New guide to the document, new asset_url Shortcode, targeting .NET 6 by default, and demo about the Lombiq Privacy module for Orchard Core. Do you want to know more? Then don't forget to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Add [asset_url] shortcode The new asset_url Shortcode can be used to render the image URL only. Let's see a short example for this one. We have a site set up with the Blog recipe, and we decided to create a new blog post. The blog post content type has a MarkDownPart attached that supports using Shortcodes. You can type the [asset_url][/asset_url] by yourself, or just easily click on the Insert Shortcode icon and find the asset_url one in the Media category. Make sure you have some content in your Media Library and enter the file name of the asset. We have an Orchard Core logo at the root of the Media Library with the file name orchard-core-symbol-logo-color.png, so let's use that one.As you can see, if we provide the file name, the asset_url returns the relative URL from the site's media library. You can see we have a tenant here with the name blog1 and the file is in the root folder of the media library. If you would like to know more, head to this page of the Orchard Core documentation, where you can read about the parameters that you can use with this Shortcode. New how-to guide: creating the pieces needed to query content based on assigned taxonomies If you head to this page on the Orchard Core documentation, you will find a new guide for creating a query that allows searching across multiple assigned taxonomies. At the end of the guide, you will have the pieces needed to search through blogs to find only the ones with specific tags assigned. Target .NET 6 by default .NET 6 was released on the 8th of November and the community already updated Orchard Core to use .NET 6 by default. So, the main branch targets .NET 6 by default which means if you clone that branch, you will need to have the .NET 6 SDK. If you go to dotnet.microsoft.com, you can easily download the latest SDK. Orchard Core now also builds and runs the tests using .NET 6. The targets are defined in the CommonTargetFrameworks of the Dependencies.AspNetCore.props file, where you will see .NET 6, .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.1. By default, if you open Visual Studio, it will target .NET 6, but when you build on the command line, you can define which target you want. So, if you want to publish a self-contained, you can do --framework and provide the framework you want or change the value of the DefaultTargetFramework property. The same applies to the Docker deployments. And one reminder: if you are using Visual Studio and want to use .NET 6, you will need to download Visual Studio 2022 because Visual Studio 2019 has no support for .NET 6. Demos Lombiq Privacy for Orchard Core The Lombiq Privacy for Orchard Core is an Orchard Core module containing features related to data protection/privacy and the EU law on it, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this demo, we will go with the quicker way and use our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution that contains that module. If you clone that repository and set up your site using any setup recipe, let's just navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core, and under Configuration -> Features, enable the following features: Lombiq Privacy - Consent banner that adds the ability to show a privacy consent banner. Lombiq Privacy - Form consent that provides the Privacy Consent Checkbox widget that can be used on any form. Lombiq Privacy - Registration consent that adds a privacy consent checkbox to the registration form. Now, if you navigate to Configuration -> Settings, you will find three new options there: Privacy Consent Banner Settings, Privacy Consent Checkbox Settings, and Privacy Registration Consent Settings. If you click on the Privacy Consent Banner Settings, you will find a simple editor with Liquid support, where you can set the content of the consent banner. By using the consent banner feature, users can accept the privacy policy. If the user is unauthenticated, they can use the banner to accept or reject the privacy statement, their decision will be stored in a cookie by the browser. If the user is authenticated, their only option is to accept the privacy policy via the banner. This is so because it is assumed that during registration, they already accepted a suitable privacy policy, it's just that the Lombiq Privacy module or something similar wasn't used at the time. Another new option here is the Privacy Registration Consent Checkbox Settings. The Registration Consent Feature shows a privacy consent checkbox on the registration form that needs to be checked by the users to be able to register. After registration, the user's consent is stored in the PrivacyConsent section of the user's properties. Here you can define the label of the checkbox. And the last one is the Form Consent Feature which adds a new Privacy Consent Checkbox widget content type that can be added to forms with the Forms module. In this case, users must accept the privacy policy before they can post content to the site. You can validate the consent with the Validate Privacy Consent Checkbox workflow activity. The way of how to do it can be seen in this Contact Form submitted workflow. When we get an incoming POST request, we check the validity of the Privacy Consent Checkbox, and based on the result, we redirect the user to different URLs. And if you check out the editor of the Page content type which has a Flow Part attached, you can see we added a Form widget there, and inside the Form, we placed our Privacy Consent Checkbox widget. And as usual, if you would like to know more about this new module, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 231 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

