Sending form submissions to external systemsIn this example, a visitor submits a contact form on an Orchard Core website. An Orchard Core workflow automatically sends the submitted form data to an external webhook endpoint. From there, the automation platform handles the next steps, such as sending a notification, updating a CRM, or triggering another workflow.

Orchard Core updatesFile Upload Limit documentationThere was a question about how to set file upload size limits, and we came up with an idea to have a global solution so we don't have to set custom limits every time we create new actions. Hisham Bin Ateya added a new section to the Orchard Core documentation explaining how file upload limits work and how to customize them.

Orchard Core updatesSMS Health Checks featureThe Health Checks module enables the health checks feature from ASP.NET Core, and the health check endpoint is available at /health/live for each tenant. This module now includes a health check that reports the status of the Twilio SMS service. Thanks for the contribution by Hisham Bin Ateya!

Orchard Core updatesImprove feature dependency display and interactivityThere is a minor UI issue on the Features page: the dependency tags for some features can be crowded because they recursively list all dependencies for a module.

The Lombiq Marketing Orchard Core modules helps with your - you guessed it - online marketing. You can easily add privacy-conscious web analytics provided by Pirsch, and you can use it to create tracking short URLs. And now it's available for all DotNest sites!

Orchard Core updatesSupport static data migration methodsPublic static data migration methods are now supported for Create, CreateAsync, UpdateFromX, UpdateFromXAsync, Uninstall, and UninstallAsync, so CA1822 suppressions are no longer required for migration steps that don't use instance state. It means that all methods could now be static if we don't use services, and we can remove the warnings that say mark members as static.

If you like music – and, truthfully, who doesn't? –, we have some good news for you: you can now browse and license music on an Orchard Core-based platform! This is brought to you by the long-standing collaboration between Lombiq and the Smithsonian Institution, which has been engaged in a working relationship with us for several years now. The sites of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage were made using Orchard 1, which we had a hand in creating all the way back in 2017. These Orchard-powered sites also include the home of the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which is now running on Orchard Core instead!

As we've published in our previous blog post week, when the war in Ukraine broke out, we immediately provided a monetary donation to the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta for humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees. Now, we announce two more measures to aid the victims of the war, as we strongly feel that it is our responsibility as well to take advantage of our lucky situation since we are not being directly affected: