Extending ISetupEventHandler with new events, do not specify placement position in the content field/part display drivers, and a blog post about the reliability of your DotNest sites! Let's see the details in our post! Orchard Core updates Extending ISetupEventHandler with new events We have an ISetupEventHandler interface in Orchard with a method called Setup. When there is a setup on a new tenant, we call this method. Now this method is marked as an obsolete one and will be removed in future releases. If you rebuild your Orchard Core solution in the future, it will tell you to use the new SetupAsync instead. If you have an implementation of this interface, it will still work because the newly added FailedAsync and SucceededAsync methods have default implementations. It means you don't need an abstract base class. Do not specify placement position in the content field/part display drivers Content elements or fields can be attached to a content type. Their UI placement should follow the subsequent guidelines. So, if the first step defines a position, we use that position and look no further. DisplayDriver. A placement is defined on the UI using the OrchardCore.Placements. The placements.json file. Default Position in the content type. Otherwise, it should fall back to the physical placement of the object in the content definition. For this logic to work as expected, the ContentPartDisplayDriver or the ContentFieldDisplayDriver should define a placement location by default, but not a placement position. This way, we can allow to change the order using Steps 2-5 as needed. In the following drivers, we seem to be defining a placement position that prevents the user from being able to change that position at all. FacebookPluginPartDisplayDriver BagPartDisplayDriver FlowPartDisplayDriver HtmlBodyPartDisplayDriver LiquidPartDisplayDriver MarkdownBodyPartDisplayDriver TaxonomyPartDisplayDriver TitlePartDisplayDriver For example, today if you use HtmlBodyPart, there is no easy way to change its placement because the HtmlBodyPartDisplayDriver defines a position 5. Meaning if you have a placement in the driver, there is no easy way to override it from the UI. If we leave these positions, blank it will fall back to the user settings. News from the community Your DotNest site (almost) never goes down Orchard Core and Orchard 1.x sites you host on DotNest almost never go down, with 99.99% availability in the last 3 months. Check out the details in our latest blog post here. If you haven't done it already and want to host your sites on the hugely reliable DotNest, create your site here! We also guarantee reliability in our Terms of Service. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 505 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Add support for multiple media files in Elasticsearch and support more searchable file types in Elasticsearch! Let's see the details in our post and jump into a discussion about having a community manager! Orchard Core updates Add support for multiple media files in Elasticsearch We support searching PDF files in Elasticsearch. We do this by reading the text of the PDF file found in Media Field and saving the text from the PDF file into a custom index in Elasticsearch. This is great, because now anytime a user searches for a text found in the PDF file, we return the content items where the PDF belongs. The problem is that we only store the text of the first attached PDF file, not all of it. The solution is when trying to index a Text/String-based field, we should add all the values to the same index key. This will allow the content of multiple files to be indexed as expected. Support more searchable file types in Elasticsearch And while we are talking about improving Elasticsearch, here comes another goodie again by Mike Alhayek! Until this improvement, we only supported searching in PDF files in Elasticsearch, but we should be able to search .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .ppt, .pptx. We can easily use Open XML SDK to add this support. The Open XML SDK provides tools for working with Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. If you navigate to Configuration -> Features, you will find a new feature called Media Indexing, which extends the media indexing capability to also encompass searching within files with the following extensions .txt, .md, .docx, and .pptx. If you check the files under the Indexing folder of the OrchardCore.Media library, you will find three new ones called PresentationDocumentMediaFileTextProvider, TextMediaFileTextProvider, and WordDocumentMediaFileTextProvider allowing you to index the content of the mentioned file types. News from the community Having a community manager The community had a discussion last week about having a community manager. There is no person in the Orchard world who would pretty much deal with marketing and design for Orchard, like doing that for a product. Things that a marketing manager or a product owner or something like that does for a paid product. Orchard Core is not like that but for open-source projects and communities, a community manager is the person who does such things. Get the word out, and evangelize Orchard, not just in word-of-mouth but in a systematic way. Make marketing in general and shepherd the project, so it follows the requirements and the needs of the community, and the manager responds to what happens in the world and does things that developers don't really like to do. Let's have this discussion in detail! Do you agree, do you have people you think would be suitable? What do you think about this? Chime into the following discussion and tell us your opinion! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 521 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 1.7 is now available! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core. In the upcoming weeks, we will check out the newest features and additions of Orchard Core 1.7. Let's get started! Orchard Core updates Add GraphQL types to the SEO module The SEO module of Orchard Core provides Search Engine Optimization (SEO) features: Meta description, keywords, robots, and custom meta tags Canonical URL Open Graph metadata Twitter Card Tags Google schema If you enable the SEO module, you can attach the SeoMeta Part to your content type that allows SEO meta descriptions to be applied to a content item. Let's enable this module and attach the SeoMeta Part to our sample Blog Post content type! Now, if we edit the predefined blog post, we will have a SEO tab, where we can provide the SEO-related settings. The issue was all the Seo meta fields should appear in the GraphiQL interface and be queriable. To test out this fix, we have to navigate to Configuration -> GraphiQL and run a query where we want to check out the SEO meta-related fields. Here you can see that we printed the page title, the canonical URL, and the meta description too. Fix the admin UI sort When you import many contents with the same ModifiedUtc, the pager logic will not work correctly and some items will be skipped when trying to paginate. With this fix, we add a sort by ID after the sorted value to ensure no records are skipped due to the identical value. Demos Customizable user display name and avatar We wanted a way to be able to change how the user name is displayed because the user name itself is too technical. We really don't have a way to change the displayed user name, so the CrestApps.Components.Users NuGet package contains a feature called User Display Name, that provides a way to change how the user name is displayed. The other feature of this package, User Avatar, provides a way to display an avatar for each user. Let's add this package to our Orchard site and enable both features under the Configuration -> Features screen! Now if you head to Security -> Users and edit a user, you will find a way to upload an avatar. If you do that and hit Save, you can see your avatar in the top-right corner and in the content items list if you navigate to Content -> Content Items. The other feature is about changing the whole name. First of all, let's navigate to Configuration -> Settings -> User Display Name! Here you can change how you want the name to be displayed using the Display Name Format select list. Here we specified the First Middle and Lastname format but you can say that you want to use a custom format (if the predefined ones are not suitable for your needs) and use Liquid to define your own format. We also say that you have to specify the first name and the last name for every user (if you edit a user, these values will be required) but the middle name is optional. We will not need the display name text box on the user editor, we will generate it using the display name format. If we edit an existing user, we will have the First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name text boxes. If we enter some values inside, you will see that the format of the user name has been changed in the top-right corner (and in the content items list if you navigate to Content -> Content Items) based on the format we have just set up earlier. If you would like to know more about these features along with some technical details and more goodies, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Core 1.7 The community recently released the latest 1.7 version of Orchard Core with several new features and additions! There's a new SMS and SMS Notifications module that provides a way to send SMS messages and notifications to users using SMS services. And by utilizing the new two-factor SMS Method feature, you can also transmit a two-factor authentication code to the user via SMS. And yes, this means that starting with version 1.7, Orchard Core is shipped with everything you need to secure your app with two-factor authentication. The Lucene and Elasticsearch features are capable of searching within PDF files because PDF files are indexed by default. As an enhancement, we added a new feature called Media Indexing which extends the media indexing capability to also encompass searching within files with the following extensions .txt, .md, .docx, and .pptx. And we have a lot more to cover! Here are all the details of the release. Orchard Core is available as a NuGet package which you can easily add to your ASP.NET Core solution. Here’s how you can get started with Orchard Core. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 547 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

New Catch Workflow Fault Event, add additional text info to the Content Picker Field, and a demo about adding an interactive mode to the Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates New Catch Workflow Fault Event If you have the Workflows feature enabled, you can create workflows by clicking on the Workflows option from the admin menu. Here, you can create workflows and add events to your workflows by clicking on the Add Event button. In the list of available events, you will find a new one, called Catch Workflow Fault Event, that triggers and captures exception information when an exception occurs in any other workflow. If you select this event, you will find a text area called Trigger Condition, and the code inside it is automatically generated when you open the editor of the Catch Workflow Fault Event for the first time. Add additional text info to the Content Picker Field Let's play around a little bit with a site that we set up using the Blog recipe. First of all, we want to have an option where users can assign pages to blog posts, like "if you need more info, check out this page, or click here for this related content, and so on.". To do that, we can utilize the Content Picker Field. If we navigate to Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types and hit Edit near the Blog Post content type, we can find the Add Field button. By clicking on it, we can set the display name (let it be Related pages in this case) and select the field type (Content Picker Field). Now we can click the Edit button near our new Related pages Content Picker Field and do the magic here. We set up this field to allow multiple elements to be selected and said that we only want to choose from Page content types when working with this field. But the new stuff is the Title Pattern editor. Here, you can define the pattern used to render the title with Liquid support. Here, you can see that this field renders the Display Text of the content items by default (keeping the current behavior), but you can modify this as you want. This can be a huge help for other users because, for example, using only the display name has become a problem for multilingual sites with pages named "blog" in multiple languages. Here, we modified the pattern to include the display URL too, not just the display text of the content items. And now, the last step is to try this out in action! We will just simply edit the predefined blog post and click on the Related pages Content Picker Field to see what will happen. As you can see, we have two Page content items on our site where we used the sample display name. It's hard to distinguish the content items but by seeing the URL too, we have an idea which Page could be which one. OK, maybe we are not using the best URLs for illustration, but I think you get the point here. :) Demos Interactive mode in the Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox Maybe you have already heard about the Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox, our web UI testing toolbox mostly for Orchard Core applications. Everything you need to do UI testing with Selenium for an Orchard app is here. We wrote about it several times here as well, first when we open-sourced it, when we added some Orchard Core Features tests to it when we added the automated monkey testing feature to it, and when we introduced the Visual verification testing. At the end of last year, we showed you the latest updates about integrating UI testing into Orchard Core and the way you can use WebApplicationFactory or a fake video capture source. This time, we will check out a slightly different topic! Basically, the Orchard Core process and the UI testing process are running together, you can't actually do testing and continue running the web application itself. So, for that, we have a new method called SwitchToInteractiveAsync, which enables the interactive mode for debugging the app while the test is paused. If you run the test, you are able to pause at that point, like hitting a breakpoint when debugging the code. So, sometimes you want to debug the test session, and assuming direct control would be nice. But you can't just drop a breakpoint in the test, since the Orchard Core web app and the test are the same process so it would pause both. The SwitchToInteractiveAsync extension method opens a new tab with info about the interactive mode and, then causes the test thread to wait until you've clicked on the "Continue Test" button in this tab. During that time, you can interact with OC as if it was a normal execution. If you open up the InteractiveModeTests.cs file, you will find a demo of the feature with two tests: SampleTest and EnteringInteractiveModeShouldWait that illustrates how you can use the new SwitchToInteractiveAsync extension method. If you want to know more about this feature, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 535 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Rename Microsoft Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID; improve workflows page load time, and announce Cloudflare CDN and protection for all DotNest sites! Let's see the details in our post! Orchard Core updates Rename Microsoft Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced significant milestones for identity and network access, including the news that Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is becoming Microsoft Entra ID. We have Azure AD integration in Orchard Core, and in order to authenticate users with Azure AD, you must enable and configure the OrchardCore.MicrosoftAuthentication.AzureAD and the OrchardCore.Users.Registration features. You can read more about the details here. So, due to Microsoft's recent rebranding, Azure AD has been renamed to Microsoft Entra ID. This only concerns UI labels and documentation, but technical identifiers remain, so you shouldn't expect anything breaking. Improve workflows page load time It takes several seconds to load the /Admin/Workflows/Types and /Admin/Workflows/Types/{TypeId}/Instances pages when there are a fairly large number (testing size: 500_000) rows in WorkflowIndex. There is a line in WorkflowTypeController that goes through the whole table of WorkflowIndex to then calculate (group by) in the code how many workflows are there per each type. In WorkflowController line 124 with the await query.CountAsync() it is for the same purpose but for only one workflow type, but this uses some additional joins which makes it even slower. You can easily reproduce this by having a fairly large number of finished workflows. Load the workflows page, or the type-specific workflow item list page and see that it takes several seconds to load. This issue has been fixed by removing the counting of each workflow type on the workflows listing page. And on the workflow instances list page changed to only fetch the document table for the workflows that are on the current page. News from the community Cloudflare CDN and protection for all DotNest sites Last week you could read that we published a case study about migrating the content of an old version of an Orchard Core website with a custom theme and modifications in the business logic of the Orchard Core Commerce module to DotNest. You can check out the case study here about how we achieved this with Ik wil een tart, a confectionery in the Netherlands! And now all DotNest sites are protected and sped up by Cloudflare! Head to the DotNest blog and check out the details here! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 505 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Add a thumbnail to stereotype filter; IClientIpAddressAccessor an interface for accessing the client IP Address, and check out a case study of a new Orchard Core site using Orchard Core Commerce! Let's get started! Orchard Core updates Add thumbnail to stereotype filter In some cases, we want to create a menu item that would allow the user to manage content items of a specific stereotype. Currently, we only support single content types but not stereotypes. The goal of this change was to add a query parameter stereotype that would allow us to manage only content items that share the same given stereotype. We already mentioned this change a few weeks ago but from now on, this feature is more user-friendly because you can see a thumbnail about this filter inside the available filters list on the Manage Content page. You can reach this list if you click on the Filters icon near the Search textbox and select the Filter syntax from the drop-down menu. Add IClientIpAddressAccessor interface for accessing the client IP Address It can happen that you need to know the IP address of the client. For example, Orchard Core can save the client IP Address when logging events using the Audit Trail feature. From now on, you will see a new IClientIPAddressAccessor interface with a default implementation called DefaultClientIPAddressAccessor, which you can use to easily get the IP address of the client. News from the community Case study of a new Orchard Core site using Orchard Core Commerce DotNest is a SaaS provider that provides hosted Orchard Core and Orchard 1 web applications (think Wordpress.com for Orchard). This basically means that after registration you can create Orchard websites on DotNest without having to worry about hosting or maintenance. Orchard is always kept up-to-date and in good working order for you, you just have to use it. Several custom modules and themes are available for you on all Orchard Core DotNest sites. One of these is the Orchard Core Commerce module, which is the commerce module for the CMS containing features like handling taxation, shopping cart, and checkout. We published a case study about migrating the content of an old version of an Orchard Core website with a custom theme and modifications in the business logic of the Orchard Core Commerce module to DotNest. Check out this case study here to read more about how we achieved this with Ik wil een taart, a confectionery in the Netherlands! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 499 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Adding an option to allow the user to change the full-text search behavior in the admin UI, new Helpful Shell Extensions, and announcing that the recordings of the Orchard Harvest Conference 2023 are available on YouTube! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Full-Text Search for Admin UI Currently, when searching for content we search the DisplayText property. It can happen that we want to search content items for other fields like a stock number or serial number. Currently, the only way to do this is by adding any info we want to search for to the title. This may be acceptable in some cases, but not all cases. From now on, additional options have been introduced to enable control over the behavior of the full-text search in the administration user interface for content items. Check out this documentation for details about how you can do that by implementing the IContentsAdminListFilterProvider interface and registering the custom default term name as a search option by adding it to the ContentsAdminListFilterOptions. Helpful Shell Extensions The goal of this change is to introduce various extensions related to tenant management that the contributors can utilize in the future to improve the code quality of Orchard Core instead of doing the same checks repeatedly. And of course, you can use these extensions in the future in your own custom code as well! We have three new classes (ShellContextExtensions, ShellSettingsExtensions, and ShellStringExtensions) with extension methods that tell you whether the tenant is running or not, whether or not the tenant has one of the provided URL hosts, whether or not the tenant is in use in at least one active scope, and so on. News from the community Orchard Harvest Online Recordings We had the first online Orchard Harvest, and it was great to see that we had 188 sign-ups for the conference! It was an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, talk about development plans and ideas, and foremost, meet the rest of the worldwide community. And of course, we recorded every session, which means they are now available on YouTube! Click the link to rewatch all the inspiring talks and discussions! That was a blast! Thank you again, everyone, for taking part, and thanks to the presenters for their great presentations! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 497 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Support login via username or email address for OpenID, Liquid themes shouldn't need Razor support for MVC, and don't forget to take a look at our blog post about how to migrate an Orchard 1 application to Orchard Core! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Support login via username or email address for OpenID When using the built-in OpenID feature of Orchard Core, you can get an access token by making a POST request to /connect/token endpoint. In the request, you can specify the grant_type, scope, username, password, and client_id. You can use the username in the username parameter, but if you try to use the email address of the user, it won't work. According to this discussion thread, there is a change to not allow the username = email. However, there should be a fallback to authenticate by username or email. So, the goal of this change is to be able to use a username or email to log in. As you can see, now the code utilizes the updated GetUserAsync method, which gets the user by a specified username or email address. Liquid themes shouldn't need Razor support for MVC When developing a theme, you can decide to use Razor or Liquid files. But of course, you can mix Razor and Liquid files if you want. Originally the Blog Theme was only composed of Razor files that the community migrated step by step to Liquid. And we are only using Liquid files for the Agency Theme and the Coming Soon Theme as well. So, these are themes that currently only use Liquid files. And because of that, we can remove the AddRazorSupportForMvc tags from these themes. News from the community How to migrate an Orchard 1 application to Orchard Core You may have heard about the news that we migrated from our old Orchard 1 website to Orchard Core and modernized our site's look. Our new site turned out great, and we are very happy with it. It represents who we are and what we do as a company. We hope you like it too! For our case study on building the renewed Lombiq.com, including migrating it from Orchard 1, check out How We Renewed and Migrated lombiq.com from Orchard 1 to Orchard Core in the Lombiq blog, and check out this announcement in this video. If you are also planning to migrate your Orchard 1 website to Orchard Core, and want to read more details about how you could start to migrate your website and content, search no more, we have published a detailed article on Orchard Dojo with some samples as well about how you could start and enjoy the numerous remarkable benefits by migrating to Orchard Core. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 491 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Fix Google Service dependencies and include Google Analytics and Tag Manager when the user consents. This week's demo is about the new Lombiq Content Editors for the Orchard Core module! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Fix Google Service dependencies Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a bridge/middle-man service, that would allow you to enable other services like Google Analytics on your website. So, if you have GTM installed on your website, you can use the GTM portal to enable Google Analytics using the Measurement ID. You can also enable Google Analytics without the use of GMT if you want. The two features OrchardCore.Google.TagManager and OrchardCore.Google.Analytics should not depend on each other as one should enable either. If you enable the Google Tag Manager feature by navigating to Configuration -> Features, you will find a new option under Configuration -> Settings. It is called Google Tag Manager, where you can specify the container ID defined in your Google Tag Manager account. Include Google Analytics and Tag Manager when the user consents And while we are talking about Google-related services, let's check out another improvement regarding Google-related services! The Google Analytics feature always includes the Google Analytics tracking script in GoogleAnalyticsFilter. Instead, it should only include this if the user gave consent to tracking otherwise, it's a legal risk under GDPR for EU companies. Potentially something similar for websites run by other entities around the world too. Fortunately, the built-in ASP.NET Core feature can be used for this, just by adding the below check to GoogleAnalyticsFilter. Demos Lombiq Content Editors for Orchard Core This time we will check out the Lombiq Content Editors for Orchard Core module. This feature was originally built for Orchard 1 a couple of years ago, and it contained a lot of interesting features for advanced content editing, including async editors, which we will focus on today. It was a closed-source module of Lombiq, and this is the rewritten version of that for Orchard Core. As we mentioned, the primary feature of this module is the Async Editor feature, which we already used when we built the License Request form for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. We wrote a blog post about how we upgraded that site to Orchard Core, and you can also check out a demo video of the app and our experiences developing it here. So, the Async Editor feature of this module provides an infrastructure for creating editors that can load and save content asynchronously. The editor can optionally render multiple pages where each page can load and save data independently. To demonstrate this feature, we will utilize