Feature profiles deployment plans and recipes, Audit Trail updates, support ordering in list_items Liquid filter, and many more coming this week! Do you want to know more? Then don't forget to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Feature profiles deployment steps and recipes The Feature Profiles is about adding the ability to restrict the features and/or themes that are available to either a tenant and/or all tenants or a mix of both. If you haven't heard about that feature yet, check out this post with a great demo! This time you will see that now you can export and import your existing Feature Profiles. Let's assume that we have already created two Tenant Feature Profiles. To do that, you have to enable the Tenants and the Tenant Feature Profiles feature under Configuration -> Features and add Feature Profiles under Configuration -> Tenant Feature Profiles. Now you can go to Configuration -> Import/Export and add a new deployment plan. If you click on the Add Step button and search for the feature keyword, you will find a new one, called All Feature Profiles. Choose this one and execute the plan by downloading the given zip file to the computer. If you check out the Recipe.json file inside the zip, you will see a step called FeatureProfiles which contains the available feature profiles that we have already created: restricted profile and restricted agency theme. Fix Audit Trail date parsing The Audit Trail module has a huge update this summer where the UI had been totally changed, and the feature had some new stuff too, like the improved search filters. In this post, we had a detailed description of everything you may need to know about the improvements of the Audit Trail module. When you open up the Audit Trail module, you can find a funnel icon. If you click on the funnel icon before the search box and select the Filter Syntax one, you will see a modal window that shows you the available filters. This modal describes all the registered filters that you can use with the given properties. It also shows you the current values of the given filters and a little bit of information about the syntax. And then down the bottom, you just get the current filter and the normalized version of it which describes how it's being constructed. When working with dates, you have several options, like date:>2021-11-08, which means give me all of the events that happened after the 8th of November this year. Or you can say date:>=2021-11-08 to get all of the events that happened after the 7th of November this year. There was a minor bug in the DateTimeParser when it splits the operators. The OneOf() method builds a parser that returns either of the first success of the specified parsers. And the first one was the > operator, which means if you wrote >= for example, the parser used the > operator because it was defined earlier than the >=. The same goes for < and <=. Fix ambiguity in search form settings If you go to Search -> Settings -> Search on the admin UI of Orchard Core, you will see that the Default search index drop-down has a value to use for the search page. But this doesn't mean that the given index is the default one. Here you see a value, but it's not set it's just the first item in the drop-down. Now there is a new Select a search index option in the drop-down that will alert the user about there is no default index to use for the search page. Demos Support ordering in list_items Liquid filter We have a list_items Liquid filter which loads published content items for a given content item object or explicit Content Item id given as a string in a list. You can see a nice demo about how to make lists sortable with ordering setting here. This time this demo is just about showing you that now if you use the list_items Liquid filter with a ListPart where the ordering is enabled, the filter returns the list items in the expected order. The code changes are in the ListItemsFilter class (which is the implementation of the list_items Liquid filter), where you can see that we get the ListPartSettings by using the IContentDefinitionManager. If the ordering is enabled for that ListPart we pass the bool value to the QueryListItemsAsync method. That method is just containing a query that returns the content items of the given list. The change here is to order the content items by the ListContentItemId if the partPredicate value is true, which will be true if the ordering of the given ListPart is set to true. You can find the code in the following PR and as always, if you would like to know more, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community A new website using Orchard Core: eRED Real estate and development The eRED Real estate and development site has been developed by one of the contributors of Orchard Core, Sotiris Roussos. Check out this brand new Orchard Core site here! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 232 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

Sitemap deployment plans and recipes, improve reset password email experience, a new Device Preview module, and many more coming this week! Do you want to know more? Then don't forget to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Sitemap deployment plans and recipes A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your site. A sitemap tells the crawler which files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files: for example, for pages, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page. You can learn more about that module in this post where you can also see a demo of the feature. Let's assume that we have already created a sitemap that contains the blog posts of the site. Now let's navigate to Configuration -> Import/Export -> Deployment Plans and create a new deployment plan. If you add a new deployment step to your plan you will see a new plan, called All Sitemaps. Choose this one and execute the plan by downloading the given zip file to the computer. If you check out the Recipe.json file inside the zip, you will see a step called Sitemaps which contains the sitemap and the sitemap index itself. Improve reset password email experience You can allow users to reset their passwords. If they do that, they will get an email with a link that allows resetting the password. To prevent any misusage, the wording of that email has been changed like "Someone recently requested a password reset" instead of "Dear user" and "if you did not request a password reset, please ignore this email." Fix user picker field ordering We have a field in Orchard Core called the user picker field, which field allows you to connect users with a content item. If you haven't heard about that field yet, check out this post with a nice demo. If you edit the content definition of the user picker field, you can allow multiple elements to be selected and allow the picker to display users from multiple roles. There was an issue when the user picker