Updating GraphQL for .NET to the latest version, new User Localization settings, and announcing the results of the Orchard Harvest 2024 survey! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Update GraphQL for .NET to latest GraphQL for .NET is an implementation of Facebook's GraphQL in .NET. This library is currently on v7.8.0 while Orchard Core used v4.8.0. While this is not hugely old (released in March 2022), it still is, and we were too much behind. This huge update involved many API changes and a lot of work from the contributors. Thanks to them, now you can use the latest version of GraphQL for .NET if you are using the nightly build of Orchard Core! User Localization settings This feature adds the ability to configure the culture per user from the admin UI. It also adds a RequestCultureProvider based on claims. This provider will take precedence over any existing ones allowing to override browser settings and always displaying a unique culture for that user. This is not a User Culture Picker for the front end but a way to set the culture to a preferred one for each user. A User Culture Picker is another RequestCultureProvider with a higher priority than this one. Let's see how it works! First of all, head to Configuration -> Features and enable the User Localization feature. As we mentioned, this feature adds a RequestCultureProvider to retrieve the current user culture from its claims. This feature will set a new user claim with a CultureClaimType named culture. It also has a culture option to fall back to other ASP.NET Request Culture Providers by simply setting the user culture to "Use site's culture" which will also be the selected default value. Now head to Security -> Users and hit Edit near one of the users. You can see the new drop-down here called Default User Culture which contains the cultures which are supported by the site. News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 survey results For those too young to remember, we had Orchard conferences, called Orchard Harvest. And the conference website was available under orchardharvest.org, but unfortunately, it's not anymore. The last offline was in 2017 in New York. So, having another get-together is very much overdue. If you would like to see or get a feeling of how this looked like before, we have a couple of mood videos on the Orchard YouTube channel, like this one from the first conference. We had the first online Orchard Harvest last year, and it was so 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 available on YouTube! Click the link to rewatch all the inspiring talks and discussions! The point is that we should think about organizing the next one, and we at Lombiq can take part in that or provide an organizing role with anybody who wants to take part. We created a survey, and now we have the results! Thank you for your feedback so far regarding Orchard Harvest! We have received a significant number of responses so far which has helped us to get a better idea of the right place and time. As we move forward, we will keep community members informed of the details, and you will also find every detail in this newsletter too! Here you can see the results but if you are interested in a discussion where the community shared their ideas regarding the results, you can watch a video about it on YouTube! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 475 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!

Use the file name instead of the technical name in the Media Field, add Environment accessor in Liquid, a demo about our Login as Anybody module, and a survey about the upcoming Harvest conference! We have a lot to cover today, so let's get started! Orchard Core updates Use the file name instead of the technical name in the Media Field When selecting a file using the attached Media Field, it shows the technical name, which is not user-friendly. With this change, we use the uploaded file name if it exists. Let's try it out quickly! If you set up your site using the Blog recipe, it will create a predefined Blog Post content type. That content type has one Media Field called, Banner Image. We uploaded a new image to the Media Library (Content -> Media Library) and will use that for the predefined Blog Post content item. Once we select our file and click on it, you can see the Media Field displays the file name (Loki.jpg) instead of its technical name. Add Environment accessor in Liquid Currently, you can't check if you are in the Development or the Production environment in Liquid. This change introduces a new environment accessor in Liquid which represents the current hosting environment. The following properties are available on the Environment object as mentioned in the docs: IsDevelopment: Checks if the current hosting environment name is Development. IsStaging: Checks if the current hosting environment name is Staging. IsProduction: Checks if the current hosting environment name is Production. Name: Gets hosting environment name. Here, we have created a new template under Design -> Templates with the name Content__BlogPost. This template is called when displaying the Blog Post content item with the Detail display type, for instance, when accessed from its URL. We have one predefined Blog Post content item so we will use that one for testing purposes. The template itself is straightforward, we just print the name of the environment and two boolean values, as you can see in the screen below. Demos Lombiq Login as Anybody for Orchard Core This demo is about the Lombiq Login as Anybody module for administrators to be able to log in as any user. This feature is only available to site owners, thus it's no way to get around security. It's time to see this feature in action! The easiest way is to clone Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution. This Orchard Core Visual Studio solution contains most of Lombiq's open-source Orchard modules and themes, as well as related