I am helping a friend of mine to edit a few things on his website that was built using Umbraco. I am not the original author and I am pretty new to Umbraco but, I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. There is a form that is being used to send an email whenever someone wants to order supplies from the website. The form was previously working. However, he has lost access to the email account and had to create a new one. The problem is I cannot seem to locate the model to look inside of it and change where the emails are being sent.
I cannot locate the Models (there are multiple) in the Umbraco hierarchy even though I can find references to where they're are called inside of the different forms. See below:
#inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<Aeon.Models.OrderSuppliesModel>
I know this is not a URL so I am a little confused on why this is not in any of the Umbraco hierarchy. I know that since it is referencing something and previously worked it has to be there somewhere. The only other place I would think they could be is in the root directory which I don't have access to yet. Could they possibly be located there? Any type of help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Since you don't have access to the code, you will have to hope there is a variable somewhere which lets you set the email, rather than it being hardcoded into the controller.
Umbraco nodes
Sometimes Umbraco developers store the email on a field on a node in Umbraco. The common places are:
on the page node which has the form on it
on a settings node
on the home page node
Web.config
The Web.config also has a section which can be used to easily setup variables. Checkout the <appSettings> section to see if there are keys and/or values which might indicate they're used for email.
Also, you haven't specifically said if it is the SMTP email account which has broken, or if it's the email account which submissions are being sent to. Look for the <mailSettings> section on the Web.config if you want to see the SMTP settings. There may be a 'from' field on the <smtp> element.
umbracoSettings.config
In the umbracoSettings.config there is an element which will look something like this:
<notifications>
<!-- the email that should be used as from mail when umbraco sends a notification -->
<email>your#email.here</email>
</notifications>
Forms are not directly handled within Umbraco. I am assuming you are using ver 6+.
To get a form to work you rely on the core MVC functionality, which means you create a Surface Controller with Get and POST actions to handle the logic.
There will be a reference to the specific model being passed to the view within the controller logic, but its common for standard static configuration information to be stored in an Umbraco node itself. Example of such are "SMTP server" "From Address" & "Use Encryption" etc. Some people as an alternative store this information as keys in web.config.
If you are specifically looking to change the model being passed to the form (OrderSuppliesModel), if you are using Visual Studio, the model should be colored in a teal color and when you hover over it, it shows the full namespace. Click it and press F12. This should link you directly to the class module.
hope it helps.
If you're lucky, they're using Umbraco Forms/Contour. When you log into the back office, do you see a section called either "Forms" or "Contour"?
If so, you should be able to find the form in the Forms tree, and at the bottom of the form you should be able to edit the workflows, which will allow you to change who gets emails sent to them etc.
If you don't have those sections, could you post the view that has the form on so we can see what it's doing please?
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I'm creating an internal CMS blog site using Umbraco 7. We need to show the content based on member's language preferences. Every member has to login to the site to view the blog content. Therefore I'm using Umbraco member functionality to cater that scenario.
I noticed there is a language selection while creating users for the back-office. Also, I'm aware of creating multiple site contents to support each language.
I went though https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/tutorials/multilanguage-setup/ article. But this is not what I'm looking for.
Are there any other way to specify Mermeber's language preference and show the content based on that after login to the system?
Or any other thoughts?
You could add a "Preferred Language" property to your Member type (just a Content Picker I guess). Then you would have to do something in the front-end as well, perhaps like this: https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2014/razor-language-switcher/ . You'd also have to add code that updates the member property to whichever start node whenever a new one is selected, as well as a redirect mechanism so whenever a member enters the site they'd end up on the correct site.
If you're asking if all this exists already - in a package or something - I don't think so :-/
I've been trying for hours now to add blog posts into our site through the Umbraco back office. It feels so unintuitive how everything works and I'm beginning to get very frustrated, here's what I'm trying to do/have done:
I create a document type, "BlogPost", it contains data that can be entered in a content node relating to the blog post, description, title, etc.
I create a document type, "BlogPage", as a document type to be used as a root content node, which will hold all the BlogPost content nodes, that way I can simply loop through them and render each one on our site
I go to create the BlogPost content node, and it assigns it an url of "/", which simply redirects to the home page
What I don't understand is how am I supposed to just get data that was entered in Umbraco for my view? We have an extremely stylized theme for our site, so I can't use things like Articulate, and I shouldn't have to, all I want to do is store a collection of blog posts together, pull that data from Umbraco, and load it into an ASP.NET view, but there is absolutely zero documentation or examples of how to do this online, I would be incredibly grateful if someone could point me in the right direction on how I should go about doing what I'm trying to do.
