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  • Working on SDL Tridion Event System

     
    Some time-saving tricks when building your Custom Event System code Read the full text.
  • A Donut Cache Implementation for DD4T

     
    I was presenting in a previous post " A Simple Output Cache ", in the form of a Java Servlet filter that was caching requests to DD4T pages and subsequently serve them from cache. In this post I am enhancing the output cache idea to make it more flexible...
  • CAS Sigle Sign-On Integration

     
    The Concept In this post I'll explain how to integrate CAS ( Central Authentication Service ) with Tridion Content Manager. This is a back-end integration, which will allow users with a CAS login access Tridion Content Manager GUI and other back-end modules...
  • December 2014 Webinar

     
    Details Date Monday, December 15, 2014 Time 8:00 pm, Central European Time (Amsterdam, GMT+01:00) Recording via SDL Slides via SDL Presentations Session One:  SDL Tridion Contextual Expressions Extension...
  • Avoiding publishing embarrasment

     
    Today’s story about the People website publishing an obituary of Kirk Douglas death (he’s still very much alive) made me instantly think of two things: 1. It’s amazing these websites have content like this backed-up and ready to go. 2. … Continue reading...
  • Tridion and Solr Versioning: a SI4T Story

     
    Here is a quick story with a lesson learnt: One of our clients was running Tridion 2011SP1 and installed Solr 4.8.1, and asked us to configure SI4T. We banged our heads against this thing until major head trauma occurred. The … Continue reading → ...
  • SDL SmartTarget (Smart Target) – Navigation, Search and Promotions

     
    In my last blog post , I gave an overview of SDL Fredhopper (the underlying recommendations engine behind SmartTarget). I also discussed how SDL SmartTarget brings together the rich targeting functionality of Fredhopper (traditionally used within eCommerce...
  • Tridion publishing : httpupload settings for publishing a large page or c…

     
    We all have encountered a publish failure caused by the Tridion http deployer website throwing errors like ‘request entity too large’. Basically, it means that IIS does not accept the uploaded publish package because it’s simply too large. Luckily, the...
  • Default Schemas for Tridion: Now with documentation!

     
    Default Schemas for Tridion (DS4T) got an update this evening. We’ve got quite a few changes in this build, but it’s all in the name of getting from 0 to implemented that much faster. And it’s following in the theme of Atomic Schemas that began with the...
  • Tridion Circular Reference Redux

     
    What’s a Tridion Circular Reference and why worry about it? As it’s name suggests, it’s a link that results in a circle of endless self-referencing. This normally isn’t a problem…unless you have a template that does a loop through all the fields, and...