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    • Documentation
    • Tutorial
    • Installation
      • Quick installation on a local machine
      • Server and hosting requirements
        • Configuring IIS for the installation of Kentico
      • Installing Kentico - custom installation
      • Installing Kentico (Questions and Answers)
      • Deploying Kentico to a live server
        • Creating virtual directories and application pools in IIS 7.5 and 7.0
      • Additional database installation
      • Adding and removing components from an installed Kentico web project
      • Installing Kentico from the command line
        • Command line installation - XML configuration
      • Troubleshooting installation issues
        • Application stops after being idle
        • Disk permission problems
        • Database connection problems
      • Uninstalling Kentico
      • Hotfix Instructions - Kentico 8.2
        • Hotfix Instructions - Kentico 8.2 Source Code
      • Upgrading to Kentico 8.2
        • Upgrading Kentico manually
        • Upgrading custom code
        • Upgrading Microsoft Azure projects
        • Upgrading projects under source control
    • Using the Kentico interface
    • Developing websites
      • Website development basics
      • Choosing the right development model
      • Defining website data structure
        • Page types
          • Creating page types
          • Configuring page types
            • Changing page type icons
            • Creating alternative forms for page types
            • Extending the page type listing filter
            • Limiting the pages users can create
            • Reference - Page type properties
        • Custom tables
          • Creating custom tables
          • Editing custom tables
          • Managing custom table data
          • Creating alternative editing forms for custom tables
          • Setting custom table permissions
      • Preparing your environment for team development
        • Editing code externally and using source control systems
        • Working with object locking
      • Developing websites using the 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
      • Developing websites using ASPX templates
        • Creating master pages for ASPX templates
        • Creating ASPX page templates
        • Adding portal engine functionality to ASPX page templates
        • Using both ASPX and portal templates on a single site
        • Exporting portal engine templates as ASPX
      • Developing sites using the MVC framework
        • Upgrading the MVC version
        • MVC code examples
        • Code generators
      • Using ASP.NET Web API with Kentico
      • Managing page templates
      • 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
          • Reference - Transformation methods
        • Filtering and paging data
        • Displaying data - advanced scenarios
          • 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
          • Displaying related pages
          • Displaying image galleries
          • Displaying maps
            • Displaying static maps
            • Displaying dynamic maps
      • Designing websites using CSS
        • Creating CSS stylesheets
        • Adding CSS stylesheets to page components
        • Creating skins using ASP.NET themes
        • Using printer friendly CSS styles
        • Creating printable versions of pages
        • Combining stylesheets from multiple sources
      • Previewing design changes
      • Wireframing
        • Enabling wireframes
        • Managing wireframes
        • Configuring wireframe templates
        • Configuring content inheritance for wireframes
        • Configuring wireframing security
      • Developing websites for mobile devices
        • Configuring mobile development
        • 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
      • Preparing widgets for users
        • Creating widgets
        • Setting up widget zones on pages
        • Configuring permissions for widgets
      • Validating website code and accessibility
        • Validating HTML code
        • Validating CSS
        • Validating links
        • Validating accesibility
      • Managing JavaScript files
      • Troubleshooting websites
        • Viewing system information
        • Working with the system event log
        • Debugging
    • 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
        • Setting up multiple websites
          • Running multiple sites on a single domain
          • Configuring nested websites
        • Switching sites to off-line mode
        • Configuring settings for sites
          • Settings - Content
            • Settings - Content management
            • Settings - Media
            • Settings - Blogs
              • Settings - MetaWeblog API
            • 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 - 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 - Global data & merging
              • Settings - Geolocation
              • Settings - Inactive contacts
            • Settings - Email marketing
            • Settings - Web analytics
          • Settings - E-commerce
            • Settings - Global objects
            • Settings - Authorize.NET
            • Settings - PayPal
          • Settings - Community
            • Settings - Avatars
            • Settings - Chat
              • Settings - Web parts
            • Settings - Forums
            • Settings - Friends
            • Settings - Groups
            • Settings - Message boards
            • Settings - Messaging
          • Settings - Social media
            • Settings - Facebook
            • Settings - Google+
            • Settings - LinkedIn
          • Settings - Social marketing
            • Settings - URL shorteners
          • Settings - Intranet & Collaboration
            • Settings - Events
            • Settings - Projects
          • Settings - Versioning & Synchronization
            • Settings - Staging
            • Settings - Object versioning
            • Settings - Web farm
          • Settings - Integration
            • Settings - Integration bus
            • Settings - Microsoft SharePoint
            • Settings - REST
            • Settings - WebDAV
            • Settings - Data.com
