We promised that we will continue showing you the newest features and additions of Orchard Core 1.0 this week too! Well, we still have a lot to write about, so without any further ado, let's get started! Orchard Core updates Add user approval feature The user registration process, whether from the Registration controller, or via an ExternalLoginProvider had no features to moderate a user. In Orchard 1 we could moderate users, through an approval process. A new user registering when moderation was required, would not be logged in to the site, but redirected to the registration pending page, (and workflows invoked, to start the moderation process). We already have the IsEnabled bool, but no way to control both local registration and external registration. This change adds a UsersAreModerated setting to the user registration feature. When set true all users, whether registering via an external provider, or direct through the registration controller, will require approval, i.e., their account set IsEnabled = true before they are logged into the site. It also prevents external users from being automatically logged in if they have not confirmed their email address (if the confirmation email setting is set to true). Register user workflow updated to support the feature as well. Let's see this one quickly in action! First of all, you need to enable the Users Registration feature that allows external users to sign up to the site and ask to confirm their email. Now you can head to Security -> Settings -> User Registration, where you will see a new option: Users must be approved before they can log in. Put a tick in this checkbox and, don't forget to select the AllowRegistration option from the select list. Now, let's register with a new user! If you create a new account and hit the Register button, you will find the following screen meaning that an admin needs to approve your account before it can be used. Let's see how you can use this one in workflows! Navigate to Workflows -> Create Workflow, and after you add a name to your workflow, hit the Add Task button. Find the Register User task from the list, and the editor of this task will contain a Users must be approved before they can log in checkbox. Now let's see how we can approve the newly registered users! If you navigate to Security -> Users on the admin UI, you will see a list that contains all the available users in the system, and you will also find a red badge with a Disabled text near the users who are not enabled yet. If you click on the Edit button near a disabled user, you can simply use the Is enabled? switch to enable the given user. After that, the user with the user name: newuser now can log in. OpenID Client parameters The OpenIdConnectOptions support an OnRedirectToIdentityProvider event feature which allows the setting of custom parameters on the protocol message when generating an OpenIdConnectMessage to an external provider. Sometimes you need to be able to send some custom parameters to some of your tenant's AzureB2C auth servers (but not all, and it varies per tenant). options.Events.OnRedirectToIdentityProvider = (context) =>{ context.ProtocolMessage.SetParameter("foo", "bar"); return Task.CompletedTask;}; The solution here would be to have editable parameter (kvp) options on the OpenIdConnectSettings so you can configure different tenants to use different custom parameters. To test this out, you need to enable the OpenID Client feature under Configuration -> Features. After, head to Security -> OpenID Connect -> Authentication client, where you will see the new table called Advanced Parameters. Google Tag Manager Google describes its Tag Manager product as a 'Tag Management System' (TMS). That’s an excellent way to think about it. It does for a website’s tags what a Content Management System (CMS) does for its content. The service provides an interface through which to create and track all the tags your site needs. You no longer have to code each tag manually. Instead, you can create all your tags through the interface. Tag Manager will then implement them for your site. That is if you’ve embedded a straightforward piece of Tag Manager code into each page of the website. The Google Tag Manager container snippet is a small piece of JavaScript and non-JavaScript code that you paste into your pages. It enables Tag Manager to fire tags by inserting gtm.js into the page (or through the use of an iframe when JavaScript isn't available). But how can we use Google Tag Manager in our Orchard Core site? Well, first of all, you have to navigate to the Google Tag Manager portal and create a Tag Manager account. This will give you a generated Container ID for you to use on your website. Copy this ID, we will need it later! Now, enable the Google Tag Manager feature on your Orchard Core site and head to Configuration -> Google Tag Manager. Paste the Container ID here and hit Save. This will mean that the required JavaScript code for Google Tag Manager will be registered for every page on the front-end. News from the community Updated Orchard Core sites OrchardCore.net is the official website for Orchard Core. Try Orchard Core is the place where you can easily set up an Orchard Core site within a few minutes and try out the features of Orchard Core. Both of these sites have been updated to Orchard Core 1.0! Head to Try Orchard Core to try out Orchard Core 1.0 now! The OrchardCore.Samples repository contains a sample Multi-tenant application and a Modular application demonstrating how to build a Modular and a Multi-Tenant ASP.NET Core application using the Orchard Core Framework. This solution is also using Orchard Core 1.0 now, you should check out this solution to see some nice code examples! DotNest Core DotNest Core is a complete redevelopment of the DotNest platform, all on the latest version of Orchard Core. We've been running it with a couple of select few customers for a while now, and it's time to open it up a bit more. While you can't yet just simply create an Orchard Core-based DotNest site, you can sign up for our limited beta here. You'll soon be able to get a fully functional, reliably hosted Orchard Core site on DotNest where you can build your personal website or something to showcase your Orchard skills with. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 214 subscribers! 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This week we will do some deep dives and take a look at the latest changes of Fluid 2. After, you can see how you can register your custom resources in Orchard Core and how to use the updated code generation templates with .NET 5! Check out our post for more! Orchard Core updates Fluid 2 breaking changes and fixes Let's say you had an expression something like foo != null and foo != "*" in your Liquid code. There are two things here: the null doesn't exist in Liquid. There is no such thing as null in Liquid. When you write null, it's like typing bread, there's nothing like bread in Liquid. Typing foo != null in this case is just about making sure that foo does really exists. Is it set to something? If you would like to check for null, you have to use nil because in Liquid that's how we check for null values. And let's say you write foo != "*" and foo =! null, that means you change the order here. Or let's say you have a code in Liquid like a or b and c or d and e. If you do it in C#, if you have an and and the first part of the expression is false, it won't check the value of the other parts, it will return with false. In Liquid, this is the opposite. In C#, the evaluation of this expression will happen from left to right but in Liquid it will happen from right to left. Let's see an example with this expression: 1 == 2 or b == 3 Liquid will