserting media content using the editor
        • Working with links and anchors
        • Inserting widgets using the editor
      • Working with files
        • Page attachments
          • Attaching files to pages
          • Editing page attachments
          • Deleting page attachments
          • Attaching file groups to pages
        • Content tree files
          • Inserting files into the content tree
          • Editing content tree files
          • Deleting content tree files
        • Media library files
          • Creating media libraries
          • Inserting files into media libraries
          • Editing media library files
          • Copying and moving media library files
          • Deleting media library files
        • Editing images
        • Inserting media files on a page
      • Adding page content through widgets
      • Using widgets in MVC
      • Using page templates in MVC
      • Blogs
        • Creating blogs
        • Creating blog posts
        • Moderating blog comments
        • Managing your blog post comment subscriptions
      • Events
        • Creating events
        • Managing events and event attendees
      • Forms
        • Creating forms
        • Creating new forms
        • Composing forms
        • Using smart fields in forms
        • Designing forms using the Form builder
        • Designing forms using the Field editor
        • Localizing form fields
        • Displaying forms
        • Displaying forms on the live site
        • Defining custom form layout
        • Managing form data
        • Form notification emails
        • Form autoresponder emails
        • Creating alternative forms for on-line forms
        • Using macros with forms
      • Polls
        • Creating polls
        • Creating polls in multiple languages
        • Placing polls on pages
      • Exporting data from the user interface
        • Exporting data from the UI - Advanced export
    • Multilingual websites
      • Setting up multilingual MVC projects
      • Setting up multilingual websites
        • Localizing content on MVC sites
        • Setting default languages for users and visitors
        • Configuring URLs for multilingual websites
          • Creating language selectors
        • Support for right-to-left languages
        • Defining culture-dependent workflow scopes
        • Allowing page editing only for specified language versions
      • Setting up a multilingual user interface
        • Working with resource strings
        • Localizing MVC builder components
        • Creating site specific resource strings
        • Localizing text fields
      • Editing the content of multilingual websites
        • Comparing language versions
        • Language status overview
      • Using unique page templates for each language
      • Configuring translation services
        • Configuring content for translation
        • Machine translation - Microsoft Translator
        • Machine translation - Google Translate
        • Human translation services - Translations.com
        • Human translation services - Email translation
        • Human translation services - Manual translation
      • Translating content using external services
        • Translating localization strings using machine translation
        • Managing standard (human) translation submissions
        • Importing completed human translations
      • Developing custom translation services
        • Creating machine translation services
        • Creating human translation services
        • Loading translation service classes from App_Code
        • Reference - Translation service properties
        • Translating content via REST
        • Customizing XLIFF export for translations
      • Changing the date and time format
    • Macro expressions
      • Macro syntax
      • Entering macro expressions
      • Writing macro conditions
        • Building conditions using macro rules
        • Creating macro rules
      • Caching the results of macros
      • Troubleshooting macros
        • Debugging macros
        • Working with macro signatures
        • Searching for macros
      • Extending the macro engine
        • Registering custom macro methods
        • Adding custom macro fields
        • Creating macro namespaces
      • Resolving macros using the API
      • Reference - Macro methods
    • External utilities
      • Kentico AD Import Utility
      • Kentico Import Toolkit
        • Importing data from external sources
        • Example - Importing users using the Kentico Import Toolkit
        • Example - Importing a culture version of a page using the Kentico Import Toolkit
      • Kentico Installation Manager
        • Registering an instance in KIM
        • Upgrading and hotfixing an instance in KIM
        • Uninstalling an instance in KIM
      • Kentico Hotfix and Upgrade Utility
        • Upgrading and hotfixing an instance
        • Restoring a backed-up LocalDB database
      • Kentico Service Manager
    • Integrating 3rd party systems
      • Kentico REST service
        • Configuring the REST service
        • Authenticating REST requests
        • Getting data using REST
          • Examples of data retrieved via the REST service
          • ODATA service documents
        • Manipulating data using REST
          • Managing pages using REST
          • Managing objects using REST
        • Sending REST requests from code
      • Using ASP.NET Web API with Kentico
      • Using the integration bus
        • Integration bus overview
