Glimpse.Orchard

A Glimpse extension for the Orchard CMS. Note- this plugin is currently in active development, and has not yet reached a stable release milestone.

See http://getglimpse.com/ for more information about Glimpse.

Installation steps

1. Clone this repo into a folder called Glimpse.Orchard in your Modules folder.
2. Open your Orchard solution in Visual Stufio, and add the Glimpse.Orchard project to your Modules folder.
3. The module requires the Glimpse NuGet package to be installed. If you have NuGet package retore enabled, you can just build your solution. If not, then right-click the Glimpse.Orchard project in the Solution Explorer window in Visual Studio, click Manage NuGet Packages... and then click the Resore button. This will download and install the require Glimpse packages into the module.
4. Next, add the Glimpse.Core NuGet package to your Orchard.Web project. The easiest way to do this is to right-click on the solution name in your Solution Explorer window in visual studio, select Manage NuGet Packages For Solution... to open the Package Manager Diaglog, select Installed Packages and then click the Manage button next to the Glimpse Core package. Find the Orchard.Web project in the Select Projects window, and ensure that the checkbox next to it is ticked. Do the same with the Glimpse ASP.Net package.
5. Finally, you need to slightly re-arrange the Web.config file in your Orchard.Web project as Orchard out of the box has a catch all route that will take precedence over your Glimpse routes:

• Find the line <add name="Glimpse" path="glimpse.axd" verb="GET" type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpHandler, Glimpse.AspNet" preCondition="integratedMode" /> in the handlers section, and move it above the line <add name="NotFound" path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" preCondition="integratedMode" requireAccess="Script" />

Testing

You should now be able to navigate to ~/glimpse.axd and see the Glimpse Configuration Page. If not, then you should check the instructions above for steps you may have missed or got wrong.

You should also be able to enable Glimpse, and then see the Glimpse bar appear as you navigate around your site.

However, you will not be able to see any Orchard specific tabs yet. To enable these tabs, you need to enable the Glimpse for Orchard feature.

Enabling Orchard specific tabs

If you would like to see tabs that are specific to Orchard (eg Widgets, Layers, Content Manager etc...), then you will need to do two more things:

1. Find the Orchard.Web project in your solution in Visual Studio, and add a project reference to the Glimpse.Orchard project you added to your solution during the installatiuon steps.
2. Build and run your solution, navigate to the Modules page and your admin area, find the feature called Glimpse for Orchard and enable it.

Once you have done this, you can enable and disable the Orchard tabs by simply toggling the Glimpse for Orchard feature on each of your sites.