utilities and libraries, containing the Lombiq Login as Anybody module too. Let's run the Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution and head to Configuration -> Features to enable the Lombiq Login as Anybody feature. After enabling the module you'll see a new button on the Security -> Users page. You can log in as any registered user there. This is useful if you want to see how your Orchard Core app behaves for certain users. Here you can see that we are logged in with the admin user, and the Log in as user button appears near the two other users on the list. Once you hit that button, you will be logged in as the selected user and will be redirected to the homepage of the site with a notification "Successfully logged in as {UserName}." If you want to see a short demo of this feature, don't forget to head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 survey For those too young to remember, we had Orchard conferences, called Orchard Harvest. And the conference website was available under orchardharvest.org, but unfortunately, it's not anymore. The last in-person one was in 2017 in New York. So, having another get-together is very much overdue. If you would like to see or get a feeling of how this looked like before, we have a couple of mood videos on the Orchard YouTube channel, like this one from the first conference. The point is that we should think about organizing the next in-person one, and we at Lombiq can take part in that or provide an organizing role with anybody who wants to take part. After last year, the Orchard Harvest Conference will be held again in 2024. Last year it was held online due to economic reasons. But first, we would like to assess the potential interest and what would be needed. You can fill in the questionnaire here, which should take about 5 minutes. Share your thoughts with us in the survey. We are curious about who we will meet in 2024! :) Work with Lombiq! Do you like developing apps with Orchard Core? Would you like to apply your skills to some of the most challenging Orchard Core apps out there, working with other OC experts? Then come work with us at Lombiq, the biggest Orchard Core team in the world! We've been contributors, supporters, and users of Orchard Core and Orchard 1 for more than a decade (Benedek Farkas and Zoltán Lehóczky, the two founders, for even more), with a huge open-source portfolio. There you can also check out the code we write, and some of the projects you could take part in. We do a lot. Ready for keywords? Open-source, Orchard Core CMS, .NET software development, ASP.NET Core MVC, distributed team, cloud-first, Microsoft Azure, self-funded R&D, Vue.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, SASS, training, hosting and operations, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, support, SaaS (the only Orchard CMS SaaS, DotNest), Selenium UI testing, xUnit, university courses. And also, greenfield experimental projects like Hastlayer, turning software into computer chips. Write to us at [email protected], and let's talk! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 479 subscribers! 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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!

Thank you, everyone, for taking part in Orchard Harvest Online, and thanks to the presenters for their great presentations! Check out our current post for a short summary of the conference; a demo about Elsa Workflows and many more! Orchard Core updates Admin Dashboard widgets are not scrollable when the content is long Last week we mentioned several improvements regarding the Admin Dashboard and the Admin Dashboard widgets. And we have another improvement for this week too! Currently, the Admin Dashboard widgets are set to hide any horizontal and vertical overflow. This works well when you can control the content of your widget based on specifying the best height/width of each widget. Sometimes you may want to create a widget without being able to control the length. For example, recent contents/posts, most viewed contents, etc. All these examples of a widget with uncontrollable content. In that case, it does not make sense to hide the overflow content vertically. We can still hide the horizontal overflow and the widget since that is something each widget can design for. But the vertical overflow should be set to auto. You can reproduce this behavior easily by creating a widget that lists the last 10 content items and making the size and the width of the widget 1 x 1. That's what you can see on the left side of the screen. And as you can see, when setting the vertical overflow to auto, we get a scroll bar for the widgets when the content is larger than expected. Fix the notifier cookie path Let's say we have an Orchard Core site installed as an application under the default website in IIS. What this means is that we access the site with the following URL: https://localhost/orchard. The problem is that the notifier cookie uses the tenant prefix as the cookie path. For example: For the default tenant, https://localhost/orchard, the notifier cookie path is set to / when it should be set to /orchard. For another tenant, let's call it tenantA at https://localhost/orchard/tenantA, the notifier cookie path is set to /tenantA when it should be set to /orchard/tenantA. Technically, scenario 1 still works, since cookies with a path of / can still be seen by /orchard. Even though the path isn't exactly what it should be, the notification still appears. The problem is in scenario 2, since the cookie path is being set to /tenantA but /orchard/tenantA can't see that cookie, and the notification doesn't appear. After applying this fix, the notification works for tenantA using /orchard/tenantA. Demos Elsa Workflows Elsa Core is a workflow library that enables workflow execution in any .NET Core application. Workflows can be defined using code and using the visual workflow designer. We mention Else here