Start Date: 7/17/2014 5:50:00 PM End Date: The Workflows Module in Orchard provides us tools to create custom workflows for events or activities like Content Created, Content Published, Content Removed, Send Email, Timer and many more. This course shows you how to get started with Workflows in Orchard CMS. And the course consists of 7 Demo tutorial videos on Workflows and how to use workflows to create your own custom workflows for the following things : Custom Form Submission + Notification using Workflows Page Published if created by Admin if not Notify the administrator Closing Comments using Workflows Redirecting user after form submission using Workflows Assigning roles for new registering user using Workflows Comments Moderation Notification using Workflows Comments Removal User Notification using Workflows

Start Date: 4/29/2014 5:47:00 PM End Date: In this course, You will learn the following things : Get Started with Orchard CMS Theme Development How to use Orchard CMS Command-Line Scaffolding How to create themes in Orchard CMS What are Shapes and How to override Shapes in Orchard What are Part Templates (Overriding Part Templates) What are EditorTemplates (Overriding EditorTemplate for Parts) How to override Widgets Placement.info : Placing shapes in a specific zone with a weight/position Placement.info : Matching(DisplayType, ContentType, Path) How to create a Nuget package for your Orchard Theme Note 1 : This course is about Orchard CMS Theme Development and not about Web UI Designing. So, Join this course to learn Orchard CMS and not Web Designing though we will be using Twitter Bootstrap CSS Framework in this course in order to give a good structure to our Orchard CMS Theme. Note 2 : This course is a Beginners course for anybody new to Orchard CMS. Theme creation in this course will be done by Overriding Shape Templates and Part Templates using the Shape Tracing and Url Alternates features in Orchard.

Start Date: 12/22/2013 5:43:00 PM End Date: 1/1/2001 1:00:00 AM What is this course about? Orchard CMS for Absolute Beginners is a course about the latest open-source .NET Content Management System which is written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. What are the course requirements? In order to get started with this course you will need to install the following things on your computer Microsoft WebMatrix 3 SQL Server 2012 Express Visual Studio 2012 or higher (Including free express editions) Download Orchard CMS source and web project from GitHub IIS 7.5/ 8 / 8.1 Any web browser How will you benefit from this course? You will get a good working knowledge of Orchard CMS and its admin panel and how to use Orchard CMS as an advanced user. After completing this course you will be able to download Orchard, Install it locally and remotely on a live web server, use the Orchard admin panel very efficiently, Install new themes and modules from the gallery, create pages, blogs and pretty much everything that a content manager will do to manage his content using Orchard CMS. What things you will be learning in this course? Getting started with Orchard CMS Learn how to Install Orchard CMS on your local IIIS Learn about all the Orchard CMS Terminologies Learn how to use the Orchard CMS Admin Panel Learn how to host an Orchard CMS website on to a live web server This course is a ongoing online course on Udemy. Join This Course

On the last (third) day of this year's Orchard Harvest we announced the results of the Orchard community's second module development competition, the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge. The amount of submissions may be small ("only" 6), though in quality they certainly made up for it. The top 3 places are the following: MiniProfiler by Daniel Dabrowski Inline Editing by Matías Molleja Dynamic Forms by Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. Congratulations to all participants! We also had the opportunity to bring in Daniel, the author of the winner module via Skype to the conference, where he did a live demonstration of the capabilities of the MiniProfiler module. For more information and the details about the event please visit its website and see the "Rules" page. If you'd like to know more about the last Orchard Harvest, you may want to read our reports written on-site about each day: Orchard Harvest - Day 1 Orchard Harvest - Day 2 Orchard Harvest - Day 3 Happy Orcharding until next time!

