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i set up a site in orchard cms.while choosing data storage settings i choose "used an existing SQL Server(or SQL Express) database" option instead of "used built-in data storage(SQL Server compact)".its worked fine for me but i am wondering where to change the data source that is the database server name.i didn't find the connection string settings in web.config file. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks. To change the database, you should edit the DataConnectionString entry in the App_Data\Sites\Default\settings.txt file. It should look something like this: Name: Default DataProvider

I have, what I think is, a simple feature that I am trying to add to my Orchard (1.6) site, but I can't find any tutorials or instructions on how to do it. I have a custom type called "Office" and each office has a custom field called "State" indicating which state the office is in. I actually designed my Offices as a custom part in code with specific properties such as State on it, but I "think" it's the same as if I added the State through the Admin interface as a field on the Office content part. Now, I can create a basic projection to show all the offices with a simple filter of "Content

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I have a client who want's a single page design for his site where the content for each "page" is shown/hidden using javascript as the user navigates the site. I'm not sure on the best way to approach this using Orchard. One option would be to have the content all on a single page content item but then you lose the ability to use the navigation features of Orchard and can't let the client think about administration in terms of pages. Does anyone have ideas or experiences on how best to set this up in Orchard CMS? Here's the solution I used based on Bertrand's advice: public ActionResult

I'm new to Orchard, so I probably have no idea what I'm doing. I've figured out how to override different shapes but putting a cshtml file in the View folder with the same name as the shape. Also, I found the Menu and MenuItem shape cshtml files under the Core Orchard files. However, I don't see a shape named Navigation and I don't really understand how Zones work. I searched the code and couldn't figure out exactly how the Navigation is rendered, though I did find some of the code. The reason that I want to override the Navigation rendering is that it renders a DIV and a NAV tag around the UL

I'm in the early stages of trying to learn Orchard, and I'm still seem to be struggling with the basics on how to build a page containing a multitude of various content that can be easily managed by non-technical users. Ideally, what I'm trying to do is the following, I just can't figure out how to fit it into the Orchard architecture using Content Types, Parts, Fields, Widgets, Zones, etc. Also, since I'm still learning, I'm also trying to avoid any custom modules, or hard-coding content into the site (though I'm open to the idea, if that's the best way to get it done!). Goal: Create a "home

I've been trying to build and deploy a website running on Orchard CMS. I've previously downloaded Orchard, set up a development environment, made a few modifications to the source, added and modified a theme, added some content and so forth. I've been using the SQL CE as database. Now I want to build and deploy the complete website. I've built a deployment package by running the build script, as described here . It's easy to simply ftp the built package to the hosting server. However, when visiting the site I now get the install a new site procedure. Apparently, the cms settings and content

I am currently developing a very simple website in Orchard, which however required me to extend it both with themes, and with content types/widgets. Now this is as far as I went - Content Types and Widgets, because they were the only ones to be explained in detail in the official documentation. I've looked A LOT for answers to other questions, like How to override the default layout of a list , or How to use a custom field inside a content type, and refer to it in the code . The later is actually the motive I decided to open this thread. How to use a custom field inside a content type, and