Live preview feature (Orchard.ContentPreview back-port; Lombiq Technologies: WESD-1)

[Piedone]

A back-port from the Orchard Core Orchard.ContentPreview module with the live preview feature. It's as close to the original module as possible. Done by @I3undy.

• The module is intended work exactly as it works in Orchard Core.
• Made the module compatible with the TinyMCE editor and the Layout Editor. Apart from these no enhancements or functionality changes are made to the module.

[sebastienros]

Awesome!!!!
I remember a problem that was making it hard to do in O1, so please check that. When we create a new content item (.New) then a record is created in the database, maybe a new version actually, so we need to check every Render() call is not creating a new one. Or if it does then that it's not an issue.

[Piedone]

Hmm, @I3undy please chime in but I don't think a persistent record is created on New() (record objects are, but they won't have an auto-increment Id assigned either). In any case we didn't notice any performance or other issues.

[Piedone]

I just checked and it's not creating new versions during the preview, i.e. no new records e.g. in the Orchard_Framework_ContentItemVersionRecord table.

[sebastienros]

Will we get a demo on Tuesday?

[Piedone]

Yes!