Umbraco CMS Questions & Answers

To configure and install Umbraco, follow the steps given below: 

Download and install the latest ‘.NET SDK’ on your system 

Open a terminal/command prompt and run:

In the terminal, run:

Run the following command to start the project:

Open your browser and navigate to

https://localhost:5001

(or your configured port)

Follow the prompts to set up your admin account and configure the database

To create a simple form in Umbraco, follow the steps given below:

• Open your Umbraco account
• Navigate to the Forms section
• Click the more ‘...’ option beside the Forms folder
• Click on Create
• Select ‘New Form’
• Name the form
• Hit the ‘Add Question’ button to add a new field
• Choose the field type
• Input the required details
• Hit Submit

To create and delete additional environments on Umbraco, follow the steps given below:

• Open your Umbraco Cloud portal
• Go to your project
• Click on ‘Manage Environments’
• Now you can add new environments by clicking ‘Create Environment’ and delete existing ones by clicking on the environment you wish to remove and pressing the ‘Delete’ option

Working with a local clone of an Umbraco project requires first cloning the project from your Umbraco Cloud repository using a GUI tool such as SourceTree or a Git client such as Git Bash. After that, open the project in your preferred IDE and run it locally to access and edit the website code and content on your computer.

How to connect to an Umbraco Cloud database, follow the steps given below:

• Open your Umbraco account
• Navigate to your Umbraco Cloud Project
• Click on the ‘Configuration’ option in the side menu on your project
• Hit ‘Connections’
• Press on the ‘Add new IP address’ option under SQL Azure firewall rules
• Input the IP that is allowed to access the database.
• Name the IP aswell

To create a multi-page form with Umbraco, follow the steps given below:

• Log in to the Umbraco Backoffice
• Make a new form
• Configure the first page
• Make the second page
• Include logical conditions
• Make the final page
• Put the form on a website
• Change the form's settings
• Create a front-end render for the form
• Test the form

To add a technical contact on Umbraco Cloud, follow the steps given below:

• Open your Umbraco account
• Select the desired project
• Click on ‘Edit Team’ from the ‘Overview menu’ tab
• In the Technical Contact section, hit ‘Add Technical Contact’
• In the Add New Technical Contact window, input the required information of the contact
• Hit Confirm

Setting up a blog in Umbraco is relatively easy. To do this, follow the steps below:

• Open your Umbraco account
• Make a new blog section
• Make a partial view, model, and controller for a blog post list
• Display the latest blog entries
• Arrange the content items
• Arrange the items by update date

One can maintain a CMS like Umbraco by taking regular backups and updating the platform, optimizing media files, monitoring logs and performance and cleaning up the content regularly.

To sync your Umbraco site from development to production without losing data, follow the steps given below:

• Backup your media files and production database
• Utilize Git to install code
• Transfer the content and database changes using Umbraco Cloud or uSync
• Transfer the media files using a syncing tool or manually
• Test the site on production to ensure everything works.