resets the order of selected users when saving because it comes back in database order. Now, if you add multiple users to the user picker field and hit save, the system will keep the ordering of the users. News from the community Device Preview module This repository contains premium modules for the Orchard Core CMS. The Device Preview module in this repository adds a live preview to your production-ready pages on different devices. It previews your content in various form factors and tests without leaving the content editor screen. The Device Preview module enables live content preview on Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, and Desktops.The Readme.MD file of the module contains some lines on how you can add this module to your solution and how to include it in your recipe to enable the feature by default. New Lombiq team member: Bálint Aracsi Please welcome our new Orchard Core developer colleague, Bálint Aracsi! See his full bio here, where you can find out which part of IT he likes most, and the color of his toothbrush :)! You can check out his full bio here! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 232 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 1.1 is now available! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core and see a demo about a great third-party Orchard Core module that provides a dynamic styling content field for Orchard Core! Let's get started! Orchard Core updates Add Media background checkerboard pattern for transparent images Let's say that you have a site set up with the Blog recipe and you want to change the Banner Image of the predefined blog post. It's a possible scenario that you upload a PNG or a GIF file that has transparency. But the transparency of the selected image couldn't be easily seen because the admin theme has no support to show that the given image has a transparent background. To fix this issue, now you will have a background checkerboard to easily see the transparent parts of the image, that works in dark mode too. Here you can see that we uploaded and selected an Orchard Core logo that has a transparent background. Add Total support for Lucene API queries The change is just to return whatever the query object is returned from the query API, and it might contain more than what the interface exposes, which is just the items. For instance, Lucene can return the number, the total items. SQL won't do that because that's too costly. Demos Dynamic style Content Field The ThisNetWorks.OrchardCore.Styles module provides a dynamic styling Content Field for Orchard Core. The repository contains a sample project which includes custom configurations for the CKEditor toolbar. In this demo, we will clone the mentioned repository and run the solution inside. Set up your site using the Styles sample recipe that allows you to set up your site with additional pre-configured options, features, and settings out of the box. First of all, let's navigate to Design -> Style Schemas. A style schema defines how the Styles field will be edited, and which components will be available. Open up the one called H2 Color. As you can see here, we defined a component schema. At its most basic a schema entry must contain a reference to a Vuejs component and the description of how to render its entry as CSS. The renderer can be either a renderer name, e.g., "renderer": "CssSizeEntry" or a LiquidJS template for more complex schemas. Here the template says that set the color of the h2 tags to the #8bc34a hex value. Before moving forward, let's check out the content definition of the Style Guide content type that comes from the Styles sample recipe as well (Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types -> Style Guide). As you may notice, this content type has three Style fields attached. Now let's focus on the one with the display name Heading 2. Every Style field can have a selected style schema (H2 Color in this case), or you can select the Custom schema option from the drop-down to say I don't want to use a given style schema, I would like to define the schema here for this Style field. Now check out the predefined Style Guide content item. As you can see here, we have an h2 tag with the heading 2 text. And because we attached the H2 Color style schema with the Heading 2 Style field, when we render the content of this content item, the color of the text inside the h2 tag will be using the #8bc34a hex value. You can find other style schemas on the site, like the Css Variables one. Here you can see a range of CSS vars for the site. The BorderRadius adds rounded corners to the given elements. Here you can see we defined the value of the radius using rem. If you scroll back to the Style Guide content item, you will see that here we defined a my-sites-button class with a border value. The border-radius: var(--border-radius); means to use the defined BorderRadius value from a style schema. And here, you can see the usage of other variables from the style schemas like the button-background-color-hex, where you can easily say button-background-color-rgb as well if you defined the rgb value too. Here button is the name of the component, background-color is the name of the schema with a predefined hex and rgb colors. Now, if you open up the Style Guide content item, you will see something like this. Here you can see the color of heading 2, the border-radius of the buttons, and every other style that we defined using style schemas and attached them to our content type by using content fields. If you check out the README.md file of the repository, you will find nice, detailed documentation about the properties that you can use inside the schemas. And as always, you can find a recording about this module on YouTube to see this feature in action! News from the community Orchard Core 1.1 Orchard Core 1.1 is released! If you open up nuget.org and search for the OrchardCore.Application.Cms.Targets package, you will find the newest released version of Orchard Core! Upgrade your solution to 1.1 now! Feel free to drop on the dedicated Gitter chat or use the Discussions on GitHub and ask questions! Reusable tests in Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox The Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox is a web UI testing toolbox mostly for Orchard Core applications. Everything you need to do UI testing with Selenium for an Orchard app is here. UI