Today Bart Koopman from SDL and Mihai Cădariu from Mihai Consulting presented two really interesting topics at today’s November SDL Tridion Webinar:Â
If you missed the webinar the resources are available after the jump.
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.
On a recent project, we had a couple of interesting requirements with regards to link management on the site, one of which was to rid the site of web page file extensions (no page or link should have a .html or other extension, and index pages should also have the index file name removed (so /news/index.html would be shown as /news/).
The site was driven by the Content Delivery OData web service, so the best place to implement this was using a custom tcdl:Link tag. This article I show you how you can easily do this
Most implementations I have worked on have sections of the website which consist of some kind of listing, which links through to pages containing detailed content. The details pages themselves contain a single ‘Full Article’ component presentation, and are often auto-created and published using the event system. As such, the pages do not really serve any purpose other than providing a definition of the url for an article.Â
This article shows an alternative approach to get rid of pages for a certain section of your site and use the features of ASP.NET MVC to show content without losing ‘real’ urls
I was recently asked by a customer how they could pass some additional information to dynamic links (in this case, adding query string parameters to resolved component links). Easy I said, just extend the Tridion.ContentDelivery.Web.UI.ComponentLink web control, add a property for the parameters, and ensure this is added to the resolved link URL. I had in fact recommended this approach several times before, however I never actually implemented it myself. It was not quite as straightforward as I had expected, so this post shows you some code to get this done if you face a similar requirement.
Creating a architecture presentation the other day helped to crystallise some thoughts in my head on integrating a CMS like Tridion, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
I have been involved with such matters before (see my SDL Tridion World Article on how to technically integrate a CDN through Storage Extensions) but I thought it was worth sharing my ideas on the considerations when working with a CMS and CDN.
SDL Tridion’s Enterprise Content Management features are a good match for companies with a truly global digital presence and audience. Such companies are also those most likely to benefit from the scaling features offered by a global Content Delivery Network, so Tridion + CDN is a hot topic.
SDL Tridion introduced a new target language in the 2011 release – rather mysteriously named REL. Discussions on what exactly this is for tend to very quickly get rather technical and revolve around Dynamic Rendering, developing custom tags in Java, the new Content Delivery web service and such.
I got a question recently about how the .NET version of Tridion Content Delivery figures out where your configuration files are located.
As I didn’t know all of the details, I decided to investigate and share my findings here. Continue reading