cofoundry-cms/cofoundry

Cofoundry is a .NET Core code-first CMS and application platform

Bailey Ammons

@bammons

I know nothing gets answered here, but I'll ask anyway. Is migrating to blob storage as easy as moving the current images in to blob storage and activating the plugin? Also, does the current configuration support multiple cofoundry instances attached to the same blob storage?

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

Hey @bammons , generally I encourage to post an issue as any knowledge added here is lost in the thread pretty quickly, but issues live on for others to find. Anyway, I’m not in front of a pc right now but i expect that you can just transfer the files, the names will be the same. I also believe i added an option to the azure plugin to allow you to set a prefix, which will enable you use the account for multiple instances

My original thinking though was that storage accounts themselves don’t cost anything, only the data in them, so it wasn’t a big deal that you needed one per instance.

Bailey Ammons

@bammons

@HeyJoel thank you for the advice. I'll make sure to start posting to GH from now on.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

Fyi i did check the azure repo and it doesnt look like i added the prefix to the settings, i was probably thinking of an s3 plugin i made recently.

It should be pretty easy to add if you needed it

Bailey Ammons

@bammons

Yeah I looked through the source and didn't see that either. I think we'll be fine with a storage resource/instance

could be a handy feature for the future, but not something that we would need right this moment

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

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Khyri Carter

@Carter702

@HeyJoel It looks like when using the Azure plugin, the container name defaults to "imageassetcache". We would like to use unique container names for each instance. Submitted cofoundry-cms/Cofoundry.Plugins.Azure#3

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

Hey @Carter702 , this sounds similar to baileys question above. It’s not supported, as i expected devs to use a storage account per instance, since they are costed per use and not by instance. I did have a look at adding the feature but it’s non trivial to support it with backwards compat. I’ll look into it tho as it seems there’s some interest in it.

For now you’d have to implement the changes yourself based on our source.

Khyri Carter

@Carter702

@HeyJoel thanks for the quick response. We were originally planning on a storage account per instance as well, however Azure limits storage accounts to 250 per subscription/region. I will look more into implementing this ourselves, appreciate the help!

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

Oh, i did not know that. Ok it’s on the list todo.

Khyri Carter

@Carter702

@HeyJoel When using the Azure plugin, images are not being deleted from the Azure Storage Account/Container after deleting them on the admin site. I see the deleted images sitting in the AssetFileCleanupQueueItem table but I am not seeing any calls to the delete methods in AzureBlobFileService.cs being made.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

The files are cleaned up a periodically in a background task. Currently there’s no default background task runner implementation, so you need to install the hangfire plugin to get background tasks to run.

Khyri Carter

@Carter702

ok thanks

naz-B

@naz-B

hi. my custom entity details page is getting a 404.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

@naz-B hi there, can you post an issue with detailed information please

Bailey Ammons

@bammons

@HeyJoel is there a way to create an admin user in code?

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

@bammons are you running latest? You should find commands in ‘IAdvancedContentRepository’

Bailey Ammons

@bammons

Okay, cool. Looks like we're on 0.9.1

naz-B

@naz-B

@HeyJoel in the IAdvancedContentRepository how do we save an image? can you please link an example code?

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

@naz-B I assume you're having trouble with IUploadedFile, as I asked before, please post an issue with detailed information (the answer can then be found by others). I have created an issue for you and answered here: cofoundry-cms/cofoundry#471

naz-B

@naz-B

thanks @HeyJoel

naz-B

@naz-B

hi @HeyJoel im getting InvalidOperationException: Unable to resolve service for type 'Cofoundry.Web.FormFileUploadedFileFactory' while attempting to activate 'Cofoundry.Samples.SimpleSite.RegisterViewComponent'. for fileuploadfactory

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

It should be IFormFileUploadedFileFactory

Inject the interface not the concrete type

naz-B

@naz-B

yeah thats the interface i am injecting. i am getting the above error though.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

It works for me in the latest version of the sample project. You should be using .net core 3.1, not 5 or 6. If you are continuing to have problems please post a reproducible code excerpt to the Cofoundry issue log on github.

irdublu

@irdublu

Just attempting my first site. Does anyone know if it is possible to delete and replace an image in the Split Content Split Section Page Block Type or must the entire block be deleted then start again? Is it OK to ask here or should I ask this on the Issues section on GitHub?

