The SDL Context Engine Cartridge is a Content Delivery cartridge that integrates with the Ambient Data framework of SDL Tridion. The Context Engine essentially provides a huge amount of information about the device, browser and operating system of your website visitor. Â This seemed like a perfect cartridge to integrate with SDL SmartTarget, so after immediately doing so, I thought I’d share my configuration.
The open source SI4T (Search Integration for Tridion) project allows you to pass through 3 levels of control over what content gets indexed: Firstly, the default, zero-configuration behaviour. Then there is fine-grained configuration via metadata and parameters, and finally total extensibility by coding your own indexing TBBs. This article talks through how you can refine your indexing strategy by passing through these levels. Continue reading
In my previous post about ECL, I’ve discussed querying ECL Metadata in the Broker, by making it available as part of the Multimedia (stub) Component Metadata. Now in that post I explained how it could be copied at Publishing time and the “evil” twists that process came with. In this post I’ll discuss an optional approach, using the SDL Tridion Event System which makes the process of copying external metadata to (normal) metadata less evil (just the process, not the fact that we do it ;o).
So tonight I geeked out and created a boilerplate Java project with debugging properly enabled for Tridion Storage Extensions when publishing Pages to the filesystem.  There are a couple tutorials out there explaining how to do this for ComponentPresentation and for a custom type, but not how to do this Pages.  There are a couple of interesting points with this exercise that aren’t really explained elsewhere, so I thought I’d highlight them with this post.  Also, some copy-paste boilerplate code should be handy.
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.
SDL Tridion is known for its superior capabilities when it comes to managing multi-lingual websites, and such websites typically have a some kind of a switch to allow switching between languages. Â In this article I’ll attempt to explain the concept of setting the Publication Context and how to use Tridion’s Dynamic Linking to allow us not only switch from a site in one language to another, but to do it for any given page on the site.
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).
Yesterday was the first day of the SDL Tridion MVP retreat and I thought it would be nice to share some pictures from the event and the place, plus some of the expected outcomes.