Add deployment for Microsoft Account, deprecate Site Owner permission, and retain Administrator Role as a System Role, and our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution is updated to Orchard Core 2.0! Check out our post for the details!

Adding content item and widget alternates based on the alias and slug, retiring AssignRoles and AssignRole_{RoleName} permissions, and a demo about the URL Rewriting Module are the topics for this week. Let's check them out in detail!

The new AddShapeTableProvider extension method and the new External Authentication Feature are the topics for this week. Don't forget to check out our newest Orchard Nuggets post about how to add workflows to an ASP.NET Core app! Let's see the details!

Add AdminNavigationProvider to cleanup AdminMenu and the new Azure Communication Services SMS feature are the topics for this week. We started to upload the videos of the Orchard Harvest 2024! Let's see the news for this week!

Adding a Create & Setup button to the create tenant view, and using expiry-sliding in the notification cache are the topics for this week. Check out our post for a demo of the upcoming Orchard Core Gallery site and some words about the recent 2.0.2 version of Orchard Core!

Cache top-unread notifications in the navbar for better performance, and add AddSiteDisplayDriver, and AddPermissionProvider extensions are the topics for this week. Check out our post for an Orchard Harvest 2024 montage video and for a case study about how we migrated Orchard Dojo to Orchard Core!

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 2.0 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 2.0. A huge thank you to everyone who attended Orchard Harvest 2024!

Blazor guide for decoupled CMS, a new Workflow Trimming Task, and our renewed Orchard Dojo website are the topics for this week. You can still cast your votes for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award! Only one week left until the Orchard Harvest conference! Let's see the news for this week!

This week's topics are making Resources Tag Helper extensible and keeping only important virtual methods in drivers. And after the nomination of exemplary community members to the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award, it's time to cast your votes! There are only two weeks left until the Orchard Harvest conference! Let's see the news for this week! Orchard Core updates Make Resources Tag Helper extensible Right now, you can define any custom resource type in the resource manager. For example, in Lombiq.VueJs, we use it to define Vue SFC resources and JS module resources. But there is a huge pain point: the <resources /> Tag Helper doesn't support any other resource type besides the built-in ones, so if you add a custom resource type you can require it, but it won't be rendered. This leads to a lot of added complexity and additional failure points because you have to display the resources in weird ways, such as using widgets, custom themes, or injecting the resources to render them in the Content zone (since other zones are not guaranteed to exist depending on the theme). Now both the <resources /> tag helper and the {% resources type: "..." %} Liquid tag can be extended with IResourcesTagHelperProcessor to run custom rendering logic. To make this possible, the OrchardCore.ResourceManagement.TagHelpers.ResourceType and OrchardCore.Resources.Liquid.ResourcesTag.ResourceType enums have been replaced with a common OrchardCore.ResourceManagement.ResourceTagType. It was renamed to avoid confusion with ResourceDefinition.Type. This change is breaking in code, but it does not affect the uses of the Razor Tag Helper or the Liquid tag in templates. Keep only important virtual methods in drivers Starting from Orchard Core 2.0, we mark all unnecessary methods in the base DisplayDriver obsolete. Then address all the warnings/errors by implementing the necessary methods. Also, the signatures of the UpdateAsync() method within the SectionDisplayDriver base class have undergone modifications. Previously, these signatures accepted the BuildEditorContext parameter. However, with this update, all signatures now require the UpdateEditorContext instead. This alteration necessitates that every driver inheriting from this class adjusts their contexts accordingly. These adjustments ensure compatibility and adherence to the latest conventions within the DisplayDriver class. Similar refactoring was done to the SectionDisplayDriver class. The following methods have been marked as obsolete: Display(TSection section, BuildDisplayContext context) Display(TSection section) Edit(TSection section, BuildEditorContext context) UpdateAsync(TSection section, UpdateEditorContext context) UpdateAsync(TSection section, IUpdateModel updater, string groupId) and removed the following methods: UpdateAsync(TModel model, TSection section, IUpdateModel updater, UpdateEditorContext context) UpdateAsync(TSection section, IUpdateModel updater, UpdateEditorContext context) UpdateAsync(TSection section, IUpdateModel updater, string groupId) UpdateAsync(TSection section, UpdateEditorContext context) EditAsync(TSection section, BuildEditorContext context) DisplayAsync(TSection section, BuildDisplayContext context) You can read more about the changes related to display management in the release notes of the upcoming release. News from the community Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2024 - cast your votes At the end of last year, our good friend, Jean-Thierry Kéchichian, a truly extraordinary member of our community, unexpectedly passed away. To honor him, keep his memory alive, and foremost, inspire people to do good work for the community, we launched an award named after him for exceptional community members. Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core. This can entail activities in the form of e.g., code contributions (including documentation), help under issues and discussion, evangelization outreach, community management, or anything else. However, it needs to be public and tangible. After the nominations, it's now time to vote! Cast your vote here! Voting ends at 2:00 AM UTC on 12 September and we'll announce the winner at Harvest! Orchard Harvest 2024 Two weeks left until the Orchard Harvest conference! This year’s program is packed with insightful sessions, engaging panels, and ample opportunities to connect with the Orchard community and to make Orchard Harvest the biggest Orchard Core event of the year. All sessions will be recorded and published on the Orchard YouTube channel after the event, so even if you can't make it live, you can see the sessions. However, being there live will allow you to ask the speakers, meet other community members, and have a lot of fun! All indicated times are local time in Las Vegas. After each session, you'll have a chance to ask questions, and we'll have a short break too. Here is a detailed schedule to help you prepare for the conference. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on this YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024, and get ready to level up your skills! See you there! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 463 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!