            • Settings - Salesforce.com
            • Settings - 51Degrees.mobi
            • Settings - Strands Recommender
      • Managing files
        • Storing files
        • Importing files
        • Uploading files
        • Resizing images on upload
        • Adding watermarks to images
        • Administering files globally
        • Editing file metadata
      • Configuring page URLs
        • URL format and configuration
        • Setting page aliases
        • Wildcard URLs
        • Extensionless and custom URLs
        • Linking pages and files
        • Custom handling of URL path values
      • Search engine optimization
        • Configuring websites for SEO
        • Google Sitemaps
        • Managing robots.txt
      • Optimizing website performance
        • Loading data efficiently
        • Configuring caching
          • Caching page output
            • Using output cache substitutions
          • Caching files and resources
          • Caching the data of page components
          • Setting cache dependencies
          • Debugging cache
          • Reference - Cache settings
        • Using code minification and compression
        • Setting up web farms
          • Web farm synchronization mechanisms
          • Configuring web farm servers
          • Troubleshooting web farms
          • Debugging web farms
      • Setting up search on your website
        • Enabling search indexing
        • Creating search indexes
          • Defining page indexes
          • Defining forum indexes
          • Defining custom table indexes
          • Defining on-line form indexes
          • Defining user indexes
          • Defining general indexes
        • Monitoring search indexing tasks
        • Adding search functionality to pages
          • Setting up predictive search
        • Configuring search assistance features
        • Searching attachment files
          • Configuring SQL search for attachment files
        • Using search filters
        • Smart search syntax
        • Displaying search results using transformations
        • Searching according to page permissions
        • SQL search
      • Scheduling tasks
        • Configuring scheduled task execution
        • Installing the Scheduler Windows service
        • Reference - scheduled task properties
      • Configuring SMTP servers
        • Reference - SMTP server properties
        • Configuring sender email addresses
      • Managing email templates
      • Working with widget dashboards
        • Managing widget dashboard content
        • Adding widget dashboards to the interface
      • Using output filters
      • Configuring time zones
        • Managing time zones
      • 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
      • Health monitoring
        • Registering performance counters
        • Installing the Health monitoring Windows service
        • Enabling health monitoring
        • Monitoring using the Performance monitor
        • Reference - default performance counters
      • Adding cookie law consent to web pages
        • Cookie levels
        • Reference - Kentico cookies
      • Banning IP addresses
      • Configuring countries
      • 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
      • Configuring Windows Communication Foundation
      • Configuring the code editor
    • Managing users
      • Security model overview
      • User management
        • Impersonating a different user
        • Managing my profile
      • Role management
      • Membership management
      • Configuring the application dashboard
      • Configuring permissions
        • Configuring page permissions
          • Permissions for all content
          • Permissions for page types
          • Page-level permissions (ACLs)
            • Hiding pages based on permissions
        • Configuring design permissions
      • User registration and authentication
        • 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
        • 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 users coming through a third-party authentication service
        • Configuring autocomplete for user names
        • Sharing user accounts between sites
        • Configuring single sign-on
        • Logon troubleshooting
      • Customizing the format of usernames
      • Monitoring on-line users
        • Enabling monitoring of on-line users
        • Managing on-line users
      • UI Personalization
        • Example - UI personalization
      • Allowing users to change the information they share
      • Sending emails
    • Securing websites
      • Designing secure websites
        • Securing and protecting the system
          • Flood protection
          • Banned IPs
          • Clickjacking
          • Session protection
          • Autocomplete deactivation
          • Preventing duplicate poll voting and content rating
          • Screen locking
          • Spam protection (CAPTCHA)
          • Event log and security debug
        • Securing user accounts and passwords
          • Setting the user password format
          • Password strength policy and its enforcement
          • Password expiration
          • Invalid logon attempts
          • Forgotten password
          • Unlocking user accounts
          • Custom password calculation
        • Configuring permissions securely
          • Special security permissions
        • Managing external authentication
        • 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
          • 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)
        • Directory traversal
        • Enumeration
      • Deploying websites to a secure environment
        • Configuring SSL
          • SSL accelerator support
        • Restricting access to directories
        • Disabling unnecessary modules and services and keeping the system up-to-date
        • Hiding system information
        • Minimal secure configuration
        • Web.config file settings
      • Security checklists
        • Security checklist - designing a website
        • Security checklist - developing a website
        • Security checklist - deploying a website
    • Deploying websites
      • Publishing projects from Visual Studio
      • Content staging
        • Configuring content staging