our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution that contains most of Lombiq's open-source Orchard modules and themes, as well as related utilities and libraries. Last week we mentioned that this solution has been updated to the latest and greatest 1.6 Orchard Core version. If you clone this repository and set up your site using the TEST: Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions recipe, the Lombiq Content Editors - Samples feature will be enabled by default which - of course - contains samples for Lombiq Content Editors. Meaning that if you click on the Employee (admin) option from the Content Editors Samples drop-down menu after your site has been set up, you will be redirected to the admin UI of Orchard Core, where you will see an editor of the Employee content item. To be more precise, this is the first editor group (PersonalDetails) of this content item. If you fill out the first group and click Save and Next, it will post the form to the API and won't reload the page. The backend will validate the form, and then if everything goes right, it will show you the HTML code of the next editor group and load it to the editor. Once you click on the Submit button on the second editor group, the editor will publish the content item. You can see the editor groups with a nice name (Personal Details, Employment Details), which provides some pagination to you as well, so you can go back and forth by clicking on these. And of course, you can utilize the async editors on the front end as well, and a good example of that is the License Request form for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings that we have just mentioned. If you would like to know more about this feature, check out this video on YouTube where you can see some code as well. And don't forget to check out the samples module too, where you can find the code of the previously mentioned editor with tons of comments about how you can utilize this async editor in your own Orchard Core site! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 471 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Add stereotype as a filter for the contents UI, fix OpenID Configuration initialization and our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution is updated to Orchard Core 1.6! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Add stereotype as a filter for the contents UI In some cases, we want to create a menu item that would allow the user to manage content items of a specific stereotype. Currently, we only support single content the type but not the stereotype. The goal of this change was to add a query parameter stereotype that would allow us to manage only content items that share the same given stereotype. To try this out, we have to have some content where the stereotype is defined. We will go the lazy way and edit the existing content definitions of the built-in content types defined by the Blog recipe. We can do that under Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types. We edited the definition of the Blog and the Article content type and set the stereotype value to Test. Now to be able to filter all the content items with the Test stereotype, let's navigate to Content -> Content Items and add the following query string to the URL: stereotype=Test, so the full URL in our case will be the following https://localhost:44300/Admin/Contents/ContentItems?stereotype=Test&admin=-327987887 And as you can see, Orchard Core shows us the content items of the content types where we set the stereotype to "Test". You can read more about this feature in the release notes of the 1.7 release of Orchard Core. Fix OpenId Configuration initialization When using the OpenId Server feature along with OpenId Validation and using a custom Authority value, the following exception was thrown: InvalidOperationException: The issuer attached to the static configuration must be the same as the one configured in the validation options. You can reproduce the issue by following these steps: Enable the OpenId Server and the Validation features. Set a new value in the Authority settings in server settings. The site becomes useless, and you'll get the above exception. And as you can see, the fix for this issue is quite interesting. But why would it work by applying these changes? Well, it's due to the fact the issuer comes from potentially multiple places: - The issuer configured in the validation options (options.Issuer).- The issuer attached to a static configuration (options.Configuration.Issuer).- The issuer attached to a dynamic configuration, retrieved using OIDC discovery (accessed via options.ConfigurationManager). Recent versions of OpenIddict use options.Issuer as the source of truth and now require that the issuer attached to a static configuration - which is the case when you target a "local" server - match the global value, options.Issuer. News from the community Updated Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions This is an Orchard Core Visual Studio solution that contains most of Lombiq's open-source Orchard modules and themes, as well as related utilities and libraries. Please keep in mind that only those extensions included that use the latest released version of Orchard (i.e., the very cutting-edge ones depending on a nightly build are not yet here). And now, this solution has been updated to the latest and greatest 1.6 Orchard Core version. Check them out here, and install them from NuGet or from the source! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 468 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of 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 would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!