Archived documentation
Here you can access previous versions of the Episerver User Guide, if your Episerver implementation is not on the latest version.
This only applies to users running lower versions of CMS, Commerce, and Search & Navigation (formerly Episerver Find). Contact your system administrator for information about products and versions in your Episerver implementation. From version 16-2, PDF files for print are available via Print tile on the start page of this User Guide.
Obsoleted functionality
From time to time, information about features that are no longer available, or have been replaced by new functionality, are removed. See list below for user guide versions containing obsoleted functionality.
Area | Functionality | User guide version |
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Commerce | Campaigns (legacy, replaced by new functionality) | 18-5 or earlier (Sep 10, 2018) |
Commerce | Promotions (legacy, replaced by new functionality) | 18-5 or earlier (Sep 10, 2018) |
CMS | Built-in web forms functionality (legacy, replaced by new functionality). | 18-2 or earlier (Mar 19, 2018) |
CMS | Dynamic content (legacy, replaced by new functionality). | 18-2 or earlier (Mar 19, 2018) |
CMS | Customizing the rich text-editor TinyMCE v1. | 18-2 or earlier (Mar 19, 2018) |
Personalization | Working with the Strategy block | 19-9 or earlier (Nov 28 2019) |
Previous release notes
Previous release notes that have been archived. Release notes for the current year is found in the What's new topic.
Released | Area | Features and updates |
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December 19, 2019 | Commerce | You can use the Authorize.Net payment gateway to process customer payments. (update 294) |
December 19, 2019 | Visitor Intelligence | You can create a segment based on a filter definition. See Creating a marketing segment. (update 294) |
November 28, 2019 | Commerce | From the Orders tab of the Contact Details screen, you can view a customer’s order history. (update 290) The Order and Cart Details screens were redesigned to more closely resemble Commerce Manager and make them easier to use. (update 291) |
November 28, 2019 | Campaign | You can create coupon codes of type Code 128 bar code or Interleaved 2 of 5 bar code by using the coupon system. (update 292) |
November 6, 2019 | Campaign | You can export event data (for example, clicks and opens) in real time via webhooks. (update 290) |
October 24, 2019 | Commerce | Support for updating order management and shipment statuses on the Order Management screen. |
October 17, 2019 | Campaign | In lists that support multiple selection, the new button Sort by selection lets you sort selected items to the top of the list. (update 286) |
October 11, 2019 | Commerce |
On the Order Management screen, you can change a cart's Market, and an order's Market and Currency. (update 284) A new scheduled job exports your product feed (catalog) to Product Recommendations incrementally. (update 284) |
October 11, 2019 | Marketing Automation connectors | Support for multiple instances of a connector, to use in separate regions. See Episerver Microsoft Dynamics CRM. (update 284) |
October 4, 2019 | Personalization |
The Personalization Portal is the user interface for accessing Product Recommendations and Email Product Recommendations features.
You can export and import Email Product Recommendations campaigns. |
September 25, 2019 | Campaign | The Performance Dashboard (Beta) now has the additional chart type Basic chart (mailing-based). Use the new hamburger menu within the widgets to export charts. (update 280) In the Deliverability preview (Beta), the Spam suspicion tab displays the spam score and further information on the spam filters for individual clients. Notes on spam filters of each client have been added to the documentation. A step-by-step guide for Smart Campaigns has been added to split dispatch. A definition of the mailing types that can be selected in Deep Analytics reports and action-based target group filters has been added. Inline Editing lets you edit the texts of your mailing template directly in the mailing preview. (update 280) |
September 5, 2019 | CMS | The CMS user interface has been rebranded. The screenshots have been updated to reflect this. (update 274) |
