Dojo Blog
Our blog contains the activity stream of Orchard Dojo: general news, new resources or tutorials are announced here.
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CodeMirror improvements, 100th This week in Orchard - This week in Orchard (26/06/2020)
This week in Orchard, Workflows, ShapeThe 100th This week in Orchard is here! In this post you could see a great demo about the CodeMirror improvements, we mention the updated Send Email activity, the new sample in our Orchard Core Training demo module about how to do unit testing, and many more! Thanks for joining us for the 100th time!
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Orchard Core RC 2 release, Visual Studio code snippets - This week in Orchard (20/06/2020)
Announcement, Documentation, This week in Orchard, Workflows, LiquidWe are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core RC 2 is now available! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core. This week we will also show you a great demo about the brand new code snippets for Visual Studio, which will make your Orchard Core development more efficient!
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OpenAPI, Swagger, Taxonomy Localization - This week in Orchard (12/06/2020)
Documentation, This week in Orchard, Module, Role, Permission, WorkflowsThis week we prepared with two new demos: the Taxonomy Localization and the Orchard Core OpenAPI Code Generation Tools based on NSwag! But before doing that, let's see the latest changes that will be added to the RC2 release of Orchard Core that is now really just a few days ahead!
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How to access services from another tenant in Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Multi-tenancy, Orchard Nuggets, Orchard Core, OpenAPI, Swagger, Taxonomy Localization - This week in Orchard (12/06/2020)The multi-tenancy feature of Orchard Core is great: A tenant is basically a subsite with its own independent content and configuration, under its own domain or URL prefix. You can use tenants to e.g. host websites for multiple customers of yours from a single Orchard Core app. The sites won't know anything about each other but they'll run from the same app built from the same codebase, and have access to the same modules and themes. This makes maintaining such sites very efficient, both for hosting and for development.
What if you want tenants to be not that isolated though? What if there is certain content or configuration that you actually want to share among tenants or some functionality that you want to centralize on one tenant? You can use the APIs we show below to cross tenant boundaries and use any service from another tenant!
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Custom Settings, Short Codes - This week in Orchard (05/06/2020)
Documentation, This week in OrchardThis week we are going to see some code and code samples that could be good to know when developing your Orchard Core application. But we are not just doing that! We will also show you a nice demo about how to create custom settings in Orchard Core just using the admin UI without typing a line of code! Let's start our journey!
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Lombiq Helpful Extensions, HTML script sanitizer - This week in Orchard (30/05/2020)
Announcement, Documentation, This week in OrchardHave you ever had a hard time implementing the migration files of your content types that you have constructed using the admin UI? Let us show you the Code Generation Helpful Extensions that generate the C# code for you in a click from the admin UI! This week we are also showing you a new and useful feature of Orchard Core about how to sanitize your HTML in an easy way!
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Short codes, new content filters - This week in Orchard (22/05/2020)
Documentation, This week in OrchardWould you like to have an enhanced way to filter your content items in the content items list? Or are you looking for a feature that could work similarly to the short codes in WordPress? If your answers are yes, then this post is written for you!
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How can I call an external API from a workflow task? - Orchard Nuggets
Orchard Nuggets, WorkflowsYou have several options to send an HTTP request to an external API in Orchard Core, but maybe you haven't tried the Http Request Task. Let's see quickly how you can hook up a workflow!
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New Orchard Core theme, Make Content recipe step idempotent - This week in Orchard (16/05/2020)
Permissions, Documentation, This week in Orchard, Theme, RoleAre you tired of the existing built-in themes in Orchard Core? Do you want to try new ones? Well, let us show you a brand new theme called The Medium Theme! The scheduled publish feature now can be used with the nightly build packages! And if you want to expand your knowledge you can read about the security-critical permissions, the new methods in the
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Named style and script Tag Helpers, This is Lombiq! - This week in Orchard (09/05/2020)
Announcement, Documentation, This week in Orchard, ThemeHave you ever developed a great feature for Orchard Core that you wanted to add to the source code, but you were not sure about how to contribute the code and submit a pull request? And do you want to know the team behind all that we do at Lombiq Technologies? Here are all the faces, the whole Lombiq team. This is Lombiq! Don't hesitate and check our current post for more!
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How to fix "InvalidDataException: Form value count limit 1024 exceeded." in Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Orchard Nuggets, Orchard Core, ASP.NET Core, Exception, Flow PartLet's suppose you're building your shiny new Orchard Core website. In there you're also building a shiny new page, with Flow Part obviously. You throw together a lot of widgets to get all the bells and whistles on the page, then you save it and BAM! Internal Server Error: "InvalidDataException: Form value count limit 1024 exceeded." What's this, did I break Orchard? Is Orchard trying to break me? Let's fix this!
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How to add a breadcrumb menu in Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Navigation, Orchard Nuggets, Orchard Core, BreadcrumbsA breadcrumb menu is a simple but effective navigation aid that shows the user where they are in the site's content structure and which path they can take back. It's also part of the web accessibility guidelines. However, there's no feature built into Orchard Core for this. Nevertheless, how to create a breadcrumb menu?
