Orchard CMS v1.0.20

Ivan Pavlović, Hive StudiosMVP For Visual C#, Scrum Master

paki@hive-studios.com twitter.com/ipavlovi

• Session Objective(s): – Explain what is Orchard, why we are doing it, our

target audiences– Demonstrate Orchard from both end-user and

developer perspectives• Takeaways:– Orchard is powerful CMS offering rooted in ASP.NET

concepts (MVC 3, Razor, Areas)– Delivering as open source allows deep involvement

from community & partners

Objectives and Takeaways

• How many of you build .NET sites from scratch?– Using Visual Studio, MVC, WebForms, etc.

• How many of you start from an existing app/solution and customize it?– We find this is an increasing trend among Web professionals…– Over two-thirds of Internet-facing Websites are small-medium

businesses, with lots of common features/behavior– Most of these sites are built starting from open source apps– Productivity is most important consideration for Web pros/consultants

Context…

Orchard Project

• Orchard is a free, open source CMS solution for web agencies who want to simply, quickly create Internet-facing Web sites.

• http://orchardproject.net

• Built on top of the MVC 3 and SQL Server / CE• Included in the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the

CodePlex Foundation – Free, open source, and fully extensible – new BSD license– Accepting community contributions today– get involved

• End-users– Pre-configured Orchard distributions enable creation of web sites

through UI customization

• Developers– Orchard is a CMS platform for creating custom applications and

modules

• Designers– Orchard offers a flexible theming platform

• Web Professionals– Orchard is a highly customizable CMS application– Market place with a large choice of themes and modules

Target Audiences

Setup Orchard- Setup IIS- Platform Installer- Configuration- Content Publishing

Orchard Architecture

ASP.NET MVC 3

Orchard CMS

Orchard Modules

Pages Blogs

Users

Comments Tags

Roles

Media

SetupThemes

XmlRpcScheduling

Navigation Homepage

Feeds

Settings

Extension module:Adds some (low-level) features that will benefit the website. Eg: Ability to search your content or to use an external editor to write blog posts (like Live Writer)

Content module:Adds everything (code and visual) required to view/edit some type of content (like blog posts)

Extension points

Extension points

Widget module:Adds a small visual content that can be displayed on the side of existing content modules (like a Tag cloud next to a blog)

Theme module:Changes the look of existing content modules (This is what the designer would typically create)

Building a Custom Module

Routable

Body

Common

Comments

Tags

Content Types and Parts

Data

Data Composition

ContentManager(CRUD)

Product

ContentHandler 1

ContentHandler 2

ProductHandler

(…)Tags

Comments

Common…passes back parts

attached to Product type…

Events

Record

Record

Record

Record

Data Composition

ContentItemRecord

Id ContentTypeRecord_Id

5 1

7 1

ContentTypeRecord

Id Name

1 “page”

BodyRecord

Id Text

5 “<p>First post</p>”

7 “<p>Second</p>”

RoutableRecord

Id Slug

5 “first-post”

7 “second-post”

Building a Content Type

Themes

• One theme per Tenant• Everything is overidable• Layuot is separated into Zones• Zones are populated with Shapes• Shapes can contain other Shapes– (list / summary / content / parts)

• Widgets are placed into Zones

Modules• Analytics• Captcha• Lightbox/slideshow/image gallery• Sitemap• Calendar/events• Voting• Newsletter• Shopping Cart• Maps and geolocation• Workflow• Forum• FAQ• Private Messaging• Advertising• Video• Guest book

• Wiki• Search• Weather• File attachments• Forms• Chat• Project management• Classifieds• External RSS Integration• CRM• Social Networking• Mobile• Polls• Podcast/audio• Email notifications

Widget walktrough

Next Release v1.1 (April 1st)

• Post 1.0 bug fixes• Administration user experience:– Widget and layer management– Content Item List management

• Deployment and Hosting improvements• Import/Export• Module Recipes• Developer scenario improvements– Shape tracer, bug fixes, Field placements

Uključite se

• Lokalizacija v1.0.20 na sr-Latn-RS i sr-Cyrl-RS je završena– Predstoji lokalizacija v1.1 u narednih desetak dana

• Priključite se razvoju• Podelite module koje razvijete na CodePlex-u