because Elsa is an innovative workflow engine derived from Orchard Core's Workflows module. It was born from a requirement of a project where they didn't want to base it on Orchard Core, but they did want to have Workflows. So, the goal here was to create a reusable designer that you can host/use in your own dashboard application. In this demo, Sipke Schoorstra, one of the main contributors of Elsa shows you everything that you need to know about Elsa Workflows. Head to YouTube for this exciting demo! News from the community Orchard Harvest Online We had the first online Orchard Harvest last Wednesday, and it was so 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. The conference was started by a Keynote from Sébastien Ros and followed by a talk from Andrii Chebukin about how you can use Orchard Core Framework for multi-tenancy apps. After that, Zoltán Lehóczky showed us how you can use open-source tools in the following areas: CI builds, static code analysis, unit and UI testing, and telemetry collection. And just before the breakout sessions, you can see a great session by Peyton McManus about why they selected Orchard for their new application. How his team has leveraged Orchard to rebuild and re-imagine the application, and how they will continue to leverage Orchard for their set of features. In the breakout sessions, the attendees had a chance to meet the speakers and other community members. Each speaker had a breakout room where the attendees asked questions and discussed the topic of their talk, or anything else Orchard Core related. After the break, we could see a talk from Hisham Bin Ateya about exploring different parts of localization stuff in Orchard Core. After that, Dávid El-Saig described the Orchard Core Commerce project's state and showed the current features. And the last talk was from Sipke Schoorstra where he provided an overview of Elsa Workflows' features, compared it to Orchard Core Workflows, and discussed integration possibilities. And of course, we recorded every session, which means they will be available on YouTube soon! Don't forget to follow our This week in Orchard newsletter to be informed about the recordings! That was a blast! Thank you everyone for taking part and thanks to the presenters for their great presentations! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 464 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! 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Allow displaying an icon for Custom Settings, add Admin Culture Picker docs, demo about Tenant Clusters, and most importantly, the program of the Orchard Harvest is now available! Let's get started! Orchard Core updates Allow displaying an icon for Custom Settings You can create a setting using Custom Settings and set the item icon in the menu that came with it. It wasn't really possible before this change because the .Id(type.Name.HtmlClassify()) and .AddClass(type.Name.HtmlClassify()) weren't applied in the AdminMenu of the CustomSettings module meaning it was not possible to override this menu item with a shape named NavigationItemText-NAME_OF_SETTINGS.Id. From now on, the CustomSettings module allows us to set the icon of the newly added menu item. Add Admin Culture Picker docs A few weeks ago, we mentioned that you have the option to add an admin culture picker for the admin site and have a dropdown in the admin panel header to switch languages. And of course, when adding new features to Orchard Core, we always keep in mind the flexibility and the reusability that Orchard Core can provide to the developers. Meaning, you can override and customize the shapes which are responsible to display the admin culture picker. Now we have some lines in the documentation about the two shapes that are responsible for displaying the admin culture. Demos Tenant Clusters This demo is about a work-in-progress feature for Orchard Core that distributes requests across tenant clusters using Microsoft Yarp.ReverseProxy. If you check out the following recording, you can easily get up to speed with the current state of this upcoming feature. Here we want to highlight some of the more exciting parts of this addition: We first use the Yarp Configuration to define Routes and Clusters with many options. Each Route is tied to a Cluster composed of Destination(s) on which load balancing can be applied. We only need one catch-all RouteTemplate and multiple Clusters on which we can configure a custom SlotRange[min, max] property (up to 16384 slots). Each tenant has a unique slot hash, so a unique Slot then belongs to the Cluster having the slot in its SlotRange. The Cluster can have multiple Destination(s). We could have used a Cluster having Nodes, but we follow the Yarp Config having a Clusters list of Cluster type. The same application can run as a proxy or behind it (we check the headers), the advantage with our distributed services is when as a proxy we are still aware of all tenant's data. So, on a request, we can use the same RunningShellTable to know the tenant, then select the right Cluster based on the tenant slot hash (in a custom middleware), and let Yarp selects one of its Destination(s). To compute a tenant slot hash, we use the CRC-16/XMODEM algorithm (same as Redis uses for clustering keys) applied on the new TenantId property, which allows us to automatically spread out new tenants on the slots and then on the configured Clusters. This knowing that the CRC-16 is fast to compute and always returns the same number for the same TenantId, so a tenant stays on the same Cluster. News from the community Orchard Harvest Online Program As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. And in the meantime, the program of the conference is available on the official site of Orchard Core! Please welcome the below selection of awesome talks by community members! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 458 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!

