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  • Bookmarklet: Tridion Count Items in View

    Robert Curlette
     
    Have you ever wondered how many items are in this folder or Structure Group and wanted an easy way to count them? In the good bad old days of IE6 and Tridion 5.x we could see the amount of items selected in the status bar at the bottom of our browser...

  • An alternative to preview in DD4T

    Thijs Borst
     
    Quirijn Slings wrote a post about previewing pages using DD4T and a Configuration file. There is an alternative for configuring previews. In the preview TBB there is a hidden feature (nobody blogged...

  • An alternative to preview in DD4T

    Thijs Borst
     
    Quirijn Slings wrote a post about previewing pages using DD4T and a Configuration file. There is an alternative for configuring previews. In the preview TBB there is a hidden feature (nobody blogged about it I think) that is looking for a metadata...

  • SmartTarget 2014 SP1 and DD4T in a Java environment

    Quirijn Slings
     
    As Nick Roussakov explains in his excellent post, it is very easy to integrate DD4T and SmartTarget 2014 – at least, no harder than it is to implement SmartTarget on any type of system. If you are implementing the java version of DD4T things are even...

  • Removing Node.js dependency from the reference implementation

    Bart
     
    The whole idea of the reference implementation was to make your life (the life of a SDL Tridion developer) easier. But sometimes people make mistakes, and then the end result can be slightly more difficult than it was intended to be. … Continue reading...

  • Reference Implementation HTML design

    Bart
     
    By now I assume that everybody has had a little play with the SDL Tridion Reference Implementation, which means the questions are rising for sure. So let me start with spilling some of the guts of the HTML design and how … Continue reading → ...

  • DD4T Training

    Robert Curlette
     
    Want to have a DD4T Application running within 1 hour? Not possible? Today I did that at the first Tridion DD4T training taught by Quirijn Slings and hosted at the Trivident office in Amsterdam. In this course we start at the very beginning and throughout...

  • Previewing pages with DD4T

    Quirijn Slings
     
    In a DD4T implementation, your templates generate data (XML, JSON) instead of HTML. It’s the web application which turns this data into good-looking HTML pages (or so one would hope). One disadvantage of this approach is that it renders the built-in preview...

  • Using the TridionConfigurationManager

    Quirijn Slings
     
    Have you are ever been in the situation where you need to write your own DD4T templates? I don’t mean views, mind you, but real, modular Tridion templates. I have had to write quite a few over the recent years, for example to generate sitemaps. Sometimes...

  • Even more fun with Experience Manager

    Bart
     
    After writing my post about having fun with experience manager last year, I think it is time for a small update. This time I’ll keep it short, but we will have even more fun with XPM! I explained the usage … Continue reading → Read the...