Orchard Core CMS | PGHDOTNET

[@alexanderwilliams6527]

Flexible, very extensible. You forget to mention powerful, even the more you learn it 😊

[@Manithan123]

How to setup Orchard core CMS with SQL Server backend?

[@daveanderson8348]

What's the point of continually adding features if existing features like this Workflow from years ago (built by Sipke) don't work? Years ago, I tried to build something realistic together with colleagues for a few months. It was a disaster. You'll be fighting Orchard's bugs more than what you actually want to build. This OrchardCore has too many problems to list. But one thing is certainly the worst of them all and that is reliability. You can never rely on it. There were always too many bugs. It's a framework/CMS that you use and hope it works. You hope that if you do something according to the documentation, it still works. You hope that next week will continue to work and you hope that if there is a new minor release, existing features will still continue to work, you hope and you hope... You can never rely on it.

[@appstratum9747]

He fiddled about with the Workflow a couple of times but ended up putting the connection arrow the wrong way around (again). At least this part works fine. Not that the feature shouldn't do some validation and have better support for debugging. It's a very basic feature, though, in its current implementation. It's fair to say that some bits of OC work very well. My major criticism of it is that it's built for developers rather than end users. The content model is confusing for non-technical users to understand quickly and intuitively. It shows its complexity rather than hides it. Personally I can live with that because I use bits of the platform that are very stable and they're very useful. You've obviously worked a lot with the bits that aren't. 🙂 To be fair I've used other libraries (and products from major vendors such as Oracle and IBM as well as a number of NoCode / Low Code vendors) that really aren't (or weren't) anywhere near as good as OC. The implementation of OC is a bit old fashioned and clunky in places. It's a shame that's the case because I like much of what it's trying to do and many of the features that come out of the box. I like it, though. And it genuinely is very useful. But I take your tale of caution seriously.

[@zfold4702]

I am experiencing the same frustration. Today's will be the last day I will spend on this. Next I will move on to evaluate DNN. I need something on .NET