Thank you, everyone, for taking part in Orchard Harvest Online, and thanks to the presenters for their great presentations! Check out our current post for a short summary of the conference; a demo about Elsa Workflows and many more! Orchard Core updates Admin Dashboard widgets are not scrollable when the content is long Last week we mentioned several improvements regarding the Admin Dashboard and the Admin Dashboard widgets. And we have another improvement for this week too! Currently, the Admin Dashboard widgets are set to hide any horizontal and vertical overflow. This works well when you can control the content of your widget based on specifying the best height/width of each widget. Sometimes you may want to create a widget without being able to control the length. For example, recent contents/posts, most viewed contents, etc. All these examples of a widget with uncontrollable content. In that case, it does not make sense to hide the overflow content vertically. We can still hide the horizontal overflow and the widget since that is something each widget can design for. But the vertical overflow should be set to auto. You can reproduce this behavior easily by creating a widget that lists the last 10 content items and making the size and the width of the widget 1 x 1. That's what you can see on the left side of the screen. And as you can see, when setting the vertical overflow to auto, we get a scroll bar for the widgets when the content is larger than expected. Fix the notifier cookie path Let's say we have an Orchard Core site installed as an application under the default website in IIS. What this means is that we access the site with the following URL: https://localhost/orchard. The problem is that the notifier cookie uses the tenant prefix as the cookie path. For example: For the default tenant, https://localhost/orchard, the notifier cookie path is set to / when it should be set to /orchard. For another tenant, let's call it tenantA at https://localhost/orchard/tenantA, the notifier cookie path is set to /tenantA when it should be set to /orchard/tenantA. Technically, scenario 1 still works, since cookies with a path of / can still be seen by /orchard. Even though the path isn't exactly what it should be, the notification still appears. The problem is in scenario 2, since the cookie path is being set to /tenantA but /orchard/tenantA can't see that cookie, and the notification doesn't appear. After applying this fix, the notification works for tenantA using /orchard/tenantA. Demos Elsa Workflows Elsa Core is a workflow library that enables workflow execution in any .NET Core application. Workflows can be defined using code and using the visual workflow designer. We mention Else here because Elsa is an innovative workflow engine derived from Orchard Core's Workflows module. It was born from a requirement of a project where they didn't want to base it on Orchard Core, but they did want to have Workflows. So, the goal here was to create a reusable designer that you can host/use in your own dashboard application. In this demo, Sipke Schoorstra, one of the main contributors of Elsa shows you everything that you need to know about Elsa Workflows. Head to YouTube for this exciting demo! News from the community Orchard Harvest Online We had the first online Orchard Harvest last Wednesday, and it was so great to see that we had 188 sign-ups for the conference! It was an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, talk about development plans and ideas, and foremost, meet the rest of the worldwide community. The conference was started by a Keynote from Sébastien Ros and followed by a talk from Andrii Chebukin about how you can use Orchard Core Framework for multi-tenancy apps. After that, Zoltán Lehóczky showed us how you can use open-source tools in the following areas: CI builds, static code analysis, unit and UI testing, and telemetry collection. And just before the breakout sessions, you can see a great session by Peyton McManus about why they selected Orchard for their new application. How his team has leveraged Orchard to rebuild and re-imagine the application, and how they will continue to leverage Orchard for their set of features. In the breakout sessions, the attendees had a chance to meet the speakers and other community members. Each speaker had a breakout room where the attendees asked questions and discussed the topic of their talk, or anything else Orchard Core related. After the break, we could see a talk from Hisham Bin Ateya about exploring different parts of localization stuff in Orchard Core. After that, Dávid El-Saig described the Orchard Core Commerce project's state and showed the current features. And the last talk was from Sipke Schoorstra where he provided an overview of Elsa Workflows' features, compared it to Orchard Core Workflows, and discussed integration possibilities. And of course, we recorded every session, which means they will be available on YouTube soon! Don't forget to follow our This week in Orchard newsletter to be informed about the recordings! That was a blast! Thank you everyone for taking part and thanks to the presenters for their great presentations! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 464 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! 