Just recently a client had asked me an interesting question about Tridion’s Dynamic Component Linking. Â They understood the concepts, but didn’t know how to manage this “feature” across multiple novice authors/editors within their organization. Â So here is what I think the answer is.
In a previous post, I shared an SDL Tridion Custom Url Color Picker (pop-up) extension that read and set values from a single Component field.
This X & Y Coordinate Picker extends the concept to read and set values from multiple fields. Use these patterns in combination with your favorite JQuery or server-side controls to quickly create author-friendly interfaces for nearly any pop-up interface you could design. For other examples see:
Just a quick blog note on the ‘recent’ update by Flickr. Essentially they’ve removed support for http:// and only support https:// requests to the Flickr API – see the note from Flickr Code.
We utilised the excellent ECL Flickr Provider posted by Bart Koopman on SDL Tridion World and after making a tiny tweak all was at peace in the ECL Flickr world!
Simply update the http:// reference to https:// in the api\flickr.cs class, rebuild, deploy and view until your heart is content!
Special thanks to Harald Hoffelinck for working through this!
SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 comes with a lovely new interface (Carbon 2.0) which features a Side Panel navigation that allows users to jump through to other SDL products and remain within the same interface.  What’s also cool is that you can also add your own items and tools to the side panel, and with this simple example, I hope to show you how easy it is.
Many have asked me, “Does ECL support BluePrinting”? My reply is always a solid yes, but (yes there is a but), I should really reply with a question: “Does your external system support BluePrinting”?
Since it is nice that ECL supports BluePrinting, but ECL just exposes items from your external system in SDL Tridion. So for them to be BluePrinted, you should have your ECL Provider make the connection between an SDL Tridion Publication and the specific items you want to show in that context. An ECL item URI contains a Publication URI, so to implement BluePrinting correctly in your provider, you will need to give the child item, the same ECL Item ID as its parent item. The only thing that is tricky there is localization, an ECL item doesn’t really have a localized state, the ECL stub Component can have that state though.
The guys from Content Bloom recently attended the first ever Tridion Developers Summit 2014 so I wanted to shout my enthusiasm from the rooftops in the hopes of attracting even more people next year!
Reverend Green in the Conservatory with the Lead Piping?
Recently I’ve been performing some post-launch improvements to a DD4T site for a client. Â A number of their requests have been along the lines of improving screen element <x> on page <y>.
The project is reasonably large with the website being comprised from a couple of hundred abstract MVC views. Â A good amount of nested, view re-use, with nice generic css classes has actually been a detriment when it comes to tracking down exactly which view screen element <x> originates from.
Occasionally you find a view that includes some ‘start’ and ‘end’ comments in the output.
<!-- Start View: Example --> View contents go here... <!-- End View: Example -->
There was a great workshop this week at the Tridion Developer Summit, where we discussed Experience Manager implementations. Here are a few tips taken from that:
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
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