Setting permissions on custom Orchard menu links

June 2, 2013
Arra Derderian

Often times your navigation does not point to a content item in Orchard and you still need to set permissions on that link. For example, a "Sign In" link or a "Logout Link". Because you can't associate permissions to specific Users/Accounts pages in the Administration UI, you...

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Adding a starting node for the Orchard Navigation Menu Widget

May 16, 2013
Arra Derderian

On many websites I have built there is a need to create Footer Navigation that looks like the following : This presents a challenge in Orchard because the navigation elements span multiple zones and require specific formatting for each zone. As you can see above, there are th...

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Serve an HTML 5 font file from Azure

April 30, 2013
Arra Derderian

Windows Azure does not have the MIME type for .WOFF files configured in IIS by default. To get around this we can either add a mapping in the web.config under the web server section or add one into IIS via a Windows Azure startup task The easiest is via the web.config because...

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Secure File Field For Orchard CMS

April 26, 2013
Arra Derderian

Today I published a complete version of the CloudConstruct.SecureFileField module to the Orchard gallery. After having some issues with my Version 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2...1.3 is the working version. I also broke the Orchard Gallery somehow as well. Sorry guys! I developed this mo...

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Retrieving Role Information in your Orchard View Templates

April 14, 2013
Arra Derderian

Update to this Blog Entry! Although the below blog entry details how to get at some detailed information from a Layout template, the real way to control navigation item permissions is to actually attach the content permissions part to a Custom Menu content type. This will let...

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Rendering alternates for your ad-hoc shapes in Orchard CMS

April 4, 2013
Arra Derderian

If you start building very customized websites with Orchard CMS you will soon realize you need to be able to render shapes differently in different zones. You have options when the shapes differ by page, by using display alternates and modules such as Url Alternates. These can...

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Worried about the upcoming certificate migration in Azure?

March 30, 2013
Arra Derderian

Some of you may have received an email indicating that Azure is switching over to the Baltimore Certificate Root on April 15th, 2013. Like me you probably got worried about if this effects you and your Azure applications. I found a link in the e-mail that resulted in me ending...

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Visual Studio Publish Dialog "Freezes" Visual Studio

January 3, 2013
Arra Derderian

You just clicked publish in Visual Studio and you can't do anything else. It appears that the program is frozen and you already tried to update all the plugins, turn features on/off, and restart your computer. What is actually happening here is that the publish dialog is appe...

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A tale of performance in Orchard CMS

October 23, 2012
Arra Derderian

This entry is about a two week battle I had to get a production Orchard CMS site able to handle a load of about 3,500 unique users a day and 250,000 hits a day. Originally, the site only had a few visitors a day and was built on Orchard 1.4. with a SQL Compact backend. The si...

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Enabling Orchard CMS Multi-Tenancy on Windows Azure

September 22, 2012
Arra Derderian

I have had a lot of feedback from my presentation on Deploying Orchard CMS to Windows Azure last month at Boston Orchard CMS. You can find the slides for this presentation at our event page here. To clarify on some of the demo pieces for people who missed the presentation on...

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