Tridion Developer Mirrored community feed

Activity
  • Download package and log file

     
    The overview of the export process was presented in this post . Having export process successfully finished, you can download exported package. If logging was enabled, log file created during that process can also be downloaded (as usual, ImportExport...
  • Poll the server for process status

     
    The overview of the export process was presented in this post . Export or import process could take quite some time to finish so we need a mechanism to poll it periodically to get the state of our process: ProcessState WaitForProcessFinish ( ImportExportServiceClient...
  • Selected vs. dependent items

     
    Additionally to a bunch of selected items you specified through Selections , ImportExport will export dependencies of these items. Both of them are fully exported Tridion items that are stored in the package. Items that were explicitly selected keep their...
  • New to SDL Tridion? Check those great resources!

     
    Articles and community extensions on SDL Tridion World Q&A on Tridion Stackexchange SDL Tridion Online manual (ask for your password at Customer Service or look it up in SDL Tridion World if you have an account) YouTube videos in the SDL Tridion in under...
  • Selecting items to export

     
    The overview of the export process was presented in this post . In order to specify items to export, you need to provide one or more selections. Let’s check what selects what. GroupsSelection Selects all groups: var groups = new GroupsSelection (); MultimediaTypesSelection...
  • Export data from Tridion

     
    The SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 release has a brand new ImportExport API. Eric Huiza covered basics of it already. With this post I start a set of articles to deep dive into it and cover new features in more details. As described by Eric, to start using new...
  • 'tis the season...

     
    Welcome to the future 2014! Since it is January, and it is the time for wishes, predictions, promises and whatnots, here's a few of my own: Wishes for 2014: I wish Google would finally figure out that changing my geographical location does not change...
  • Showing errors in a ECL mountpoint

     
    External Content Library (ECL) Providers can raise error messages in a very user friendly way. The mountpoint can show a list item with the error message when it occurs and error and cannot get data from the external system. This avoids confusing the...
  • Tridion Core Service in PowerShell

     
    The tridion-powershell-modules project is a PowerShell module written by Peter Kjaer which allows easy access to the Tridion Core Service through PowerShell. Windows PowerShell allows to use the CoreService client DLL and allows to create simple scripts...
  • Analyzing SDL Tridion CMS Data

     
    Introduction One of the challenges we have when evaluate an existing SDL Tridion implementation is the difficulty of having a high level overview of all the items involved in the system, and identify which relations between which item types can lead to...