Add documentation for Full-Text Search for Admin UI, add support for sending emails using Azure Communication Services, and our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution is updated to Orchard Core 1.8.2! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Add documentation for Full-Text Search for Admin UI Starting with version 1.7, new options have been introduced to enable control over the behavior of the Full-Text Search in the administration user interface for content items. For instance, consider a content type called Product. Currently, when a user performs a search, the default behavior is to check if the search terms are present in the DisplayText column of the ContentItemIndex for the content item. However, what if a user wants to search for a product using its serial number, which is not part of the DisplayText field? Head to the updated section of the documentation of Orchard Core to see how you can achieve this easily! Azure Email Communication Services A new email provider was added to allow you to send emails using Azure Communication Services. Furthermore, the OrchardCore.Email module has undergone a refactoring process with no breaking changes. However, there are compile-time warnings that are recommended to be addressed: Previously, we used the injection of ISmtpService for sending email messages. In this release, it is now necessary to inject IEmailService instead. The SMTP-related services are now part of a new module named OrchardCore.Email.Smtp. To use the SMTP provider for sending emails, enable the OrchardCore.Email.Smtp feature. If you were using the OrchardCore_Email configuration key to set up the SMTP provider for all tenants, please update the configuration key to OrchardCore_Email_Smtp. The OrchardCore_Email key continues to work but will be deprecated in a future release. So, sending emails is provider-based, and now it's really easy to extend. If someone wants to create their provider for email, they can easily implement the IEmailProvider interface and that's all you need to do to add a new provider. If you navigate to the Features page under Configuration and type email, you will see these three features. Now, let's enable all three features, and let's see what will happen! As you can see, the Email settings page under Configuration now contains three tabs:- Providers: here, you can set up the default email sender provider that you want to use.- Azure: settings related to the Azure Provider.- SMTP: settings related to the SMTP Provider. Under the Email Test menu, you can test your providers where the first drop-down, called Provider, contains all of the active features that can be used to send emails. You can read more about these modules in the documentation, where you will find a page for the base Email module, the Azure Email module, and the Email SMTP module. News from the community Updated Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions This Orchard Core Visual Studio solution 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 1.8.2 Orchard Core version. Check them out here, and install them from NuGet or from the source! 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 Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 474 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 PagerAsync and PagerSlimAsync instead of using the dynamic New, new Azure AI Search feature and a demo about our Walkthroughs module for Orchard Core! Let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Use PagerAsync and PagerSlimAsync instead of using dynamic New Since we have nice extensions for the pager, it is better to use them to reduce the dynamic calls in the code. It's faster to use these PagerAsync and PagerSlimAsync extension methods instead of having dynamic calls to render the Pager and the PagerSlim shapes. Azure AI Search feature Azure AI Search, an AI-powered information retrieval platform, helps developers build rich search experiences and generative AI apps that combine large language models with enterprise data. Implement search functionality for any mobile or search application within your organization or as part of the software as a service (SaaS) apps. And from now on, Orchard Core supports Azure AI Search! Let's see how you can utilize this feature! First of all, you need to enable the Azure AI Search feature under Configuration -> Features. But before enabling the service, you'll need to configure the connection to the server. By default, you can navigate to Configurations -> Settings -> Azure AI Search and provide the Azure Search AI service info. Now, we can create a new index for the Article content type (that is a predefined content type created by the Blog recipe). When creating, resetting, or rebuilding an index, we trigger a job in the background that will upload all existing content items to the Azure AI Search index so the data will become searchable shortly after the action. You can create an Azure AI Search Index under Search -> Indexing -> Azure AI Indices. In this demo, we enabled the Search module to enable frontend search. Then, we used the previously created articles index as the default search index. Head to Search -> Settings -> Azure AI Search and select the articles index. Make sure that the default search provider is the Azure AI Search in the Content tab. If you head back to the default search form URL (~/search) and type something in it to search for the predefined article content item, you will get back the article content item. If you navigate to the Microsoft Azure portal to check out your search service, you will find that the articles index has one document, and the field names are coming from Orchard Core. It was just a quick demonstration of this feature, head to the documentation page of Orchard Core to learn more about it! Demos Lombiq Walkthroughs for Orchard Core This demo is about the Orchard Core Walkthroughs module for teaching Orchard Core fundamentals by guiding the user in step-by-step guides. This walkthrough covers key Orchard Core features, such as content management, user roles, and theme selection, and points users to further learning resources. Now it's time to try out this feature and see it 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 Walkthroughs module too. So, let's run this solution and enable the Lombiq Walkthroughs feature under Configuration -> Features. Now, if you head back to the site's homepage, you will see the first welcoming modal. The module uses shepherd.js, for the walkthroughs, and these modals are rendered by this library. Let's see it in action! As always, if you prefer videos, you can head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 481 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!