This time, you can see a demo of the AI feature updates! But first, let's check out our other topics, like a new blog post about automating Orchard Core Deployment on AWS ECS with CloudFormation or using the history plugin for Trumbowyg editors by default!

This week's topics include introducing the new Assets Build Tool and adding documentation about the relationship between Linkfield and HtmlSanitizerService. Did you know that DotNest.com now runs on Orchard Core? Check out our post for the latest news!

This time, we will check out the new Permission-Based Menu Visibility, the new Orchard Core Basics Companion website, and the updated documentation for fields with alternate display modes. Let's get right into the news!

This week's topics are migrating the OpenID module to OpenIddict 6, adding Recipe Roles permission behavior, and we will mention our latest Orchard Nuggets post, where you can learn how to add media management to an ASP.NET Core app. Without further ado, let's dive in!

This time, you can see a fascinating demo of the OpenAI feature, including Azure OpenAI integration! But first, let's check out our other topics, like removing ReCaptchaMode and DetectionThreshold, introducing the new ReCaptcha shape, and exposing properties of ITrackingConsentFeature and cookie policy in Liquid! Oh, and did we mention that we have just created a survey for Orchard Harvest 2025?

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!

Add SiteSettings extensions for custom settings and to get settings by name, add an example for adding basic content type filters, and add an option to set CORS exposed headers are the topics for this week. Don't forget to join our next Orchard Core Pair Programming session, where we'll build the Orchard Core backend of a Blazor app! Note that the registration for the Orchard Harvest 2024 conference is still open! Without further ado, let's dive in! Orchard Core updates Add SiteSettings extensions for custom settings and to get settings by name New extension methods named GetSettingsAsync<T>() and GetSettingsAsync<T>("") were added to the ISiteService interface. These methods allow you to retrieve specific settings with a single line of code. For example, to get the LoginSettings, you can now use: await _siteService.GetSettingsAsync<LoginSettings>(); Previously, achieving the same result required more code: (await _siteService.GetSiteSettingsAsync()).As<LoginSettings>(); And another new extension method named GetCustomSettingsAsync() was added to the ISiteService interface. This method allows you to retrieve custom settings. For example, to get custom settings of type BlogSettings, you can now use: ContentItem blogSettings = await _siteService.GetCustomSettingsAsync("BlogSettings"); Previously, achieving the same result required more code: var siteSettings = await _siteService.GetSiteSettingsAsync();var blogSettings = siteSettings.As<ContentItem>("BlogSettings"); Add an example for adding basic content type filters Developers may face challenges when attempting to create basic content-type filters. This recurring issue suggests that there might be a gap in the documentation that leaves developers without clear guidance on this relatively straightforward task. Mostly, it was about developers not knowing about this possibility, failing the importance of using WhereInputQueryObjectType, or needing to register IIndexAliasProvider. The solution here is to improve the developer experience and address this problem by enhancing the documentation. The GraphQL queries page in the documentation has been updated with sections focusing on guiding developers through the process of creating these filters step by step. Add option to set CORS exposed headers Currently, in the CORS module, there isn't an option to set Exposed headers. This change adds a field in the Index.cshtml to set which headers should be exposed (similar to other fields for adding origins, headers, etc.), and then in CorsOptionsConfiguration() use configurePolicy.WithExposedHeaders() (this method already exists but isn't used). To try this out quickly, we need to navigate to Configurations -> Features and enable the CORS Configuration feature, which will enable the configuration of CORS settings. Now we will see a new option in the menu under Configuration -> Settings, called CORS. If you hit the Add a policy button, you can configure the policy itself. At the bottom of the page, you will find a new section called Exposed headers where you can configure which headers should be exposed. News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 Get ready to power up your Orchard skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! Join us on September 12th-13th at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in lively Las Vegas for two days packed with learning, coding, and community fun. What can you expect at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024? Hands-On Workshops: Elevate your coding game with interactive sessions led by industry experts. Insider Insights: Learn best practices, advanced techniques, and real-world insights from qualified developers. Global Connections: Connect with fellow enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and forge meaningful relationships within the Orchard community. Special Perks: Participants get exclusive discounts on accommodations at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on our YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. This year's leading themes: Leading up to a v3.0, what will the future Orchard Core look like? What's the role of a CMS nowadays (with the decoupled/headless operating models, and AI development tools) Explore some advanced topics such as Shapes, Placements, Cloud Integrations, Performance, module extensibility, etc. Showcases on implementing Orchard Core in action. Want to support our mission? Become a sponsor! Reach out to us at [email protected] or [email protected] to explore sponsorship opportunities. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Blazor app's backend in Orchard Core with Peter Matthews - Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq We'll have the next session of Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq! In these, we do an hour of pair programming with an Orchard Core community member about a project of theirs. We learn together a lot, share best practices, and write some good code. All this is live, and you can join us with your questions! Here, you can find the previous pair programming sessions, and here, you can find the stream for the upcoming one! See you at 5 PM UTC on the 15th! Peter Matthews joins us again after https://youtube.com/live/IZioflrC1Ho. Previously, we've seen the basics of building a Blazor app that uses Orchard Core as its content backend. Now, we'll look into the actual, real-world production application Peter has built, and go hardcore! Your host and the "navigator" of the pair programming session will be Zoltán Lehóczky from Lombiq. Would you like to be our guest? Just let us know! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 469 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!