        • Bi-directional content staging
        • Synchronizing the content
        • Automatic content synchronization
        • Staging large files
        • Using X.509 authentication
        • Content staging security
        • Troubleshooting staging
      • Deployment mode for virtual objects
      • 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
    • Managing website content
      • Using the My desk dashboard
      • Working with pages
        • Creating new pages
        • Editing 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
              • Inserting polls
              • Inserting forms
              • Inserting content rating
        • Deleting pages
        • Copying and moving pages, creating linked pages
        • Multiple page operations
        • Using workflows
        • Scheduling pages for publishing
        • Sending links to unpublished pages
        • Searching in pages
        • Categorizing pages
          • Creating personal page categories
          • Assigning pages to categories
          • Viewing pages assigned to personal categories
        • Tagging pages
      • 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
          • Deleting media library files
        • Inserting media files on a page
        • Editing images
      • Adding page content through widgets
      • Banners
        • Creating banners
        • Placing banners on a page
        • Monitoring banner statistics
        • Using banners - a complete example
      • Blogs
        • Creating blogs
        • Creating blog posts
        • Moderating blog comments
        • Managing your blog post comment subscriptions
        • Working with trackbacks in blogs
      • Events
        • Creating events
        • Managing events and event attendees
      • Forms
        • Creating new forms
        • Designing forms using the Form builder
        • Designing forms using the Field editor
        • 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
      • Configuring the environment for content editors
        • Enabling on-site editing
        • Configuring banners
        • 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 on the Form tab
        • Configuring events
          • Creating an Events page
          • Displaying various page types in a Calendar web part
        • Configuring forms
          • Configuring the Form builder
          • Forms security
        • Configuring 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 links to media on the Form tab
          • URLs of resized images in media libraries
          • Media libraries security
            • 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 on the Form tab
        • Configuring the editor
          • Personalizing the editor toolbars and buttons
          • Installing CKEditor 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
        • Configuring page status icons
        • Configuring UI data export
        • Configuring WebDAV
          • WebDAV requirements and limitations
          • Adjusting WebDAV settings
          • Configuring web.config file to support WebDAV in Classic application pool mode
          • 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
        • Creating grouped page attachments
    • Multilingual websites
      • Setting up multilingual websites
        • Setting default languages for users and visitors
        • Configuring URLs for multilingual websites
        • Support for right-to-left languages
      • Setting up a multilingual user interface
        • Working with resource strings
        • Localizing text fields
      • Editing the content of multilingual websites
        • Comparing language versions
        • Language status overview
      • 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 unique page templates for specific languages
      • Defining culture-dependent workflow scopes
      • Allowing content editors to edit only specified language versions
      • 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
        • Importing users and roles from Active Directory
      • 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
      • Integrating Kentico with other applications
        • Child web application fails to start
      • 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 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 Kentico API and Controls externally
        • Displaying Kentico content in external applications
      • Data.com integration
        • Mapping Data.com fields
        • Searching Data.com for contacts
        • Buying contacts from Data.com
        • Customizing the Data.com integration
      • 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
        • Placing Strands recommendations into emails
        • Troubleshooting the Strands Recommender integration
        • Customizing how products are categorized in the Strands integration
      • Integrating SharePoint
        • Configuring SharePoint integration connections
          • Connecting to SharePoint Online
        • 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
        • SharePoint integration (obsolete)
          • SharePoint integration web parts (obsolete)
          • SharePoint integration examples (obsolete)
          • Configuring SharePoint integration settings (obsolete)
    • Custom development
      • Best practices for customization
      • Developing web parts
        • Creating new web parts
        • Working with web part properties
        • Customizing web parts
        • Creating inherited web parts
        • Using custom web part layouts
        • Advanced web part development scenarios
          • Developing layout web parts
          • Developing data source web parts
          • Developing custom filters
          • Developing wireframe components
          • Connecting web parts with the page wizard
      • 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
          • 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
        • Troubleshooting custom modules
      • Editing system tables
      • Loading custom classes from App_Code
      • Database table API
      • Working with pages in the API
        • Page database structure
        • Storing custom data for all page types
      • Custom table internals and API
