The AI revolution
The AI content landscape has transformed dramatically since 2022. What began as simple text generation has evolved into sophisticated AI systems capable of reasoning through structured content and completing complex tasks independently…
Model Context Protocol
In my last post , we discussed how Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is helping to unlock proprietary data sources to AI Agents, and how Tridion Docs’ structured DITA content enriches these tools. This post describes how…
Hi,
A customer has a Tridion Docs installation that uses DTD-based XML from pre-DITA times. What is the best way to switch to DITA in the Tridion Docs environment?
Best regards,
Frank
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We have been using Tridion Docs bridge plugin to XMetaL and Oxygen to insert variables for <ph> elements and now want to also support insert variables for <text> elements.
I have updated the related DTD files to support varref and varid attributes…
Hi everyone, authoring for one of our 65 or so products could move out of our Info Dev organization soon. We know how to back up all the currently active content for the associated docs (Publication exports, publishing to DITA XML, publishing to Tridion…
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Though there are two ways to specify an href attribute of an xref element in TridionDocs, I'd like to know which is better specification method.
- Specify only GUID: <xref href="GUID-0001"/>
- Specify GUIDs connected with # sign: <xref href…
Where exactly in TDX does the publishing output name create the filename structure ( title=version=outputtype=language )?
Is is possible to change this via the transform or XML Publish Plugin Settings to apply something like a bookmap attribute or list…
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One of my users is using Tridon Docs 14.0 SP4 with old DITA-OT 2.3 publishing framework. Yes, DTD is described under the "DocTypes" folder maintained previously SDL.
Now I have received new publishing plug-in development request. Probably the…
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I have some xrefs in my content to GUIDs that are not in my publication.
While the linked to GUID is not in my publication, I can still see the title of that topic presented in HTML vlew in Publication Manager and in Oxygen XML view with processing…
Hello,
We're trying to pinpoint the causes of some intermittent problems with publishing where publishing stalls at the DITA-OT processing step and doesn't seem to progress any further:
Starting DITA-OT step: " Going to run 'ishrunditaot.ps1' to start…
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Is there a way to select an element and find the topics that are referencing the element via conref?
For example, my library topic contains <ph id="abc">Text string</ph>.
I want to find all instances of <ph conref=" library_topic_id /abc" /> in the…
Hi,
For writers who are used to working with and organising their condition rules in a DITAVAL file that can be maintained, shared and reused, does SDL have a similar mechanism to a DITAVAL file?
Thanks,
Ann
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I am having an issue with Publication Manager (13.0.2).
I can successfully open a Publication from our SDL Tridion Docs CMS but when I click on one of the submaps within the publication it does load the map versions in the top-right window pane…
Using SDL Tridion Docs R13 and XMetaL 12 with Authoring Bridge 13.0.4115. Have not made any changes to client tools for over a year. Have not changed our XML plugin settings.
Suddenly when we check in DITA topics, <resourceID id="" changes to "all caps…
Hi,
I have searched for and found the SDL Tridion Docs documentation on SDL Variables at https://docs.sdl.com/787645/479553/sdl-tridion-docs-14/variables .
However, this does no provide any examples of the definition of the variable and varid. Does…
Hello,
I got this question from a tech writer.
It's possible in the Tridion web client to import and replace one image while keeping the same GUID, so that the image is updated in all locations where it is linked.
But is it possible to import and…
I need to implement SDL Docs as a headless CMS.
With the OOB "Dynamic Delivery" Output Format the Topic Content(DITA XML) is published and stored as "HTML" in the Broker Database. When we retrieve rawContent.content of a topic via PCA service, the returned…
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We would like to add the Topic type (FMODULETYPE) property of a topic being referenced to a map under othermeta, similar to navigation title. So the map structure would look something like
<map>...
<topicref format="dita" href="GUID-88A626B2-E788…
I'm trying to test importing translated content with Content Importer (we currently depend on the batch import system with disk directories). I've created a test directory for this purpose that is basically the extracted zip from an ordinary Content Manager…
Collective Spaces is an SDL Tridion Docs browser-based, in-context review and editing environment interface that is made up of Draft Space and Review Space. It allows contributors from across your organization to author, collaborate and review content…
Very excited to announce that SDL Tridion Docs 14 has been named the industry's number one CCMS by independent analyst firm Ars Logica!
See below the press release:
https://www.sdl.com/about/news-media/press/2019/sdl-tridion-docs-named-industrys-number…
Hi,
We are trying to introduce a specialized topic type into our content for the first time (our own, not from the DITA standards). The root element is "unitTopic". We've provided the specializations in the DocTypes directory and everything is working…