start the evaluation of this expression in the following way: 1 == 2 or (b == 3) 1 == (2 or (b == 3)) (1 == (2 or (b == 3))) So, it will never check that when 1 will be equals to 2 because the evaluation will start from the right. This has been fixed in this version and Fluid now supports the following processing of the evaluation: (1 == 2) or (b == 3) So if you wrote foo != "*" and foo != null it was first checks if the foo is not equal to null. Then it will go to foo != ("*" and (foo != null)). Let's say you do something in your templates like: {% assign foo = 1 + 2 %} This is not valid in Liquid. In Liquid, there are no such operators like +, -, *, /. They are don't exist. They are supported in the first version of Fluid but now it has been removed to be close to the specification, so it's now not supported anymore. What you need to do actually is to change your operators in a way like {% assign foo = 1 |plus: 2 %}. The goal of doing that from the Liquid templating language is to be able to distinguish how to behave in terms of numeric operators and string operators. So if you have the following line of code in Liquid, the result you will get will be 12, not 3. {% assign foo = 1 |append: 2 %} If you have operators in your code, don't forget to rewrite them in the mentioned way. ResourceManifest breaking changes A resource used to be declared by implementing the IResourceManifestProvider interface that was resolved all the time on every page rendering and this change is about to redefine that. Now it's not using IResourceManifestProvider anymore, there is no such interface. You need to create an IConfigureOptions<ResourceManagementOptions> of a ResourceManagementOptions. The ResourceManagementOptions is just a class that can be resolved everywhere. It can be configured in the startup. And in this case, what we do is that is a static constructor of this class is instantiating one manifest instance, and then when the option is configured for every tenant, it's adding this instance (which is immutable) to the list of resource manifests that is in the ResourceManagementOptions class. Your own configuration can even remove existing manifests from the resource manifest or replace them with something else or add new ones. So, the two things here are that now we use the Options pattern from ASP.NET which is more standard. It's also better in terms of performance because it's a singleton for all the tenants. And here we are initializing the ResourceManifest instance in a static property. It's done once for all the tenants, even if you have one thousand tenants, there will be one instance of the ResourceManifest. Modifying the Lucene API To accept Post Form Data Now you can invoke Lucene queries with POST and GET requests too. And there are two methods: a route called content to get the content items and a route called documents to get the full JSON document. Add support for collections to OpenID Tokens Today all the documents are stored in a table called Documents. YesSql supports the notion of collections, which is a way to store some specific types or classes in different document tables to isolate them. So, instead of having everything in the same Documents table, you can have different document tables. When the content of this table can be isolated from the rest, you should do that. This is the case for the OpenId module. There are different levels of isolation. You could say every class should have its own document table. You could say also that every module can have its own document table. And then you can say that everything will go to the same document table. In this case, everything related to OpenId will go to the OpenId document table, which means everything in the collection named OpenId. This configuration tells YesSql there is a collection named OpenId. But how can you use that collection when you do queries? In this case, you have to say to query a class in a collection named OpenId. It will request that document table and get all the indexes that all related to this document table. We also do that when one of the classes has lots of items so it can scale better than putting everything in the same table. Like if you have one million content items it will be slow. In that case, it should be in their own custom collection. Demos Code generation templates for .NET 5 If you install the project templates pointing to the preview source, you are able to use new command line commands when generating an Orchard CMS Web Application to use the .NET 5 framework. You can find every information more detailed on this page of the Orchard core documentation. Right now we will just focus on the new stuff. So, don't forget to install the Orchard CMS templates for creating web applications. You will need to use the latest dev branch of Orchard Core to be able to use .NET 5, so this will be your command: dotnet new -i OrchardCore.ProjectTemplates::1.0.0-rc2-* --nuget-source https://nuget.cloudsmith.io/orchardcore/preview/v3/index.json If you do that, you can head to the folder where you would like to create your new solution. The only thing you have to do is to type the following line: dotnet new occms --framework net5.0 This means the .NET framework 5.0 will be used. If you don't use the --framework or the --fm options, your web application will be using the .NET Core framework 3.1. A number of predefined projects and item templates are installed with Visual Studio. These templates, such as the ASP.NET Web Application and Class Library templates, are available to choose from when you create a new project. Item templates, such as code files, XML files, HTML pages, and Style Sheets, appear in the Add New Item window. These templates provide a starting point for users to begin creating projects, or to expand existing projects. Project templates provide the files that are required for a particular project type, include standard assembly references, and set default project properties and compiler options. Item templates can range in complexity from a single empty file that has a certain file extension to multiple source code files with stub code, designer information files, and embedded resources. You may know that we have some Visual Studio Project Templates for Orchard Core too (we wrote about them in this post). It's still a preview feature in Visual Studio, so, you need to navigate to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Preview Features and put a tick in the Show all .NET Core templates in the New Project dialog (requires restart) checkbox. After you can just say I want to create a new project File -> New -> Project and you will be able to select the Orchard Core one as the project type. Let's select the Orchard Core Cms Web App (Orchard Project) one for example. After you can set the name of the project, the location, and the name of your solution. The next, Additional information window will contain the property that we are focusing on right now. As you see on the screen, you can select which kind of framework you would like to use for your web application. It can be .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0 as well. The default is .NET Core 3.1 in this case too. Here we are just creating our new solution using the name Test. And if we open up the Test.csproj file, we will see the following content here, where the value of the TargetFramework will be set to net5.0. If you would like to know more don't forget to check out a previous This week in Orchard post, where we first wrote about this topic. And as always, here comes the recording of this demo! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 196 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 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!

