Posted on: April 11th, 2012 by Chris Morgan | 1 Comment
Publisher filtering is often a request from clients with high volume publishing requirements and until recently had managed to evade my radar. Judging by feedback from others in the Tridion world, I am not alone. In this article, prioritization does not mean complete dominance of the publishing queue, instead it refers to the allocation of resources dedicated [...]
Posted on: April 4th, 2012 by Dave Houlker | No Comments
Stack Exchange is a network of websites, all sharing the same Question and Answer format. The platform was spawned from the hugely successful Stack Overflow website, which Techies will be familiar with, as one of the best places to get answers to programming questions on the web. The reason Stack Overflow is so successful is that its community [...]
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 | No 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 [...]
Posted on: September 21st, 2011 by Ryan Durkin | 1 Comment
Nuno Linhares has a great article on Setting up the Deployer and the new 2011 Content Delivery Service here but I feel it has too many steps to follow for most of our Building Blocks scenarios. Most of our scenarios are when the Content Manager and Content Delivery server has already been installed and set [...]
Posted on: August 17th, 2011 by Ryan Durkin | 5 Comments
Another quick post to demonstrate the use of the Core Service in SDL Tridion 2011. This time it’s to do with publishing components from a specified folder. I’ve created a method that accepts a Tcm Id of a Target Type and the Tcm Id of a folder. The code then loops through the folder specified [...]