Documentation about opening and managing issues, cleanup IContentManager, and the updated Azure Application Insights module for Orchard Core are the topics for this week. You can still apply to speak at Harvest 2024 and share your insights on Orchard Core's future, CMS roles, AI tools, cloud integrations, and more! Let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Issue management documentation, auto-close, and triage comment workflow Now all the bugs and PRs are closed automatically. If there is no activity after 15 days on a PR, we close it but only if the need author feedback is present. So, if we can't merge the PR because we don't have enough information and there is no answer for 15 days then the PR will be closed. But you can reopen it if you have time to answer later. All of the stuff related to opening and managing issues is documented here. You can read about how to open an issue, what happens after you open an issue, or how to manage issues as a core contributor. Cleanup IContentManager The IContentManager interface was modified. The method Task<IEnumerable<ContentItem>> GetAsync(IEnumerable<string> contentItemIds, bool latest = false) was removed. Instead, use the method that accepts VersionOptions by providing either VersionOptions.Latest or VersionOptions.Published will be used by default. Additionally, the GetContentItemByHandleAsync(string handle, bool latest = false) and GetContentItemByIdAsync(string contentItemId, bool latest = false) were removed from IOrchardHelper. Instead, use the method that accepts VersionOptions by providing either VersionOptions.Latest or VersionOptions.Published will be used by default. Lastly, we dropped support for AllVersions option in VersionOptions. Instead, you can use the new GetAllVersionsAsync(string contentItemId) method on IContentManager. News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 date and location Get ready to power up your Orchard skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! Join us on September 12th-13th at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in lively Las Vegas for two days packed with learning, coding, and community fun. What can you expect at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024? Hands-On Workshops: Elevate your coding game with interactive sessions led by industry experts. Insider Insights: Learn best practices, advanced techniques, and real-world insights from qualified developers. Global Connections: Connect with fellow enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and forge meaningful relationships within the Orchard community. Special Perks: Participants get exclusive discounts on accommodations at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on our YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. We also opened the registration form for the speakers: https://forms.office.com/e/fewh7hh20d This year's leading themes: Leading up to a v3.0, what will the future Orchard Core look like? What's the role of a CMS nowadays (with the decoupled/headless operating models, and AI development tools) Explore some advanced topics such as Shapes, Placements, Cloud Integrations, Performance, module extensibility, etc. Showcases on implementing Orchard Core in action. We've extended the sign-up period by another 2 weeks, so if you haven't signed up yet, you can still sign up now! Apply to be a speaker until the 29th of June, midnight Anywhere on Earth! We'll notify you whether your talk is selected for Harvest in 1 or 2 weeks after the application period. The chosen speakers will receive complimentary tickets for the event. Want to support our mission? Become a sponsor! Reach out to us at [email protected] or [email protected] to explore sponsorship opportunities. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Updated Azure Application Insights module for Orchard Core Our Orchard Core module enables easy integration of Azure Application Insights telemetry into Orchard. Just install the module, configure the instrumentation key from a configuration source, and the collected data will start appearing in the Azure Portal. Check out the module's demo here! We have recently updated this module to version 8.1.0, now with Entra ID authentication! Well before the 30 September 2025 deadline when Azure deprecates API keys. Check out the module's details and install it from NuGet here. Do you want to quickly try out this project and see it in action? Check it out in our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions full Orchard Core solution and also see our other useful Orchard Core-related open-source projects! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 472 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!