      • User internals and API
        • Checking permissions using the API
      • Retrieving database data using ObjectQuery API
      • Customizing the system's data classes (Info objects)
      • Customizing providers
        • Registering providers using assembly attributes
        • Registering providers via the web.config
        • Custom Info provider example
          • Example - Custom shipping option selection
        • Custom Email provider example
        • Custom Data provider example
        • Creating custom SQL search providers
      • Handling global events
        • Handling object events
        • Handling custom external authentication
        • Handling custom claims-based authentication
        • Handling custom multi-factor authentication
        • Handling marketing automation triggers
        • Making custom modifications to output HTML
        • Excluding content from staging and integration
        • Automatically synchronizing staging and integration tasks
        • Deploying objects with custom ID fields
        • Reference - Global system events
      • Caching in custom code
      • 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
        • Reference - Field editor
      • 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
      • API examples
      • Managing database views and stored procedures
      • Miscellaneous custom development tasks
        • Adding custom code to portal engine page templates
        • Adding custom methods to transformations
          • Example - Displaying categories in page lists
        • Scheduling custom tasks
        • Smart search API and customization
          • Creating custom smart search indexes
          • Creating custom smart search analyzers
          • Adding custom search text extractors for files
          • Customizing the content of search indexes
        • Web part API
        • Widget internals and API
        • Web farm internals and API
          • Creating custom web farm synchronization tasks
        • Registering CSS preprocessors
        • Working with form data using the API
        • Developing custom marketing automation actions
        • 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
        • Working with database queries in the API
        • Web analytics API
          • Adding custom web analytics
          • Logging conversions through the API
        • Managing on-line marketing activities (API)
        • Synchronizing content using the API
        • Media libraries API
        • Notifications API
          • Developing custom notification gateways
            • Creating custom notification gateway forms
            • Creating custom notification gateway classes
            • Registering custom notification gateways
        • Adding custom performance counters
        • Cloning objects through the API
        • Creating custom RSS feed pages manually
        • Displaying correct time in your code
        • Working with font icons
        • Displaying data on application tiles
    • E-commerce features
      • Getting started with the E-commerce Solution
        • Installing your sample E-commerce Site
        • E-commerce user interface
      • Configuring and managing your store
        • Starting to configure the store
        • Store overview
        • E-commerce website settings
        • E-commerce web.config settings
        • Multilingual store
        • Multisite store
          • Multisite store basic configuration scenarios
          • Enabling global E-commerce objects
          • Using site and global E-commerce objects
          • Using site and global E-commerce settings
          • Multisite store special cases
          • Multisite store security
        • Departments
        • Products
          • Adding new products
          • Importing products using Kentico Import Toolkit
            • Example - Importing new products using Kentico Import Toolkit
          • Managing stand-alone SKUs
          • Managing product types and product section types
          • Managing product representations
            • Managing Standard products
            • Managing E-commerce memberships
            • Managing E-products
            • Managing Donations
            • 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
            • Customizing product option forms
          • Working with product variants
            • Example - Adding a product with variants
        • Product statuses
        • Manufacturers
        • Suppliers
        • Discounts
          • Working with catalog discounts
            • Example - Applying a catalog discount
          • Working with order discounts
            • Example - Applying an order discount
          • Working with free shipping offers
            • Example - Redeeming a free shipping offer
          • Working with volume discounts
            • Example - Applying volume discounts on a selected product
          • Working with Buy X Get Y discounts
            • Example - Applying a Buy X Get Y discount
            • Example - Applying a Buy X Get Y discount
          • Working with discount coupons
            • Working with product coupons
              • Example - Applying a coupon code to receive a discount on selected products
            • Use order coupons
              • Usea coupon code to receive a discount
              • Use a coupon code to receive free shipping
          • Configuring discount rules
            • Example - Adding a catalog rule
            • Example - Adding an order rule
        • Tax classes
        • Currencies
        • Exchange rates
        • Customers
        • Checkout process
          • Shopping cart totals
        • Orders
        • Order statuses
        • Configuring shipping options
          • Configuring shipping carriers
        • Payment methods
          • Customers credit
          • Payment gateways
            • Configuring Authorize.NET
            • Configuring PayPal
          • Payment results
        • Invoices
      • Customizing and developing your store
        • E-commerce customization model
        • Creating a custom payment gateway
        • Implementing custom shipping carrier providers
          • Example - Creating a shipping carrier provider with costs based on the country
