PlayCMS Admin Theme

Custom admin theme for Orchard Core that uses TheAdmin as a base theme and applies PlayCMS customisations, plus some bug fixes between major updates of Orchard Core.

Build Status

Orchard Core Reference

This module is referencing a stable build of Orchard Core (1.7.2).

Installing

This module is available on NuGet. Add a reference to your Orchard Core web project via the NuGet package manager. Search for "Etch.OrchardCore.AdminTheme", ensuring include prereleases is checked.

Alternatively you can download the source or clone the repository to your local machine. Add the project to your solution that contains an Orchard Core project and add a reference to Etch.OrchardCore.AdminTheme.

Enhancements

Bag/Flow Editor

Out the box the flow editor is difficult to use when there are a large number of widgets. To fix this the theme will override the BagPart/FlowPart edit template to use a modal with categories/search (replicating workflows) as pitched in an issue created in the Orchard Core repository.

To make this work effectively the content definitions for widgets on the sites must include a Category, Description & Icon (using icon name from Font Awesome). This can be done by running a recipe to update the content definitions, below is a small example to give an idea.

{
    "name": "Definitions",
    "displayName": "Definitions",
    "description": "",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "issetuprecipe": false,
    "steps": [
        {
            "name": "ContentDefinition",
            "ContentTypes": [
                {
                    "Name": "Paragraph",
                    "DisplayName": "Paragraph",
                    "Settings": {
                        "ContentTypeSettings": {
                            "Stereotype": "Widget"
                        },
                        "Category": "Content",
                        "Description": "Display a paragraph of text.",
                        "Icon": "paragraph",
                    },
                    "ContentTypePartDefinitionRecords": [
                        {
                            "PartName": "ParagraphPart",
                            "Name": "ParagraphPart",
                            "Settings": {}
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Flow/Bag part editor will load with items in a collapsed state.

Improve Flow/Bag Edit Performance

OrchardCMS/OrchardCore#10587

Unsaved Changes Prompt

Users will be prompted when leaving a page that has unsaved changes unless the form is being submitted.

Theme card thumbnail alignment

Minor tweak to align thumbnails on theme cards when selecting a theme - particularly noticeable on larger screens.

Placement of named parts

Named parts can be positioned on a different tab, however ContentPart_Edit can't therefore the name & description stays on the content tab. To get around this, the ContentPart_Edit has been overridden to not displayed the name/description, which is now handled within the specific named part. This has been applied to BagPart and FlowPart as these are common named parts.

OrchardCMS/OrchardCore#11098

Development

Prerequisities

.NET Core

Orchard Core runs on the .NET Core. Download the latest version from https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core.

Packaging

When the theme is compiled (using dotnet build) it's configured to generate a .nupkg file (this can be found in \bin\Debug\ or \bin\Release).