Unlock Agent-to-Agent Communication in Orchard Core today! This time, Mike Alhayek shows the A2A modules, which bring the Agent-to-Agent protocol to Orchard Core, enabling tenants to connect to remote agents or expose local agent profiles to other clients.

Thanks to Georg von Kries, the admin UI just got a usability boost with alphabetical role sorting, making user management-related operations cleaner and faster.

Mike Alhayek added new events to the IDocumentIndexHandler needed to allow other projects to implement more complex synchronization, such as when an index is updated or when another data source is updated. It means these events help keep external systems in sync with changes to the document index.

And the community is buzzing too! Nick Jackson has kicked off an important discussion: Who should the new OrchardCore.net website speak to? Head over to GitHub, read the proposal, and make your voice heard. This is your chance to shape the future of the Orchard Core website.

We have the venue for the Orchard Harvest conference! Our topics for this week are simplifying security headers settings using tabs and a new function to clone existing roles. Don't forget to check out our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions project, which is updated to the latest and greatest 2.2.0 Orchard Core version.

Support depends-on when using script and style inline, creating system roles by default, and announcing the 3.0 release of the Orchard Core Commerce project are the topics for this week! Without further ado, let's get started!

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!

New NamedRecipeStepHandler base class and users with permission can disable Two-Factor Authentication are the topics for this week. Don't forget to check out our newest Orchard Nuggets post about how to add an audit trail to an ASP.NET Core app! Let's see the details!

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 MiniProfiler visibility is now based on permissions, tenant APIs improvements, and using ListContent permission instead of ViewContent to see the content items list. Interested in the details? Well, then check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates MiniProfiler visibility based on permissions MiniProfiler is a library and UI for profiling your application. By letting you see where your time is spent, which queries are run, and any other custom timings you want to add, MiniProfiler helps you debug issues and optimize performance. And MiniProfiler is a built-in feature in Orchard Core that has some updates. Let's say an admin needs to profile a production instance. Enabling MiniProfiler for everyone to see is not acceptable in most cases. Also, a user may want to profile an ajax request to analyze a query or other info. The solution here is to provide new permissions when you enable the Mini Profiler feature. If you navigate to Security -> Roles and hit Edit near any role, you can see the new permissions which enable you to view the Mini Profiler widget on the back end and the front-end pages. Tenant APIs improvements Orchard Core tenant APIs got several updates lately. First of all, there was no way to update some tenant settings from API calls. Meaning, the tenant's category was missing in the ApiController. We should be able to set a tenant's description via an API call, so this property is now included in the sent model. Another improvement is the new Edit endpoint because there was no way to update tenant settings from API calls. The new Edit endpoint in the Tenant's ApiController takes care of this and enables us to modify the tenant settings either if the tenant is uninitialized or running. The updateable properties are the same as what is displayed on the tenant editor on the Admin UI. Use ListContent permission instead of ViewContent Currently, we use View Content as a minimal permission to list the contents in the content items UI. We use the same permission to also show the Content -> Content Items admin menu. Here the List Content permission should be used, not View Content. What if someone wants to allow a user to view content using a direct link but does not want them to list the contents in the UI? Currently, this isn't possible. Additionally, ViewContent is granted to all Anonymous and Authenticated roles, which is fine. But, access to list contents should be granted by the ListContent permission to avoid allowing listing content without explicit permission grant. If you check out the change logs in the docs of the upcoming release, you can read about the updated permissions. News from the community Hastlayer is now fully open-source Hastlayer is being developed by Lombiq Technologies, a software, training, and services company focusing on web development with open Microsoft technologies. Hastlayer transforms .NET software into FPGA-implemented logic circuits. (FPGAs are chips that can mimic other chips.) The result is code that runs faster and uses less power than a code-only solution without sacrificing the ability of further developing your software. Using Hastlayer will optimize your performance and lower the power consumption of hardware, which will bring you more satisfied customers who want your solution and a boost in your company’s revenue. And we have just recently fully open-sourced Hastlayer! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 410 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 you think 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!