September 5, 2019 | Commerce | Order meta-classes and fields appear on the Order Management screen. Several updates to the Order Management screen, including the ability to choose a market before selecting a cart, and the ability to create a new cart. (update 279) |
September 5, 2019 | Campaign | Use the new Structured data tab in the General settings paragraph in the Template Kit to add structured data to your mailing. Add content in the Gmail Promotions tab section that Gmail should prominently display in the Gmail Promotions tab. |
September 5, 2019 | Marketing Automation connectors | New global settings for Marketing Automation connectors. Change to Microsoft Dynamics CRM connector configuration screen (Domain is out; Region is in), and Organization name can be the Unique name or the friendly name. |
August 21, 2019 | Campaign | The Deliverability preview (Beta) lets you check your mailing before dispatch, whether the contents are displayed correctly and whether your mailing has been classified as spam by the most popular email providers. In the Performance Dashboard, you can display KPIsStands for "key performance indicator" (also known as a conversion goal); the measurement of actions on web pages. The actions can be completed purchases, pages visited, time spent on site and so on. as a bubble chart. (update 278) |
August 21, 2019 | Visitor Intelligence | Visitor groups was added to the filter types for viewing profiles. |
August 7, 2019 | Campaign | The IP warming topic provides information about how to build a good reputation with internet service providers as an email sender. |
July 24, 2019 | Campaign | In the recipient history, you can view the third-party ID, the pseudonymized recipient ID. See Recipient history. (update 274) In the Basics section, you can find the new Deliverability basics section with information and best practices for successful deliverability. (update 268) |
July 10, 2019 | Forms | The form element types Rich text and Submit button can now be dependent on other fields, which means they can be displayed or hidden depending on a visitor's previous input. See Dependencies tab in Form element types. (update 269) |
July 10, 2019 | Commerce | The Order Management screen lets you convert any cart to a purchase order and accept payments. See Order Management screen. (update 271) |
July 10, 2019 | Campaign | If you use Spryker as an e-commerce platform, you can integrate Episerver Campaign to connect e-commerce and mailing activities. See Spryker integration. Added menu entries Episerver Insight and Episerver Reach (Email Product Recommendations and Triggered Messages) to Campaign start menu. |
June 13, 2019 | CMS | An administrator can require a review requester to add a comment when sending an item for review. See Managing approval sequences and Collaboration. (update 265) |
June 13, 2019 | Campaign | The Episerver Campaign User Guide is a section in the Episerver User Guide. |
June 13, 2019 | Marketing Automation connectors | Support for multiple instances of a connector, to use for example in separate regions. See Episerver Pardot and Episerver Marketo. (update 244) |
Previous user guides
Previously released user guides, describing available functionality (CMS, Commerce, Find versions 7.5 and higher) at the time of release. User guides for Episerver versions lower than 7.5 are available here.
2020
Released | Product versions | User guides |
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February 2020 (Update 303) | CMS Core 11.14.1, CMS UI 11.23.5, Commerce 13.15.0, Find 13.2.5 | Episerver User Guide 20-2 – English and German |
February 2020 (Update 301) | CMS Core 11.14.1, CMS UI 11.23.3, Commerce 13.15.0, Find 13.2.5 | Episerver User Guide 20-1 – English and German |
Released | Product versions | User guides |
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December 2019 (Update 294) | CMS Core 11.14.0, CMS UI 11.23.2, Commerce 13.13.0, Find 13.2.5 | Episerver User Guide 19-10 – English and German |
November 2019 (Update 291) | CMS Core 11.13.2, CMS UI 11.23.0, Commerce 13.12.0, Find 13.2.5 | Episerver User Guide 19-9 – English and German |
October 2019 (Update 286) |
CMS Core 11.13.1, CMS UI 11.22.0 Commerce 13.9.0, Find 13.2.4 | Episerver User Guide 19-8 – English and German |
