This time, you can see a fascinating AI Data Source Management feature demo! But first, let's look at our other topics, like allowing the use of the site's time zone in workflow timer activities, and adding a warning when using Redis for data protection. Don't forget to fill out our Orchard Core Admin UI experience renewal survey to help shape the future of Orchard Core!

This time, you can see a fascinating demo of the Content Tree Module! But first, let's look at our other topics, like adding GraphQL support for querying content items by status from the Content Picker Field, fixing binding form input in the Coming Soon theme, and improving the Register User Task. Don't forget to fill out our Orchard Core Admin UI experience renewal survey to help shape the future of Orchard Core!

This time, you can see a demo about Elsa Workflows for Orchard Core! But first, let's check out our other topics, like improving the handling of publish/unpublish operations!

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!

Do you want to send an email, when a form is submitted? Perhaps delete a content item after a certain amount of time? You don't want to write complex codes? Look no further with the Orchard Core Workflows feature you can achieve these, without writing any code. This way people who are not familiar with coding can also easily modify these processes.Are you new to Orchard Core? It's a great open-source framework and CMS built on ASP.NET Core. Check out the official getting started docs.Workflows in Orchard Core can be a powerful tool. A workflow is basically a visual script, that consists of two types of activities: Tasks and Events. A Task activity performs an action, for example sends an email, or creates a notification. An Event activity is like a trigger point, it listens for an event and it can activate Tasks. But why are workflows so useful? Here are some examples of what you can do with workflows:Automatically assigning a role to a user based on their input from a registration form.Moving content to an "Archived" state after a specified number of days since publication.Sending users a weekly email digest summarizing newly published content on the site.Sending a reminder to users who have incomplete profile information after a certain period.This is to name a couple.Let's see how you can create your own workflow! In this example we will create a workflow that displays a notification, but only for users in the Administrator role.First, go to Configuration → Features and make sure the Workflows feature is enabled. Now you can access the workflows in the Workflows menu point. Click on the Create Workflow button. Name the workflows for example "Display Notification for Administrators". You can leave the other settings as they are and click on Save. Now you will see the dashboard of our workflow. Here click on the Add Event button, so our workflow will have a starting point. Select the User LoggedIn activity, you can give it a title but it's not necessary. To make this your startup event, you will need to click on the event and then on the Startup task button. After that, the event card will turn green. Now let's add a task. Click on the Add Task button and select Validate User, as the description says it checks if the user exists for the current request and has the specified role(s)". When adding the task select the Administrator role in roles. Also select Set the 'UserName' workflow property if the user is authenticated. Okay, there is a starting event and a task, but how do we connect them? It's pretty simple: grab the green dot from the top of the starting activity and drag it to the task. We only need one more activity a task that displays notifications. So click on the Add Task button once more and select Notify. For the notification type let's go with Success, the message could be anything, but since we have the username from the previous activity, we can personally welcome the user. You can use Liquid syntax, just like this "Welcome, {{ Workflow.Properties.UserName }}!". After saving it, the only thing left to do is to connect the InRole dot from the top of the Validate User activity to the Sucsess Notification activity. In the end, your workflow should look something like this: Save it, then you can log off and log in with an admin user and see the results: That's it! You can modify this workflow how you want, add more events or tasks and based on this tutorial create your own!Did you like this post? It's part of our Orchard Core Nuggets series where we answer common Orchard questions, be it about user-facing features or developer-level issues. Check out the other posts for more such bite-sized Orchard Core tips and let us know if you have another question!

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!

Today we had the second day of the Orchard Harvest 2024 conference. In this post, we would like to summarize what happened on the second day of the conference.

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!