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Check out our current post to read about the latest Admin Dashboard improvements and to see a demo about supporting two-factor authentication in Orchard Core! And don't forget that Orchard Harvest is just right around the corner! Orchard Core updates Show Admin Dashboard shape when Access Admin Dashboard permission is not granted Currently, when the Admin Dashboard feature is enabled, the /admin route is handled by the Index action in the DashboardController controller. This works great when the user has the Access Admin Dashboard permission. However, when they don't, they get the generic forbid error message. In some cases, we don't want to give the user access to the admin widgets but want them to still access the admin dashboard. In this case, they will not be able to see the dashboard unless they type the exact path they want to access in the browser. The solution here was the following: If the user does not have Access Admin Dashboard permission, instead of showing 401, we now render the AdminDashboard shape. When a Dashboard Widget is secured, we check the permission to ensure the user is able to view it before rendering it. This will give us the ability to control who gets to see which widget. To test this out, first of all, we need to enable the Admin Dashboard feature. After that, we modify the permissions of the Editor role by saying users with this role have no permission to access the Admin Dashboard. After that, we added an Html Dashboard Widget to be able to see something instead of the empty dashboard. On the left side of the screen, you can see what the admin user can see. They have the Access Admin Dashboard permission, and the previously created Html Dashboard Widget is visible to them. However, on the right side of the screen, we logged in with a user who has the Editor role. As you can see, Orchard renders the "Welcome to Orchard Core" alert to them, but they can't see the Dashboard Widget or the Dashboard itself. Do not auto-create a dummy content item when the Admin Dashboard feature is enabled When the Admin Dashboard feature is enabled for the first time, for some reason, we create a dummy dashboard item. There is no way to avoid this for new tenants currently. Maybe adding a content item by default is not a good idea because the admin will almost always have to remove it. This change is about removing the sample Orchard Core Admin Widget from the recipe. But if you are curious about this sample widget, you can still use it. If you navigate to Configuration -> Recipes you will find a recipe called Admin Dashboard Widget Sample. And if you execute this recipe, you will be able to see the sample widget in the dashboard again. And this change was also added to the change logs of the next upcoming release to notify everyone about this change. Demos Two-factor Authentication Now you can have new settings that allow you to enable two-factor authentication. To see how this works, navigate to Security -> Settings -> User Login, where you can see a new tab, called Two-factor Authentication. If you put a tick into the Enable two-factor authentication checkbox, you will see the related settings. You can enable 2FA for everyone, you can enable 2FA for users with specific roles, or you can say to remember the client, so you don't have to keep typing the code every single time on the same computer. The Show email address in the authenticator app allows you to display the email address on the authentication app, otherwise, we will show your username. And the Require two-factor authentication option allows you to force authentication. If you log in, you will be forced to use 2FA. Right now, let's enable 2FA just for the users with the Administrator role. This means you will have a new option in the dropdown menu if you click on the user icon in the top-right corner called Security. Here, you can set up your authenticator app by clicking on the Add authenticator app button. Here you can set up your authenticator app by following the steps mentioned. Pull up your phone, open up the authenticator app, scan the QR code, and provide the verification code. On the next screen, you can see your recovery codes which you can use to log in in case you lose your device. But of course, you can reset your recovery codes and also the authenticator app itself under the Security dropdown menu. Now if we log out and log back in, Orchard Core will ask us to provide that code after we typed the correct username and password. And as always, if you would like to know more about this feature (which you can try out right now if you are using the nightly builds of Orchard Core) head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Harvest Online Program As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. Start your registration for the event right now. You can find the program of the conference on the official site of Orchard Core. See you next week! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 462 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!

