Azure Search

February 2025 Azure Search Update: Fixing Indexing Issues in Umbraco with ExamineX

As of February 2025, Azure Search introduced a significant change that has led to unexpected indexing issues, particularly for developers utilizing ExamineX in their Umbraco projects. This change affects the way fields are mapped during indexing operations, leading to potential failures if fields are not explicitly defined in the index schema.

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Migration

Migration from 8 to 13 - A Basic Step-by-Step Guide - Part 2

Migrating from Umbraco 8 to 13 can be complex, but using uSync simplifies the process. This step-by-step guide outlines the key stages: preparing your Umbraco 8 site, upgrading to Umbraco 10 as an intermediate step, and then moving to Umbraco 13. Learn how to utilize uSync for exporting and importing configurations, converting legacy Nested Content to the Block List Editor, and avoiding common pitfalls during migration. With thorough preparation, proper backups, and best practices, this guide helps ensure a smooth and successful upgrade, leveraging tools like NestedContentMigrator and community resources for support.

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Migration to V13

Migration from 8 to 13 - A Basic Step-by-Step Guide - Part 1

Migrate your Umbraco project smoothly with our comprehensive step-by-step guide. This tutorial covers the transition from Umbraco 8 to 10 and finally to Umbraco 13, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal functionality. Learn how to handle database migrations, uSync exports, and content type updates, including the crucial shift from Nested Content to Block List Editor. Stay updated with practical tips and detailed procedures to make your migration process efficient and successful. Adaptability is key—follow our guidelines and be prepared for specific adjustments to suit your project needs.

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Content Sync

Simple Content Synchronization with Umbraco

  • Date : Thursday, March 21, 2024
  • Categories : Umbraco 13

I'll share how I tackled a small project requiring the import of content from an old site or files into an Umbraco CMS. While there are paid options available for such tasks, my project's budget constraints led me to develop a basic, yet effective, logic for content importation. I aim to outline this logic, offering it as a starting point or inspiration for others. Please note, the code I'm presenting isn't the pinnacle of optimization, but it's a solid foundation you can build upon. This approach is designed for a single language setup, though adapting it for multilingual content is straightforward. Let's dive into the C# code provided and explore how it works, step by step.

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ViewEngine

Themed Based Views - Using a view engine in Umbraco

In our website applications in TRES, we have an option for Mult Site. This means that you can have multiple sites in one Umbraco CMS with a different look and feel. 

But we don't want to have duplicate content types or datatypes. We develop our applications in a way that we reuse a lot of element types for editing experience.

But on some occasions, we need to override the cshtml in such a way that it's completely different than the original. 

You can do this within the view but Asp.NET MVC also has an option for view engines.

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Quick Tip Ngrok

Quick Tip: Debugging Umbraco webhooks with Ngrok

I use Ngrok as a tool to expose my local server to the internet. It helps me by creating a secure tunnel from the public internet to my application on my local machine.

This is extremely useful when I need to test an external web service that is pushing data to our applications. Especially when there is an error with that service in production, or when I can't use it directly for local development. Sometimes the error only occurs in your web application in production mode. Then, it could be a data error where your local environments can't access this data directly.

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Quick Tip: Serving media from a live environment

So with all our projects at TRES, we don't want to store all the media in source control. But if we are working locally we want to have media visible. This means many developers download media from the Test environment and then run the site. This is quickly done for a simple site, but sometimes our sites contain Gigabytes of data. 

So why not manipulate the media URL to point to our test environment?

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Clean up your umbraco application with no ftp access!

Having FTP access to your Umbraco application can lead to problems, such as changes being made without version control that can be lost in deploys and pipelines. But without FTP access, how can you clean up your application? Johan's hear to help, showing us how we can use MS Web Deploy and a publish profile to clean up unwanted files without FTP!

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