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

You can edit a block after it has been created. Hover over and you should see an edit button. When editing you should be able to change the asset to another

irdublu

@irdublu

@HeyJoel Thanks for quick reply. I'm in SimpleSite. I see Edit. When clicked it opens 'Edit Content Block. That shows Title, Text and Image Asset. In Image Asset is an image. I see no way to change it for another image. Clicking the cog offers nothing new, just a ticked tick box and Select, Cancel and Filter buttons. This is why it seems I must delete the whole Block including the text and its formatting.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

@irdublu the plus icon in the right hand side of the asset picker allows you to add a new asset. You can also manage image assets separately in their section add/delete etc

I've thought about the idea of "owned" assets, whereby the image asset could appear to be uploaded directly against a custom entity or block, bypassing the asset library. I think that would be useful for some as it makes it a simpler UX at the expense of reusability.

irdublu

@irdublu

@HeyJoel I'm wondering if the answer is I was using version 0.9.0 with SkiaSharp v0.3.0. I installed versions 0.10.0 and 0.4.0 into a new VS solution and now see what you describe. Thank you.

I've looked at the GitHub Docs and Issues page and here in Gitter but have not found anything to explain the proper way to copy an existing site to a new site, in other words to replicate an existing site into a new Visual Studio Solution. Is it a matter of scripting the original db into a new db and setting the new VS project's appsettings connectionstring to the new db?

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

@irdublu yes, just copy the files and then either create a new database or copy the database if you want to keep your content data. You’ll also need to copy asset files which by default are in the app_data folder, but it depends on your setup

irdublu

@irdublu

@HeyJoel Just to be clear, when you say copy the files, are you referring to the VS Project files, Assets and App_Data and then make a new db? Wouldn't all the pages be lost? My understanding is the pages only exist in the db and not in VS files. Is that wrong? The pages are what have taken so much time to create.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

The content (pages etc) are stored in the database, so yes you’ll need to copy the database to keep the content

irdublu

@irdublu

Great, many thanks.

irdublu

@irdublu

I must be missing something here :-
I have included HtmlToolbarPreset.AdvancedFormatting in the ContentSectionDataModel and it works. I've read #202, tried to implement it and find it just offers the BasicFormatting toolbar, probably because I do not know what string and object to pass in. Clearly I don't understand this topic sufficiently and, as #202 was raised 4 years ago, wonder if something new exists to customise a toolbar to include more features such as indent, text colour, background colour, font size and line spacing.

I do not see how to indent text other than typing loads of spaces. Also, text that is a bullet point or numeric shows as indented in the editor but when viewed in Preview, it reverts back to being left aligned against the left margin. Does anyone else see this?

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

Have you looked at the docs for the html annotation? Its details a lot of the configuration https://www.cofoundry.org/docs/content-management/data-model-annotations/html

It sounds like you will want a custom toolbar to add additional buttons for indentation

irdublu

@irdublu

@HeyJoel Sorry about that. I was so fixed on looking in Gitter and GitHub issues pages, I missed the Docs!
Got that working, thanks but now wondering how to implement the Tiny non-premium plug-ins.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with that and it’s been a while since I worked on the html editor. Perhaps you could post an issue if you’re having trouble getting what you want working

irdublu

@irdublu

Thanks and good timing. I posted Issue 506 about an hour ago. I see you have replied so will take a look.

Stefan Moonen

@Qonstrukt

Hey @HeyJoel, it's been a while and I've been setting up a new development environment for our site with Cofoundry 0.10.3 as a few developers are now helping with it. I've been busy setting up a local MSSQL database, and as such was setting up Cofoundry anew as well, but I run into an issue logging in. I keep getting into a login loop. I can create the first user using the setup correctly, but logging in does nothing else than return this;

info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[1]
      Request starting HTTP/1.1 GET http://localhost:5123/admin/dashboard  
info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization.DefaultAuthorizationService[2]
      Authorization failed.
info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies.CookieAuthenticationHandler[12]
      AuthenticationScheme: Cofoundry_UserArea_Scheme_COF was challenged.
info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[2]
      Request finished in 1.8625ms 302 
info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics[1]
      Request starting HTTP/1.1 GET http://localhost:5123/admin/auth/login?ReturnUrl=%2Fadmin%2Fdashboard

Do you have any clue what might be causing this? Could it be the new password hashing? Connecting to an existing database is still working fine.
I'm running from a clean Docker container, no Data Protection, no cache.

Joel Mitchell

@HeyJoel

The error seems to indicate that authentication was successful (pw hash fine), but there is some issue with the cookie or authorizing permissions on the route.. not sure what offhand. We introduced various security enhancements including some cookie invalidation techniques so perhaps something to do with that. U mention docker, are u running linux? Any custom auth or cookie code?

Stefan Moonen

@Qonstrukt

Not running anything custom no. I've been changing my Startup.cs to be more in line with the latest sample updates. Using AddControllersWithViews instead of AddMvc and stuff like that. I keep everything very basic at this point.

Stefan Moonen

@Qonstrukt

A cookie doesn't seem to be set at all. Could it be that not using SSL might be the issue?

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