Redis connection across Tenants, simplify email body, and a demo about the Data Migrations UI Feature! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Redis Connection across Tenants The number of Redis connections scales with the number of tenants. This leads to a large number of Redis connections being required when you have a large number of loaded tenants, even if individual tenants may not have a lot of actual activity. The problem is that when you use something like Azure Redis, you will quickly run into cost issues to allow for enough connections to exist even though Redis is barely being used (CPU/memory usage is very low). If we were able to share the Redis connection pool across all tenants, then scaling would be correlated with the actual usage of the system as opposed to tenant count. From now on, the connection creation was refactored, such that each tenant doesn't have its own connection but you can share the connection to the same Redis instances across tenants. The connection string is the same, and you can use different prefixes for the tenants. The CreateAsync method in the RedisDatabaseFactory class is responsible for returning only one connection, even if there are multiple accesses to the same connection string. Simplify email body Nowadays, when you are trying to create an email message, you should set either Body or BodyText, not only that you also need to set up another property: IsBodyHtml or IsBodyText. This needs simplification to make the setup easier. Furthermore, if someone set IsBodyText to true while they set the Body property, the email will be sent as plain text. So, instead of having two properties to set whether the email body contains HTML formatted text or not, there is a single one, called IsHtmlBody. So, there are no more BodyText and Body properties to set the body of your email. You can simply use the Body one and decide whether the body contains HTML or not based on the IsHtmlBody Boolean property. The IsBodyText and IsBodyHtml properties are also marked as obsolete. Demos Data Migrations UI Feature A few weeks ago, we showed you a conceptabout improving the data migrations in Orchard Core. This time we will check out a new feature, called Data Migrations UI, which allows us to manage the data migrations from the user interface. If you navigate to Configuration -> Features and enable the Data Migrations UI feature, you will find a new option in the root of the admin menu, called Data Migrations. This feature scans and discovers all the migrations from the enabled features and shows them in this list. Here, you can see that we have one migration in the Google Maps feature, which is already migrated. If you click on the Rollback button, you can roll back the given migration. The Migrate button of course runs the given migration. As you can see, the Gravatar feature contains multiple migrations. Migration1 is already applied, Migration2 should be skipped, and there are two migrations that are not applied. If you click on the Migrate button, you can apply the given migration. And as always, if you want to know more about this feature, check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Harvest Online As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. Of course, we are still looking for speakers. You can apply to present by 12 May at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/pfiExtEUuZ. Check out the details on the official site of Orchard Core! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 457 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 background task description is no longer editable, add validation type for Validation Summary Part, demo about fake video capture source in Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox, and announce that Orchard Core goes to Oxford! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Fix background task description is no longer editable There was an issue with the Description of the background tasks were not editable. If you navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core and head to Configuration -> Features and enable the Background Tasks feature, you can manage your background tasks under Configuration -> Tasks -> Background Tasks. The Orchard Core solution contains a module called OrchardCore.Demo. If you add it as a project reference to the OrchardCore.Application.Cms.Core.Targets project, you can utilize this module, which contains a test background task. The Lombiq Training Demo for the Orchard Core module also contains a sample of how you can implement your own background task. Add Validation type for Validation Summary Part In the Validation Summary widget, it is useful to be able to specify the type of summary we want to show. By default, we can show all errors. However, in some cases, we may only want to show a model-level error instead of all. This improvement is about simply adding an option that would allow the user to determine the type of summary to add to the form. By default, it would be all errors. To utilize this feature, you must enable the Forms feature, which provides widgets to implement forms. Now, if you edit a content item with the Flow Part attached (for example, the Page content item coming from the Blog recipe), you can build a simple form. We added a Form widget to this Page with some other widgets, and of course, with the updated Validation Summary widget. As you can see, now there is a Show Model Only Error checkbox, which you can use to decide to only display model-level errors or all errors. Demos Fake video capture