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Intensive Orchard Core training for the In Motion team

Start Date: 6/15/2020 2:00:00 AM End Date: 6/24/2020 2:00:00 AM We recently had the opportunity to provide a five-day intensive Orchard Core training for the team of In Motion. Due to the pandemic, this happened online of course. In Motion is an IT service provider focusing on the insurance, telco, banking, retail, and government sector. They've selected Orchard Core as the platform for their next big project and required some help to get their team going. We were happy to help! Building on the training guidelines of our open-source Orchard Dojo Library for Orchard Core we've compiled a customized training plan: During the first few sessions, we've covered the basic concepts of Orchard as well as its user-facing features with not just developers but also business analysts and domain experts from In Motion's team. Following that, we've gone through the basics of Orchard Core theme and module development, custom content development, and a variety of the most important Orchard APIs. During the course of the training, we frequently had discussions and explored questions of the attendees. What does Antonio Guzmán Buscemi, Manager of Product Development of In Motion say about the results of the training? We needed an in-depth study of Orchard so as to make the best possible development decisions early on. We were concerned about how long the learning process would take, but thanks to Lombiq this was an easy and rapid process. Lombiq has deep knowledge of Orchard and an excellent training program. Do you have a team that you want to quickstart with Orchard Core? Book a training with us!

Orchard Core Workshops

Start Date: 6/20/2020 4:00:00 PM End Date: 6/27/2020 10:00:00 PM We always do some presentations at the Orchard Harvest conferences, but 2020 was different. Because of the pandemic, the community cannot organize Harvest, but we don't want to skip the presentations. Thus let us introduce the Orchard Core Workshops! The goal here is for the contributors of Orchard Core to hold some unique online workshops between May and September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed we'll get some new learning events. Lombiq's developers also gave two workshops, on using the admin Ul of Orchard Core and module development. On June 20, we did a workshop about how to use the admin UI of Orchard Core. On that day, we created custom content types, a custom widget, and placed that widget in a layer that has a custom layer role. We saw how we can enable/disable modules and themes, and created workflow types to send the content of a contact form to site owners. For that, we used the Forms module of Orchard Core. Finally, we saw how to use the OpenID server of the CMS and how to authenticate users using JWT tokens to use the content APIs of Orchard Core. We started with an overview of the Orchard Core source code on June 27. After that, we used data migrations to create custom content types and fields. We used Razor to display the different templates of the custom content to the users. We saw the JSON schema of the content types and the way Orchard Core is storing the data in the document DB. We also created a new index table and by using that table we wrote queries to return the data from the DB. What do the attendees say about the results of the training? Thank you for the great information, clear explanations, and openness to answer any questions asked. The workshop was very useful and I'm sure I'll save a lot of time thanks to it. Thank you very much. Excellent workshop content, teaching delivery and demo examples! This workshop will truly help people jumpstart their Orchard Core skills. Do you want to quickstart with Orchard Core? Book a training with us!

Training the Microsoft MCIO team on how to develop Orchard

Start Date: 8/25/2015 2:00:00 AM End Date: 10/13/2015 2:00:00 AM We at Lombiq recently had the chance to train a Microsoft team. This was our experience: Microsoft is not a company that needs introduction - but one that needed Orchard training. More specifically the Microsoft Cloud and Infrastructure Operations (MCIO) team (who supply the infrastructure for all Microsoft divisions, including Windows, Bing or even Azure) reached out to us: before starting a big Orchard project they wanted to have some expert help. After a few days of what was an online intensive training the MCIO team is now familiar with Orchard's built in features and everything a beginner Orchard developer needs to know. The only problem is that we won't see what they are building - because it will be an internal portal, just for Microsoft employee eye

Orchard CMS Tutorial : Recipes In Orchard CMS

Start Date: 7/1/2014 5:48:00 PM End Date: Orchard simplifies the process of setting up a new website by letting you use website recipes. A recipe is an XML file that contains the startup configuration for an Orchard website. When you start Orchard for the first time, you can select a recipe that best matches the type of site you want to set up. For example, if you want your website to be a blog, you can select the Blog recipe, and much of the configuration work will be done for you. You can create your own recipes and customize the process of setting a website and configuring Orchard features. Recipes can also instruct Orchard to download and install modules and themes from the Orchard Gallery during website setup. This course describes How to use recipes How to create custom recipes Export or Import Recipes and How to create a new website using a Custom Recipe.

Orchard CMS Tutorial : Workflows in Orchard CMS

Start Date: 7/17/2014 5:50:00 PM End Date: The Workflows Module in Orchard provides us tools to create custom workflows for events or activities like Content Created, Content Published, Content Removed, Send Email, Timer and many more. This course shows you how to get started with Workflows in Orchard CMS. And the course consists of 7 Demo tutorial videos on Workflows and how to use workflows to create your own custom workflows for the following things : Custom Form Submission + Notification using Workflows Page Published if created by Admin if not Notify the administrator Closing Comments using Workflows Redirecting user after form submission using Workflows Assigning roles for new registering user using Workflows Comments Moderation Notification using Workflows Comments Removal User Notification using Workflows