October 2019 (Update 284) |
CMS Core 11.13.1, CMS UI 11.22.0 Commerce 13.8.0, Find 13.2.4 | Episerver User Guide 19-7 – English and German |
September
2019 (Update 279) |
CMS Core 11.13.0, CMS UI 11.21.5, Commerce 13.7.0, Find 13.2.2 | Episerver User Guide 19-6 – English and German |
July 2019 (Update 271) |
CMS Core 11.12.0, CMS UI 11.20.1, Commerce 13.4.0, Find 13.2.1 | Episerver User Guide 19-5 – English and German
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June 2019 (Update 267) |
CMS Core 11.12.0, CMS UI 11.20.1, Commerce 13.3.1, Find 13.0.5 | Episerver User Guide 19-4 – English and German
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Apr 2019 (Update 260) |
CMS Core 11.11.3, CMS UI 11.19.1, Commerce 13.1.0, Find 13.0.5 | Episerver Platform User Guide 19-3 – English
Episerver Platform User Guide 19-3 – German |
Mar 2019 (Update 255) |
CMS Core 11.11.2, CMS UI 11.18.0, Commerce 12.17.2, Find 13.0.5 | Episerver Platform User Guide 19-2 – English |
Jan 2019 (Update 249) |
CMS Core 11.11.1, CMS UI 11.16.0, Commerce 12.16.0, Find 13.0.5 | Episerver Platform User Guide 19-1 – English |
Released | Product versions | User guides |
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Dec 2018 (Update 245) |
CMS Core 11.11.0, CMS UI 11.13.2, Commerce 12.14.0, Find 13.0.5 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-7 – English Episerver Platform User Guide 18-7 – German |
Nov 2018 (Update 239) |
CMS Core 11.10.6, CMS UI 11.12.0, Commerce 12.11.0, Find 13.0.5 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-6 – English |
Sep 2018 (Update 231) |
CMS Core 11.9.4, CMS UI 11.8.0, Commerce 12.8.1, Find 13.0.1 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-5 – English Episerver Platform User Guide 18-5 – German |
July 2018 (Update 222) |
CMS Core 11.9.2, CMS UI 11.5.2, Commerce 12.3.1, Find 13.0.1 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-4 – English |
May 2018 (Update 212) |
CMS Core 11.5.4, CMS UI 11.4.3, Commerce 12.1.0, Find 13.0.1 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-3 – English
Episerver Platform User Guide 18-3 – German |
Mar 2018 (Update 206) |
CMS Core 11.5.1, CMS UI 11.4.0, Commerce 11.8.3, Find 12.7.1 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-2 – English |
Jan 2018 (Update 197) |
CMS Core 11.3.1, CMS UI 11.2.1, Commerce 11.6.1, Find 12.7 | Episerver Platform User Guide 18-1 – English Episerver Platform User Guide 18-1 – German |
Released | Product versions | User guides |
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Dec 2017 |
CMS Core 11.2.1, CMS UI 11.1.1, Commerce 11.5.0, Find 12.7.0 | |
Aug 2017 |
CMS Core 10.10.1, CMS UI 10.10.5, Commerce 11.0.0, Find 12.5.2 | Episerver User Guide 17-5 - English Episerver User Guide 17-5 - German |
July 2017 |
CMS Core 10.10.1, CMS UI 10.10.5, Commerce 11.0.0, Find 12.5.2 | |
May 2017 |
CMS Core 10.9.1, CMS UI 10.9.2, Commerce 10.6.0, Find 12.4.3 | |
Mar 2017 |
CMS Core 10.5.0, CMS UI 10.7.0, Commerce 10.4.1, Find 12.4.0 | |
Feb 2017 |
CMS Core 10.4.1, CMS UI 10.5.0, Commerce 10.2.3, Find 12.3.2 |
Released | Product versions | User guides |
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Dec 2016 |
CMS Core 10.2.0, CMS UI 10.2.0, Commerce 10.1.1, Find 12.3.0 | |
Nov 2016 |
CMS Core 10.0.1, CMS UI 10.0.2, Commerce 10.0.0, Find 12.2.5 | |
Oct 2016 |
CMS Core 10.0.1, CMS UI 10.0.2, Commerce 10.0.0, Find 12.2.5 | |
Sep 2016 |
CMS Core 9.12.2, CMS UI 9.9.1, Commerce 9.22.0, Find 12.2.0 | |
July 2016 |
CMS Core 9.12, CMS UI 9.8, Commerce 9.19.0, Find 12.0.1 | |
May 2016 |
CMS Core 9.9.1, CMS UI 9.6.1, Commerce 9.16.0, Find 11.1.6 | |
Apr 2016 |
CMS Core 9.8.2, CMS UI 9.4.4, Commerce 9.13.0, Find 11.1.5 | |
Mar 2016 |
CMS Core 9.7.3, CMS UI 9.4.3, Commerce 9.10.0, Find 11.1.2 | |
Feb 2016 |
CMS Core 9.6.1, CMS UI 9.3.8, Commerce 9.8.1, Find 11.1.1 |
Released | Product versions | User guides |
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Nov 2015 |
CMS Core 9.3.2, CMS UI 9.3.1, Commerce 9.2.1, Find 11.0 | |
Sep 2015 |
CMS Core 8.11.0, CMS UI 8.6.1, Commerce 8.16.1, Find 9.5.0 | |
May 2015 |
CMS Core 8.7.0, CMS UI 8.2.2, Commerce 8.12.0, Find 9.3.0 | |
Apr 2015 |
CMS Core 8.5.0, CMS UI 8.2.0, Commerce 8.11.4, Find 9.2.0 | |
Feb 2015 |
CMS Core/UI 8.0.0, Commerce 8.8.0, Find 9.0.0 |