Allow displaying an icon for Custom Settings, add Admin Culture Picker docs, demo about Tenant Clusters, and most importantly, the program of the Orchard Harvest is now available! Let's get started! Orchard Core updates Allow displaying an icon for Custom Settings You can create a setting using Custom Settings and set the item icon in the menu that came with it. It wasn't really possible before this change because the .Id(type.Name.HtmlClassify()) and .AddClass(type.Name.HtmlClassify()) weren't applied in the AdminMenu of the CustomSettings module meaning it was not possible to override this menu item with a shape named NavigationItemText-NAME_OF_SETTINGS.Id. From now on, the CustomSettings module allows us to set the icon of the newly added menu item. Add Admin Culture Picker docs A few weeks ago, we mentioned that you have the option to add an admin culture picker for the admin site and have a dropdown in the admin panel header to switch languages. And of course, when adding new features to Orchard Core, we always keep in mind the flexibility and the reusability that Orchard Core can provide to the developers. Meaning, you can override and customize the shapes which are responsible to display the admin culture picker. Now we have some lines in the documentation about the two shapes that are responsible for displaying the admin culture. Demos Tenant Clusters This demo is about a work-in-progress feature for Orchard Core that distributes requests across tenant clusters using Microsoft Yarp.ReverseProxy. If you check out the following recording, you can easily get up to speed with the current state of this upcoming feature. Here we want to highlight some of the more exciting parts of this addition: We first use the Yarp Configuration to define Routes and Clusters with many options. Each Route is tied to a Cluster composed of Destination(s) on which load balancing can be applied. We only need one catch-all RouteTemplate and multiple Clusters on which we can configure a custom SlotRange[min, max] property (up to 16384 slots). Each tenant has a unique slot hash, so a unique Slot then belongs to the Cluster having the slot in its SlotRange. The Cluster can have multiple Destination(s). We could have used a Cluster having Nodes, but we follow the Yarp Config having a Clusters list of Cluster type. The same application can run as a proxy or behind it (we check the headers), the advantage with our distributed services is when as a proxy we are still aware of all tenant's data. So, on a request, we can use the same RunningShellTable to know the tenant, then select the right Cluster based on the tenant slot hash (in a custom middleware), and let Yarp selects one of its Destination(s). To compute a tenant slot hash, we use the CRC-16/XMODEM algorithm (same as Redis uses for clustering keys) applied on the new TenantId property, which allows us to automatically spread out new tenants on the slots and then on the configured Clusters. This knowing that the CRC-16 is fast to compute and always returns the same number for the same TenantId, so a tenant stays on the same Cluster. News from the community Orchard Harvest Online Program As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. And in the meantime, the program of the conference is available on the official site of Orchard Core! Please welcome the below selection of awesome talks by community members! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 458 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 post-install/update scripts to simplify package management, fix for parsing plural entries in PO files with multi-line strings, and a demo about the Health Checks UI Feature! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Add post-install/update scripts to simplify package management This simplifies the package process. Instead of defining a command to install each project, we use node script to find all projects/themes containing package.json and install/update it. With this addition, we no longer need to update the root package.json to add a command for every project we want to build. The new command node .scripts/install.js will be executed every time the npm install is executed. It'll apply the same command on every project in the solution that contains the package.json file. If you want to execute npm update on all projects, you can run npm run update-projects. If you want to run npm install on a specific project, you may execute npm run install-project {ProjectName}. For example, to install app packages in the TheAdmin theme only, you would run npm run install-project TheAdmin. Similarly, to update a project, you can run npm run update-project TheAdmin. Fix for parsing plural entries in PO files with multi-line strings When parsing a PO file with a plural message which also contains multi-line strings, the PoParser class incorrectly parses the message key as the concatenation of msgid and msgid_plural values. Example: msgid """Here is an example of how one might continue a very long string\n""for the common case the string represents multi-line output."msgid_plural """Here are examples of how one might continue a very long string\n""for the common case the string represents multi-line output."msgstr[0] """Here is an example of how one might continue a very long translation\n""for the common case the string represents multi-line output."msgstr[1] """Here are examples of how one might continue a very long translation\n""for the common case the string represents multi-line output." Parses as a single entry with a key: Here is an example of how one might continue a very long string\nfor the common case the