How to add custom help to Umbraco

How to add custom help to Umbraco

The Umbraco help section has been greatly improved recently, covering an area that was often neglected and that many developers and editors needed. This article covers how easy it is to add our own custom help to the existing help section in Umbraco.…

Author: Miguel Lopez
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Allen for Umbraco with location EXIF meta data

The latest version of Allen for Umbraco has now hit the Apple App store, we have managed to add some nice improvements to this version that include…

Author: Chris Houston
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Introducing a new Umbraco datatype for Multi-lingual websites.

Over the last 6 months we have been building various multi-lingual sites for different clients and for some of the clients they have 1 to 1 relationships between some or all of their pages.…

Author: Chris Houston
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Creating PDF documents dynamically using Umbraco and XSL-FO part 2

Since my last post I have made a few modifications to the PDF generation, the main one being that the files are now dynamically renamed so that they reflect the name of the case study instead of all being called PDF.PDF which was not a very helpful filename, I just wanted to get something live last week, so decided that something was better than nothing :)…

Author: Chris Houston
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PDF from Umbraco | Creating PDF case studies from data in the Umbraco CMS

Last week we launched the first version of our website based on Umbraco 4.5.2 and this week we have just added a bit of extra functionality to the case studies section which enables you to download the case studies as PDF documents.…

Author: Chris Houston
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Add IntelliSense when using the URL rewritingnet config file

I often use the URL re-writing engine that comes with Umbraco which is from urlrewriting.net and I have always found it very fiddly to edit the configuration file, I wish I have know it was possible to add Intellisense to Visual Studio, and I guessed that most people would also not realise this, after all, who reads the manual right?!…

Author: Chris Houston
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Survey about Umbraco Repositories

I am currently thinking about developing a hosted repository service for Umbraco Packages, this will allow free, private and commercial repositories to be available within the Umbraco interface for immediate installation.…

Author: Chris Houston
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