Testing here is an automation that clicks through the web application in a browser. One of the most popular frameworks for that is Selenium, which does exactly that. You get an API to instruct a browser, and every major browser is supported. This UI Testing Toolbox provides a lot of features on top of Selenium for Orchard Core. Basically allowing you to UI test an Orchard Core application in a safe and parallelized way providing a lot of helpers, a lot of higher-level APIs allowing you to test your application with SQLite, with SQL Server with local media storage, or with Azure Blob Storage. And you can have a test e-mail sent with a local SMTP server too. Everything just works. Check out the highlights of the Readme.md file of this repository to see all of the features! We had a demo about the UI Testing Toolbox a few weeks ago. If you haven't seen it yet, check out this This week in Orchard post! And the UI Testing Toolbox just got something very useful: Reusable tests to check that basic Orchard Core features work, like login, registration, and content management. Make sure your Orchard app's basics work! Check out the sample here! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 231 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

Fixing rendering of helper and block tag helper, documentation for the Feature Profiles, OpenID improvements, and demo about a module that integrates Bynder for Orchard Core! Don't forget to check out our current post to know more! Orchard Core updates Documentation for Feature Profiles Last week we had a demo about the new Feature Profiles feature. If you haven't seen the demo video about that feature or you haven't read about it yet, you should check out our previous post! In the meantime, the Tenants page of the Orchard Core documentation has a new section that describes everything you need to know to use the Feature Profiles feature. Fixing rendering of helper and block tag helper We had an issue in Orchard Core when using Tag Helpers in Liquid. You can write a tag like a block that will implicitly invoke ASP.NET Tag Helpers and try to map the provided name and properties to the given Tag Helper. In this case, we say to invoke the anchor Tag Helper and with the provided action, class, and route_todoid properties. Here you can see a nice example in the OrchardCore.Demo module to see how you can call an ASP.NET Tag Helper using Liquid. OpenID Recipes: use step model instead of the view model, support update Orchard Core got several updates related to the OpenID feature. The changes in this addition are: Add unit tests for OpenID scopes. Add unit tests for OpenID apps. Replace OpenIdScopeStepViewModel with OpenIdScopeStepModel in recipe. Replace CreateOpenIdApplicationViewModel with OpenIdApplicationStepModel in recipe. Adjust OpenIdScopeStep to support update. Adjust OpenIdApplicationStep to support update. Adjust OpenIdApplicationStep to include importing scopes, which were not imported before. If you check out the code of the OpenIdApplicationStep, (which is a recipe step that adds an OpenID Connect app), you will see that now it's using a new OpenIdApplicationStepModel instead of the CreateOpenIdApplicationViewModel to serialize the data coming from a recipe file. Refactor IQueryResult usage This addition contains several changes: Moving LuceneQueryResults to OrchardCore.Lucene.Abstractions. Moving SqlQueryResult to OrchardCore.Data.Abstractions. Adding OrchardCore.Queries.Abstractions to both these projects to use the IQueryResults interface. This means now, if you would like to use the LuceneQueryResults in your solution, you will find that class in the OrchardCore.Lucene.Abstractions project, under the OrchardCore.Lucene namespace. The old LuceneQueryResults class is marked as obsolete to do not break your code when you will update your solution to the upcoming Orchard Core 1.1. Demos Bynder for Orchard Core This demo is about an Orchard Core module for integrating with the digital asset management platform Bynder. Foremost, it provides the Bynder Field content field that can be added to content parts so Bynder resources can be browsed and attached. But what is Bynder? Bynder’s digital asset management platform enables teams to collaborate in the cloud, get content to market faster, and maximize the impact of marketing assets. It's pretty much a media gallery for bigger companies or for governments used mostly by marketing people. You can upload images and else into Bynder and then everybody from marking will access and use them when publishing materials. If you are interested, you can easily create your 30-day trial here. This module adds a media picker field for Bynder into the Orchard admin. Let's see it in action! In this demo, we will go with a quicker way and use our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution. We just clone the repository of the Bynder module too and add it to this solution. You have to do one thing before using the module. You need to configure your Bynder Portal's URL to be used in all Bynder Fields via the BynderOptions see its definition. It means that you need to add the PortalUrl to the appsettings.json file. Now, let's set up a site using the Blog recipe. After, we need to enable the module. To do that, head to Configuration -> Features and find the one called CSM.Bynder. Let's say that we want to extend the content definition of the Blog Post by adding the Bynder Field to it (Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types -> Blog Post -> Add Field). Now we have the Bynder Field added to the Blog Post content type, let's see what will happen if we would like to edit the predefined blog post! You will find a new button called Browse Bynder. And if you click on that button, you have the ability to browse some images. Here you can see the dialog provided by the Bynder SDK where you can see all of the assets under the specific collection of the given company. The field is currently configured for allowing multiple of these pictures so we will be able to select more than one. And that's not all of it! If you would like to know more about this module developed by Lombiq Technologies, just head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 229 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