Check out our current post for many interesting topics and demos like updating the branding of Orchard; introducing Noayo, a new Orchard Core hosting platform; a new Orchard Core site, and many more! Orchard Core updates Update branding The issue is that we don't really have concise branding guidelines or even proper branding assets, just what's left over from a long time ago: https://docs.orchardcore.net/projects/O1/en/latest/Documentation/Walkthroughs/#orchard-branding The goal would be to possibly retouch the existing design a bit: E.g. the current logo's outer circle is strangely uneven, and to use a different branding color than the green there or just use those but then we should settle with the same main brand colors everywhere. Let us introduce you Paris Noble, brand strategist and co-founder of Elevate Strategy & Design. For the past 2 years, they've been working closely together with us on many Orchard-related projects that either needed something to do with strategy and/or design. So why do we want to start rebranding Orchard? Branding is super important to make Orchard a widely known, competitive product, to truly make it an industry sensation. And now you can see some logo proposals with a poll on Twitter too! If you haven't voted, please choose the logo that you are like the most. And don't forget to follow this issue on GitHub where you can freely add your opinion about the new logo to make Orchard Core even better! Add .NET 5.0 and netcoreapp3.1 target framework multi-targeting This is about changing all of the target frameworks, all the props files, and targets files to support .NET 5.0 as default. So, now every module is compiled on both, and right now the only target is 5.0, but anyone can define 3.1 because it will work with that. If you want 3.1 by default you can set it. Now you have all the new features of 5.0, but for now, we only used it for performance improvements. When we publish, we need to define what we want to publish for, so again, the Docker files are by default deployed with 5.0 and it's not breaking your existing site. It will still work, there is no breaking change here. Demos Dynamic user permissions - Assign Role We had a demo a few weeks ago where you could see how you can use the new Manage Users in Role permissions which means you can restrict which users you can manage by the name of the role. That means you can delete them, disable them, change their email address, and so on. The new permissions here are the Assign Role permissions in the OrchardCore.Roles feature. Let's see this new addition in a simple example! Let's say we have a user with the Editor role assigned. And we say that users in this role will have the permission named Assign Role - Author. You can set that in the admin UI under Security -> Roles. What does it mean in practice? To see that let's log in with that user who has the Editor role assigned. Navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core and head to Security -> Users. Here let's hit the Edit button near the admin user for example. As you can see, the Roles list contains every role in the system and you can see that this user has the Administrator role. But all of the checkboxes here are disabled, except the Author one. This user can only assign the Author role to this user because we said that the users with the Editor role can only assign the Author role to users. Head to YouTube to see a short demonstration about this feature! Noayo Noayo is a fictional word that comes from noyau, which is a French word that means core in English. Noayo is an Orchard Core hosting platform and it allows you to create your own Orchard Core instance online. You can use a Bootstrap template for that site. You have two plans: the first one is 5$/month, you have 14 trial days, you will get 300Mb storage, you can have a maximum of 300 content items and 1$ is redistributed to contributors. The 10$ plan has more storage, you can have more content items and that also allows you to use your custom domain. If you would like to request a new account, just hit the Request an account button. In the following demo, you could see the Site management feature of Noayo and a presentation of a given site that runs on Noayo. Head to YouTube now to learn more about Noayo! News from the community A new website using Orchard Core Musica Pristina's purpose is to connect people with a breathtaking musical experience in their home. One where selecting what to play is nearly as enjoyable as listening to it. 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 192 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 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 RC 2 is now available! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core. This week we will also show you a great demo about the brand new code snippets for Visual Studio, which will make your Orchard Core development more efficient! Orchard Core updates User menu as a shape There is a user menu at the top-right corner of the admin theme. In this menu, you could see the name of the logged-in user, and here is a button that you can use to log off. In the past, if you would like to change the look and feel of this menu, you had to override the whole Layout.cshtml file of the theme, because this was the file where we rendered the menu. From now there is a new shape called UserMenu, which is just about containing that piece of content that is responsible to display the user menu. So, if you would like to override that menu, just create a new Razor file in your admin theme called Usermenu.cshtml. Reviewing encoders usages There was a bug when you are sending an email, where your chars might be JSON-encoded. Let's say that you were using workflows to send a bunch of emails and in this case, Liquid is used to construct the body of the emails. You can have input data like "Country": "België" that you are rendering with {{order.UserProfile.Country}}<br />. However, workflow Liquid evaluator is using JavaScriptEncoder rather than HtmlEncoder. This results in an email with Belgi\u00EB in the body. By default when ASP.Net Core injects it's HTML helpers, it will encode all the Unicode chars. If you have any Unicode char, it will be encoded, which means you will not see the actual characters even if the browser supports Unicode characters. To prevent that you can configure the WebEncoderOptions in your web application to say that the TextEncoderSettings will accept all Unicode ranges. That means it will don't encode anything that is based on Unicode ranges. It will still encode HTML, but any char that is a Unicode char will still be returned as a Unicode char and not as an HTML entity or a URL entity or a JSON entity and so on. It's better to just opt-in for the ranges you want, but in this case, it's just a sample code to show you how you can do that. If you look at your source code when you use such chars, you will see you will have lots of HTML entities instead of the chars you wrote. Once you do that, it could be the actual chars. And also, when you are using an encoder, just resolve it in the constructor, because the encoders are registered in the DI using the mentioned arguments. If you don't want to use the arguments (TextEncoderSettings) for a custom piece of code, then don't resolve the encoder, use HtmlEncoder.Default. For more information, check out the documentation! Demos Orchard Core code snippets for Visual Studio Orchard Dojo Library is a portable package of coding and training guidelines, development utilities. These are also part of the best practices and guidelines we use at Lombiq. This library contains Visual Studio code snippets to quickly generate code in some common scenarios during the Orchard Core module and theme development. To effectively use this collection of VS snippets just point the Snippets Manager to where you cloned or downloaded this folder. To do this go under Tools → Code Snippets Manager → select the C# language → Add and Add the whole folder. For Razor snippets to also work select the HTML Language and do the same. Do note that Razor snippets will only be suggested when you hit Ctrl + space first. You can download the snippets from this GitHub repository. For example, if you type oc, the IntelliSense in Visual Studio will show you the suggestions. In the screen below you could see the code that is generated if you are using the ocmigrations snippet. That is about generating a class that implements the DataMigration abstract class and you will also get a Create method, that is the minimum requirement if you would like to add a migration. But that's not all! Check out this recording to see more snippets in action! News from the community Orchard Core RC 2 released We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core RC 2 is now available! There is a new blog post in Orchard Core Blog that shows you the new features of the latest release. Here you could find the content localization support, and pre-configured localized Setup experience, the improved block content management experience, sitemaps management, and Azure support improvements. The NuGet packages are also updated on nuget.org. It's still prerelease of Orchard Core (the last one), so if you would like to update the packages in your solution, don't forget to put a tick in the Include prerelease checkbox if you are using Visual Studio. And don't forget the Roadmap! Here you could see a list of the fully or partially implemented features and the plans for the future releases! Upgrade your solution to RC 2 now! Feel free to drop on the dedicated Gitter chat and ask questions! Lombiq Utility Scripts Our Utility Scripts project is now open source! Many scripts for Orchard Core, Orchard CMS, Azure, SqlServer development. E.g. quick Orchard Core solution init, reset/reinstall. Head to the GitHub repository to see all the included scripts! Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions is now updated to RC 2 Looking for some useful Orchard Core extensions? Here's a bundle solution of all of Lombiq's open-source Orchard Core extensions (modules and themes). This repository contains the Helpful Libraries for Orchard Core that includes DateTime Libraries with TimeZone conversion, Localization Libraries and many more! But it also contains the Vue.js module for Orchard Core, the Training Demo module and that's not all of it! A new blog post about Orchard Core Nuno Cancelo is a software Engineer, eager to learn, and even more to share knowledge. Last week he published a great post about the basics of Orchard Core and he planned to publish 3 more parts where he will write about how you can create a module, a recipe, and a theme. Don't hesitate and start this journey now! Orchard Core workshops The contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic we'll get some new learning events. Lombiq's developers will also give two workshops, on using Orchard from the admin UI and on developing a module. Are you looking to get up to speed with Orchard? Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 148 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! 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 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!