This is the third day of Orchard Harvest! The downside is that it's the last day, though it's really great that this is the first Harvest with three days (instead of two). Sébastien is today's keynote speaker sharing his long-term vision regarding Orchard. Sébastien also enumerates the important aspects of Orchard and its community, most of them centered around openness. To make Orchard better, we need to learn from other systems and communities! Next on stage is Nicholas Taylor Mullen from Microsoft, talking about ASP.NET vNext as a continuation to yesterday's talk with Scott Hunter and Eilon Lipton. We've seen some of the newest features of Visual Studio too that were built to work together with ASP.NET vNext. Our third speaker today is Bing Huan Chio talking about how and why the backend system for the Halo Waypoint blog was migrated to Orchard. Since they were newcomers to Orchard at the beginning of their project at their setup required an API module, since the Orchard application served as a backend system. The REST API module that was created for this project is going be open-sourced soon and is a good candidate for adding it to the new modules of Orchard 1.9. After that a short presentation came to announce the results of the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge. We made a live "interview" with the winner - Daniel Dabrowski - via Skype to present his great Orchard project, the MiniProfiler. And then finally, the last presentation is by us, Lombiq, on how the Orchard CMS SaaS, DotNest was created and how it is maintained. In the first half, Zoltán is talking about the requirements of such a software and what kind of tools we've built to fulfill them and then Benedek was on stage to describe the deployment process currently used by Lombiq (as well as some retrospective case-study about its development) that enables us to maintain all our websites (including DotNest, of course) and deploy them without any downtime. That's it for Orchard Harvest for this year, see you next time!

The second day of Orchard Harvest is on! Our keynote speaker is Damien Edwards, Senior Program Manager in ASP.NET talking about how to use AngularJS in ASP.NET. He shares a lot of pieces of knowledge on how to build powerful single-page applications with a small amount of code. AngularJS is a client-side MVC framework with a ton of features that allow you to write input-heavy UI with highly reusable code, it's actually quite Orchard-y! On a sidenote, we at Lombiq also use AngularJS for most of our projects, including the ones we create for our clients and DotNest too! The next presentation is by Sébastien again, talking about adapting and using Bootstrap-based themes for Orchard websites. Sébastien walks us through the basic structure and usage of Bootstrap, what are the available solutions if you'd like to use a Bootstrap-based theme for your website and how and why he built a new theme called TheBootstrapMachine for the ASP.NET blogs. Next on stage is Sipke, giving us an in-depth session about the usage of the Workflows module through real-life examples. The last presentation before the luch break is the Orchard developers respresenting AMC Theatres: Travis Maddox and Adam Anderson. They are sharing with us their experiences about Orchard and how they built an extremely content-heavy website. They described in-depth their server architecture, performance-related experiences and results due to recent updates and site-load statistics. We also heard about how they upgraded the site with the major Orchard version and the new features and bits added to the site to enhance user experience. <LunchBreak /> After the break, Scott Hunter and Eilon Lipton talk about the future of .NET in reflection to the recently announced news regarding the .NET platform. Scott tells about some of the architectural aspects of the future generations of .NET and ASP.NET vNext. After that Eilon is taking preview version of Visual Studio 2014 for a ride to show us the basics of an ASP.NET vNext application. And then the Sébastien show is on once again! He mentions the current pressing matters of the Orchard ecosystem, like the bugs waiting to be fixed, the documentation that needs update and extensions, along with some other tasks for the near future: A very important feature currently under development by IDeliverable is the AuditTrail module. Besides, the Content Deployment module by Damien Clarke is also a good candidate for being added to the core. The localization capabilities in terms of content management definitely need some love. New admin theme (under development by Antoine), including better content organization (e.g. like the Tree by Bertrand). Adding/fixing new features to the gallery: generating the downloadable packages based on VCS changes (so module developers don't need to care about creating releases for the gallery too) and displaying information about the modules' compatibility with different Orchard versions. See you tomorrow with more Orchard Harvest news!

