Last week SDL / Nuno Linhares gave a fantastic presentation to the SDL Tridion community (watch online and slides available) about the cool new technical features available in SDL Tridion 2013.
I’ve provided a little summary after the jump, but really you should be clicking the link above and watching this first major presentation for SDL Tridion 2013. Â Thanks to all involved in the webinar 
I was fortunate to have a preview version the up and coming 2013 release of SDL Tridion to play with. One new feature is Bundles, which is basically a new type of organizational item, which allows you to group together related items, and do operations on them as a whole. Typically this would be putting it through workflow, or publishing them all together in a single transaction, but one nice thing about them is that you can use them however you want to, just add items into a bundle, and use it however you need to.
The new release of Content Porter will also be bundle-aware, which got me thinking that there should be an easy way to keep track of changed items during development using bundles to avoid the pain of keeping track manually. It turns out to be really easy using the Event System.
February 13, 2012 at 10:50 UTC Dave Houlker proposed a new site idea on Area 51, the Stack Exchange Network staging zone.
Today, March 13, 2013 after 22 days of private beta, the new Tridion Stack Exchange site is now open to the public! Continue reading
I recently installed Content Porter 2009 SP2 Server and Client on the same server as the SDL Tridion Content Manager(CM) 2011 SP1.
Exporting worked totally fine, the zip was created and sat there just dying to be imported… so I thought ‘great, just a quick test of importing and I’m done’.
I came across a nice library that allows you to create and manipulate PDF documents. Apart from creating PDF documents from scratch, you can also read existing ones, convert XML to PDF, fill out interactive PDF forms, stamp new content on existing PDF documents, split and merge existing PDF documents, and much more. The best part of it is that there is a C# port available which is open source, it’s called iTextSharp. Now I haven’t explored all features of it, like PDF creation, but so far it already looks very usable.
Looking for the SDL Tridion PowerTools
A piece of advise that I learned from a wise Tridion sensei is that it’s not a good practice to localize pages in Tridion if you have a multi-lingual site (though there is an exception to this rule which I’ll discuss below). Â The reason for this is simple: you lose the ability to centrally manage your site from the Master web publication. Â Once a page is localized, you have to manage it individually, which is not ideal if you want to centrally update component presentations on a page across all the language sites. Â So what do you do if you want to obey the rule of not localizing pages and your customer asks to have localized/translated URLs?Â
Here is a quick Tridion tip. Â If publishing fails with an error: “Request Entity Too Large”, it means that the size of the package is larger than what the Deployer is allowed to accept. Â To resolve the issue, simply increase the HTTPSReceiver MaxSize attribute in the cd_deployer_conf.xml file. Â What scenarios could cause this…
I have recently ran into a dilemma where if an HTML 5 data attribute (any attribute in the form of data-*) was added to an anchor tag within a Rich Text Field, the Tridion GUI would strip it out. Â There are a couple of solutions to this problem…Â
Recently a client required a way of creating and storing ‘dynamic’ values within the content managed in SDL Tridion. Â By ‘dynamic’, this could be anything from loan rates, petrol prices or the cost of a pint of beer. Â So today ‘pint_beer_cost’ could be $3.50, tomorrow it could be $4.50. Â Having to go through all stored content and replace $3.50 with $4.50, every time there is a need to change a value would be quite painful.