Have you ever had a hard time implementing the migration files of your content types that you have constructed using the admin UI? Let us show you the Code Generation Helpful Extensions that generate the C# code for you in a click from the admin UI! This week we are also showing you a new and useful feature of Orchard Core about how to sanitize your HTML in an easy way! Orchard Core updates HTML script sanitizer By default, every content part should prevent input from rendering <script> tags. This should be opt-in on a per-type part level. This means that even if a part editor permits it, the rendering would filter these out. We can provide a reusable service as many parts will need it. And here we go! The name of the service is HtmlSanitizerService that is responsible for sanitizing the HTML code. To do that we are using a new open-source NuGet that can be found in GitHub called HtmlSanitizer. HtmlSanitizer is a .NET library for cleaning HTML fragments and documents from constructs that can lead to XSS attacks. It uses AngleSharp to parse, manipulate, and render HTML and CSS. As you can see in the code, there is a new class called HtmlSanitizerOptions that you can use to configure the sanitizer. If you checked the Usage section of the README.md file on the GitHub page of HtmlSanitizer you could see several lists that contain the tags allowed by default, the attributes allowed by default, CSS properties allowed by default, and so on. If you navigate to the HtmlSanitizerTests file and check the ShouldConfigureSanitizer method, you could see how to use the HtmlSanitizerOptions to set up your sanitizer by for example adding additional allowed attributes to it. In the 34th line, we are adding the class as an allowed attribute. And the Sanitize method of this service (you will never guess!) is responsible for sanitizing the HTML. OK, that's cool but where and how can I use this feature in my Orchard Core site? If you have a HtmlBody Part, an HTML Field, or a Markdown Field you will find a new option in the editor of the field or the part with a new checkbox: Sanitize Html. This checkbox is enabled everywhere by default, but of course, you have the availability to disable this feature. Let's say you have a site installed with the Blog recipe and you would like to create a new Article and do some evil stuff in the HtmlBody Part. You view the HTML source and enter the line there <a href=\"javascript: alert('xss')\">Click me</a> Then hit Publish and view the HTML source again. You will notice that the code changed to <a>Click me</a>. Preview feed moved to Cloudsmith For Orchard Core, the community has switched the preview feed package repository to Cloudsmith due to much nicer retention and bandwidth policies for open source projects. It means now you can use a different feed when using the nightly build packages of Orchard Core. If you open the documentation and select the Configure Preview package source in the Getting started section you will find the new feed URL and the way about how to set it up using Visual Studio or using the NuGet.config file. Templates content items If you remember, we had the Layout Template in Orchard 1, where you could define a layout page and save it as a template to start new pages out of this template. The idea would be to make it for any content item that you could store as a template and then create items that are just clones of that. In GitHub there is a feature called issue templates: when you create a new issue, you have templates for different types of issues. To see a good example of this idea navigate to the GitHub repository of ASP.NET Core and start to fill a new issue. Here GitHub will ask you what kind of issue you would like to create. These are the issue templates. What about creating a content item and saving it as a template? The same way you have a Publish or Save as draft, you can say: Save as a template. And then it would be a content item of the specific type that might appear in the menu somewhere or might appear in the New button when you create a new content item based on the given type. When you create a new of this thing, it will just clone it and you start with a new content item that is based on that. If you have like articles with the specific background or specific text that you want to reuse you can do that. Same thing for a content type with a Flow Part attached. In this case, you can reuse the widgets too! What do you think about this idea? Do you like it? Or do you have any other thoughts about this feature? Leave your reply in the comments section below and let us know! Demos Code Generation Helpful Extensions in Lombiq Helpful Extensions for Orchard Core If you navigate to the GitHub page of the Lombiq Helpful Extensions for Orchard Core, you will find a module that contains some handy extensions that you can use in your Orchard Core solution. Note that if you are using the nightly builds of Orchard Core, you should checkout to the orchard-core-preview branch, otherwise clone the dev branch of the repository. To use this module place the content of it to your solution and if you are using Visual Studio use the Solution Explorer and add this module as an existing project to your solution. Don't forget to add this as a project reference to your ASP.NET Core Web Application. This is the way how you could add any external module or theme to your Orchard Core solution. Now if everything goes well, you can build your solution and install your Orchard Core site! Note that if you are using the nightly builds, you may need to add the preview package source as described here. Set up your application using the Agency recipe. Go to Configuration -> Features and enable the Code Generation Helpful Extensions - Lombiq Helpful Extensions module. Now head to the content definition of the Landing Page (Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types -> Landing Page) and hit the Toggle showing generated migration code button. Here you could see the power of this extension. This module is about generating migration code from content definitions. You can use this to create (or edit) a content type on the admin and then move its creation to a migration class. Generated migration code is displayed under the content types' editors. If you are interested in the full demo, don't forget to check out the recording on YouTube! News from the community New websites using Orchard Core https://saintsrow.com is the website where you can get information and order the different Saints Row games. And if you visit https://chorusthegame.com, you will find everything about an upcoming game called Chorus. 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 Core workshops The contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic we'll get some new learning events. Lombiq's developers will also give two workshops, on using Orchard from the admin UI and on developing a module. Are you looking to get up to speed with Orchard? Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 145 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! 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 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!