New Notify Specific Users Tasks and the new Benchmarking documentation are the topics for this week. You can still apply to speak at Harvest 2024 and share your insights on Orchard Core's future, CMS roles, AI tools, cloud integrations, and more! Don't forget to join our next Orchard Core Pair Programming session, where we'll run through using Blazor as a decoupled front end for Orchard Core! Let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Benchmarking documentation There's a new page in the documentation of Orchard Core about benchmarking. To measure how fast Orchard Core is, we employ some benchmarking. Here, you can read some lines about the OrchardCore.Benchmarks project, where we have several benchmarks created with BenchMarkDotNet. You can also read about how to run benchmarks and how to check the performance of Orchard Core using ASP.NET Core Benchmarks. New Notify Specific Users Task In the past, we had a task called Notify User Task. By using this task, you could send a notification to the user who is available in the WorkflowExecutionContext when executing a workflow. Recently, the community modified this Notify User Task and renamed it to Notify Specific Users Task. The goal of this change was to be able to specify a user or a comma-separated list of user names (Liquid is also supported) who will be the recipient of the notification. Let's see how you can use this task in your workflow! First of all, you need to enable the Notifications and the Workflows features, which you can do under Configuration -> Features by using the admin UI of Orchard Core. The Notifications feature is needed because this will provide a way to notify users and to have the Notification Center. Now navigate to the Workflows option where we will create a simple workflow that will send a notification to a user when a Blog Post content item is created. The startup task of this workflow will be the Content Created event, where we filter on the Blog Post content type. The next one will be the Notify Specific Users Task. Here, we typed the AuthorUser text into the User names textbox. We previously created a user with the user name AuthorUser, which means that this user will get the notification. We also provided a subject and a summary. This means we are ready with our workflow, it's time to try it out. To do that, just create a new blog post. We used the admin UI of Orchard Core to do that. To be able to make sure that our workflow is executed successfully, we need to log in with the AuthorUser. To be able to navigate to the Notification Center, we need to click on the little bell icon at the top-right corner of the screen. Here, you can see that we have one unread notification with the subject and the summary that we provided when we constructed our Nofify Specific Users Task. News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 date and location Get ready to power up your Orchard skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! Join us on September 12th-13th at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in lively Las Vegas for two days packed with learning, coding, and community fun. What can you expect at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024? Hands-On Workshops: Elevate your coding game with interactive sessions led by industry experts. Insider Insights: Learn best practices, advanced techniques, and real-world insights from qualified developers. Global Connections: Connect with fellow enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and forge meaningful relationships within the Orchard community. Special Perks: Participants get exclusive discounts on accommodations at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on our YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. We also opened the registration form for the speakers: https://forms.office.com/e/fewh7hh20d This year's leading themes: Leading up to a v3.0, what will the future Orchard Core look like? What's the role of a CMS nowadays (with the decoupled/headless operating models, and AI development tools) Explore some advanced topics such as Shapes, Placements, Cloud Integrations, Performance, module extensibility, etc. Showcases on implementing Orchard Core in action. We've extended the sign-up period by another 2 weeks, so if you haven't signed up yet, you can still sign up now! Apply to be a speaker until the 29th of June, midnight Anywhere on Earth! We'll notify you whether your talk is selected for Harvest in 1 or 2 weeks after the application period. The chosen speakers will receive complimentary tickets for the event. Want to support our mission? Become a sponsor! Reach out to us at [email protected] or [email protected] to explore sponsorship opportunities. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Blazor and Orchard Core with Peter Matthews - Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq We'll have the seventh session of Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq! In these, we do an hour of pair programming with an Orchard Core community member about a project of theirs. We learn together a lot, share best practices, and write some good code. All this is live, and you can join us with your questions! Here, you can find the previous pair programming sessions, and here, you can find the stream for the upcoming one! See you at 5 PM UTC on the 17th! Peter Matthews joins us this time. We'll run through using Blazor (.NET 8) as a decoupled frontend for Orchard Core. From File → New Project to production, with instructions on project setup, and a walkthrough of a fully fleshed-out site. Your host and the "navigator" of the pair programming session will be Zoltán Lehóczky from Lombiq. Would you like to be our guest? Just let us know! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 472 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!

