Issue No 111

Creating a custom export & import action in Umbraco UI Builder

by Jesper Mayntzhusen

The Umbraco UI Builder is great for managing custom data collections, but its export tool is limited, handling only one page at a time and supporting only CSV format, among other issues. But thankfully, help is here! For developers that need more robust functionality, Jesper is here to show us how we can create custom export and import actions with the Umbraco UI Builder our data collections.

An Insider Perspective on Being Part of the Community Teams.

by Sophie Neale

One of the many ways to give back to the Umbraco community is as a member of an Umbraco Community Team. But what are these teams, and what is it like to be in one? Sophie, who has been a member of several such teams, is here to to tell us. She shares her experiences from first joining the Documentation Curator team all the way through a look at what the DEI team is planning to bring to the community next!

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Around the Web

A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.

Mastering Authorization in Umbraco 14/15: Real-World Management API Challenges and Solutions

credit: Afreed

When Afreed first started working with Umbraco’s Management API, he was both excited and curious, but as with many new tools, he ran into a when trying to implement it beyond the well-documented test environments. Join him on his journey as he walks us through setting up authorization on multiple environments!

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UMB.FYI gets Profiles, Tags and Topics

credit: Matt Brailsford

Since creating UMB.FYI newsletter a little over a year ago, Matt has slowly been tweaking and adding features as he's gone along, and recently they just got particularly cool! Go check out the new profile pages, tag pages, and topic pages on UMB.FYI and learn how to add yourself to it!

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Add yourself to the profiles

Knowit.Umbraco.TokenReplacement

credit: Kaspar Boel Kjeldsen

If you have ever wanted to use dictionary items inside your rich text editor or a text field, then the Token Replacement package is exactly what you need! Just use {{your.dictionary.item}} in your content, and Kaspar's new package will hunt it down and replace it with your dictionary item, just like that. It's even available through the Content Delivery API!

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Keeping Sessions Alive in Umbraco with Third-Party Payment Providers

credit: Rick Butterfield

Session persistence in Umbraco can be pretty tricky when you're integrating third party payment providers with your Umbraco Commerce solution. Rick guides us through the process of keeping our sessions alive so we don't accidentally drop a user when they're purchasing!

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Managing Stale Carts in Umbraco Commerce

credit: Busra Sengul

Stale carts can be useful for people who come back to shop with you, but they can also greatly clog a database! Busra is here to help you clean out your dozens to thousands of stale carts with a zippy SQL statement, saving you the time of manual deletion!

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