Have you ever developed a great feature for Orchard Core that you wanted to add to the source code, but you were not sure about how to contribute the code and submit a pull request? And do you want to know the team behind all that we do at Lombiq Technologies? Here are all the faces, the whole Lombiq team. This is Lombiq! Don't hesitate and check our current post for more! Orchard Core updates Make Login, Logout and ChangePassword paths configurable Now you can change the endpoints for the login URLs. These can't be changed by using code, that's why they had to be in the appsettings.json. You can find the correct way about setting these values in the documentation. How to contribute? Since now there weren't any pages where you can find details about how you can contribute your source code back to Orchard Core. Now if you checkout to the dev branch of Orchard Core you will find a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the root of the repository which tells you everything about how to contribute code and content, submit pull requests and so on. Allow registering named style and script resources with inline content You have Liquid and Razor tags for custom styling/custom scripts and the ability to say where you want your style/script to be rendered. And if you inject a custom script/styling you can set the dependency of your custom script/style. Let's see some Razor example for these additions! Imagine that you would like to add a custom script for your page and use the ID selector from jQuery to select a single element with the given ID attribute. For that, you will need to include jQuery for your page. To do that you have 2 options:Register your script using the IResourceManifestProvider, set the dependencies of your script (for example jQuery), and just simply use the script Tag Helper to inject that to your Razor page. <script name="myVeryCustomScript" asp-src="~/areallycustomscript.js" at="Foot"></script> But you can also set the dependency here by using the depends-on attribute. The second way is to add a custom script and say that you are using jQuery functions, so you will need jQuery to be able to run your script. <script at="Foot" depends-on="jQuery"> $('#myDiv').css('border', '3px solid red');</script> In both cases, you inject your script in the wanted location (foot or head) and set the dependencies of the page. That's great, but imagine that this script is in the template of a widget. And of course, a page can contain several instances of your widget. In that case, your script will be injected multiple times. In some cases, that's what you want, but if not, it's unnecessary to have that script on the page multiple times. You have several workarounds to check if the script/styling is already injected to the page or not, but now you have an easier solution for that. Let's see the following code: <script name="MyScript" at="Foot" depends-on="jQuery"> $('#myDiv').css('border', '3px solid red');</script> The only difference here is the name attribute and this makes this block a named script. Named scripts will only be injected once and can optionally specify dependencies. You can use the style Tag Helper in the same ways: <style name="my-style" depends-on="the-theme"> .my-class { /* some style */ }</style> Adding option to enable MiniProfiler on the admin too The MiniProfiler module can only display its little widget on the frontend currently. Now you have an option to enable it for the admin too. To see it in action set the option, which can be done in OrchardCore.Cms.Web's Startup class with this snippet: public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services){ services.AddOrchardCms(builder => builder.ConfigureServices(services => services.PostConfigure<MiniProfilerOptions>(options => { options.AllowOnAdmin = true; })));} Or you can use the AllowMiniProfilerOnAdmin() extension method in the same method: public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services){ services.AddOrchardCms(builder => builder.AllowMiniProfilerOnAdmin());} For more information about the Mini Profiler head to the documentation, where you can also find a link to the updated Configuration page. Fix RSS items description The issue in the screen below was that if the bodyAspect was not null, we are reused the bodyAspect. The bodyAspect was cached during a request, but if you are rendering many different content items, then we would reuse the same bodyAspect for all of them. In an RSS feed when we build the body of the content items, all the RSS items would have the same body. Now we are also caching the content item ID. If we don't match the exact content item ID we don't restore the cached version of the body. Check the diff in the HtmlBodyPartHandler! Here you could see the related code changes where we also cache the content item ID. Demos Kast Group Finder: an Orchard Core site Kast is an Australian company and one of their primary goals is to implement the Kast platform with the Kast Group Finder component. We worked together with Seth Cleaver (Co-founder and Director of Kast) on this tool to be able to create an intuitive self-service process that enables people within a church to easily find a suitable group to attend, simplify the administrative processes required for getting people into groups, and provide information to the group co-ordinators that might assist in planning and measuring effectiveness. Check out this YouTube video about what can you achieve by using Orchard Core and how you can use the Group Finder and let us know if you have any questions! News from the community RC2 branch If you navigate to the GitHub page of Orchard Core and check the issues, you will find one with the name RC2 Validation. There is a list that contains all the things that are needed to be done to ship RC2. Here you can find a branch that contains the list of to-dos to work on. In this checklist, you can find the items that needed to do when publishing a release. You can check this issue from time to time to monitor the current state of the RC2 release. New Orchard Nuggets posts A breadcrumb menu is a simple but effective navigation aid that shows the user where they are in the site's content structure and which path they can take back. It's also part of the web accessibility guidelines. However, there's no feature built into Orchard Core for this. Nevertheless, how to create a breadcrumb menu? It's actually really easy, just copy a piece of code from this brand new Orchard Nuggets post! Let's suppose you're building your shiny new Orchard Core website. In there you're also building a shiny new page, with Flow Part obviously. You throw together a lot of widgets to get all the bells and whistles on the page, then you save it and BAM! Internal Server Error: "InvalidDataException: Form value count limit 1024 exceeded." What's this, did I break Orchard? Is Orchard trying to break me? Let's find out how to fix this in the second Orchard Nuggets post of the week! This is Lombiq! Do you want to know the team behind all that we do at Lombiq Technologies? Here are all the faces, the whole Lombiq team. All the Orchard developers, leaders, office managers, hardware and software engineers, accountants, advisors! This is Lombiq. The two projects of ours mentioned in the video are DotNest, the Orchard SaaS (https://dotnest.com/), and Hastlayer, the .NET hardware accelerator (https://hastlayer.com/). Note that while we published this video during the coronavirus pandemic it was actually recorded during our 2019 RnDay event, in December 2019. Everyone was safe :). Orchard Core workshops The contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic we'll get some new learning events. Lombiq's developers will also give two workshops, on using Orchard from the admin UI and on developing a module. Are you looking to get up to speed with Orchard? Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 142 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! 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 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!