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Content Picker Menu Item, Kast case study - This week in Orchard (02/05/2020)
Admin UI, Performance, Announcement, Documentation, This week in Orchard, ShapeSoon you will able to show content items in your menu easily! How? Check our newest This week in Orchard post and read about an amazing demo to see the new Content Picker Menu Item in action! We published a brand new case study this week on our website about the latest Orchard Core site we developed. By reading that study you can see the possibilities that you can easily achieve by using Orchard Core as your CMS! Don't forget to read our whole post for the most interesting news around the community!
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How to add a culture URL segment for localization in Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Localization, Orchard Nuggets, Orchard Core, ASP.NET Core, Content Picker Menu Item, Kast case study - This week in Orchard (02/05/2020)So you're building a localized Orchard Core site and want all URLs to be in the form of /culture-name/rest/of/the/url, e.g. /hu-HU/my-page. (Figure out what "hu-HU" is! Hint: It's not an owl, neither a rock band from Mongolia!) What do you need to achieve this?
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Click to deploy improvements, autoroute container routing - This week in Orchard (24/04/2020)
Documentation, This week in Orchard, Theme, Taxonomy and contained content items routing, Click to deployThis week we continue the journey with the new upcoming feature of Orchard Core called Click to deploy. But before that, we will check out the new Liquid helpers, the contributors' page, and many more! Finally, don't forget to take a look at our newest Orchard Nuggets post and the improvements in our Orchard Core Training Demo module!
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How to add a favicon under /favicon.ico in Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Orchard Nuggets, Orchard Core, Favicon, ASP.NET Core, Click to deploy improvements, autoroute container routing - This week in Orchard (24/04/2020)Every website needs a favicon of course and you can easily add one to your Orchard Core site from a theme or module with a
linktag in a template. However, there's a catch: Certain browsers will still search for it (as a first attempt) under the path /favicon.ico. This can be a tiny bit detrimental to the client-side performance, and show up as annoying errors in your logs. So what can you do to serve a favicon under that path too? -
Click to deploy, Update Content Workflow Task - This week in Orchard (17/04/2020)
Documentation, This week in Orchard, WorkflowsThis week we come with a demo about an upcoming new feature of Orchard Core called Click to deploy. We also mention the improvements of the workflows and the documentation. Don't forget we published three new Orchard Nuggets post this week! And it's time to release Orchard Core RC 2!
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4 ways to display something from your module nested within a page in Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Development, Orchard Nuggets, Module, Widget, Liquid, Click to deploy, Update Content Workflow Task - This week in Orchard (17/04/2020)A common question during Orchard Core development, something that came up again recently, is how to display something within the context of an Orchard page when that piece of data comes from your module? How can you "inject" something into the Orchard layout when you want to display e.g. a list of products retrieved from an external API? There are a couple of ways to do this depending on what exactly you need. All are fairly straightforward so let's see a quick rundown!
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How to debug an MSBuild build process when building Orchard Core - Orchard Nuggets
Orchard Nuggets, MSBuildBuild processes of .NET Core apps like Orchard Core are getting quite complex nowadays, and the MSBuild build pipeline also commonly includes steps for building client-side resources or doing a lot of things out of the .NET world. What can you do if something goes off course with all those targets and props files and you're just scratching your head? How to figure out what happens during the build if you can only see that the results are incorrect?
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How to publish an Orchard Core app - Orchard Nuggets
Orchard Nuggets, Publishing, Orchard CoreLet's imagine you've already created an Orchard Core app and now it's time to show it to the world. How do you publish it, or rather, how do you create its publish package?
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Database and Azure blob shells configuration, Orchard Core workshops - This week in Orchard (10/04/2020)
Announcement, Documentation, This week in Orchard, ThemeDatabase and Azure blob shells configuration are added to Orchard Core! To get up to speed with Orchard Core the contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in the coming months, between May and September 2020. Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage!
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Error Log Watcher in Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio Extension, Disable and Enable Tasks - This week in Orchard (03/04/2020)
Admin UI, Announcement, Documentation, This week in OrchardNew tasks when working tenants in your workflows, a best practice about how to validate your ViewModel using a service and a spectacular and fun demo about a nice addition to our Orchard Visual Studio Extension! Read our current post for more!
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Culture picker on the Setup page, CodeMirror editor for TextField - This week in Orchard (28/03/2020)
Announcement, Localization, This week in OrchardThis week you could see a demo about the brand new culture picker on the Setup page! We will also check the new CodeMirror editor for the TextField, the new
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How to localize content items? - Orchard Nuggets
Localization, Orchard Nuggets, Culture picker on the Setup page, CodeMirror editor for TextField - This week in Orchard (28/03/2020)So you want to create an Orchard Core website that presents its content in multiple languages. There are many parts of this, but what about content items? How do you make them ready for localization?
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Contained item routing options for Autoroute Part, Helpful Libraries and Extensions - This week in Orchard (20/03/2020)
Announcement, Documentation, This week in OrchardThis week we would like to show you a demo about the contained item routing options for Autoroute Part among the latest changes of Orchard Core. Then don't forget to check out our updated Orchard Core Training Demo module and the brand new Helpful Libraries and Helpful Extensions from Lombiq!