A new extension method to encode redirect URLs, documentation for the image Shortcode, a new JSON Recipe deployment step, and a nice demo about the Tenant Feature Profiles feature! Don't forget to check out our current post to know more! Orchard Core updates JSON Recipe Deployment Step The only way before being able to execute a custom JSON recipe step was to create a file with the recipe inside and execute the recipe. Now it's much easier, you can just paste JSON, and then you have the Monaco IntelliSense inside the editor. To try this out, set up your site using any recipe and make sure you have the Deployment feature enabled (Configuration -> Features). Now head to Configuration -> Import/Export -> Deployment Plans and add a new deployment plan. Hit the Add Step button to add a new step to it and find the one called JSON Recipe that exports a JSON Recipe. Here we would like to disable the OrchardCore.Templates feature when someone imports this deployment package. If you execute your deployment plan, you will see that the recipe contains one step with the JSON content that we have just provided in the JSON Recipe deployment plan. Document Encode redirect URLs If you publish a content item (a blog post for example) with a permalink that contains non-English characters, the redirect goes to a URL where the non-English characters are encoded. Like /Admin/Contents/ContentItems/Ελληνας-ϰαὶ-δὴ-ϰαὶ-γράμματα and of course we are getting a page not found message. The fix was for that to encode the redirect URLs. It has been merged but after a while, it had to be changed because the EscapeUriString method has been deprecated in .NET 6. and it was not building anymore. It was removed because it was not used correctly by users, and it was apparently buggy. The solution is there is a new custom method in Orchard Core called EscapeLocationHeader because it's a custom escape for the location headers. It's using GetComponents with custom parameters to do that. The idea is that anytime you do a redirect, the server will not accept custom characters because it contains non escaped characters, and it needs to be escaped. But not all of them need to be escaped, just the query strings, the parts that are not like slashes and equals. So, if you are using the this.LocalRedirect(returnUrl, true) or the this.Redirect(returnUrl, true) extension methods, it will use the EscapeLocationHeader method to correctly escape the URL. Demos Tenant Feature Profiles We had a demo a few weeks ago about a feature that is about through app settings/configuration adds the ability to restrict the features and/or themes that are available to either a tenant and/or all tenants or a mix of both. This time we will see the final, merged version of this feature that you can check out any time if you clone the main branch of Orchard Core! First of all, set up your site and enable the Tenants and the Tenant Feature Profiles features, which provides a way to manage available features for each tenant. Now head to the new option under Configuration called Tenant Feature Profiles where you can add feature profiles. Here you can set the rules that you want to use. By default, you can have an Include and an Exclude rule. By using these you can easily say that I don't want to allow the given feature for the assigned tenants or I want to allow my custom feature to the given tenants. The Expression contains the name of the feature but it can include stars like OrchardCore.*Templates that will match the OrchardCore.Templates, OrchardCore.AdminTemplates and OrchardCore.ShortCodes.Templates feature as well. Let's say that we don't want to allow the TheAgencyTheme and the features with names to start with OrchardCore. and end with .Templates. Now let's create a tenant with these rules. To do that, navigate to Configuration -> Tenants and hit the Add Tenant button. The first thing that you may notice here is the new Feature Profile dropdown where you can optionally specify which feature profile should be applied to this tenant (as you can read the hint). We have one, called restricted profile, let's select that one. And it's time to set up our tenant to see what are the available features there. If you search for the text templates, you will see that the search returned no results. If you navigate to Design -> Themes and try to find the TheAgency theme, you will see that the theme is not there in the list. Note that the Tenant Feature Profiles feature is only available for the default tenant naturally. And that's not all of that! If you would like to see more, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community .NET Community Standup - What's new in Orchard Core The .NET Community Standups are weekly live shows, hosted by the .NET team, are casual sessions full of community content, demos, Q&A, and discussions around what's happening in .NET. Last week you could see Sébastien Ros showing you the latest improvements and features of Orchard Core. If you are new to Orchard Core or you if are a developer who hasn't worked with Orchard Core in a long time or just wants to see a nice overview about what Orchard Core can provides you with version 1.0, head to YouTube now for the recording! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 228 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. 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Preserve browser Autofill for Bag, Flow, and WidgetList Parts, remove unnecessary role attributes, Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox demo, and many more coming this week! Do you want to know more? Then don't forget to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Preserve browser Autofill for Bag, Flow, and WidgetList Parts Currently, while editing a Flow/Bag/WidgetList Part, the HTML input IDs are based on the related embedded item IDs that always have different values. So we lose the browser autofill based on these HTML input IDs when editing another parent. So, here the idea is to generate IDs that are still unique while editing in the context of a given parent item, but that is the same while editing another parent content item of the same type. This is by generating IDs using a prefix composed of the part name of a given unique/named part, a delimiter, then a number equals the number of the current item. For the WidgetList Part, we also use the related zone name in the prefix. If you set up a site using the Agency recipe, you can check out the content of the Agency Landing Page content item, that has Bag Parts