Soon you will able to show content items in your menu easily! How? Check our newest This week in Orchard post and read about an amazing demo to see the new Content Picker Menu Item in action! We published a brand new case study this week on our website about the latest Orchard Core site we developed. By reading that study you can see the possibilities that you can easily achieve by using Orchard Core as your CMS! Don't forget to read our whole post for the most interesting news around the community! Orchard Core updates Added ability to restrict widgets within a flow part You can use the FlowPartSettings to give content managers the capability to restrict which widgets are available within the flow editor. If no widgets have been selected then all widgets will be available, as per the current implementation. Let's see it quickly! Set up a site with the Blog recipe and then edit the content type definition of the Page content type. To do that navigate to Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types and choose the Page. Then find the attached parts and hit Edit near the Flow one. Here you can select which content types this flow can contain. Just for the sake of demonstration, we say that the Flow editor of this page can only accept Liquid widgets. Let's see what will happen when we create a new Page! Hit New -> Page and try to add something to the Flow editor. You will see that only the Liquid one will be on the list because in the previous step we only allowed Liquid widgets. So, when you attach a FlowPart now you can decide what content types you want to be able to use in a FlowPart. It can be useful if you create a form page type with a FlowPart for it. You could then decide just to allow for form widgets. Remember: if you don't select anything you will be able to use any type of content type with the Widget stereotype in your editor. Added support for IN (SELECT) SQL statements You can use a custom SQL statement, that is about to parse for the queries module, the one that uses the generic SQL language and that will be translated to any dialect that the CMS supports (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server). If you use this language now you can use the select expression inside an in statement. It's also supporting the not in correctly and the like and not like was not working well, so these are also fixed. Check the new InlineData attributes added to the ShouldParseExpression test method to see some examples with the new expression. Fix shape table providers There was an issue with the way you would be able to override a template from your module, override a template for a dependent module. This change will look for shape templates in a module for any first-level dependencies and it's also improving performance because there would be fewer shape templates loaded in the memory. And if you have a feature depending on another feature then it won't be able to override the second level feature, you have to depend on that. It makes sense because you are creating a template for the second level feature, so you can depend on that because you expected that it would be there. Deployment plans search Let's navigate to Configuration -> Import/Export and create one or more deployment plans. Here you can filter the deployment plans and also do bulk actions. To do bulk actions select two or more deployment plans and after that, you will see the Delete option in the Actions dropdown. Content culture picker shape documentation If you navigate to the Content Localization section in the Orchard Core documentation, you may have noticed that there were no Razor example codes. From now the documentation has been improved with Razor examples! Demos Content Picker Menu Item Let's set up a site with the Blog recipe, create a new Page, and call it My brand new page. Then choose the Main Menu option in the admin UI and hit the Add Menu Item button. Here you could see the Available Menu Items modal window with two options: Link Menu Item and Content Picker Menu Item. Let's choose the second one! The Content Picker Menu Item is about having the ability to choose from the content items available in the CMS with a content picker. There is the Selected ContentItem dropdown, that can be used to select the content item that you would like to show on the menu. You can type to search or just simply select your item from the list. We will select our newly created page here. Publish the menu and navigate to the homepage of your site to see your menu. We placed the new menu item after the About, but of course, it's your choice to set the position of your menu item. If you are interested in the full demo don't forget to watch the recording on YouTube! Note that this feature is under development and can be found in this branch! News from the community Orchard Nuggets: How to add a culture URL segment for localization in Orchard Core So you're building a localized Orchard Core site and want all URLs to be in the form of /culture-name/rest/of/the/url, e.g. /hu-HU/my-page. What do you need to achieve this? In our newest Orchard Nuggets post, we give you the answers! Check out the other posts for more such bite-sized Orchard tips and let us know if you'd have another question! Helping Kast build a multi-tenant platform on Orchard Core Kast is an Australian company and one of their primary goals is to implement the Kast platform with the Kast Group Finder component. We worked together with Seth Cleaver (Co-founder and Director of Kast) on this tool to be able to create an intuitive self-service process that enables people within a church to easily find a suitable group to attend, simplify the administrative processes required for getting people into groups, and provide information to the group co-ordinators that might assist in planning and measuring effectiveness. Check out this case study about how we've developed this multi-tenant social group management platform for churches! 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 Core Training Demo module: combining ASP.NET Core Options with Orchard Core site settings Our Orchard Core Training Demo module has a new tutorial on combining ASP.NET Core Options with Orchard Core site settings. In the SiteSettingsController you could see how to use the Site Settings to access tenant-level settings and any other custom settings! Orchard Core Training Demo module is a demo Orchard Core 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 including the full source code - which is the recommended way. You can use it as part of a solution the uses Orchard Core NuGet packages, however, it's harder to look under the hood of Orchard Core features. The module assumes that you have a good understanding of basic Orchard concepts and that you can get around the Orchard admin area (the official documentation may help you with that). You should also be familiar with how to use Visual Studio and write C#, as well as the concepts of ASP.NET Core MVC. Bug reports, feature requests, and comments are warmly welcome, please do so via GitHub. Feel free to send pull requests too, no matter which source repository you choose for this purpose. Updated Lombiq Technologies logos You may have noticed that we rolled out our updated logo in the last few days. The spirit is the same: The lab flask with which we distill our IT solutions ("lombik" in Hungarian means lab flask :)). So, please welcome it! Orchard Core workshops The contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic we'll get some new learning events. Lombiq's developers will also give two workshops, on using Orchard from the admin UI and on developing a module. Are you looking to get up to speed with Orchard? Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 140 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! 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 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!