Orchard CMS Theme Development Tutorial For Beginners

Start Date: 4/29/2014 5:47:00 PM End Date: In this course, You will learn the following things : Get Started with Orchard CMS Theme Development How to use Orchard CMS Command-Line Scaffolding How to create themes in Orchard CMS What are Shapes and How to override Shapes in Orchard What are Part Templates (Overriding Part Templates) What are EditorTemplates (Overriding EditorTemplate for Parts) How to override Widgets Placement.info : Placing shapes in a specific zone with a weight/position Placement.info : Matching(DisplayType, ContentType, Path) How to create a Nuget package for your Orchard Theme Note 1 : This course is about Orchard CMS Theme Development and not about Web UI Designing. So, Join this course to learn Orchard CMS and not Web Designing though we will be using Twitter Bootstrap CSS Framework in this course in order to give a good structure to our Orchard CMS Theme. Note 2 : This course is a Beginners course for anybody new to Orchard CMS. Theme creation in this course will be done by Overriding Shape Templates and Part Templates using the Shape Tracing and Url Alternates features in Orchard.

Orchard CMS Tutorial for Absolute Beginners

Start Date: 12/22/2013 5:43:00 PM End Date: 1/1/2001 1:00:00 AM What is this course about? Orchard CMS for Absolute Beginners is a course about the latest open-source .NET Content Management System which is written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. What are the course requirements? In order to get started with this course you will need to install the following things on your computer Microsoft WebMatrix 3 SQL Server 2012 Express Visual Studio 2012 or higher (Including free express editions) Download Orchard CMS source and web project from GitHub IIS 7.5/ 8 / 8.1 Any web browser How will you benefit from this course? You will get a good working knowledge of Orchard CMS and its admin panel and how to use Orchard CMS as an advanced user. After completing this course you will be able to download Orchard, Install it locally and remotely on a live web server, use the Orchard admin panel very efficiently, Install new themes and modules from the gallery, create pages, blogs and pretty much everything that a content manager will do to manage his content using Orchard CMS. What things you will be learning in this course? Getting started with Orchard CMS Learn how to Install Orchard CMS on your local IIIS Learn about all the Orchard CMS Terminologies Learn how to use the Orchard CMS Admin Panel Learn how to host an Orchard CMS website on to a live web server This course is a ongoing online course on Udemy. Join This Course

Open Dojo Course and university Orchard course

Start Date: 9/18/2013 12:00:00 PM End Date: 12/20/2013 12:00:00 PM After the first-ever Orchard university course we aimed for repeating the course while also massively expanding its audience by giving the tutorials in English. Óbuda University was our host this time too. Students enrolled to the course as usual but this wasn't just an ordinary course: using the same tutorials (from videos captured in classes), extensive supportive materials and notes we also ran an online course in parallel, Dojo Course. The course started with introducing Orchard's user interface and built-in features. Following were topics about theme development and module development, covering the most important pieces of knowledge an Orchard developer should know. For the last tutorial we've taken requests from on-site participants and online viewers. Dojo Course was the first free and open Orchard online course, available to anybody. With about 8000 views until the end of the course we got to train more people on Orchard development than it would be ever possible through a non-online course. The resulting playlist of videos is the most comprehensive Orchard tutorial set to day.

Basic Orchard course at Óbuda University

Start Date: 10/29/2012 5:00:00 PM End Date: 12/10/2012 6:00:00 PM In the fall of 2012 we held a free, open introductory course at the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics of Óbuda University in Budapest, Hungary after an inital introductory session. On the weekly lessons the 24 attendees were guided through the concepts and admin UI of Orchard as well as got to know the basics of theme development. The lessons were also recorded (in Hungarian).

One-week intensive Orchard training for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in Manchester

Start Date: 1/23/2013 9:00:00 AM End Date: 1/29/2013 5:00:00 PM We were contacted by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, which is a governmental organisation in the United Kingdom, that they would like to migrate both their intranet and internet applications to Orchard - a process they already started to execute. NICE has an experienced team of software developers at the Manchester HQ for whom they sought training solutions in Orchard: that's where we came into picture. Since we already had a set of training methods outlined (and some experience gained at our university) besides our Training Demo module we happily accepted their request and started working on the refinement and customization of the training materials. The training came in the end of January, 2013. It was a great experience: not to mention that we discovered some new things about Orchard (and a few bugs) we worked with great people (about 10 attendees) who also got to know the great things about Orchard development (and its heavier sides). The five days of training was divided into four sections: 1.5 days of user training to discover the Admin UI of a fresh Orchard instance 2 days of developer training covering the basics of Orchard module and theme development 0.5 day hackathon: divided into two groups we worked on actual problems that needed to be solved for NICE 1 day pair programming: while working on their current tasks, we worked together with each of the participants for a while to help them advancing in their work We could conclude that last two sections were the most exciting and profitable (we had to build up the basic knowledge before those, of course), since "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" to quote a Hungarian proverb. We will implement these experiences in our training methods to make the upcoming ones better and more efficient. Some feedback participants were kind enough to provide: Carolyn Warburton: Excellent training in Orchard CMS which will benefit our team at NICE going forwards. The highly skilled trainers delivered a well thought through training package customised for our needs and which will enable us to hit the ground running with our Orchard CMS project. Boris Karaberberov: The training helped us understand some of the more subtle and complex aspects of Orchard. In addition it gave us ideas how to improve existing code and solve a few long-standing problems.