        • Enabling the integration bus
        • Creating integration connectors
          • Implementing outgoing synchronization
          • Implementing incoming synchronization
        • Managing integration tasks
        • Example - Integration connector
        • Reference - Integration bus data types
        • Integration bus database model
      • Using the Kentico API externally
        • Displaying Kentico content in external applications
      • Integrating Kentico with other applications
        • Child web application fails to start
      • Integrating social media
        • Connecting Kentico to social media
        • Adding social media accounts
        • Posting to social media
        • Viewing Facebook insights
        • Viewing Twitter analytics
        • Viewing LinkedIn statistics
        • Configuring automatic posting to social media
        • Setting up URL shorteners
      • Salesforce integration
        • Configuring Salesforce integration
        • Replicating contacts to Salesforce
        • Example - Replicating a contact into a Salesforce lead
        • Force.com integration API
      • Strands Recommender integration
        • Integrating the Strands Recommender service into your store
        • Placing Strands recommendations on a page
        • Configuring Strands recommendations email widget
        • Troubleshooting the Strands Recommender integration
        • Customizing how products are categorized in the Strands integration
      • Integrating SharePoint
        • Configuring SharePoint integration connections
        • Configuring SharePoint integration web part
        • Configuring SharePoint integration settings
        • Displaying SharePoint data in Kentico
        • Example - Displaying a SharePoint picture library in Kentico
        • Managing SharePoint libraries
          • Working with files from SharePoint libraries
      • Visualizing Kentico data in Power BI
      • Collecting donations
      • Certified extensions
    • Custom development
      • Best practices for customization
      • Customizing MVC projects
      • Developing form controls
        • Managing form controls
        • Assigning form controls to fields
        • Inheriting from existing form controls
        • Defining form control parameters
        • Example - Developing custom form controls
        • Working with HTML5 form inputs
        • Creating form controls with XML values
        • Reference - Field editor
      • Creating custom modules
        • Initializing modules to run custom code
        • Creating extenders for module interface pages
        • Manually creating the interface for custom modules
        • Creating custom binding classes
        • Setting the type information for module classes
          • Adding references between classes
          • Setting parent-child relationships for classes
          • Enabling export and staging for the data of classes
          • Enabling continuous integration for custom classes
          • Reference - ObjectTypeInfo
        • Adding custom website settings
        • Reference - Managing UI elements
        • Creating installation packages for modules
          • Example - Creating a packageable module
          • Installing modules from installation packages
          • Uninstalling modules
        • Troubleshooting custom modules
        • Licensing custom modules
      • Handling global events
        • Handling object events
        • Customizing event logging
        • Handling custom external authentication
        • Handling custom claims-based authentication
        • Handling custom multi-factor authentication
        • Making custom modifications to output HTML
        • Excluding content from staging and integration
        • Customizing staging of child and binding objects
        • Automatically synchronizing staging and integration tasks
        • Deploying objects with custom ID fields
        • Custom handling of URL path values
        • Reference - Global system events
      • Editing system tables
      • Database table API
      • Customizing providers
        • Registering providers using assembly attributes
        • Registering providers via the web.config
        • Custom Info provider example
        • Custom Email provider example
        • Custom Data provider example
        • Creating custom SQL search providers
      • Customizing the system's data classes (Info objects)
      • Retrieving database data using ObjectQuery API
      • Working with pages in the API
        • Page database structure
        • Storing custom data for all page types
        • Reference - DocumentQuery methods
      • Working with form data using the API
      • Working with database queries in the API
      • Working with physical files using the API
        • Using CMS.IO
        • Writing a custom file system provider
        • Configuring file system providers
          • Configuring Amazon S3
          • Configuring Azure storage
      • Cloning objects through the API
      • Serializing objects to XML using the API
      • Loading custom classes from App_Code
      • Writing automated tests
        • Creating automated test projects
        • Faking Info and Provider objects in unit tests
        • Creating integration tests with a connection string
        • Creating isolated integration tests
      • Managing database views and stored procedures
      • Working with font icons
      • Displaying data on application tiles