Database and Azure blob shells configuration are added to Orchard Core! To get up to speed with Orchard Core the contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage! Orchard Core updates Account views validation messages Instead of using DataAnnotations, in some ViewModels, we are using custom validation methods by implementing the IValidatableObject interface. The reason for that is the DataAnnotations are not localized correctly yet, but this is just a mitigation of the issue and this will be soon supported in Orchard Core. So, let's see an example of that from the OrchardCore.Users module. Here you could see that the Validate method in RegisterViewModel is about to check the values of the required fields and make sure that the user provided the same password in both cases. If there is a validation error, the method returns different kinds of ValidationResults, that contains the localized error message and the list of member names that have validation errors. Database and Azure blob shells configuration The Azure Shells Configuration and Database Shells Configuration providers allow hosting of shell/tenant tenants.json files and related tenants appsettings.json configuration settings in an environment external to the Orchard Core host. By default, the tenants.json and related appsettings.json for the Default shell and any configured tenants are stored in the App_Data folder. This configuration in the App_Data folder is suitable for most sites, however for advanced configuration of stateless multi-tenancy environments, where multiple hosts require write access to these shared configuration settings, you can choose to use either the Azure Shells Configuration or Database Shells Configuration providers. The primary purpose of the Shell Configuration providers is to provide a shared external environment for multi-tenancy where tenants need to be created, and their settings mutated, during live operation of the stateless hosts. It is not intended to support shared configuration between local development and production environments. Here you can see great documentation about how to set up the Azure Shells Configuration Provider and the Database Shell Configuration Provider! Remove unneeded files in TheAdmin There were unneeded files in the TheAdmin theme: the TheAdmin.css and the TheAdmin.min.css. The goal is to have an admin theme that could be used in mobile devices and provide a great user experience. Deleting unneeded files is another step toward mobile-friendliness. Blog theme: Article with MediaField Setup your site using the Blog recipe and head to the admin UI of Orchard Core. This recipe comes with an Article content type. If you create a new Article or edit the predefined one, you will see a new MediaField with the Banner Image display name. Let's change the Banner Image of the existing one and see what will happen! As you can see, this change is to allow users to specify a background picture for an Article. Update ShellHost registrations Currently, we have the following DI registrations for the ShellHost: services.AddSingleton<ShellHost>();services.AddSingleton<IShellHost>(sp => sp.GetRequiredService<ShellHost>());services.AddSingleton<IShellDescriptorManagerEventHandler>(sp => sp.GetRequiredService<ShellHost>()); So here if someone overrides IShellHost, when we resolve <IShellDescriptorManagerEventHandler> as an IEnumerable the ShellHost implementation is still used. The solution is to modify the IShellHost interface in the following way: public interface IShellHost: IShellDescriptorManagerEventHandler {} And now the registrations will look slightly different: services.AddSingleton<IShellHost, ShellHost>();services.AddSingleton<IShellDescriptorManagerEventHandler>(sp => sp.GetRequiredService<IShellHost>()); Now it forces the one that overrides IShellHost to also implements <IShellDescriptorManagerEventHandler> and when all <IShellDescriptorManagerEventHandler> are resolved as an IEnumerable, the right instance is used. Documentation for missing content fields The first table of the Content Fields page in the Orchard Core documentation is about to show you the available fields and their properties. The MarkdownField, MediaField and TaxonomyField were missing from this list. Apply Bootstrap styles to message based on the notification type You can use the INofitier to manage UI notifications. You can have different types of notifications and the notifications with different types can be displayed differently. Orchard Core uses Bootstrap alerts to display the notifications. To add a custom display for every type of notification the Message.cshtml file is now using the contextual classes from Bootstrap (like .alert-success). Setup screen improvements The setup screen has got several improvements: Removed Bootstrap Jumbotron. Moved function setLocalizationUrl() to setup.js. Moved the code and HTML about the culture list from _Layout.cshtml to Index.cshtml. Used fieldset instead of h6 when displaying the Super User text. Separated hints between database and table prefix. News from the community Orchard Core workshops The contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic we'll get some new learning events. Lombiq's developers will also give two workshops, on using Orchard from the admin UI and on developing a module. Are you looking to get up to speed with Orchard? Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage! Here you could see a table that contains more information about the first 5 workshops. The Resources page of the Orchard Core documentation has updated with the details of the workshops too where you can also find the Sign-up sheet. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 132 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! 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 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!

New tasks when working tenants in your workflows, a best practice about how to validate your ViewModel using a service and a spectacular and fun demo about a nice addition to our Orchard Visual Studio Extension! Read our current post for more! Orchard Core updates Tenant Workflows: Disable and Enable Tasks Now you have workflow tasks to Disable or Enable tenants to support tenant management using with Forms or any external services. With these you have four events to manipulate tenants: Create Tenant Enable Tenant Disable Tenant Setup Tenant From now, you can use the workflows to create, setup and then enable the tenants, because we have tasks to cover the whole process. In our case, we created a workflow called Add tenant and used these activities to fire up a tenant from scratch by the values provided by the users in a form. Search inputs Antoine Griffard updated all the search inputs in admin to use autofocus and type="search". This is a way to let the browser display these inputs with better hints. You can even predefine a list of common search inputs if you want. It's not used here, but we could also extend these to do that or show a list of historical data that you put in that textbox. Validating ViewModels We would like to mention this because by reading this solution you could get a nice best practice about how to validate something with a service if you are in a ViewModel. In this current issue, we would like to validate the value of an email address by using the RegisterExternalLoginViewModel. If you would like to validate an object using a ViewModel, you have to implement the IValidatableObject interface which will give you a Validate method. And in this method, you can use whatever service you want. When you create a new instance of your ViewModel, you can pass your service to it in a parameter by using constructor dependency injection. In this current example, we could see the passing of the IEmailAddressValidator to the RegisterExternalLoginViewModel. And in the RegisterExternalLoginViewModel you can use the service in the Validate method injected using the constructor. But, if you see the changes below, you could notice that by using the ValidationContext, you can get your service from the IServiceProvider by calling validationContext.GetService<T>(). In this case, you don't have to pass anything using the constructor when creating a new instance of your ViewModel, just simply resolve your service using the ValidationContext. A new section in the Orchard Core documentation: Resources Now when you open the documentation of Orchard Core, you will find a new item on the menu, called Resources. The goal of the Resources page is to collect any external resources that are available to teach you how to develop with Orchard Core. Our Orchard Core Training Demo module has been added as the first demo project for this page. And you can also found some lines about our newsletter here and the URL where you can sign up for our newsletter! New favicon for the Orchard Core documentation If you check the previous screen again, you will see that the snip contains the title bar of the window