source in 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, or 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 how you can use WebApplicationFactory. This time, we will check out a slightly different topic! Imagine you have an application that uses video sources to access visual information from the user or the environment using Media Capture and Streams API. The goal can be QR or bar code scanning, user identification, or other computer vision applications. To make sure that future changes to the code do not break anything, we need a way to automate testing. Here, the fake video capture source comes into play. If you check out the documentation, you can see that you can use y4m or mjpeg video files as a fake video capture source in the Chrome browser. In the demo, you can see a virtual business card service where the front end is built by Vue.js, and the back end is of course Orchard Core. If you show a QR code for the application, the back end gives you back a content item, which is a Business Card. This sample can be found in the Lombiq Vue.js module for Orchard Core under the Samples folder. Both of these modules are included in Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution, so we will open this solution and find the BehaviorVueTests class where you can find two tests, called QrCardScanShouldWorkAsync and QrCardScanShouldReportNotFoundAsync. The ConfigureFakeVideoSourceForPositiveTest and ConfigureFakeVideoSourceForNegativeTest extension methods are responsible to retrieve mjpeg files, which are embedded resources that we can utilize for these tests. If you run the QrCardScanShouldWorkAsync test, you will see that the test retrieves the information from the QR code and displays the card's content based on the card ID, which can be found in the QR code. And as always, if you want to know more about this new addition to the Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox for Orchard Core, check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Core goes to Oxford Zoltán Lehóczky will give an Orchard Core intro at .NET Oxford on the 16th of May. .NET Oxford is an Oxford-based .NET meetup/user group. It'll be online, so you can join from anywhere if you're just learning about Orchard! Check it out here! Orchard Harvest Online As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. Of course, we are still looking for speakers. You can apply to present by 12 May at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/pfiExtEUuZ. Jump into the following GitHub discussion for the details! 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Fix Bag Part when the content type is deleted, add .webp as a default image extension in MediaOptions, Fluid 2.3.1, and updates about the upcoming Orchard Harvest! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Fix Bag Part when the content type is deleted When you set up your site using the built-in Agency recipe, you will get a content type with a display name Landing Page. This content type has several Bag Parts attached, and by using these Bag Parts you can add several projects, services, team members, etc., to this page which you can use to customize the landing page of your agency. For example, to be able to add services, we have a predefined Service content type. But what will happen if we delete the content definition of the Service content type under Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types? Our Landing Page has a Bag Part that contains Service content items, but now we removed the content definition of that content type. So, if you try to edit the built-in Landing Page content item, you will see the following warnings in the editor (and warning entries in the log file). It means we added three Service content items, but now they have no matching content type definition. Add .webp as a default image extension in MediaOptions Until now, you can't upload .webp images by default. WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters, and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster. So, .webp should be an extension that is allowed by default, like the rest of the allowed image extensions. If you navigate to the MediaOptionsConfiguration class, you will find the .webp extension here as an allowed file extension by default. Fluid 2.3.1 The latest version of Fluid is 2.3.1, which contains a fix for the TimeZone parsing. Meaning when you use a DateTime with a TimeZone, the DateTime that will be created will also parse the TimeZone. If the TimeZone is not defined, then it will assume it's a local time zone based on the configuration. News from the community Orchard Harvest updates In our previous post, we shared the results of the Orchard Harvest survey, and recently we have just posted it to GitHub too. As you can see from this post, the shortlisted locations in Europe are Lisbon, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Barcelona. We have also received offers from Las Vegas and possibly Chicago in the USA. The goal of this post is to emphasize that we are not looking for a venue in the first instance, but for an organizer who can manage the venue and help run the whole thing. If you have any contacts in any of these cities who are specifically organizing events, please let us know! Any help is very much appreciated! If you can offer us a contact or location, we will be happy to arrange further details. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 397 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 you think 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!