string represents multi-line output. Here are examples of how one might continue a very long string\nfor the common case the string represents multi-line output. But the key to the translation should be the value of msgid: Here is an example of how one might continue a very long string\nfor the common case the string represents multi-line output. So, this fix is about adding a test for the PoParser class and fixing the bug in PoParser for plural entries with multi-line strings. Demos Health Checks UI feature A few weeks ago, we mentioned a module called the Health Checks module, which provides health checks for your website by displaying the status of some services by navigating to the given endpoint. Now, let's check out a new feature, called the Health Checks UI feature, which displays the statuses of the tenants and the statuses of some enabled features with a nice UI. When you enable it and navigate to the /health-ui endpoint, you will see this screen. It's the default tenant, meaning you can see the health checks of the current default tenant but also there is another option that allows you to see the health check of all of the available tenants by clicking on the Show Tenants Service Health button. And as always, if you would like to learn more about this feature, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Harvest Online As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. Of course, we are still looking for speakers. You can apply to present by 12 May at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/pfiExtEUuZ. Check out the details on the official site of Orchard Core! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 456 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! 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Redis connection across Tenants, simplify email body, and a demo about the Data Migrations UI Feature! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Redis Connection across Tenants The number of Redis connections scales with the number of tenants. This leads to a large number of Redis connections being required when you have a large number of loaded tenants, even if individual tenants may not have a lot of actual activity. The problem is that when you use something like Azure Redis, you will quickly run into cost issues to allow for enough connections to exist even though Redis is barely being used (CPU/memory usage is very low). If we were able to share the Redis connection pool across all tenants, then scaling would be correlated with the actual usage of the system as opposed to tenant count. From now on, the connection creation was refactored, such that each tenant doesn't have its own connection but you can share the connection to the same Redis instances across tenants. The connection string is the same, and you can use different prefixes for the tenants. The CreateAsync method in the RedisDatabaseFactory class is responsible for returning only one connection, even if there are multiple accesses to the same connection string. Simplify email body Nowadays, when you are trying to create an email message, you should set either Body or BodyText, not only that you also need to set up another property: IsBodyHtml or IsBodyText. This needs simplification to make the setup easier. Furthermore, if someone set IsBodyText to true while they set the Body property, the email will be sent as plain text. So, instead of having two properties to set whether the email body contains HTML formatted text or not, there is a single one, called IsHtmlBody. So, there are no more BodyText and Body properties to set the body of your email. You can simply use the Body one and decide whether the body contains HTML or not based on the IsHtmlBody Boolean property. The IsBodyText and IsBodyHtml properties are also marked as obsolete. Demos Data Migrations UI Feature A few weeks ago, we showed you a conceptabout improving the data migrations in Orchard Core. This time we will check out a new feature, called Data Migrations UI, which allows us to manage the data migrations from the user interface. If you navigate to Configuration -> Features and enable the Data Migrations UI feature, you will find a new option in the root of the admin menu, called Data Migrations. This feature scans and discovers all the migrations from the enabled features and shows them in this list. Here, you can see that we have one migration in the Google Maps feature, which is already migrated. If you click on the Rollback button, you can roll back the given migration. The Migrate button of course runs the given migration. As you can see, the Gravatar feature contains multiple migrations. Migration1 is already applied, Migration2 should be skipped, and there are two migrations that are not applied. If you click on the Migrate button, you can apply the given migration. And as always, if you want to know more about this feature, check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Harvest Online As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. Of course, we are still looking for speakers. You can apply to present by 12 May at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/pfiExtEUuZ. Check out the details on the official site of Orchard Core! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 457 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!