Extending user permissions, updating Localization documentation for the PO extractor tool, and fixing using a media profile the quality parameter had no effect. Check out our post for the latest updates on Orchard Harvest and a new tutorial series from Lombiq! Orchard Core updates Extend user permissions Last September, you could see a demo about extending user permissions. This involved several changes in how we handle users on the site, and we added more permissions to the Users module to make it more usable and robust for many use cases: List users in {0} role Edit users in {0} role Delete users in {0} role Assign users to {0} role Manage user profile settings Also, we now have settings that would allow the user to prevent username and/or email changes on the edit screen. Here is a screenshot of the new settings. If you would like to try out the features mentioned in the linked post, now, you can do that easily by using the nightly build packages of Orchard Core! Update Localization documentation for the extractor tool Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya released the stable version of the PO Extractor Tool. As you can see in the Readme, this is a dotnet global tool to extract translatable strings from the C# and VB code, Razor templates, and Liquid templates to POT (portable object template) files. It is designed to follow conventions used in the Orchard Core project. The Localization page in the Orchard Core documentation has been updated to reflect the changes, like updating the URL of the tool and the commands that you can use to install the tool and generate PO files. Fix using a media profile the quality parameter had no effect When using the Liquid filter resize_url the quality parameter of a media profile will have no effect for jpg/webp. The issue can easily be fixed by moving the quality parameter behind the format parameter. To fix the resize_url filter a change to the ordering of parameters in OrchardCore.Media.Services.MediaProfileService.GetMediaProfileCommands(string name) is required. And here, you can see this quick fix to make the quality parameter work. Because with Dictionary the order of items is not guaranteed the fix is not regression proof. OrderedDictionary could be used as an alternative, but this would require a reference to System.Collections.Specialized in addition. News from the community Orchard Harvest updates Last year we conducted a survey to help us organize this year's Orchard Harvest conference. We shared the results last month, and based on your feedback, the event will be held in North America. Mike Alhayek also reached us saying he may have the right contact needed to facilitate the event in Las Vegas. Now we needed a date for the conference, and based on the results, the best would be to hold the conference in the Q2 of 2023. If you follow the official Twitter account of Orchard, you may face a poll where the goal was to find the best date. Based on the results, the winner is the option May 22-23 (Mon, Tue). Thanks for voting! Now the next goal is to be able to find the best location in Las Vegas. Also, we are looking for sponsors and contributors for the following: T-shirts. Location. A meet-up after the programs. Recording the presentations. Renting equipment for presentations. Catering. Webpage (we can host the conference site on DotNest for free). If anyone could help in any way that would be really appreciated. Please use the following thread in GitHub Discussions if you feel, you can join in organizing the upcoming Harvest, or if you want to be as updated as possible chime into the discussion! As we move forward, we will keep everyone informed of the details, and you will also find every piece in this newsletter! New tutorial series from Lombiq: DotNest Core Tutorials The Lombiq Hosting - Media Theme for Orchard Core repository contains an open-source project which will allow developers to host their themes in the Orchard Core Media Library, including templates and assets. The inspiration came from our public Orchard (Core) SaaS called DotNest. If you don't know it, you can use this site to sign up and get an Orchard (Core) site with two clicks for everyone. We don't vet who is signing up, so it should be safe, and it should be limited. But still, we want people to be able to have their sites as flexible as possible. And of course, there are a lot of built-in features in Orchard for that, you can do a lot from the admin. Part of the things you can do from the admin as well in a limited fashion is theming. We first wrote about the Media Theme a few weeks ago in this post. Although you can't install custom themes on DotNest (see "Limitations") you still have a lot of control over theming. Using Media Theme you can develop themes using Liquid templates and static assets as usual, from your favorite IDE, working with a local version of your DotNest site, and deploying code to it. Please follow the guidelines of the DotNest Core SDK, and if you prefer tutorial videos instead, check out our brand-new playlist. This playlist called DotNest Core tutorials will contain 5 videos starting with how you can create your first DotNest site and we will also see how to set up your local development environment to style a DotNest site, how to use recipes to keep your local environment up to date and how to deploy your theme to your DotNest site. 3 videos are out, the 2 remaining's will be available during the weekend. Would you like to run your Orchard Core site on DotNest? Create your Orchard Core site with two clicks on DotNest! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 406 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 you think 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 permission check for the content type filter, prevent the Users feature from breaking when the Roles feature is disabled, add new database options, and a demo about the new Build Version Display module! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Add permission check for content type filter The content type filter should only show accessible content types. The user should only see content types that they can view. Before this fix, all of the content types were listed, even if you don't have permission to see it. Let's say that I am an editor user who has no access to view the Blog content type. In this case, when this user navigates to Content -> Content Items and clicks on the content type filter, the predefined Blog content item will not appear in the list. Prevent the Users feature from breaking when the Roles feature is disabled This was an old issue in Orchard Core if you disable the Roles module, the site crashes because the Users module needs the following services to work: IRoleService RoleManager IRoleStore This issue is now fixed, and you can disable the Roles module from the UI without facing an error. You can find the implementation details in this pull request, thanks to Mike Alhayek! Add database options like TablePrefixSeparator, Schema, IdentityColumnType, and DocumentTable Here is a summary of the changes: both TableNameConvention and TablePrefixSeparator were removed from YesSqlOptions. The following properties were added to the ShellSettings of each tenant: TablePrefixSeparator when this value does not exist, we assume _, however, if an empty string is found, we use no prefix for the tables. Schema was added to allow you to provide a specific schema to use. IdentityColumnSize when this value is empty or invalid, we assume Int64. DocumentTable when this value is empty, we assume Document. If adding a new tenant failed due to missing Encrypt=false or TrustServerCertificate=True, we add the error to the log file to provide the admin with more about the issue. The following means that now you can find a new section in the configuration called OrchardCore_Data_TableOptions. Now you can define the name of the Document table if you want to change it, change the table name separator (changing the _ in tenant1_tablename), and the default identity column size, which is Int64 by default. Every existing tenant will work with Int32, but the new tenants will use Int64. It can happen because YesSql now supports Int64 as well. You can find some new lines about these settings in the documentation as well. If you want to migrate the existing tenants, you have to do your own migration. You can also define the schema of the tenant (DatabaseSchema) which is also configurable from the UI. This way all the table names are the same, just the schema that could be changed for each tenant. Demos Lombiq Hosting - Build Version Display The goal of the Lombiq Hosting - Build Version Display for Orchard Core module is to display the build version (i.e., .NET assembly version or other) on the admin of the Default tenant. By using this module, you can see at a glance which version of the app is deployed. But of course, there are various ways to know what's currently deployed into a specific environment (like staging or production), but the goal of this module is to cover the following use case: when you are looking at the app, you will know what's there. The only thing you have to do is to install the module, and navigate to Configuration -> Features, and enable the Lombiq Hosting - Build Version Display feature. After you navigate to the homepage of the admin UI, you will see the following on the dashboard. You can find the Orchard Core version, the version of the .NET assembly is currently being executed, which means the web application. If you have a CI build, usually that will generate a version number for you. And finally, during the build, you can also add a link to the build. This is just a dummy link for examples, but you can link to a GitHub action. You can read more about it in the Readme file of the module. 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! And as always, if you want to know more about this feature, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 396 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!