Posted on: April 30th, 2013 by Ryan Durkin | No Comments
For those that don’t know, we love to embrace new ideas and technology. One of the ways we do this is by running a dedicated day every month for everyone at Building Blocks to work on something away from their main project work. There are no rules – as long as it interests you and [...]
Posted on: October 12th, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | No Comments
We all know that restarting Tridion Services can be a real pain especially on a development server that may have every single service installed on it. A quick and easy way to do this is to write a Windows Batch file to restart these for you. On your Tridion server, all you need to do [...]
Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | No Comments
UPDATE 22nd March 2013: Click here to read Rob’s detailed overview of the new features and updates in SDL Tridion 2013 At the MVP Retreat last week I managed to get a sneak preview of some of the new features in SDL Tridion 2013 and I’ve been given the go ahead to share them with the [...]
Posted on: October 1st, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | 1 Comment
I’ve just spent a fantastic 4 days with some incredibly talented individuals. The SDL Tridion MVP Retreat is for those people who have gone over and above their day jobs and have spent their own time contributing good quality content and help to the wider SDL Tridion community. I arrived on the first day slightly [...]
Posted on: March 30th, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | 1 Comment
This week I was lucky enough to head over to Amsterdam for one of their SDL Tridion User Interface 2012 Bootcamps. This one was hosted by the brilliant Nuno Linhares who showed us all the new interface as well as how to configure and install the product. The new interface (formerly known as SiteEdit) is [...]
Posted on: March 23rd, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | 1 Comment
After my previous post that explained how I put together a quick 2011 Custom Page to publish pages in a structure group, I thought it would be pretty easy to convert that to publish specific components too, so I did! Create a page with the following: A text box for the TCM Id of the [...]
Posted on: February 20th, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | 2 Comments
Towards the end of last year I needed to create a quick and simple replica of the SDL Tridion 2009 Page Publisher Power Tool for SDL Tridion 2011. Here’s how I did it: Create a page with the following: A text box for the TCM Id of the Structure Group containing the pages you would [...]
Posted on: January 3rd, 2012 by Ryan Durkin | 1 Comment
Installing the new .Net Content Delivery Service in SDL Tridion Service Pack 1 is incredibly easy. This post assumes that you have already updated your Content Manager and Content Delivery environments to Service Pack 1. The first step is to create a new folder to hold the .Net web application: Next, go to your SP1 [...]
Posted on: December 8th, 2011 by Ryan Durkin | No Comments
SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 was released in the middle of November and it’s got lots of interesting new features that we’re really excited about (geeky, I know). As well as some of these new features the focus was also on ensuring that the software is stable and future proof. All the hotfixes since the launch [...]
Posted on: November 10th, 2011 by Ryan Durkin | 2 Comments
In a previous blog post I covered how to import content into SDL Tridion using the new WCF Service in 2011. In this post I am going to cover how you can use that content, publish it to the Broker database and then display it on your website. The first step is to create a [...]