      • Customizing CSS for the administration interface
      • UI controls
        • UniGrid
          • Reference - UniGrid definition
          • Creating custom UniGrid filters
          • Adding custom UniGrid transformations
        • UniSelector
    • E-commerce features
      • Getting familiar with the E-commerce Solution
      • Developing on-line stores
        • Displaying product listings
          • Providing product filters
        • Displaying product details
          • Displaying product variants
        • Displaying discount values
        • Implementing a checkout process
          • Using a shopping cart on MVC sites
            • Adding coupon code inputs to pages in MVC
          • Gathering customer details during checkout
            • Auto-filling addresses of existing customers
          • Building the order review step
            • Connecting to payment gateways
        • Displaying and updating orders
      • Configuring on-line stores
        • Installing the e-commerce sample sites
        • Tips for configuring the store
        • Choosing site or global e-commerce configuration
          • Enabling global e-commerce objects and settings
          • Configuring e-commerce settings for a specific site or globally
          • Using global e-commerce objects and settings
        • Configuring currencies
          • Configuring exchange rates
        • Configuring taxes
          • Assigning taxes to products automatically
        • Configuring multilingual stores
        • Configuring product page types
        • Configuring products
          • Configuring product structure
          • Importing products
            • Importing products using Kentico Import Toolkit
              • Example - Importing new products using Kentico Import Toolkit
            • Importing products using API
        • Configuring product pages
          • Configuring product listings with filtering
          • Reference - Product web parts
        • Checkout process
          • Configuring steps of the checkout process
          • Displaying shopping cart details on pages
          • Allowing checkout processes for anonymous or registered customers
          • Displaying the shopping cart preview on pages
          • Reference - Checkout process web parts
            • Configuring the Shopping cart totals web part
        • Enabling automatic registration for anonymous customers
        • Deleting expired shopping carts from the database
        • Configuring shipping options
          • Configuring shipping carriers
        • Configuring payment methods
          • Configuring customer credit
          • Configuring Authorize.NET
          • Configuring PayPal
          • Reference - Payment methods
        • Configuring invoices
        • Configuring e-commerce email notifications
        • Configuring user registration in stores
        • Configuring e-commerce permissions
      • Managing on-line stores
        • Products
          • Adding new products
          • Managing stand-alone SKUs
          • Managing product representations
            • Managing Standard products
            • Managing E-commerce memberships
            • Managing E-products
            • Managing Bundles
          • Working with product options
            • Creating and modifying product options
              • Reference - Product option category properties
              • Reference - Product option properties
              • Example - Adding a product with a Text option
              • Example - Adding a product with Attribute options
              • Example - Adding a product with Products options
            • Removing product options
          • Working with product variants
            • Example - Adding a product with variants
          • Product statuses
          • Categorizing products
            • Departments
          • Managing brands and manufacturers
          • Managing product collections
          • Managing suppliers
          • Linking existing products or sections
        • Customers
          • Creating customers manually
          • Modifying customer details
          • Registering customers manually
          • Assigning roles to customers
          • Assigning memberships to customers manually
          • Managing customer credit
        • Orders
          • Order statuses
        • Discounts
          • Working with catalog discounts
            • Displaying catalog discounts on the live site
            • Example - Applying a catalog discount
          • Working with volume discounts
            • Example - Applying volume discounts on a selected product
          • Working with product coupons
            • Example - Applying a coupon code to receive a discount on selected products
          • Working with Buy X Get Y discounts
          • Working with order discounts
          • Working with free shipping offers
            • Example - Redeeming a free shipping offer
          • Working with gift cards
          • Working with coupon codes
            • Adding coupon code inputs to pages
            • Example - Applying a coupon code to receive a discount on your order
            • Example - Applying a coupon code to receive free shipping
        • Store reports
          • Using the Store reports dashboard
          • Store overview
        • Maintaining multilingual stores
      • Customizing on-line stores
        • E-commerce customization model
        • Customer-related customizing
          • Customizing creation of new customers
