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I am trying to render shapes as email templates. I would like to be able to do this from a background task as well as from the current request. Does anyone have any tips for me? I think the Orchard.DisplayManagement.IDisplayHelperFactory is the key, but then I need to manufacture the ViewContext and IViewDataContainer, which I could possibly get from the Orchard.Mvc.ViewEngines.Razor.WebViewPage perhaps? Anyone done anything similar? I am looking at https://github.com/andrewdavey/postal/blob/master/src/Postal/EmailViewRenderer.cs for some inspiration, just wondering if anyone can put me on the

Using Orchard cms 1.5.1 I have created a module which contains controller that fetches list from a web service. I want to add a menu item in main menu when this module is enabled. For that i have created MainMenu as follows: public class MainMenu:INavigationProvider { public Localizer T { get; set; } public String MenuName { get { return "main"; } } public void GetNavigation(NavigationBuilder builder) { builder.Add(menu => menu.Add(T("Fetched List"), "4", item => item.Action("Index", "FetchedList"))); } } When my module is enabled, navigation won't show that menu item. Am i doing something

At the time of writing Orchard project (http://www.orchardproject.net/) is in version 1.1. I am considering that for a financial services' web site. Stability, security is of high priority here. Mostly that would be used to serve standard 'about-us' info plus various registration forms, sales' campaigns (landing pages/tracking user). It is important to be multi-culture friendly. I'm using Orchard in two medium-sized commercial projects and it works very well. It is perfectly stable. What do you mean by "security"? From the server perspective it's an ordinary ASP.NET application, so all

For my Orchard project, I need some additional information from the user at registration time. (Say, First Name, Last Name, Pants Color). This information must be entered while registering and can not be deferred until later (as per client's orders). I tried using the Profile and Extended Registration plugins to ask for those, but as far as I see, this only gives me optional fields to display in the registration form. Is there a way to present fields that are mandatory? I also had a quick foray into overwriting the AccountController's Register method, as per this discussion , but I couldn't

I am trying to change the Orchard.Setup module so i can install Orchard CMS 1.3.10 with MySQL as datase. I come so long that i getting MySQL in the GUI for setup and when i press setup button i getting this error message from orchard: The value 'MySql' is not valid for DatabaseOptions. But i can not find how i adding MySql as DatabaseOptions, do anyone else get it to work with MySQL? The old module for MySQL is not compatible wtih the latest version of Orchard CMS thats why it ring to make it by my own, if i get it to work i going to release it open source for others to use. The error you're

I have the following in my Razor view for an editor template in my Orchard module: Script.Include("assets.js").AtFoot(); When the page is rendered I can see this line at the bottom: <script src="/Modules/MyModuleName/scripts/assets.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Beautiful! Only problem is, when I visit that path I get a 404 error. The script doesn't exist. ...but it does! It's saved as Orchard.Web\Modules\MyModuleName\Scripts\assets.js The rest of my module's functionality works fine - I can enable and use it, it just won't find the script file. Am I missing something obvious here?! By

Is it possible to do property injection with the OrchardCMS? I know that Orchard uses Autofac and that Autofac does do property injection, but I need to know how to do property injection for the IOrchardServices interface. Our team is looking at Orchard but our code base is all in ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms and so we will continue to serve aspx pages and slowly migrate those said pages into Orchard as time permits. With that, we'll need a way to get access to the OrchardServices object. I'm thinking that this is something I'd have to come up on my own. Does any one have any good examples of