Fix WYSIWYG/Trumbowyg editor colors when the dark theme is enabled, remove the set as startup task button for non-event Activities, and a demo about the Source Generators included in the Lombiq Helpful Libraries are the topics for the week. Let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Fix WYSIWYG/Trumbowyg editor colors when the dark theme is enabled When dark mode is enabled, the Trumbowyg editor modals do not follow the dark theme and instead display in light mode. The foreground color of the WYSIWYG/Trumbowyg editor buttons is almost indistinguishable from the background color when hovered or focused. This inconsistency affects the user experience. The Trumbowyg editor modal should adapt to the active theme and display in dark mode when dark mode is enabled. This change fixes the Trumbowyg editor issues in dark mode by switching to the component's default theme for both light and dark modes. It also keeps a few custom CSS classes to ensure the borders match Orchard's styles. Remove the set as startup task button for non-event Activities You can set Task-type Activities as startup tasks on the workflow canvas. However, this doesn't make sense, since a Task can't start a workflow, only an Event can. The startup task button should only appear for Events. Also, the terminology "startup task" is incorrect as well, since it should say "startup Event". The goal of this fix was to remove the set as startup task button for non-event activities and rename the "Startup task" tooltip to "Startup event". To check this out, make sure that the Workflows feature is enabled under the Configuration -> Features option from the admin UI of Orchard Core. Afterward, you can head to the Workflows option to create a new workflow. We added a Content Created Event and a Notify Specific Users Task to our workflow. As you can see, we managed to set the Content Created Event as the startup event (it has a green background), but we cannot set the Notify Specific Users Task as a startup task because the "startup task" button is not available on the contextual menu of that task. Demos Lombiq Helpful Libraries - Source Generators The Lombiq Helpful Libraries contains various useful libraries that can be handy when developing for .NET, ASP.NET Core, and Orchard Core, to be used for your projects. The topic for this demo is the freshly added Source Generators library, a collection of helpful source generators. We concluded that when you include a vendor resource in Orchard Core, it's a good idea to include the version too, for cache busting. What we did before was manually set the version number of the scripts and styles we wanted to include in the Resource Manifest. We have to maintain this version number in two files; in the package.json and the ResourceManagementOptionsConfiguration class. So, the issue was about maintaining this in two places, and by introducing source generators we can do it in one go. The readme file of the Source Generators library shows you how you can use the ConstantFromJsonGenerator, which is a source generator that creates a constant from a JSON file. As you can see, first of all, you need to have a JSON file in your project and set the Build Action of the JSON file to AdditionalFiles. You need to reference both the Source Generator and the Attributes project and wherever you want to use the JSON file, make sure to have a partial class and add the ConstantFromJsonGenerator attribute to it. Here we tested this with the ResourceManagementOptionsConfiguration file of the Lombiq Vue.js module for Orchard Core. As you can see, the partial ResourceManagementOptionsConfiguration class contains the ConstantFromJson attribute where we defined a constant called VueVersion, provided the file name which is packages.json, and set vue as the property name. This means that we get the value of the vue property from the file called package.json and assign the value of this property to the auto-generated VueVersion string. And as always, if you want to know more about source generators, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 Program 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 and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 466 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 target attribute to Menu, and Liquid syntax support for Correlate Task are the topics for this week. The full program of our Orchard Harvest conference, with all the speaker and talk details, is now out! Without further ado, let's dive in! Orchard Core updates Add target attribute to Menu In some cases, you may need to always open external links in new pages by adding optional target='_blank' to the Menus and AdminMenus. This change allows the user to specify the target property on both the Menus and the AdminMenus. Let's see how you can do that! Here, we have a site set up with the Blog recipe that adds a Main Menu option to the admin UI of Orchard Core. If you click on that and edit one of the Link Menu Items, you will find a new Target textbox, where you can specify the target attribute of the A tag. To be able to check out this for the Admin Menus as well, we need to head to Configuration -> Admin Menus and edit the nodes of the predefined admin menu called Admin menus. Just click Edit near any Link Admin Node and click inside the Target textbox. A context menu will appear that helps you to provide a valid value for the target. Liquid syntax support for Correlate Task The Correlate Task now uses the Monaco editor but only supports Script parsing. It would be nice to have an option to parse Liquid by selecting the syntax of the Correlate Task. This should default to Script parsing to be backward compatible. To check it out in action, we have to make sure that the Workflows feature is enabled under Configuration -> Features. We also enabled the HTTP Workflows Activities feature to be able to demonstrate this new addition to the Correlate Task more easily. After that, we can navigate to the Workflows option and create a new workflow. First of all, the startup event of our workflow will be an HTTP Request Event, which means if we invoke the generated URL, we can easily trigger our workflow. This is followed by a Set Property Task, where we set the value of the test property to "Hello Orchard Core!". And here comes the Correlate Task, where we set the Syntax to Liquid and the Value to {{ Workflow.Properties['test'] }}. And we close our workflow with the HTTP Response Task where we print the value of the CorrelationId in the following way: { "CorrelationId": "{{ Workflow.CorrelationId }}" }. Now it's time to trigger the workflow and see what will happen. As you can see, the CorrelationId property contains the value of our test property which we defined in our Correlate Task using Liquid syntax. News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 Program 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 and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 468 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!