I am trying to upgrade to U13 from latest 12 but I run into heaps of issues. After upgrading VS multiple times and installing dotnet 8.0 SDK etc I try to run my project. It wants to find the source for System.Globalization\GlobalizationMode.cs for debugging. Have you experienced similar problems and managed to proceed with the upgrade? What did you do in that case? Cheers and happy X-mas!

What are the recommended minimum requirements for hosting Umbraco (13+) on-prem? I can only seem to find that the minimum recommended Azure tier is S2 but nothing about on prem. What would the equivalent for a server be?

I have a custom blocklist property as part of a document type. It's very simple and only accepts one block component type. I am trying to access this property in my code. While following the umbraco documentation here: https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/fundamentals/backoffice/property-editors/built-in-umbraco-property-editors/block-editor/block-list-editor, It tells me it returns an IEnumerable. On that same page, it says that I can pull the value as that or BlockListModel... but with either, it returns null.

if (content.HasProperty("locations"))
{
    var locations = content.GetValue<BlockListModel>("locations");
    (or)
    var locations = content.GetValue<IEnumerable<BlockListItem>>("locations");
    ...
}

If I pull the value as a string or dynamic object, it will show as:

{"layout":{"Umbraco.BlockList":[{"contentUdi":"umb://element/74437d1928534a9287430056e140b99b"},{"contentUdi":"umb://element/382ddba6783948b28696798b3b6dad16"}]},"contentData":[{"contentTypeKey":"0285ad7f-763f-4bc5-80be-45f85f8a39e6","udi":"umb://element/74437d1928534a9287430056e140b99b","city":"Colville","stateA":"[\"WA\"]","name":"Colville Toyota"},{"contentTypeKey":"0285ad7f-763f-4bc5-80be-45f85f8a39e6","udi":"umb://element/382ddba6783948b28696798b3b6dad16","stateA":"[\"OR\"]","name":"Coos Bay Toyota","city":"Coos Bay"}],"settingsData":[]}

In converting to the BlockListModel, it has to be erroring causing it to return null; right? I need to pull the values this way because I am using those values to calculate other properties and then save that property to the document. Anyone running into this or have a solution? Is this enough info? I feel like I've tried quite a bit without success.

Hi! What would be the best way (/does anyone have a snippet) for downloading a file from the Media library, given that we've identified the URL for that file - i.e.

var myMediaUrl = "/media/k3sd2q2z/myFile.pdf"

. Intended use is for a Controller and/or button form submission (i.e. press the Download button, download the file). Bonus points for having multiple media file URLs, compressing them all into one .ZIP file and downloading that .ZIP file. TIA! Rich Umbraco v13

In a class using IUmbracoContextFactory, I'm trying to get the Guid of a node for later use, but all I get is a load of 00000's. I've tried many things but none work. I think this should work but it doesn't:

var orderConfirmedGuid = siteRoot.DescendantsOrSelf<GeneralPage>().Where(x => x.Name == "Order Confirmed").FirstOrDefault().GetUdi().AsGuid();

I can get the Id, so I know the Name string is correct, but not the Guid. Any ideas? Thanks.

From v13 methods such as umbracohelpers

ContentSingleAtXPath

is being deprecated. For example, we get our global settings node as such:

var globalSettings = (GlobalSettings)_umbracoHelper.ContentSingleAtXPath("//globalsettings");

How can we get the same published content but adhering to current conventions? Looking at the documentation there is a method

Content

that takes a

guid

, but we do not wish to rely on a hard coded guid for this scenario. We need to base this on what the slug is named within the backoffice. And yes, we know there might be other approaches that do not rely on the slug to solve this, but this is our current scenario and not the only instance we need to cater to.

Hi there, What's the best practice to restrict umbraco backoffice to public? We found blocking /umbraco#/ in URL but not all of the firewalls capable of doing this.