Fixing that FlowPart's widgets are not indexed in Lucene, migrating the OpenID module to OpenIddict 4.0, demo about the new Media Theme, and announcing the results of the Orchard Harvest survey! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Fix FlowPart's widgets were not indexed in Lucene FlowPart's widgets were not indexed with Lucene (even with all the necessary settings on the Parts and Indexes). Marco Serralheiro added a FlowPartIndexHandler that is basically a clone of the BagPartIndexHandler to solve this issue. Migrate the OpenID module to OpenIddict 4.0 This is about updating the OpenID module to use OpenIddict 4.0 RTM, which shipped in December. The previous versions - including OpenIddict 3.x - are no longer supported. While OpenIddict 4.x itself has many internal improvements, the "public" API hasn't changed much so the changes here are mostly cosmetic. If you want to know more about the latest version of OpenIddict, check out this great post from Kévin Chalet! Demos Lombiq Hosting - Media Theme for Orchard Core The Lombiq Hosting - Media Theme for Orchard Core repository contains an open-source project which will allow developers to host their themes in the Orchard Core Media Library, including templates and assets. The inspiration came from our public Orchard (Core) SaaS called DotNest. If you don't know it, you can use this site to sign up and get an Orchard (Core) site with two clicks for everyone. We don't vet who is signing up, so it should be safe, and it should be limited. But still, we want people to be able to have their sites as flexible as possible. And of course, there are a lot of built-in features in Orchard for that, you can do a lot from the admin. Part of the things you can do from the admin as well in a limited fashion is theming. There is the Templates module, if the developer or the operator of the application allows it then you can also upload CSS files and do all kinds of tricks. In the end, you can adjust the styling of your website. But we wanted to have something closer to the usual developer experience. And that is pretty much creating a theme for your DotNest site with the help of Media Theme for a tenant in a Saas, and that's what media theming is about. We have documentation about that here which contains a link to the DotNest Core SDK. This is what we will use in this demo! We also have automatic deployments either from the command line or from a GitHub Actions action if you will. You can fork the SDK or can work with an Orchard Core-based solution and create a theme (it needs to use Liquid). When you are satisfied, you can either create an import package by using the .NET Command line tool or, you can use Orchard Core's remote deployment feature to import the package on your production site. Or you can also use our GitHub Actions to deploy your theme. If you would like to try it out in your own SaaS, feel free, and if you have questions, please let us know! If you would like to have a DotNest site and use this feature, just sign up here! And of course, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube to see the usage of the Media Theme in a site runs in DotNest! News from the community New websites using Orchard Core: the site of Capri Exclusive Homeware and the site of BagPortr Capri's purpose is to provide high-quality homeware to everyone, and BagPortr collects your baggage from your doorstep and checks it onto your flight. Both sites were developed by Gert Smith. 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 Harvest 2023 survey results For those too young to remember, we had Orchard conferences, called Orchard Harvest. And the conference website was available under orchardharvest.org, but unfortunately, it's not anymore. The last one was in 2017 in New York. So, having another get-together is very much overdue. If you would like to see or get a feeling of how this looked like before, we have a couple of mood videos on the Orchard YouTube channel, like this one from the first conference. The point is that we should really think about organizing the next one, and we at Lombiq can take part in that or provide an organizing role with anybody who wants to take part. We created a survey, and now we have the results! Thank you for your feedback so far regarding Orchard Harvest! We have received a significant number of responses so far which has helped us to get a better idea of the right place and time. We have created a Discussion in GitHub where we described the possible dates and locations of the upcoming conference. Mike Alhayek also reached us saying he may have the right contact needed to facilitate the event in Las Vegas. Thanks, Mike! As we move forward, we will keep community members informed of the details, and you will also find every detail in this newsletter too! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 392 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! 