Fix background task description is no longer editable, add validation type for Validation Summary Part, demo about fake video capture source in Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox, and announce that Orchard Core goes to Oxford! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Fix background task description is no longer editable There was an issue with the Description of the background tasks were not editable. If you navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core and head to Configuration -> Features and enable the Background Tasks feature, you can manage your background tasks under Configuration -> Tasks -> Background Tasks. The Orchard Core solution contains a module called OrchardCore.Demo. If you add it as a project reference to the OrchardCore.Application.Cms.Core.Targets project, you can utilize this module, which contains a test background task. The Lombiq Training Demo for the Orchard Core module also contains a sample of how you can implement your own background task. Add Validation type for Validation Summary Part In the Validation Summary widget, it is useful to be able to specify the type of summary we want to show. By default, we can show all errors. However, in some cases, we may only want to show a model-level error instead of all. This improvement is about simply adding an option that would allow the user to determine the type of summary to add to the form. By default, it would be all errors. To utilize this feature, you must enable the Forms feature, which provides widgets to implement forms. Now, if you edit a content item with the Flow Part attached (for example, the Page content item coming from the Blog recipe), you can build a simple form. We added a Form widget to this Page with some other widgets, and of course, with the updated Validation Summary widget. As you can see, now there is a Show Model Only Error checkbox, which you can use to decide to only display model-level errors or all errors. Demos Fake video capture source in Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox Maybe you have already heard about the Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox, our web UI testing toolbox mostly for Orchard Core applications. Everything you need to do UI testing with Selenium for an Orchard app is here. We wrote about it several times here as well, first when we open-sourced it, when we added some Orchard Core Features tests to it, when we added the automated monkey testing feature to it, or when we introduced the Visual verification testing. At the end of last year, we showed you the latest updates about integrating UI testing into Orchard Core and the way how you can use WebApplicationFactory. This time, we will check out a slightly different topic! Imagine you have an application that uses video sources to access visual information from the user or the environment using Media Capture and Streams API. The goal can be QR or bar code scanning, user identification, or other computer vision applications. To make sure that future changes to the code do not break anything, we need a way to automate testing. Here, the fake video capture source comes into play. If you check out the documentation, you can see that you can use y4m or mjpeg video files as a fake video capture source in the Chrome browser. In the demo, you can see a virtual business card service where the front end is built by Vue.js, and the back end is of course Orchard Core. If you show a QR code for the application, the back end gives you back a content item, which is a Business Card. This sample can be found in the Lombiq Vue.js module for Orchard Core under the Samples folder. Both of these modules are included in Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions solution, so we will open this solution and find the BehaviorVueTests class where you can find two tests, called QrCardScanShouldWorkAsync and QrCardScanShouldReportNotFoundAsync. The ConfigureFakeVideoSourceForPositiveTest and ConfigureFakeVideoSourceForNegativeTest extension methods are responsible to retrieve mjpeg files, which are embedded resources that we can utilize for these tests. If you run the QrCardScanShouldWorkAsync test, you will see that the test retrieves the information from the QR code and displays the card's content based on the card ID, which can be found in the QR code. And as always, if you want to know more about this new addition to the Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox for Orchard Core, check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Core goes to Oxford Zoltán Lehóczky will give an Orchard Core intro at .NET Oxford on the 16th of May. .NET Oxford is an Oxford-based .NET meetup/user group. It'll be online, so you can join from anywhere if you're just learning about Orchard! Check it out here! Orchard Harvest Online As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. Of course, we are still looking for speakers. You can apply to present by 12 May at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/pfiExtEUuZ. Jump into the following GitHub discussion for the details! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 446 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!

