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Tim Gaunt

Quickly delete Umbraco nodes by document type in SQL

Ever needed to delete all nodes by a document type or delete all nodes from the recycle bin in Umbraco? This little script should help. Delete Umbraco nodes by Document Type Alias BEGIN TRAN DECLARE @Nodes TABLE (NodeId int) INSERT INTO @Nodes (NodeId) SELECT top 1000 n.id FROM cmsContent

To 08xx or not 08xx that is the question

At some point, when setting up a new website or business you need to give some thought to your telephone number. In the UK we have numbers that start with 08 which have different charging rates (free, local, national etc) and I've been asked several times in the

No basket exist for the current user when checking out in uCommerce

Stupidly this had me going for a while today so this is partly a post to act as a reminder not to do it again but also hopefully to help someone else from doing the same. A site we are working on was sending the order confirmation email -and processing

Illegal characters in path in MVC view

I initially thought that this was an issue with Umbraco's implementation on MVC but it turns out that if you have an IEnumerable property on your view model then you may get an error similar to the below. I've done a little searching around in the

How to: Delete duplicate products from a category in uCommerce

I was looking into an issue with one of our sites that couldn't delete a product from a category in uCommerce today and noticed that there were a lot of duplicate product-category relationships in the table. Deleting them is fairly simple so I thought I'd share

Error when publishing Umbraco page - Object reference not set to an instance of an object

This is one of those irritating errors that you come across every now and again and can take hours to diagnose. If you've seen something like the error at the end of this post, then check that you don't have any document types which have an

How to price your products

I blogged a few years ago about how to price your time I thought I should blog about how to price a physical product. Recently, I've been involved in setting up a new company selling all sorts of Christmas decorations, artificial trees and more called Festive Sparkle. Part

Don’t dwell - get over it and move on

One thing that always amazes me in business is the tendency people have to dwell on things and then miss opportunities that are out there. If you spot an opportunity then weigh up the pros and cons of the opportunity, what it will cost and the expected outcome. If it

Developing with Umbraco and Git (or any other source control system)

I've had a couple of people ask me recently how we use source control (in our case Git but this should work with Mercurial) with Umbraco and within a team. This is more of a discussion post and I'm interested to learn more how you'

Delay sending an email until the next working day

I know there are a fair few people that have automatic delays on their email to avoid sending emails too quickly but for some time now I've wanted to restrict emails so they're only send during office hours -to avoid getting into email conversations on the