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A Custom Resolver in practice

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Back in February I posted an article about Custom Resolvers. Yesterday I rolled my first Custom Resolver into a production environment, so I figured it was time to share my findings.

Background

To set the scene, it probably helps to explain the business requirements first. We have a large implementation with over 300 publications. Many of these share content, some of which needs to be secured, and links to binaries that also need to be secured. We have a third party security solution, which is implemented as a proxy on top of our published site. The proxy looks for a security.xml in the folder of any request, and then prompts for login etc depending what is contained in the XML file. This works very well for pages, but the pages often link to binaries (which were all contained in the “/images” directory for each publication). In order to secure binaries with different sets of restrictions we needed to bind the binaries in different Structure Groups. To simplify the concept, we decided to publish a variant of each binary linked from a page to the same Structure Group as the page. This has the desired effect of securing all binaries that are linked from secured pages with the same restrictions.  When a binary is linked from multiple secured pages, multiple variants of the binary are published. Continue reading →

Get and Set Variables in DWTs

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Here is a creative and useful set of Dreamweaver Custom Functions that allow instantiating your own variables in a Dreamweaver Tridion template.  Credit goes out to my fellow team members Trevor Bartlett and Riyaz Hameed.

You can do stuff like this:


<!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="Field.columnSection" -->
  <div class="wpsPortlet">       
    <div class="wpsPortletTitle">
      <br />@@Field.title@@</div>
    @@SetVariable(“columnSectionIndex”, "${TemplateRepeatIndex}")@@
    <!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="Field.subColumnSection" -->
    @@GetVariable("columnSectionIndex")@@
    <!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="Field.subTitle" -->
       …
    <!-- TemplateEndRepeat -->
  </div>
<!-- TemplateEndRepeat -->








Here is the code:


/// <summary>
/// Sets a varialbe in the package to the name and value specifed. Also removes any other variable that was set with the same name before.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="variableName">Name of the varialbet</param>
/// <param name="value">Value of the variable</param>
[TemplateCallable()]
public string SetVariable(string variableName, object value)
{
    //Remove the old variable and set the new variable
    _engine.PublishingContext.RenderContext.ContextVariables.Remove(variableName);
    _engine.PublishingContext.RenderContext.ContextVariables.Add(variableName, value);
 
    return "";
}
 
/// <summary>
/// Gets a varialbe from the publishing context.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="variableName">Name of the variable</param>
[TemplateCallable()]
public object GetVariable(string variableName)
{
    //Get the varialbe
    return _engine.PublishingContext.RenderContext.ContextVariables[variableName];
}