Liam Goldfinch discusses Owain Williams' demo of Umbraco Automate, highlighting its focus on developer-oriented workflow and integration rather than traditional marketing automation. While it offers extensibility and accessibility for developers, Goldfinch notes that its complexity may hinder adoption by marketers. A more user-friendly interface could enhance its appeal to non-developers.
QR code generation actions for Umbraco Automate, powered by QRCoder.
Owain Williams discusses creating a custom action in Umbraco Automate to convert blog tags into social media hashtags. The action processes tags stored as a JSON array, formatting them with a '#' prefix for seamless integration into posts on platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and LinkedIn, enhancing automation efficiency.
Umbraco Automate, presented by Filip Bech-Larsen, is a drag-and-drop automation tool for Umbraco 17+, enabling users to create limitless automations with native triggers and actions. Its open-source nature allows customization and integration with AI tools, enhancing content production and customer journeys without operational limits.
Read-and-trigger monitor for Umbraco recurring background jobs
Umbraco Automate is an open-source event-driven automation engine integrated into the Umbraco backoffice, allowing users to create workflows without external platforms. Owain Williams shares his experience building social media automation workflows, highlighting a no-code approach to avoid duplicate posts. The tool offers flexibility and potential for further development.
Umbraco Automate, an open-source event-driven automation engine from Umbraco HQ, allows users to create workflows within the backoffice without external tools. Owain Williams shares his experience building connections for social media automation, highlighting a no-code approach to prevent duplicate posts by using a toggle property for content publishing.
Umbraco HQ introduces Umbraco Automate, a workflow automation tool integrated into the Umbraco back office. It allows users to create complex automation chains triggered by events like content changes or media uploads. The tool supports AI integration, human approval steps, and is open source, enhancing backend operations for developers and content administrators.
WeatherAPI.com connection types and actions for Umbraco Automate.
Mats Persson discusses the recent rebranding in the enterprise digital experience platform (DXP) sector, emphasizing the risks of proprietary AI ecosystems. He advocates for a stable, open architecture that prioritizes true enterprise maturity, focusing on enhancing productivity, maintaining flexibility, and ensuring robust AI governance, rather than succumbing to legacy vendor hype.
Create Umbraco documents from external sources (PDF, web pages, markdown) using configurable extraction workflows with rule-based field mapping
The Ubraco playground experiment, hosted by Debbas Gracious and co-hosted by Girish, featured developers presenting their work with Umbraco. Nitesh Babu showcased Better Icons for SVG management, while Natan Ununes discussed MCP server automation. Silano shared migration challenges, and Afrid presented a low-code workflow engine prototype. Author: Umbraco India User Group
Owain Williams describes a method to automate the updating of a GitHub profile README with the latest blog posts using a Python script and GitHub Actions. The setup involves fetching posts from an RSS feed, updating the README, and committing changes daily without manual intervention, ensuring the profile remains current and relevant.
Joe Glombek provides a guide for setting up Act to test GitHub actions locally, particularly for .NET/Azure builds. Key requirements include Docker, GitHub CLI, and Azure CLI. The article outlines necessary commands, file configurations, and tips for disabling specific steps to streamline the process, emphasizing the importance of proper setup for effective testing.
Umbraco Forms V17 Mailchimp Integration WorkflowType
Niels Christian Laursen's article introduces a no-code approach to automating lead flow in Umbraco using webhooks and Zapier. It outlines a step-by-step process for validating, enriching, and routing leads from Umbraco Forms to Zoho CRM, emphasizing the ease of creating powerful automations without coding experience.