attached with prefilled data. Remove unnecessary role attributes Some HTML5 elements have implied WAI-ARIA roles so setting the implied roles on them explicitly is invalid HTML. Check out this link for more information: https://html-validate.org/rules/no-redundant-role.html. In the following screen, you can see some removals of the role attribute. Demos Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox The Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox is a web UI testing toolbox mostly for Orchard Core applications. Everything you need to do UI testing with Selenium for an Orchard app is here. UI Testing here is an automation that clicks through the web application in a browser. One of the most popular frameworks for that is Selenium, which does exactly that. You get an API to instruct a browser, and every major browser is supported. This UI Testing Toolbox providing a lot of features on top of Selenium for Orchard Core. Basically allowing you to UI test an Orchard Core application in a safe and parallelized way providing a lot of helpers, a lot of higher-level APIs allowing you to test your application with SQLite, with SQL Server with local media storage, or with Azure Blob Storage. And you can have a test e-mail sending with a local SMTP server too. Everything just works. Check out the highlights of the Readme.md file of this repository to see all of the features! How it works is also demonstrated in an example project which is part of our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution. Just clone that repository and find the solution folder called test in it. There is a Lombiq.Tests.UI.Samples project that contains several sample UI tests where you can see how to test your application. Let's check out the LoginShouldWork test in the BasicTests.cs file! As you can see, here we say that first, let's navigate to the /Login relative URL. Then find the UserName and Password form fields by their IDs and fill their content with the default username and password. After the test will find the submit button of the form and click on it. And if the retrieved user name of the currently authenticated user is the default user name, our test will pass! If you check the BrowserConfiguration file, you can see it can be used to provide some useful configuration values that can be used by the browser. For example, the value of the Headless property indicating whether the test will use the given browser in headless mode, provided that there's support for it. If you set it to false and run a given UI test by using the Test Explorer of Visual Studio, for example, you will see that the test will open up a browser where you can see the given test running. And we are just stretching the surface of the several features that you can have using the Lombiq UI Toolbox module! Don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube to see what else the toolbox can provide! News from the community Orchard Core Facebook Page Did you know that Orchard Core has its own Facebook Page? By following the Facebook Page, you can meet with new posts when a new Orchard Podcast or Orchard Demo has been uploaded to YouTube or when there is a new This week in Orchard post or any other important news or happenings around Orchard Core. The posts created on this page will also be shared in the Orchard Core User Group. Don't forget to follow the Orchard Core Page and join the Orchard Core User Group to be notified about the latest news around Orchard Core! New Lombiq team member: Viktória Magyar Viktória Magyar, our newest team member arrived! She is a developer but not Orchard Core this time, rather of our business! You can check out her full bio here! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 227 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

Migrate INotifier to support async implementations, messaging when getting Part InvalidCastException, Lombiq Hosting - Tenants demo, and many more coming this week! Do you want to know more? Then don't forget to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Migrate INotifier to support async implementations This new feature is about replacing the INotifier on the front end with a SignalR version, which works asynchronously. INotifier has been updated to use ValueTask when adding notifications. Prefer not to do a custom implementation, as using INotifier allows the front end to also receive messaging notifications from code in the Orchard Core codebase, which is very convenient for us. If you check out the INotifier interface, you will notice that the Add method is now marked as obsolete, and the new one that you can use from now is the AddAsync one. And of course the Information, Warning, Error, Success extension methods are also marked as obsolete and have their async methods, which are used across the whole solution of Orchard Core. Messaging when getting Part InvalidCastException Sometimes if you forget to register your part, you might have some cast errors, and you don't know why. This addition is just about displaying an error message saying you are trying to cast to this part, but please do a double check to make sure you registered this part. So, don't forget: every time you create a new content part from your module, you have to register it in the ConfigureServices method of your Startup class by using the AddContentPart extension method. You can find several examples about how to do that like, here you can find the registration of the FlowPart and the BagPart. DisplayText value of a cloned item is set before calling CreateAsync When cloning a content item, two audit log events are recorded: An initial create event for the newly cloned item. A subsequent save event updating the new item with the cloned content data. The create event in the audit log does not show the DisplayText of the original item but instead repeats the content type. The save event in the audit log displays correctly. Steps to reproduce the behavior: Set up a Blog site. Ensure the Audit Trail feature is enabled and configured to log all content items. Go to the Manage Content page and clone the About article. View the Audit Trail and see that the Create event states that Version 1 of the Article Article was created. The audit log for the created event should state that Version 1 of Article About was created. The fix was pretty straightforward for this one. As you can see here, the solution was to