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Proposal for new extension method ContentElement.OfType, improved documentation of Orchard Core, UI changes and a demo about how to use Pulumi to programmatically create cloud resources and deploy your Orchard Core application! And finally, let's see the breaking news about the next Harvest! Orchard Core updates Make alerts dismissable in TheAdmin theme Now you can click on a little x at the right-top corner of the alert to close it. Note that this improvement is for the TheAdmin theme. Proposal for new extension method ContentElement.OfType You can iterate over all the properties (let's say parts) of a content item and if this part matches the type you want, then it will let you know. This is a little helper to find the part in the content item or a field in a content part if you know the type that you want. And if there are many of them you will get all of them. For this, you can use the OfType extension method in the ContentExtensions.cs file of the OrchardCore.ContentManagement.Abstractions library. Let's say you would like to get all of the attached PricePart of a content item. In this case, you could do something like this: foreach (var pricePart in contentItem.OfType<PricePart>()){ // } Upgrade blob storage library Upgrading blob storage to use the Azure.Storage.Blobs REST API Client v12 because the v11 client has been identified as not thread-safe, and advice from the Azure team is to upgrade to the v12 library. DataProtection continues to use the old library as it has not been upgraded yet but references it transitively, so we don't need to keep a reference to it. Behavior with regard to directories changes with the REST API Client, so to find directories we now need to enumerate the IAsyncEnumerable with a prefix to see if files exist in the hierarchy. Add create a custom admin theme guide Orchard Core documentation has a new guide explaining how you can add and enable a custom admin theme that uses the TheAdmin as a base theme. Rename ContentField display driver files to resemble class names and conform to conventions Notice that the naming of the DisplayDriver files in OrchardCore.ContentFields was inconsistent and in most cases did not reflect the name of the class within. For example, the HtmlFieldDriver is renamed to HtmlFieldDisplayDriver and the TextFieldDriver is renamed to TextFieldDisplayDriver. Rename GetContentItemIdByAliasAsync into GetContentItemIdByHandleAsync There are methods called GetContentItemByAliasAsync and GetContentItemIdByAliasAsync and these expect a string that is an alias. It can be an alias, but it can also be a slug, an ID or whatever you want. It's like get something by a little name. Based on the prefix of the little name we can find the item. Now these methods have a new name called GetContentItemByHandleAsync and GetContentItemIdByHandleAsync. And the previous methods are now marked as obsolete, so, if you are using these methods, next time you will get a warning message when you build the source code. Validate LinkField URL The validator in the LinkField didn't allow you to use anchor links within the URL input. Now it has been fixed and it's accepting a URL with an anchor. Head to the LinkFieldDisplayDriver.cs and check the code of the UpdateAsync method! Add missing Sender SMTP field and add Author expression editor for the EmailTask Based on the specs, we should be able to set the From and the Sender fields. Today we only ask for From and actually copy it to the Sender. We were missing the Sender field for the SMTP message that we want to send. The sender is optional, it is useful when the email author is different than the email submitter. From now you can use this field when sending an email. And if you are using the Email Task when building your workflow, now there is the expression editor for the From and Sender properties on the task. If you haven't provided the value of the author (in the From field), the value of the Sender field will be used. Sort dropdown widgets alphabetically When having to insert widgets in the FlowPart content editor, the list of all widgets is displayed according to creation date which gets quite messy with a lot of widgets. An easy solution, for now, would be to simply sort the name of the widgets alphabetically to give it some easy structure. So, from now when we list the widgets in the Forms and the Widgets List UI, it's alphabetically ordered. BagPart documentation There is new documentation explaining how to use BagPart in Orchard Core. Here you can also find samples about how to do templating both with Razor and Liquid and what are the available alternates that you can use when working with BagPart. Demos Using Pulumi with Orchard Core By using Pulumi you can programmatically create cloud resources in Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or Kubernetes. In this video, you could see that how does it work in the context of an Orchard Core application, but of course, it works for any website that you want to deploy. It supports the notion of infrastructure as code, that allows you to define your infrastructure literally as code. This is very powerful, because that allows you to create for example your Azure App Service or even a Kubernetes cluster programmatically, so you don't have to do it manually. If you are interested in this demo, don't forget to watch the YouTube video about it! News from the community Breaking news about the next Harvest Based on the ongoing events the best would be to cancel Harvest. Right now there are so many unknowns about the evolution and the spread of the virus. Maybe London will be blocked, maybe Washington will be blocked, we don't know. And by asking about 50 people from everywhere around the world to meet in a closed basement for three days could not be the best idea for know in terms of health. So, Harvest will be postponed until things are settling down. This is the safest choice right now and also the most secure in terms of organization. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Now we have 121 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!