The third Orchard Harvest conference, held in Seattle, just began! Orcharders from all around the world gathered together at the Microsoft campus to share their experiences about their favourite CMS. The keynote by Ylan and Bertrand got us up to speed with the current news about Orchard. Ylan gave us a warm welcome and introduced some of the well-known participants to the community. After that, Bertrand showed us historical and recent statistics (along with some funny pictures) about Orchard, the community and the contributors. In the second session, aka "the Sébastien show", the benevolant dictator of Orchard is walking us through the process and details of migrating the ASP.NET blogs to Orchard. 750 blogs hosted by 4 Azure Web Sites that run on only one Large Virtual Machine. Sébastien also talked about interesting technical details, how the migration from the old system was executed and then the conclusion came: "Orchard is fast and easy to use". Besides, the tool that was written to serve as a bridge between the old system's content and the new one (working with BlogML format and Orchard recipes) will be publicly available soon. The next session is by Jorge and Eric from Onestop: Jorge is walking us through the development and usage of the Onestop.Layout module that enables you to create custom, dynamically rearrangeable layouts, templates and slideshows. After that, Eric talked about master-child theming. The module is open-source and avaiable on BitBucket (along with other Onestop modules)! The last session before the lunch break is by Piotr from Proligence: Piotr is talking about how they adopted Orchard and the fact that they (and their clients) are more than happy with this decision. Proligence shares some of their modules with community as open source projects on BitBucket, like a unit testing framework, the Astoria framework and the PowerShell CLI. <LunchBreak /> After the break Samuel Goldenbaum from Hellocomputer (CTO) is talking about their digital agency based in Johannesburg and the some of the projects they delivered to big clients, like Toyota, the Jamaican Tourism Board and FCB South Africa. The latter project also involves the creation of an Orchard backend for serving content to mobile applications when attending conferences. Next up is the representatives of MS Open Tech, Ross Gardler and Roopali Kaujalgi. Ross is talking about the company and its relation to Microsoft, how they are working with open-source technologies and spreading the word. In the second half of the presentation Roopali is showing us how to use the Microsoft Azure Media Services module, that was recently integrated into the Orchard codebase - this module's purpose is to serve media (mostly videos) to users visiting Orchard websites. The last presentation today is Steve Taylor's session about the future of widgets in Orchard, Web Components and Polymer.js.

Many Orchard developers, including ourselves act as early adopters of the Orchard source and use the code from the 1.x and other work-in-progress branches. While it gives us the opportunity to try the new features and get the latest bugfixes, some changes introduce important bugs every now and then. That was the case lately on the 1.x branch, when a problem surfaced regarding the infoset storage: for shifted, versionable content parts the infoset data was not saved in the ContentItemVersionRecord table, but into the ContentItemRecord table instead. Sébastien discovered this issue before 1.8 release and provided a method to fix it. At this moment, we are in the middle of upgrading all our sites to Orchard 1.8+ (+ means we are running 1.x, of course) and after careful testing in our local and staging environments we'll soon hit the big red button to make it go live: every Lombiq-related website will run on the latest source, that includes every DotNest tenant too! While upgrading your sites and testing the fix for the infoset storage, you may need to check if your data was really restored to its desired state, so here's a little help: below is an SQL-script that you can run against your DB, which checks if there's any corrupted infoset entry left, so you can verify if the upgrade mechanism worked. USE [MyDatabase]GOSELECT Item.Id AS ItemId, VersionItem.Id AS VersionItemId FROM [dbo].[MyPrefix_Orchard_Framework_ContentItemRecord] AS Item INNER JOIN [dbo].[MyPrefix_Orchard_Framework_ContentItemVersionRecord] AS VersionItem ON Item.Id = VersionItem.ContentItemRecord_id WHERE VersionItem.Latest = 1 AND VersionItem.Data IS NULL AND Item.Data IS NOT NULL ORDER BY Item.IdGO Happy upgrading!

Sébastien just tweeted about his new blogpost to tell you how Orchard manages the content items' data in the database by demostrating simple use-cases and the corresponding queries. It's a great read even if you're new to Orchard or a seasoned veteran!

In case you haven't heard from the Lombiq content network and its neighbours, a module competition named Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge has begun yesterday! The aim of this contest is to give Orchard module developers some more motivation to upgrade their old modules to Orchard 1.8, or create new ones that are compatible with latest version of Orchard. You can find more information on the event's (DotNest-hosted) website.