Make it possible to add Razor HTML content to the shape as a property, OpenId UI Enhancements, and you still have some time to nominate exemplary community members for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award. Don't forget that we will have the Orchard Harvest conference in three weeks! Orchard Core updates Make it possible to add Razor HTML content to the shape as a property With this change, you can pass HTML content as shape properties using the <add-property name="propertyName"> child tag helper. The rendered inner HTML will be assigned to the given propertyName. This can be used to easily include complex HTML content in a reusable shape. This is similar to prop-* attributes, but you can also include Razor code as the IHtmlContent property value, which was impossible before. To test this new feature, we will use the Orchard Demo module and go to ~/OrchardCore.Demo/Home/AddProperty. To do that, make sure to reference the OrchardCore.Demo project to your web application. When you are ready, don't forget to enable the feature called Orchard Demo from the admin UI of Orchard Core under Configuration -> Features. Now let's see the code itself! The AddProperty method of the HomeController just simply renders the content of the AddProperty.cshtml file. Here, you can see that we render the EmbedContentInShape shape and pass some properties to it and the properties now can contain HTML content too. As you can see, the property named HtmlContent and OtherContent contains HTML text which is now fully supported. Of course, you can mix and match the different formats, for example, to only use <add-property> when you want to pass HTML content as property. OpenId UI Enhancements There were some changes recently regarding the UI of the Open ID module thanks to Mike Alhayek. You can create Open ID applications under Security -> OpenID Connect -> Management -> Applications. In the Applications list, he sorted the records by application display name. In both Create and Edit views: Moved the field Display Name to be the very first field since that is a UI field. Moved the Client Secret field just below the Client Id. So the order is Display Name, Client Id then Client Secret. Added a way to create a new random client ID and password. Also, a way to copy the values. Localized the Flow phrase. You can create scopes under Security -> OpenID Connect -> Management -> Scopes. Here, he moved the field Display Name to be the very first field since that is a UI field. News from the community Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2024 At the end of last year, our good friend, Jean-Thierry Kéchichian, a truly extraordinary member of our community, unexpectedly passed away. To honor him, keep his memory alive, and foremost, inspire people to do good work for the community, we launched an award named after him for exceptional community members. Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core. This can entail activities in the form of e.g., code contributions (including documentation), help under issues and discussion, evangelization outreach, community management, or anything else. However, it needs to be public and tangible. It's your turn to nominate a community member! You will find this discussion in GitHub where you can mention somebody who you think has done most for Orchard Core, with a sentence explaining what they've done. Nominations are open until the 27th at midnight, Anywhere on Earth. After that, we'll vote on the nominees secretly. The winner is then announced at the Orchard Harvest conference on the 12th of September. Orchard Harvest 2024 The full Orchard Harvest program has finally arrived. This year’s program is packed with insightful sessions, engaging panels, and ample opportunities to connect with the Orchard community and to make Orchard Harvest the biggest Orchard Core event of the year. All sessions will be recorded and published on the Orchard YouTube channel after the event, so even if you can't make it live, you can see the sessions. However, being there live will allow you to ask the speakers, meet other community members, and have a lot of fun! All indicated times are local time in Las Vegas. After each session, you'll have a chance to ask questions, and we'll have a short break too. Here is a detailed schedule to help you prepare for the conference. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on this YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024 and get ready to level up your skills! See you there! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 465 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!