too. That's because when you visit the documentation page of Orchard Core, you will face a new blueish favicon, that looks nicer in a browser that uses a darker theme too. Demos Adding BlinkStick support to Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio Extension Orchard Error Log Watcher feature Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio Extension is a Visual Studio extension with many features and templates frequently used by Lombiq developers. It contains Orchard-related (including Orchard Core) as well as generic goodies. This extension has an Orchard Log Watcher feature, that alerts you when you have any new entry in the log file. When you install this extension, you will see a new button on the Orchard Log Watcher toolbar. The button of this toolbar will be enabled when you have unread entries in the error log files. If you click on this button, the log file will be opened with the editor assigned to open .log files. When you navigate to Tools -> Options -> Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio Extension -> Orchard Log Watcher you can enable or disable this feature. You can also set the log file folder path. The path can be anything, so, you can set custom paths as well. The default path here supports the default path of the log files in the case of an Orchard Core and an Orchard 1.x solution too. And here comes the fun part: you can also set to blink or light up continuously a BlinkStick LED stick when a new entry is detected. BlinkStick brings colorful notifications to your computer and wide range programming language implementations give you the power to control LEDs without the need to program a microcontroller and you can choose from different kinds of products. Furthermore, you can also set the color for the LED by providing a hex value or the name of the color. You can find the list of the supported colors here. You just need to plug this device into your USB port and the extension will recognize it! Here you can download this free, open-source extension. In GitHub, you can find the extension's Readme with release notes too. Also, if you encountered bugs or have a feature request please add it on the GitHub page as well. And don't forget to watch the full demo on YouTube! News from the community Training Demo updated: how to add an ASP.NET Core middleware to your Orchard Core application? Orchard Core Training Demo module is a demo Orchard Core 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 including the full source code - which is the recommended way. You can use it as part of a solution the uses Orchard Core NuGet packages, however, it's harder to look under the hood of Orchard Core features. The module assumes that you have a good understanding of basic Orchard concepts and that you can get around the Orchard admin area (the official documentation may help you with that). You should also be familiar with how to use Visual Studio and write C#, as well as the concepts of ASP.NET Core MVC. We have just added a new section to our module about how to implement an ASP.NET Core middleware in your Orchard Core application. Take a look at the RequestLoggingMiddleware.cs file! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 130 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! 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 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!

This week you could see a demo about the brand new culture picker on the Setup page! We will also check the new CodeMirror editor for the TextField, the new EmailAddressValidator service, a new Orchard Nuggets blog post and Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions! And that's not all! Orchard Core updates CodeMirror editor for TextField There is a new editor for the TextField, where you can use CodeMirror. To try this just install your site using the Blog recipe and edit the content definition of the BlogPost content type. Set the editor type of the Subtitle TextField to Code Mirror, then hit Save. And now if you edit the predefined blog post or create a new one, you will see the changed editor for the Subtitle TextField. It uses a text area, and of course, supports to write code here by different kinds of highlighting. Add DataAnnotation default error messages There is an issue filed that the DataAnnotation attributes are not localized correctly, because the actual strings to be localized are taken from resources or hard-coded in the DataAnnotation classes. In these cases, we don't have them in the PO files, so they can't be translated because the PO extractor doesn't find them. To solve that there is a new DataAnnotationsDefaultErrorMessages class, that defines all the strings that are currently in the resx files of ASP.NET, but as a custom class with calls to the StringLocalizer. This way the PO file extractor can find them and we can localize them in Crowdin and provide the missing PO files for that. The second step is actually to use them and ensure it works, but also be able to extract custom messages that you would put in the DataAnnotation. In a DataAnnotation like EmailOrRequired you might say Email but provide a custom string. In this case, in the custom string, we still need to extract it. At least the default messages that are nowhere in the code should be registered somewhere like this. So, we can have a reference list of things to translate and then the localizer will be able to pick the correct translation. That's a good first step. Prevent anonymous users from performing GET on content item API You want anonymous users to be able to view your site, view your page/content item and it would just show what the layout is or the view is. But you might not want anonymous users to retrieve the full content item JSON payload, because it might show some properties and metadata that you don't want to expose. Now there is custom permission that is called GetApiContent that you can assign to specific roles and this is not assigned to anonymous users by default. Update Documentation for non-Visual Studio users Getting started with an Orchard Core Theme page of the Orchard Core Documentation has been updated with guides about how to create a new theme if you are using other IDE then Visual Studio. Add EmailAddressValidator service This one is to make a new IEmailAddressValidator service that is available by default in Orchard.Infrastructure.Abstractions. It's using MailKit so that's a new service that you can use to validate email. And if you would like to replace it, you can add your own logic for email validation. Add tenant description Now you can define a description of the views for each tenant. If you add a new tenant by navigating to Configuration -> Tenants -> Add Tenant, see the list of tenants or use the Create Tenant Task in your workflows, you will meet with this new option. Demos Culture picker on the Setup page When you have the latest dev you have this Setup screen where the new thing is the culture picker at the top right. Note that the Change language string not has been localized yet, so the default behavior is that it will show up using whatever language has been selected, the default one comes from the browser. Or if there is no match from your system, the default will be English. That won't configure the site for the same language because it's just the setup experience, so it won't enable localization by default. Because we have a quite much language translated and supported, the UI will adapt automatically to the selected one. If you take a language that would be an RTL language like Arabic, the direction of the text will also change. If you are interested in the full demo, don't hesitate to go to YouTube and view the recording! News from the community Orchard Nuggets: How to localize content items? So you want to create an Orchard Core website that presents its content in multiple languages. There are many parts of this, but what about content items? How do you make them ready for localization? In our newest Orchard Nuggets post, we give you the answers! Check out the other posts for more such bite-sized Orchard tips and let us know if you'd have another question! Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions An Orchard Core CMS Visual Studio solution that contains most of Lombiq's open-source Orchard modules and themes. Only those extensions are included which use the latest released version of Orchard (i.e. ones depending on a nightly build are not yet here). Since the extensions are included as git submodules when cloning this repo set git to initialize submodules Bug reports, feature requests, comments, questions, and code contributions are warmly welcome, please do so via GitHub issues and pull requests. Please adhere to our open-source guidelines while doing so. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 129 subscribers of the Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard with the latest news about the platform. 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