          • Synchronizing customer and user properties
          • Customizing customer preferences
        • Product-related customizing
          • Customizing product prices
          • Customizing product option forms
          • Mapping product type database columns
        • Shopping cart-related customizing
          • Customizing the shopping cart calculation
          • Retrieving the current shopping cart
          • Customizing marking shopping carts as abandoned
        • Configuring discount rules
          • Adding a discount rule with a custom method
        • Customizing discounts
        • Payment-related customizing
          • Creating a custom payment gateway
          • Making payment methods dependent on shipping options
          • Working with payment results
        • Shipping-related customizing
          • Implementing custom shipping carrier providers
          • Example - Creating a shipping carrier provider
        • Customizing tax calculation
        • Customizing price rounding
        • Customizing orders
        • Integrating Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce
        • Integrating Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce on MVC sites
        • Customizing e-commerce data for Google Analytics
    • On-line marketing features
      • Configuring and customizing your on-line marketing features
        • Best practices for EMS performance
        • Best practices for EMS performance in MVC
        • Configuring on-line marketing permissions
        • Configuring contacts
          • Tracking contacts on MVC sites
          • Configuring contact recognition
          • Mapping fields to contact attributes
          • Using geolocation for contacts
          • Adding custom fields to contacts
          • Enabling on-line contact monitoring
          • Setting up automatic deletion of contacts
        • Configuring activities
          • Enabling activity tracking
          • Enabling activity tracking on MVC sites
            • Logging activities on MVC sites
          • Adding custom activity types
          • Logging custom activities through the API
        • Tracking campaigns on MVC sites
          • Customizing the page visit hash function for campaigns in MVC
        • Configuring content personalization
          • Personalizing web parts and web part zones
          • Creating a personalized page - example
        • Content personalization on MVC sites
          • Developing personalization condition types
          • Example - Developing a personalization condition type
        • Configuring email marketing
          • Preparing email templates
          • Preparing email widgets
          • Handling newsletter subscriptions on MVC sites
          • Integrating email feeds into sites
          • Enabling double opt-in for newsletters
          • Enabling marketing email tracking
            • Tracking marketing emails on MVC sites
          • Configuring bounced email monitoring
          • Troubleshooting marketing emails
            • Troubleshooting marketing emails on MVC sites
          • Reference - Email marketing macro expressions
        • Configuring marketing automation
          • Developing custom marketing automation actions
          • Handling marketing automation triggers
          • Walkthrough - Sending an automated reminder of an abandoned shopping cart
        • Enabling A/B testing
          • Logging custom A/B testing conversions
        • Configuring optimization testing
        • Configuring web analytics
          • Enabling web analytics
          • Managing search engines for web analytics
          • Configuring logging of actions as custom conversions
          • Web analytics API
            • Adding custom web analytics
            • Logging custom conversions through the API
          • Setting up automatic web analytics data cleanup
          • Debugging web analytics
        • Adding banners to a page as web parts
        • Changing the campaign report update interval
        • Recommending pages to personas through web parts
        • On-line marketing macros
          • Improving custom macro performance in scoring and contact groups
        • Separating the contact management database
          • Rejoining the contact management database
      • Managing your on-line marketing features
        • Banners
          • Creating banners
          • Placing banners on a page as widgets
          • Monitoring banner statistics
          • Using banners - example
        • Campaigns
          • Setting up campaigns
          • Setting up campaigns on MVC sites
          • Scheduling and evaluating campaigns
        • Contact management
          • Working with contacts
            • Importing contacts
            • Assigning statuses to contacts
            • Organizing contacts into accounts
            • Viewing on-line contacts
            • Merging contacts
          • Segmenting contacts into contact groups
          • Tracking contact activities
            • Viewing contact activities
            • Logging activities - example
            • Manually logging custom activities
            • Reference - Activity types
          • Scoring contacts
            • Managing contact scores
            • Example - Using contact scoring
        • Personas
          • Defining personas
          • Recommending pages to personas through widgets
          • Viewing contacts assigned to personas
        • Content personalization
          • Personalizing editor widgets
