If you hadn’t noticed, SDL Web released a new product recently: Contextual Image Delivery, which in short enables you to resize, crop, trim and convert formats for images. I thought I would see how easy it was to set up in an ASP.NET MVC environment, and it went pretty well, but there are a few subtleties Continue reading
In Bart Koopman’s previous post he asked if we wanted to take the SDL Tridion Template Quick Guides “one step further?” This answers that question with a first analytical step of the microsite in order to create a Web Content Model. This exercise is similar to creating a data model before a database or creating class diagrams before programming. Before setting up a CMS that lets us define how we manage pages and content, we first identify types of pages and their relationship to content and each other.
Caveat: to stay at the “Dummy” level, we pretend we have client and business requirements while assuming and skipping parts. For example, we are assuming the BluePrint is already set up. Easy!
This analysis will make sure you as the template developer and the client know what you’re building together. Frank M. Taylor explains why we really should gather CMS requirements:
“The scope can creep as much as it wants when you never establish it.”
While working on migrating a 2009 Event System to 2013 SP1, I was looking at a requirement implemented to ensure that publishing actions to Live are always mirrored on Staging – thus making sure that Staging also has the latest versions of content, and indeed has old content removed without relying on the Editors remembering to check the Staging checkbox on the Publish popup. The existing code was rather complex, but when I tried playing around with the 2013 Event System in .NET, I found it was rather simple to implement… Continue reading
In enterprise environments there is a high chance of having your SDL Tridion Content Delivery side being hosted on an IBM WebSphere Application Server infrustructure.  Setting up the Tridion Cache Channel Service should be done via the Java Messaging Service at places where such infrastructure exists: the client invested a lot into it probably for a good reason and failover is most likely a key requirement.  In this article we’ll take a look at how to set up the Tridion Cache Channel Service using JMS on IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
With the release of SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, we get a lot of new functionality. One of the interesting features I found was the ability to decommission a Publication Target. This feature is added to the Core Service, and currently not directly available from the UI. Which sounded like a good exercise to make a UI extension, with which you can call this new method.
December is the time to look back, and if you have been doing a sprint of 365 days, now is the time to start to think about the retrospective. That is exactly what the MVP Selection Panel is doing right now. To select the new MVP’s for the SDL Tridion MVP Award program, we need to evaluate each nominee’s voluntary contribution to the SDL Tridion community over the past 12 months. Which is why I would like to mention, it is not too late.
Myself and fellow MVPs Alex Klok, Angel Puntero and Mihai Cadariu came up with an open source framework for Client-side templating during the recent MVP retreat in Portugal. Apart from giving us the chance to mess around with some fairly new technology I like to think that we were putting some solid thought into an area that I expect to see more and more traction in Tridion implementations in the coming couple of years.Â
This post talks through my thoughts on why you might want to execute templates in the browser, and describes the elements we pulled together for our framework. Continue reading
Tridion 2013 SP1 comes with an added bonus for anyone looking to integrate another system with Audience Manager: a new web service which allows you to import and export Contacts and Keywords through the uploading and downloading of CSV files.
During the 2013 SDL Tridion MVP retreat I’ve worked on the FBI extension, also known as the BFF framework. Now some of you might think that all the MVPs do during that event is drink and have fun, which is actually right. The MVPs, love SDL Tridion, they love to code, they like to have fun and they enjoy a drink while they talk. So while at the retreat, they are actually in their natural element since everybody likes the same things and those things are all actually done during their stay (sometimes at the same time). Mind you coding and drinking don’t always mix, liquids dripping out of a laptop is one of the least fun things we actually saw this year.
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As by now you all have gathered, the annual MVP retreat has started and 16 MVPs are currently hard at work in a castle in Óbidos, Portugal. Our team, is working on what was defined on LinkedIn as Custom Editor Screens, for which we chose the working title Tridion Field Behavior Injection (available as open source on Google code of course).