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 1.6.0 is now available! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core! Now let's see the newest features and editions of the current release, check out the announcement about the first online Orchard Harvest, and watch a demo about a Data Migrations PoC! Orchard Core updates Document Ticket Store The Users Authentication Ticket Store stores users' authentication tickets on the server in the memory cache instead of cookies. If distributed cache feature is enabled it will store authentication tickets on the distributed cache. There were no page in the Orchard Core documentation about the User Ticket store, so now you can find some lines about it. Add support for built-in and custom Elasticsearch analyzers Orchard Core only has support for standard analyzers, which is good in most cases. But we do not allow for implementing custom analyzers or the use of built-in analyzers. This feature is about adding support for the built-in analyzers and updating the documentation of the Elasticsearch module, where you can see some examples of how to use the built-in stop and standard analyzers and define custom analyzers using the appsettings.json file. Demos Data Migrations Poc This demo shows you a concept about improving the data migrations in Orchard Core. All the data migrations are hosted in a single class, called Migrations, which is easy for simple migration but hard for big migration. Meaning the readability and maintainability could be improved. If you check the Migrations.cs file in the OrchardCore.Users module, you can see it may be hard to read and follow. Another issue could be that we are relying on reflection. The naming convention comes from Orchard 1.x, where we are using numbers at the end of each method to specify the current version of the given migration. Both IDataMigration and DataMigration are hosted on OrchardCore.Data.YesSql assemblies and it could be an improvement to move the IDataMigration and DataMigration into the OrchardCore.Data assembly. Hisham Bin Ateya did a prototype by splitting the migrations into multiple files. It will be easy to read, and easy to maintain, and there is no reflection anymore. Both IMigration and Migration are hosted on OrchardCoreContrib.Data assemblies and YesSqlMigration in the OrchardCoreContrib.Data.YesSql assembly. You can clean up everything by roll-backing the applied migrations. For this demo, we will clone the following GitHub repository, which contains a set of modules for Orchard Core CMS that is driven by community members who love Orchard Core. This will encourage all the passionate developers to build modules that aren't included in Orchard Core. Such modules may be necessary for the community or essential for any sort of CMS. If you open up the CreateGoogleMapPart migration of the GoogleMaps module, you will find a Migration attribute where you can specify the version and override the Up and Down methods. By default, you put your code into the Up method, so it will be applied when the migration is run, and the Down method is responsible for "reverting" the changes made by this migration in the Up method. And we are just scratching the surface here. If you would like to know more about the implementation details, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Core 1.6.0 Orchard Core 1.6.0 is now available! If you open up nuget.org and search for the OrchardCore.Application.Cms.Targets package, you will find the updated version of Orchard Core! There is a new page in the documentation with the breaking changes. Upgrade your solution to 1.6.0 now! Feel free to drop by the dedicated Gitter chat and ask questions or use GitHub Discussions! Orchard Harvest Online As many of you know, we have been working hard over the past months to organize the next Orchard Harvest in Las Vegas after the last Harvest in 2017. Unfortunately, based on the current economic situation and personal feedback, Las Vegas won’t work this year. Not to mention that unfortunately Microsoft Build, announced after we decided on our dates, also falls in line with the original dates we chose. So, a date change was also necessary. However, we did not want to let go of this opportunity to meet completely. Therefore, we are pleased to inform you that we will be holding our first online Orchard Harvest starting on the 31st of May at 13:00 UTC. You can start your registration for the event right now. Of course, we are still looking for speakers. You can apply to present by 12 May at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/pfiExtEUuZ. Jump into the following GitHub discussion for the details! 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Add AlterAsync for a named part, updating documentation to use Program.cs instead of Startup.cs, and a demo about the Transliteration Feature! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Updating documentation to use Program.cs instead of Startup.cs Within .NET 6, Startup.cs has been sunsetted. In the new world, it is still possible to use a Startup.cs, however, it is not a mandatory class anymore. This means when upgrading, you do not need to do anything if you wish so. However, if you want your code to use some of the latest framework features, you will need to perform some refactoring by munging the two files together. And now, the documentation for Orchard Core has been updated with new code samples to show you how to register Orchard CMS service in your Program.cs file when creating a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using Visual Studio. Add AlterAsync for a named part There is an Alter extension method in Orchard Core that you can use to modify a new or existing content element by name. But the awaitable AlterAsync was missing from ContentExtensions. Now you will find an AlterAsync extension method that supports named parts like Alter. Demos Transliteration Feature Transliteration helps us to pronounce words in another language whereas translation gives us the meaning of words. Transliteration changes the words from one language or alphabet into another corresponding, with similar-sounding letters with different characters. So, for this demo, we will clone the following GitHub repository, which contains a set of modules for Orchard Core CMS that is driven by community members who love Orchard Core. This will encourage all the passionate developers to build modules that aren't included in Orchard Core. Such modules may be necessary for the community or essential for any sort of CMS. The module that enables transliteration using the default implementation of the ITransliterationService service is called the Transliteration feature. If you run this solution and enter the admin site using the admin username and admin@OCC123 password, you can navigate to Configuration -> Features. Search for the "transliteration" word to enable the Transliteration feature. Now you can inject the ITransliterationService, then use Transliterate() method to transliterate from one script to another. Here you can see we injected the ITransliterationService and passed the script and the text itself which we wanted to transliterate. There is a DefaultTransliterateRuleProvider that supports converting Cyrillic and Arabic letters to Latin. Meaning that in our example, we wanted to convert a Cyrillic text to Latin. Let's run the solution and check out the content of this page! And as you can see, we wrote "Welcome to Orchard Core" and "Feel free to browse the menu and discover all its possibilities" two times here. For the first time, we used Latin letters, and for the second time, we used Cyrillic letters. And by using the TransliterationService, the Cyrillic letters were converted to Latin. And as always, if you would like to learn more about this module, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 435 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 search handler; fix bad async usage in RecipeHarvester, and a demo about the Gravatar Module! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Add search handler You may need a way to be able to log search attempts. Like if a search is leading to 0 hits, you want to know about it and report on it. This is something we can easily add by adding a handler that is called after a search is executed. So, this feature is about adding an ISearchHandler which is called from the search controller. This handler has a SearchedAsync method that is triggered after a search is executed. In the following screen, you can see the ISearchHandler interface itself, and the code that invokes its SearchedAsync method. Fix bad async usage in RecipeHarvester The IRecipeReader interface has a GetRecipeDescriptor method, which is now marked as obsolete. Instead of that, you will need to use the new GetRecipeDescriptorAsync in the future. The reason for that is the HarvestRecipesAsync method in the RecipeHarvester was not awaited, and the solution was to have a foreach loop to do an await GetRecipeDescriptorAsync() since it doesn't require thread safety. Demos Gravatar Module Gravatar (globally recognized avatar) is a service for providing globally unique avatars. On Gravatar, users can register an account based on their email address, and upload an image of their choice to be associated with that email address. And the OrchardCoreContrib.Modules repository contains a module that utilizes the Gravatar service! So, for this demo, we will clone the following GitHub repository, which contains a set of modules for Orchard Core CMS that is driven by community members who love Orchard Core. This will encourage all the passionate developers to build modules that aren't included in Orchard Core. Such modules may be necessary for the community or essential for any sort of CMS. The module that enables user avatars using the Gravatar service is called the Gravatar Module. If you run this solution and enter the admin site using the admin username and admin@OCC123 password, you can navigate to Configuration -> Features and search for the "gravatar" word to enable the Gravatar feature. This will mean that now you can utilize the new Gravatar HTML Tag Helper and the gravatar_url Liquid Filter. Let's try them out! To use the new Liquid Filter, we created a new content type with the Liquid Part attached to be able to add some Liquid code to our content item. We created a new content item of this content type and called it Gravatar Liquid Filter Demo. Here we constructed a list that contains the names and email addresses of some of the main Orchard Core contributors. Please note that the reason why we can use these email addresses here is that all of these addresses have an associated Gravatar. The gravatar_url Liquid Filter calls the GetAvatarUrl method of the GravatarService