Orchard CMS Mumbai User Group will be conducting the First Orchard CMS Workshop in Mumbai "Introduction To Orchard CMS and Theme Development" on 2nd Nov 2014. This user group will conduct workshops which will be aimed for developers new to Orchard and everyone interested in using Orchard in their projects. First Orchard CMS Workshop in Mumbai "Introduction To Orchard CMS and Theme Development". Workshop requirements? In order to join this workshop you will need to install the following things on your laptop Microsoft WebMatrix 3 SQL Server 2012 Express Visual Studio 2013 or higher (including free express editions) IIS 7.5/ 8 / 8.1 Any web browser How will you benefit from this workshop? You will get a good working knowledge of Orchard CMS and its admin panel and how to use Orchard CMS as an advance user. After completing this workshop 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. Theme Development will teach you how to create themes for Orchard CMS and even convert HTML templates into Orchard Themes. You will also learn about Shapes, Shape Tracing , Shape Templates, Placements , Packaging and Sharing. What things you will be learning in this workshop? 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 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/positionPlacement.info : Matching(DisplayType, ContentType, Path) How to create a Nuget package for your Orchard Theme DotNest(dotnest.com) : The Saas Provider for Orchard CMS(like wordpress.com) This workshop is also featured on Orchard Beginner Who is Abhishek Luv? Abhishek Luv is an Orchard Dojo Trainer and a Contributor to the Official Orchard CMS Documentation and has created numerous Orchard CMS tutorials. Interests Asp.net MVC, Orchard CMS. You can see Abhishek's tutorials on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/u/abhishekluv) and Orchard Beginner (http://orchardbeginner.com). Also visit Abhishek's trainer profile on Orchard Dojo. Register Now

Are you confused, frustrated or intimidated about how to begin or get started with Orchard? Have no fear Orchard Beginner is here. Orchard Beginner is created with the aim to provide users and developers to have a Beginner's Guide to learn the ins and outs of Orchard. OB will introduce you to the Basics of Orchard i.e. Talking about Basic site management, User management and then step into more important advance features of Orchard like Queries, Projector, Taxonomies, Custom Forms, Workflows and Recipes. After that how to Get Started with Theme Development in Orchard and later on Module Development too. http://orchardbeginner.com/Again Welcome To Orchard Beginner.Happy Orcharding!!

We welcome our new trainer, Abhishek Luv! You surely know Abhishek from the Orchard discussion board or from one of his online Orchard courses like the popular "Orchard CMS Tutorial for Absolute Beginners". From now on Abhishek is officially among the trainers of Orchard Dojo and thus also offering his Orchard training services through the Dojo too.

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.

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

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.

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

On the last (third) day of this year's Orchard Harvest we announced the results of the Orchard community's second module development competition, the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge. The amount of submissions may be small ("only" 6), though in quality they certainly made up for it. The top 3 places are the following: MiniProfiler by Daniel Dabrowski Inline Editing by Matías Molleja Dynamic Forms by Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. Congratulations to all participants! We also had the opportunity to bring in Daniel, the author of the winner module via Skype to the conference, where he did a live demonstration of the capabilities of the MiniProfiler module. For more information and the details about the event please visit its website and see the "Rules" page. If you'd like to know more about the last Orchard Harvest, you may want to read our reports written on-site about each day: Orchard Harvest - Day 1 Orchard Harvest - Day 2 Orchard Harvest - Day 3 Happy Orcharding until next time!

This is the third day of Orchard Harvest! The downside is that it's the last day, though it's really great that this is the first Harvest with three days (instead of two). Sébastien is today's keynote speaker sharing his long-term vision regarding Orchard. Sébastien also enumerates the important aspects of Orchard and its community, most of them centered around openness. To make Orchard better, we need to learn from other systems and communities! Next on stage is Nicholas Taylor Mullen from Microsoft, talking about ASP.NET vNext as a continuation to yesterday's talk with Scott Hunter and Eilon Lipton. We've seen some of the newest features of Visual Studio too that were built to work together with ASP.NET vNext. Our third speaker today is Bing Huan Chio talking about how and why the backend system for the Halo Waypoint blog was migrated to Orchard. Since they were newcomers to Orchard at the beginning of their project at their setup required an API module, since the Orchard application served as a backend system. The REST API module that was created for this project is going be open-sourced soon and is a good candidate for adding it to the new modules of Orchard 1.9. After that a short presentation came to announce the results of the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge. We made a live "interview" with the winner - Daniel Dabrowski - via Skype to present his great Orchard project, the MiniProfiler. And then finally, the last presentation is by us, Lombiq, on how the Orchard CMS SaaS, DotNest was created and how it is maintained. In the first half, Zoltán is talking about the requirements of such a software and what kind of tools we've built to fulfill them and then Benedek was on stage to describe the deployment process currently used by Lombiq (as well as some retrospective case-study about its development) that enables us to maintain all our websites (including DotNest, of course) and deploy them without any downtime. That's it for Orchard Harvest for this year, see you next time!

The second day of Orchard Harvest is on! Our keynote speaker is Damien Edwards, Senior Program Manager in ASP.NET talking about how to use AngularJS in ASP.NET. He shares a lot of pieces of knowledge on how to build powerful single-page applications with a small amount of code. AngularJS is a client-side MVC framework with a ton of features that allow you to write input-heavy UI with highly reusable code, it's actually quite Orchard-y! On a sidenote, we at Lombiq also use AngularJS for most of our projects, including the ones we create for our clients and DotNest too! The next presentation is by Sébastien again, talking about adapting and using Bootstrap-based themes for Orchard websites. Sébastien walks us through the basic structure and usage of Bootstrap, what are the available solutions if you'd like to use a Bootstrap-based theme for your website and how and why he built a new theme called TheBootstrapMachine for the ASP.NET blogs. Next on stage is Sipke, giving us an in-depth session about the usage of the Workflows module through real-life examples. The last presentation before the luch break is the Orchard developers respresenting AMC Theatres: Travis Maddox and Adam Anderson. They are sharing with us their experiences about Orchard and how they built an extremely content-heavy website. They described in-depth their server architecture, performance-related experiences and results due to recent updates and site-load statistics. We also heard about how they upgraded the site with the major Orchard version and the new features and bits added to the site to enhance user experience. <LunchBreak /> After the break, Scott Hunter and Eilon Lipton talk about the future of .NET in reflection to the recently announced news regarding the .NET platform. Scott tells about some of the architectural aspects of the future generations of .NET and ASP.NET vNext. After that Eilon is taking preview version of Visual Studio 2014 for a ride to show us the basics of an ASP.NET vNext application. And then the Sébastien show is on once again! He mentions the current pressing matters of the Orchard ecosystem, like the bugs waiting to be fixed, the documentation that needs update and extensions, along with some other tasks for the near future: A very important feature currently under development by IDeliverable is the AuditTrail module. Besides, the Content Deployment module by Damien Clarke is also a good candidate for being added to the core. The localization capabilities in terms of content management definitely need some love. New admin theme (under development by Antoine), including better content organization (e.g. like the Tree by Bertrand). Adding/fixing new features to the gallery: generating the downloadable packages based on VCS changes (so module developers don't need to care about creating releases for the gallery too) and displaying information about the modules' compatibility with different Orchard versions. See you tomorrow with more Orchard Harvest news!