Add Autocomplete to the Stereotype text box, add Content Item ApiController.cs endpoints documentation, and a demo about Lucene Search in practice are the topics for this week. Don't forget to join our next Orchard Core Pair Programming session, where we'll continue building a decoupled CMS project! Let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Add Autocomplete to the Stereotype text box Now, the Stereotype is a text box, that is not user-friendly when making changes. For example, you may enter UserCustomSettings instead of CustomUserSettings. The goal here is to have some way to get all the Stereotypes that are currently supported by the system, and then list them, for example, by adding a dropdown menu to the Stereotype text box where you can still type what you want. Let's see this quickly in action! First of all, head to the admin UI of Orchard Core and edit the Content Definition of the predefined Blog Post content type by navigating to Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types (assuming you set up your site using the Blog recipe). Here, find the Stereotype text box and simply click on it. Once you do it, you will find a list showing you all of the stereotypes that are currently available on your site. Adding Content Item ApiController.cs endpoints documentation The OrchardCore.Contents module provides RESTful API endpoints via minimal API featuring endpoints to manage content items. These endpoints allow for operations such as retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting single content item instances. Access to these endpoints requires authentication and appropriate user role permissions. The documentation of the Contents module has been updated by adding Useful modules and libraries Activating the "OpenId Authorization Server" and "OpenId Token Validation" Features, and setting User Roles Contents API Controller Endpoints Demos Lucene Search in practice This is the Brittany All Cases management platform of Bethany built on top of Orchard Core CMS, using the full CMS, not just the framework. In this demo, you can see the search pages, where you can do the obvious search using queries. But you can also filter by different fields and properties on all added fields by marking a field as indexable. You can also do sorting by multiple things. Another feature is the different layout types. There is the normal summary view and the summary small, which is just the title and metadata. There is also a grid display type where you can add different fields that you want to display in the grid. You can also rename and remove the columns. The reason why column renaming is allowed is for the export. You can export all the search results into a CSV containing the renamed columns. And it's just the top of everything this site offers. If you are curious about what you can achieve using Orchard Core, check out this demo video on YouTube for more! News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 date and location Get ready to power up your Orchard skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! Join us on September 12th-13th at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in lively Las Vegas for two days packed with learning, coding, and community fun. What can you expect at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024? Hands-On Workshops: Elevate your coding game with interactive sessions led by industry experts. Insider Insights: Learn best practices, advanced techniques, and real-world insights from qualified developers. Global Connections: Connect with fellow enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and forge meaningful relationships within the Orchard community. Special Perks: Participants get exclusive discounts on accommodations at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on our YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. We also opened the registration form for the speakers: https://forms.office.com/e/fewh7hh20d This year's leading themes: Leading up to a v3.0, what will the future Orchard Core look like? What's the role of a CMS nowadays (with the decoupled/headless operating models, and AI development tools) Explore some advanced topics such as Shapes, Placements, Cloud Integrations, Performance, module extensibility, etc. Showcases on implementing Orchard Core in action. Apply to be a speaker until the 15th of June, midnight Anywhere on Earth! We'll notify you whether your talk is selected for Harvest until the end of June. The chosen speakers will receive complimentary tickets for the event. Want to support our mission? Become a sponsor! Reach out to us at [email protected] or [email protected] to explore sponsorship opportunities. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Continued decoupled Orchard Core CMS for QTA with Hisham Bin Ateya - Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq We'll have the sixth session of Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq! In these, we do an hour of pair programming with an Orchard Core community member about a project of theirs. We learn together a lot, share best practices, and write some good code. All this is live, and you can join us with your questions! Here, you can find the previous pair programming sessions, and here, you can find the stream for the upcoming one! See you at 5 PM UTC on the 11th! Hisham Bin Ateya, a core contributor of Orchard Core, joins us again with a follow-up to the previous stream. We'll see a decoupled CMS project he was building for the Quality Training Academy for Health Training from Saudi Arabia. Your host and the "navigator" of the pair programming session will be Zoltán Lehóczky from Lombiq. Would you like to be our guest? Just let us know! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 472 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!