to retrieve the Gravatar image URL. Once we have the URL, we can use it as the src for the img HTML tag. The Gravatar Tag Helper is already utilized by the Gravatar module. If you check out the navigation bar of the admin site, you can see the Gravatar of the currently logged-in user here instead of the default one. That's because the module contains a UserMenu.cshtml file which overrides the given shape. Here we used the email address of the currently logged-in user and also provided a size, which is the width of the rendered image. And as always, if you would like to learn more about this module, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 434 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 Culture Picker for the Admin Site; a new version of Fluid, and a demo about the Health Checks Module! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Add Culture Picker for the Admin Site Unless you have a language switcher on website pages you cannot switch a language in the admin panel. This can be solved by having a dropdown in the admin panel header to switch languages. If you head to Configuration -> Features and type "culture", you will see two features: Admin Culture Picker which provides a culture picker shape for the admin area. Content Culture Picker which provides a culture picker shape for the frontend. The first one is the new one, so enable the Admin Culture Picker feature! After you enable this feature, probably nothing will change. But why? Well, that's because if your site only supports one culture, there is no need to display a culture picker to choose from the different cultures. So, let's navigate to Configuration -> Settings -> Localization and have at least two different supported cultures. After that, you will see the new dropdown in the NavbarTop zone of the admin theme which you can use to switch between cultures. Fluid 2.4.0 Fluid is an open-source .NET templating engine that is as close as possible to the Liquid template language. It's a secure template language that is also very accessible to non-programmer audiences. It also contains an ASP.NET Core MVC View Engine. And of course, Orchard Core is using Fluid too to generate templates. Fluid 2.4.0 has been released this month, so let's see some of the changes that this release contains! This release contains the implementation of some missing strftime formats. You can write: var source = "date:"{{Date | date:'%F %T.%3N'}}""; which results date:"2022-12-19 14:23:02. %3N". And as you can see, the %3N does not take effect. So, now all of these formatting parameters are implemented in Fluid meaning you can have more ways to print formatted dates. Like adding support for formats that will depend based on the first day of the week. Or if you ask for the number of weeks of the current day, then it might depend on what is the first day of the week. And there is a standard like Monday but sometimes you say that Sunday is the first day of the week. Another change is to introduce a "local" time zone for the time_zone filter. Meaning if you want to use a time zone that is the local time zone of the configuration (in Orchard it would be configured as the standard time zone), then you can use "local". Because you might get a UTC date and you want to display it with the local time zone. To do that, you can do: {{ now | date | time_zone: 'local' }}. Demos Health Checks Module For this demo, we will clone the following GitHub repository which contains a set of modules for Orchard Core CMS that is driven by the community members who love Orchard Core. This will encourage all the passionate developers to build modules that aren't included in Orchard Core. Such modules may be necessary for the community or essential for any sort of CMS. This repository contains several modules, this time we will check out the one called Health Checks Module, which provides health checks for the website. Orchard Core has a built-in Health Check module, the goal of this one is the extend the functionality of the built-in one. If you run this repository and enter the admin site using the admin username and admin@OCC123 password, you can navigate to Configuration -> Features and enable the Health Checks module. And while we are here, let's also ensure that the SendGrid module is enabled. But why? Because the Health Checks module is capable of checking the status of the SendGrid module. If you navigate to /health/sendgrid, you will see an Unhealthy message. Meaning that the SendGrid module is available and could be used without any issues but you have to configure its settings to make that service available for the users. Try to enable the Multitenancy feature as well and create a new tenant but do not set it up, just create it. After, head to the /health URL and see what it shows. Here you can find the status of SendGrid as before and another one called Tenants Health Check. As you can see, the name of the tenant that we have just created is Blog, but we haven't set it up (just created it), that's why you can see an Unhealthy status here. You can see the System Updates Health Check here as well because we enabled the System Module last week. And as always, if you would like to learn more about this module, don't forget to check out this recording on YouTube! 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