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  • 7 Things I bet You Didn't Know about Experience Manager

     
    In the past few weeks, I've had a chance to shine the flashlight a little closer on the SDL Tridion Experience Manager interface of the Content Management System, especially so for the new SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 version out since the first week of December...
  • Upload package for import

     
    You have exported some data and downloaded package . It’s time to import that package to another Tridion instance. First things first, let’s upload our package to the server: private static string UploadPackage ( string packageLocation) { var uploadClient...
  • 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...