set the DisplayText of the cloned content item before calling the CreateAsync method of the DefaultContentManager, because the CreateAsync invokes the event handlers used by the Audit Trail module. Demos Lombiq Hosting - Tenants The Lombiq Hosting - Tenants repository contains various features that help you build a multi-tenant web application in Orchard Core. With the help of the Tenants Management module, you can set restrictions on tenant creation, while using the Tenants Admin Login module you can log in from the Default tenant's admin dashboard to any other tenants as an administrator user. In this demo, we will go with the quicker way and use our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution that contains both of these modules. If you clone that repository and set up your site using any setup recipe, let's just navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core, and under Configuration -> Features, enable the Lombiq Hosting - Tenants Admin Login module that adds the ability to log in as a tenant's admin user. Make sure that you have also enabled the Tenants module to be able to test the tenant management. :) Now create a new tenant and enable the Lombiq Hosting - Tenants Admin Login - Sub-tenant feature there that adds the ability to log in to the tenant from the Default tenant. That will mean that admin users from the Default tenant can log in to this tenant as an admin user. In our example, we have created a tenant called Blog, and if you Edit that tenant, you will see a new Login as an admin user button, which can be used to login to this tenant as an admin user. Now let's see what you can do by using the other module of the Lombiq Hosting - Tenants repository, called Lombiq Hosting - Tenants Management which manages restrictions on tenant creation. The Readme.md file of the Tenants Management module shows how you can specify a list of hostnames that cannot be used to create a tenant. You can write the list of forbidden hostnames as a JSON array in the appsettings.json as follows. Now let's go back to the Tenants page of the admin UI and try to create a tenant with a forbidden hostname like forbidden.hostname1.net. If you hit Create, you will get a validation error: forbidden.hostname1.net is a forbidden hostname. And of course, changing the hostname of an already running tenant to a forbidden one will also cause a validation error. And as always, if you would like to see more, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community A new website using Orchard Core: ICAgile ICAgile envision a world in which organizations enable and inspire everyone in them to create a better future for those around them. Check out this brand new Orchard Core site here! If you are interested in more websites using Orchard and Orchard Core, don't forget to visit Show Orchard. Show Orchard is a website for showing representative Orchard CMS (and now Orchard Core) websites all around the internet. It was started by Ryan Drew Burnett, but since he doesn't work with Orchard anymore, as announced earlier it is now maintained by our team at Lombiq Technologies. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 226 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

Add Content-Language HTTP header feature, new Health Check option, LINQ to DB demo, and many more coming this week! Do you want to know more? Then don't forget to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Add Content-Language HTTP header feature While the Accept-Language header is useful for the request, Content-Language is very useful too for the response, there's no support for this yet. But that was the past! Now if you head to the admin UI of your Orchard Core and navigate to Configuration -> Features, you will find a new feature called Content-Language header that adds the Content-Language HTTP header, which describes the language(s) intended for the audience. Let's enable this module and see it in action! In this case, we just open up the DevTools of Google Chrome, click on the Network tab and check the content of the Headers tab after loading a page with a content item. In our case, we opened the home page of the tenant called blog1. As you can see, the Content-Language header is there containing the language of the given content, which is en-US in our case. Add Health Check options The option here is to be able to change the default URL of the Health Check. The health/live is the default one provided by ASP.NET. If you enable the Health Check feature and navigate to an URL like https://localhost:44300/health/live you will see the status of your site. And now, you can easily change the value of this URL by just updating the value of the URL of the OrchardCore_HealthChecks section in the appsettings.json file. Allow custom editors for Bag/Flow/WidgetsList Parts If you checked the drivers of the BagPart, FlowPart, or the WidgetsListPart, you would notice that these drivers were using hard-coded shapes, and now you can have custom editors based on the editor name, and you can select it. The default editor for these drivers is called Standard. Demos LINQ to DB - Lombiq Helpful Libraries for Orchard Core The LINQ to DB subproject is part of our Helpful Libraries project that contains various libraries that can be handy when developing for Orchard Core CMS, to be used from your Orchard modules. The use-case is that sometimes you just have to go to SQL. Although we have YesSql, we have all the abstractions, but of course, the SQL connection is still there if you want to go low level. Sometimes you have to write some funky query there, or otherwise, you just want to store something in the database which is not a content item, not necessarily an entity, just a simple table with some simple rows. And in that case, you may not want to write like SQL queries as strings. But still, you don't want to use a full-blown ORM like Entity Framework because that would be a bit of an overkill for use-cases where you don't need a full-blown application built on it. And for such cases, there is a library called LINQ to DB, which is a third-party library. LINQ to DB is the fastest LINQ database access library offering a simple, light, fast, and type-safe layer between your POCO objects and your database. What we have implemented in our project is that by just hooking into ISession (which is the standard YesSql ISession), you will get to write