V13.2.2 In a WorkFlow I've saved a new page and want to get the URL of one of it's images, to send of to an external API, before the Workflow completes. So far I have this:-

var pageRef = _contentService.SaveAndPublish(advertiserPage);

        GuidUdi adPageUdi = pageRef.Content.GetUdi();
        var adPage = _contentService.GetById(adPageUdi.Guid);  // <--- Seems to be ok so far!
        
        var logoImageRef = adPage.GetValue("logoImage") as Udi;  // <--- I get Null here although the image exists in the saved page
        IMedia logoImage = _mediaService.GetById(logoImageRef.AsGuid());

I've been round and round this and can't work it out. Actually I could also do with the URL for the page itself as well. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

We are using isolated [Application Cache](https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/reference/cache/application-cache) for storing some data from an external API. We recently implemented distributed cache in SQL server.

builder.Services.AddDistributedSqlServerCache(options =>
{
    options.TableName = nameof(CacheStore);
    options.ConnectionString = builder.Config.GetConnectionString("umbracoDbDSN");
});

How to make the application caches also shared between our kubernetes pods? Is this even intended to use or is Applicaiton Cache meant to be available only on one machine? Should we refactor the Cache implementation to use service

IDistributedCache

instead of

AppCaches

? Is there any example of that anywhere? Thank you

Has anyone tried to use Azure Communication Services as mail service in Umbraco? I have the service up and running and sending mail by code from a simple console application works just fine. However same smtp configuration in Umbraco 13 results in an 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful, no idea why configuration in appsettings.json https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1235628373582151740/1235628373783613460/image.png?ex=66351019&is=6633be99&hm=47c6067e99a4e95573e68fa4c1d4cfac2b28eb1a806e0098b4ba6ab2d40f14ba&

Hey all! Been asked to scope out connecting a site to an API that uses OAuth1 (One legged) authentication headers. However, trying out a few of the old "tried and tested" packages from days of old has shown that most arent actually up to scratch for .net core 8, typically old dependencies or vaulted repos that cant be accessed anymore. Anyone know of any nice Oauth1 packages out there to simplify the process? Dont really fancy creating my own serialization / deserialization handler for it, but if I must, I must 😅

V13.2.2 I have a data import facility on an Umbraco site that, locally, takes a json file in the root of the project folder (i.e. Web/) and processes it. Now that the project has been deployed, the file structure is totally different and the file doesn't get hit at all. It's ended up in the root of the website files along with all the DLLs. My question is, where can I put it on the server (shared hosting), so it's not publicly accessible but can be hit. Here's the code that works locally:-

var jsonData = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("myfile.json");

Nice and simple and just works. Is there an equivalent in the deployed scenario? Thanks.

If you're like me and like to ensure your NuGet packages are up to date, you may want to avoid updating Microsoft.ICU.ICU4C.Runtime to the latest version of 72.1.0.1 (released 21/07/2023) from 68.2.0.9 (released 27/09/2021). The solution builds fine, but when running the site I get the following errors:

System.ExecutionEngineException
  HResult=0x80131506
  Message=Exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' was thrown.

And this is from event viewer:

Faulting module name: System.Private.CoreLib.dll, version: 7.0.923.32018,
Failed to load app-local ICU: icuuc68.2.0.9.dll

Looks like its still trying to load v68 even though v72 now takes its place. Not sure what could be causing it or how to fix it, but probably safer to ease off the throttle with certain updates without knowing what they are or what they do. For the time being I've reverted back to v68. Not sure if this is an Umbraco issue, or a generally a 'me' issue if I've got something set up within the project that has a dependency on this library. Thought I'd share my findings anyway.

Hi everyone, I'm currently working with Umbraco 10.8.6 and Umbraco Forms 10.5.4, with my media stored on Azure Blob Storage. I have a contact form that includes a File Upload field where users can attach a file. My goal is to scan the file's contents using my existing method, ScanFile()—which takes a Stream representing the file content—before the file is saved in the system to ensure it doesn’t contain any malicious software. I've tried a few approaches so far: 1. I attempted to add a custom workflow to validate the file. However, it seems that by the time the workflow runs, the file is already saved in a temporary folder on Azure Blob. 2. I also tried using the MediaSavingNotification, but it appears that Umbraco Forms bypasses this notification when a file is uploaded via the form. 3. Additionally, I experimented with something like a FormValidateNotification. In that case, I had access to all the values from the submitted form. However, the file upload field's value appears as a 260-character string that doesn’t contain the file's content; it ends with the attached file's name. I'm not sure what this string represents, and I couldn’t find any documentation about it. Another idea I had was to add middleware to intercept the HTTP request after the form is submitted. However, that approach feels clunky, and I'm convinced there must be a better way. Has anyone faced a similar issue or have suggestions on the best approach to scan the file before it is saved? Perhaps there are even better methods that I haven’t considered. Thanks in advance for your help!

In custom view of block grid item in backoffice, we can access

colSpan

and

rowSpan

. Furthermore we can style based on parent context by setting and attribute or class on layout block and update CSS variables as mentioned here. https://umbraco.com/blog/deep-dive-block-grid-editor-part-3/ However if I have two columns - left area which span 6 columns and right area which span 6 columns, is there any way to know area context inside the block? I would like to align content in block when in left area and "flip" the block content when placed in right area.

Hi In previous versions of Umbraco I used to use the UrlRewriting file to get an URL which was built like /GetCustomer?id=2®ion=1 This was cleaned up to look like /GetCustomer/2/1/John What would be the correct way to do this in Umbraco 13? Thank you

A client uploaded some really big image files to the media library (as in, 11000 x 8000 pixels). The file size was reasonable due to heavy jpeg compression, but of course ImageProcessor choked when trying to resize the images, resulting in multiple server restarts. Is there any way to limit the allowed image dimensions as well as file size when uploading images? (I suppose I could write an event handler for this but if there is an easier way I would appreciate it. 🙂 )