If I understand correctly you are developing a blog section on an existing website. First thing to do is inderdaad create a new documenttype for the blogpost itself and add a documenttype for the container of blogposts.
Did you create new templates for these documenttypes? You can find some documentation on templates here
Inside the template you'll want to query data from Umbraco. Information about querying data is available here
Next up is adding the newly created templates to the documenttypes and you're ready to create your content.
Make sure that for the content you create the template is set (see Properties tab), here you can also see the url Umbraco created for the content.
Did you start the Umbraco website from scratch or are you developing on an existing website? Because a blogpost should not redirect to / by default, unless it's the root node of your website. This sounds like custom functiality. Maybe a rewrite or error handling module?
Edit: Also some information on how to get started with templating in Umbraco is available here
Well, the powers that be would like Redmine to be aware of the data in one of our other systems so issues can be auto assigned to staff based on our business application's parcel id's.
Until now we had a call tracking system written from scratch. I'd like to bastardize Redmine since it comes so close to meeting all user requirements. I think if I get pointed in the right direction I can hook into Redmine some already written javascript and already existing webservices to pull the necessary data to display it on a Redmine ticket at the time of ticket creation. I know that Redmine is highly customizable, but I don't know where to begin. I already checked for existing plugins to do this and I found none.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I hope I understand what you want.
You can add custom_field or write a migration to add a new column to table issues and patch issue form (you can use redmine hooks http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Hooks_List). I prefer second way because it does not depend on Redmine settings.
You should add in plugin a route and method into issues_controller. This action will get AJAX request with ParcelID from the view (issue form) and proxy it to external server. The response should be user email (I think only this info is common for users in Redmine and External server). The action should find appropriate user in Redmine and return user_id to the view.
Patch issue form: add new input Parcel ID and add JS code. JS code should send AJAX after ParcelID loses focus and setup Assignee if request returns user_id.
some notes:
I don't think that you will manage to communicate with external server directly (without controller) because Server can return own user_id or user_email but view will not manage to setup Assignee using this attributes.
I think it is necessary to care about performance because JS code will start at least two requests (View<->Redmine, Redmine<->External Server)
hope it helps you
I took over a project and the previous developer used a CMS where the client could enter text and stuff but the problem was that the client wanted some css and javascript and it turned out that this 'about us' page was something that that developer ended up making changes to because the embedded text was full of markup and javascript at the clients request.
I am trying to make it so the client can just input text and it will self format etc... but it's an about us page and I don't want to create resource for this so that is why I'm thinking singleton.
Basically I want the client to have the ability to edit the about us page so it should be attached to the db but it's only one thing. So how would you do this?
Why not just give them a file called about_us.html.erb? They don't have to use ERB in the file. Any time they need to make changes to the file, they can give you a new version and you commit it to your VCS. Or, if you are using something like github.com and they have an account, they can edit the file inline.
You don't even have to have a controller action defined in the controller.
I'm working on an umbraco website just now and one of the requirements is to have a custom section in the back end that can be used to manage publish smaller micro-sites.
I have been able to create the new section and added some nodes to it. What I can't get to work is publishing them and making them viewable at the correct url.
As an example, say i have created a new section called microsite, inside that there is a folder called myportfolio. this should route to something like www.myumbracosite.com/microsite/myportfolio.
Does anyone know how to get this sort of thing working? Is it even possible to publish content from outsite of the main content section?
Any help would be greatly apprechiated.
Kind Regards
Colin G
From my understanding the custom sections are for linking to custom databases or data somewhere that needs an interface.
That said, you can use UrlRewriting and an existing content page with a macro to do something like that.
If you had a page called microsite, then using UrlRewriting you could make the parameter passed in to microsite.aspx (a content page in Umbraco) be "myportfolio".
With a user control on the microsite template it could display some content from your external database (or wherever your custom section stores it).
Not sure that's what you're looking for...
Why are you trying to create a new section for more content? The current Umbraco content area has all kinds of permissions for both users and members. Are the microsites all in the same install of Umbraco?
Another option is that the custom section could simply be used as a setup wizard for the new sites. You could create new content and users in their normal places and just use the new section to create them. It's not too hard to create content from C#, so it would probably be the same as doing it from a user control.
Could you provide a little more info?