queries like this: There is a helper method, and in there you can pretty much write LINQ against tables. In this case, we are using the AutoroutePartIndex as the example, and as you can see it's LINQ as usual but since you are wrapped into this LingQueryAsync, the inside of it is executed as SQL directly. And as always, if you would like to know more about the LINQ to DB subproject, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community A new website using Orchard Core: Planters Products Inc Planters Products, Inc. was established in 1963 as one of the leading Agricultural Chemical Companies in the Philippines. In 1970 it was purchased by the Sugar Producers Cooperative Marketing Association, the country's largest cooperative of sugar planters, and renamed Planters Products, Incorporated (PPI). Check out this brand new Orchard Core site here! If you are interested in more websites using Orchard and Orchard Core, don't forget to visit Show Orchard. Show Orchard is a website for showing representative Orchard CMS (and now Orchard Core) websites all around the internet. It was started by Ryan Drew Burnett, but since he doesn't work with Orchard anymore, as announced earlier it is now maintained by our team at Lombiq Technologies. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 224 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

Add Cc and Bcc to Workflow Email Task, URI components Liquid accessors, Lombiq JSON editor, and many more coming this week! Do you want to know more? Then it's time to check out our current post! Orchard Core updates Add Cc and Bcc to Workflow Email Task If you would like to send an email using Workflows, you can use the Email Task to achieve your goal. Simply navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core and go to Workflows (don't forget to enable the Workflows and the Email features) to create a new workflow. If you add a new Email Task to your workflow, you will see that this task has now two new fields: the Cc and the Bcc. RegisterUserTask: Subject & Template for confirmation email should not be required if Send Email is unchecked And while we are talking about the workflows, let's check out another workflow task, the Register User Task which registers users from form fields. When adding this task to your workflow, you can easily say that I want to send a confirmation email to the newly registered user with this subject and template. The issue was that the subject and the template for the confirmation email were required even if Send Confirmation Email is not checked. URI components Liquid accessors By default, the Liquid templates have access to a common set of objects. You can easily access the properties of the content item that is currently being rendered, the authenticated user for the current request, the current site settings, and the current request itself of course. Check out this page of the Orchard Core documentation to see all of the available properties on the Request object. If you use the Request object quite often, you will notice that this table now has new properties, like the QueryString, UriQueryString, Path, UriPath, PathBase, UriPathBase, Host, and UriHost. Generate Rule Condition TargetUrl in a correct location The rules module was designed with extensibility in mind; however, there is one line that is in the view for it, setting the TargetUrl property of the modal picker to the layers controller. It needs to be moved out of the view, and into the Layers controller so that the view can be used by other modules, pointing to different controllers. Demos Lombiq JSON Editor The Lombiq JSON Editor is our Orchard Core module for displaying a JSON Editor like on jsoneditoronline.org. You can easily clone or download the module from this GitHub repository. If you want to quickly try out this project and see it in action, check it out in our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution and also see our other useful Orchard Core-related open-source projects! In this demo, we will go with the quicker way and use our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution. If you clone that repository and set up your site using any setup recipe, let's just navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core, and under Configuration -> Recipes, you will find one called Lombiq Open Source Orchard Core Extensions - JSON Editor Sample that is about demoing the Lombiq JSON Editor module. Let's run the recipe! Now let's see the list of the content items where you will find a new one called JSON Example Page. This page has a JSON Field which comes from the Lombiq JSON Editor module. It's using a tree editor by default that you can use to manipulate the content of the JSON inside. But of course, you can have other types of editor for your JSON if you want, like you can have a code editor with numbered lines with syntax highlighting or you can just use a pure text editor and so on. Using a simple json-editor tag helper you can easily render the JSON editor. You can pass a string value to the editor that will contain the JSON itself, pass the JsonEditorOptions class that contains several configuration values like EscapeUnicode, SortObjectKeys, and so on. And you have several other options and use-cases for this JSON field. The JSON Example Page, which comes from the recipe, has a Liquid Part too that reads the values from the JSON field and prints the values in a simple list by using Liquid and JavaScript. Here is the display view of the JSON Example Page. If you would like to know more about this new field, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community New GraphQL sample in the Lombiq Training Demo for Orchard Core The Lombiq Training Demo for Orchard Core is a demo Orchard Core CMS module for training purposes guiding you to become an Orchard developer. You can use this module as part of a vanilla Orchard Core source that includes the full source code - which is the recommended way. You can also use it as part of a solution that uses Orchard Core NuGet packages; however, it's harder to look under the hood of Orchard Core features. And the module just got a new little GraphQL sample! Check it out if you would like to know more about Orchard Core's GraphQL module and learn how to extend the Orchard GraphQL APIs! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 226 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!