        • Importing products using API
        • Customizing evaluation of Buy X Get Y discounts
        • Customizing application of Buy X Get Y discounts
      • Store reports
        • Using the Store reports dashboard
        • Generating E-commerce sample data
      • Store security
        • E-commerce permissions
        • E-commerce UI personalization
        • E-commerce department managers
    • On-line marketing features
      • Web analytics
        • Enabling web analytics
        • Viewing web analytics reports
        • Logging conversions on your website
        • Tracking campaigns
          • Managing campaigns
          • Example - Creating campaigns
          • Evaluating campaigns
        • Monitoring traffic from search engines
        • Managing analytics data
        • Debugging web analytics
        • Using Google analytics
      • Contact management
        • Working with contacts
          • Configuring contact detection
          • Mapping fields to contact attributes
          • Using geolocation for contacts
          • Viewing on-line contacts
          • Assigning statuses to contacts
          • Organizing contacts into accounts
          • Merging contacts and accounts
          • Setting up automatic deletion of contacts
        • Contact segmentation
        • Tracking contact activities
          • Enabling activity tracking
          • Viewing contact activities
          • Example - Logging activities
          • Adding custom activities
          • Reference - Activity types
        • Scoring contacts
          • Managing contact scores
          • Example - Using contact scoring
        • Allowing global contact management objects
        • Separating the contact management database
          • Rejoining the contact management database
        • Improving custom macro performance in scoring and contact groups
        • Importing contacts
      • Email marketing
        • Working with email campaigns
          • Preparing email campaign templates
          • Creating static campaign emails
          • Writing static campaign emails
          • Creating dynamic newsletters
          • Enabling double opt-in for email campaigns
          • Managing email marketing subscribers
          • Integrating email campaigns into sites
          • Placing Strands recommendations into email campaigns
          • Troubleshooting email campaigns
        • Tracking email campaigns
        • Monitoring bounced campaign emails
        • A/B testing email campaigns
      • Marketing automation
        • Creating 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
      • Optimization testing
        • A/B testing website pages
          • Enabling A/B testing
          • Creating A/B tests for pages
          • Analyzing A/B test results
          • Example - Using A/B testing
        • Multivariate testing
          • Enabling multivariate testing
          • Creating MVT tests
          • Analyzing MVT test results
          • Example - Using MVT testing
      • Content personalization
        • Enabling content personalization
        • Personas
          • Defining personas
          • Recommending pages to personas
          • Viewing contacts assigned to personas
        • Managing personalization variants
        • Setting display conditions for personalization variants
        • Example - Creating a personalized page
      • Configuring on-line marketing permissions
      • On-line marketing macros
    • Intranet features
      • Document library
        • Using Document library web parts
        • Using the Document library widget
        • Creating a document library
        • Managing files in document libraries
        • Configuring Document library security
      • Project management
        • Managing projects and tasks
        • Project management security
        • Project management web parts and widgets
        • Using project management on the live site
    • 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
      • Friends
        • Requesting friendships
        • Friends management email templates
        • Managing friends
        • Friends web parts
        • Friends - examples of use
        • Friends security
      • 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
      • Messaging
        • Sending a message
        • Adding the messaging functionality to the live site
        • Configuring email notifications for messages
      • User contributions
        • Example - Publishing community news
        • Example - Editing partner profiles
        • User contributions security
      • 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
    • Running Kentico on Microsoft Azure
      • Architecture of Microsoft Azure environment
      • Requirements and limitations for running Kentico on Microsoft Azure
      • Microsoft Azure project development lifecycle
      • Preparing the cloud environment
      • Installing an Azure project
      • Configuring an Azure project
      • Deploying an Azure project
      • Installing the database for an Azure project
      • Developing on Microsoft Azure - best practices
      • Developing Azure projects locally
      • Scaling Microsoft Azure projects
      • Configuring Azure CDN
      • Converting an existing project to an Azure project
      • Microsoft Azure Web Apps
        • Enabling web farms on Azure Web Apps
      • Recommendations on using Azure SQL Database tiers
      • Mapping the Web analytics storage folder to the server file system
      • Troubleshooting Azure projects
    • Using Amazon web services with Kentico
    • References
      • 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
            • CMSMenu
            • CMSSiteMap
            • CMSTabControl
            • CMSTreeMenu
            • 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
        • UI controls
          • UniGrid
            • Reference - UniGrid definition
            • Creating custom UniGrid filters
            • Adding custom UniGrid transformations
          • UniSelector
      • Reference - Web.config application keys
      • Reference - Web parts
    • Release notes - Kentico 8 versions
      • Kentico improvement program
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