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  • A DD4T.net Implementation - Taxonomy Factory (part 2)

     
    In a previous post, I presented the Taxonomy Factory and a way of retrieving taxonomies and keywords from Tridion. In this post, I will present more functionality about retrieving content tagged against a certain Keyword. string [] GetRelatedContent ...
  • Translation Mananger (TMS) Plugin to Translate the Components on Pages

     
    When you start a translation in SDL Tridion on a Page, you are given the option to “translate components”. However, this option will translate those components in the same location as the page, the current (context) Publication. The solution to this...
  • A DD4T.net Implementation - Taxonomy Converter

     
    In a previous post, I presented the Taxonomy Factory and a way of retrieving taxonomies and keywords from Tridion. One of the promises I made in there was to explain the conversion process from a Tridion Keyword to a specialized class MyKeyword, a subclass...
  • A DD4T.net Implementation - Taxonomy Factory

     
    I have noticed that in all my recent projects, there is a strong need for an easy and well performing way of handling taxonomies. Functionality ranges from being able to read a Keyword in a taxonomy, to traverse the child/parent relationships, to read...
  • Front-end for the Middle: Semantics and Schemas

     
    This is a continuation of a previous post that I wrote, entitled Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design. Previously, we established that it’s better for a front-end developer to be focused on content, rather than design. In this post, we’re going...
  • Front-end for the Middle: Coding and CMSing for Relationships

     
    This is part three of a series called “Front-end for the Middle”. Honestly, I didn’t mean to write three posts. But when one post is over 2,000 words without being finished, it’s time to get slicing. Previously, we’ve talked about directing a front-end...
  • Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design

     
    A few months back I had the opportunity to present at the Tridion Developer Summit in Amsterdam. Gino Toro, (former) product manager for Media Manager was going to be speaking on Media Manager, so I decided to try a different topic. After debating on...
  • Tridion User Generated Content Blog Series: Part – VI

     
    Managing and Analyzing Comments/Rating from CME You can manage the comments and rating which might have been submitted from your website through the Tridion Content Manager Explorer (CME). You can do following from the CME: Add/Edit/Delete a comment...
  • Installing DXA in an existing Tridion publication structure

     
    I’ve been using the DXA framework for a couple of months now, and it’s very easy to use it to quickly set up a new publication structure and create a new website. The installation is very well documented and doesn’t … Continue reading → ...
  • Building and automating a scaled out Fredhopper/SmartTarget environment

     
    While designing and building a Fredhopper/SmartTarget enterprise environment recently, a couple of interesting requirements came up. The first requirement, these days quite often asked for when building infrastructures, was that every Fredhopper component...