          • Setting display conditions for personalization variants
        • Personalizing widgets in MVC
        • Email marketing
          • Creating email campaigns
          • Creating newsletters
          • Composing marketing emails
          • Sending marketing emails
          • Managing marketing email recipients
          • Tracking marketing emails
          • Monitoring bounced marketing emails
          • Viewing the email feed statistics
          • Viewing the email report insights
          • A/B testing marketing emails
          • Placing Strands recommendations into marketing emails
        • Marketing automation
          • Working with marketing automation processes
          • Working with the automation process designer
            • Managing automation process steps
            • Connecting automation process steps
            • Defining automatic decisions in processes
            • Defining user choice steps in automation processes
            • Setting timeouts for automation process steps
            • Adding wait steps to automation processes
            • Configuring step security for automation processes
            • Adding marketing actions to automation processes
          • Setting triggers for automation processes
          • Manually running automation processes
          • Managing the flow of contacts in automation processes
          • Viewing marketing automation reports
          • Using automation process versioning
          • Walkthrough - Creating a marketing automation process
            • Marketing automation walkthrough - Preparing the prerequisites
            • Marketing automation walkthrough - Creating the process
            • Marketing automation walkthrough - Designing the process
            • Marketing automation walkthrough - Managing the process
        • A/B testing pages
        • Optimization testing
          • A/B testing website pages
            • Creating A/B tests for pages
            • Analyzing A/B test results
            • Using A/B testing - example
          • Multivariate testing
            • Creating MVT tests
            • Analyzing MVT test results
            • Using MVT testing - example
        • Web analytics
          • Viewing web analytics reports
          • Monitoring traffic from search engines
          • Logging custom conversions on your website
          • Using Google analytics
    • Community features
      • Abuse reports
        • Abuse reporting web parts
        • Adding abuse reporting functionality to transformations
        • Managing abuse reports
        • Integrating abuse reporting with other community features
      • Avatars
        • Changing user avatars
        • Changing group avatars
        • Managing avatars
        • Using Gravatars
        • Displaying avatars in transformations
      • Bad words
        • Enabling bad words filtering
        • Defining bad words
        • Handling bad words
      • Badges
        • Defining badges
        • Assigning badges to users
        • Displaying badges in user profiles
      • Chat
        • Prerequisites for using Chat
        • Chat - quick start
        • Chat - technical overview
        • Managing chat rooms
        • Managing chat users
        • Setting up chat on site
          • Chat web parts
          • Setting up chat in single page mode
          • Setting up chat in redirection mode
          • Grouping chat web parts
        • Customizing chat appearance
          • Customizing chat CSS
          • Writing transformations for chat
          • Chat transformations reference
        • Using chat on the live site
          • Logging in to chat
          • Sending chat messages
        • Using support chat
          • Working with canned responses
        • Cleaning up unused chat data
      • Content rating
        • Using the Content rating web part
        • Displaying content rating in transformations
        • Using content rating in message boards
      • Forums
        • Creating forum groups
        • Creating predefined forums
        • Publishing a predefined forum on the website
        • Adding an ad-hoc forum to a page
        • Configuring forum search
        • Enabling forum favorites
        • Enabling friendly URLs for forum posts
        • Attaching files to forum posts
        • Using BBCode in forum posts
        • Managing forum posts
        • Managing forum subscriptions
        • Moderating forums
        • Managing forum security
        • Customizing forum design
        • Reference - forum group properties
        • Reference - forum properties
      • Groups
        • Working with groups
        • Allowing users to create groups
        • Customizing group pages using widgets
        • Creating groups on the live site
        • Email templates for groups
        • Groups security
      • Message boards
        • Placing message boards on pages
        • Managing message boards
        • Setting Board base URL
        • Message boards security
        • Message boards notifications
      • User contributions
        • Example - Publishing community news
        • Example - Editing partner profiles
        • User contributions security
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    You can customize the look of the chat in any of the following ways:

    • Customize the CSS styles
    • Write custom transformations for displaying chat messages, rooms, users, etc.
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