Hello everyone, I am encountering some challenges with handling Save and Publish events in Umbraco, specifically using SaveAndPublishHandler class. Here are the details of my issue: **Problem Description**: I have implemented a SaveAndPublishHandler class in Umbraco to handle Saved and Published events for content items. The goal is to send an HTTP POST request to an external endpoint whenever content is saved or published with a specific ParentId (in my case, ParentId 1249). *Code : *

c#
        public SaveAndPublishHandler(IContentService contentService)
        {
            _contentService = contentService;
        }

        public void Initialize()
        {
            ContentService.Saved += ContentService_Saved;
        }

        public void Terminate()
        {
            ContentService.Saved -= ContentService_Saved;
        }

        private void ContentService_Saved(IContentService sender, SaveEventArgs<IContent> e)
        {
            foreach (var content in e.SavedEntities)
            {
                if (content.ParentId == 1249)
                {
                    var dataToSend = new { ContentId = content.Id, Title = content.Name };
                    var json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dataToSend);
                    var contentToSend = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

                    using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
                    {
                        var endpointUrl = "http://localhost:65137/umbraco/surface/UpdateApprovedAccount/UpdateApprovedAccountV2"; 

                        var response = httpClient.PostAsync(endpointUrl, contentToSend).Result;

                        var responseContent = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Composing :

c#
public void Compose(Composition composition) {
composition.Components().Append<SaveAndPublishHandler>();
}

Hi there 👋, I'm trying to host my Umbraco 13 CMS on my debian server. I installed .net8.0, umbraco (along with its templates), created a .service file so the CMS can run as a service and ran

dotnet publish --os linux

. Before running the service i started the web with dotnet build and synchornized some files so it installation would match my lcoal dev. That said, with

dotnet build

Umbraco worked perfectly fine - frontend, backend, file handling all went well. But with the service running the backend doesn't seem to work anymore. The browser is trying to fetch files like https://mydomain.com/umbraco/login/login.iife.js but the kestrel server just returns a 404. Nothing obvious is logged. I didn't find anything similiar yet - has anyone an idea what might be the cause / solution to the cause? This is my .service file:

[Unit]
Description=Noels umbraco CMS web
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/html/myWebProject/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /var/www/html/myWebProject/bin/Release/net8.0/linux-x64/publish/myWebProject.dll
SyslogIdentifier=NCSumbraco
User=root
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
KillSignal=SIGINT
Environment=ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production
Environment=DOTNET_PRINT_TELEMETRY_MESSAGE=false
Environment=ASPNETCORE_URLS=https://*:44332

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks!

We have suffered from this issue before when setting up a new project on Azure. Old thread: https://discord.com/channels/869656431308189746/1183873525031911554 Now, we are seeing this issue on local development on localhost:8080 on a project where we're upgrading from Umbraco 10 to 13. After logging into the CMS, there is about a 40-60 second wait. Then there is a call to

/umbraco/backoffice/umbracoapi/authentication/GetRemainingTimeoutSeconds

that returns:

)]}',
0.0

Upon which the user is logged out showing message "Session timed out." We have tried using incognito mode to rule out cookies, as well as completely fresh browser profile in Chrome. Are we missing something completely basic for this problem to occur? appsetting Umbraco.CMS.Global.TimeOut is set to

08:00:00

. 8 hours is more than 1 minute. We have not supplied any other setting that should affect this. In our previous 'fresh' project the settings were also default. Umbraco.CMS.Security.KeepUserLoggedIn is not set to

true

thus it should be interpreted as the default

false

. > When set to false a user will be logged out after a specific amount of time has passed with no activity. You can specify this time span in the global settings with the TimeOut key. This is exactly what we've done. Umbraco.CMS.Security.AllowConcurrentLogins is showing a bit of a strange behavior. We don't have this defined at all. But setting it to true, and then restarting Umbraco, and then simply reloading the browser window of the recently auto-logged out user in a fresh browser profile will automatically log them in and show the backoffice. Logging out above mentioned user and then logging in seems to work fine as well.

GetRemainingTimeoutSeconds

returns the full 8 hours. However, logging out, setting

AllowConcurrentLogins

to false again and then logging back in, the problem reappears. In our tests, this is the only browser window using the site. Why are we seeing this problem?