Category Archives: Development and templating

Integration: SDL Tridion & JW Media Player

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Often clients have a need to embed videos within their rich text content fields of various formats (FLV, mp4 or streaming via RTMP).  Pasting video embed code is one way to deal with this, the video and it’s dependant files need would to be published separately in Tridion with the video URL hardcoded as part of the content.  This is not an elegant, nor a user-friendly solution.

The JW Player Video Renderer module allows the non-technical user to include a video Multimedia Component as a Component Link within their rich text field.  All that is required is a little bit of configuration and a TBB.

Here is the code: Tridion JW Vide0 Renderer.zip

And the document that explains it all: JW Video Player Tridion Integration.pdf

Remove HTML whitespace from the template output

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HTML published from Tridion is typically created using Tridion Dreamweaver Templates (DWTs).  These templates can involve a lot of ‘If’ statements to check that values exist or what their value is etc.  I like to put line breaks between each DWT statement so that its easier to read and work with, which usually looks something like this (actually it can get a lot crazier than this!):

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Displaying item XML in the GUI with interface extensions

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Yoav Niran has written and blogged about another great Tridion GUI extension.  This time  providing a really elegant solution for developers/users that need to see the full XML content of an given item without having to (in my case) faff about with ID’s, Paths or templates.

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Special characters within Tridion webdav URL’s

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Obtaining an item from the Tridion database can either be done via Tridion TCM ID, or using the item webdav path. The latter is always the safest bet in the event the item has been deleted and recreated or the code is being moved over different environments but if the item name contains special characters you’ll need a resource which lists what they are .

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Why won’t this publication delete? – Published items

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Within Tridion, should you need to delete a publication you need to ensure the following:

  • No pages in the publication are published
  • There are dependencies on the publication, child publications etc.

Normally it’s a simple case of un-publishing everything you need, removing these dependencies then away you go.

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