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Scissors, Strimmer or Lawnmower? – Designing schema to be the right tool for…

James Smith over 7 years ago

For any given content requirement there are a number of ways of defining a schema to provide an author/editor with all the necessary fields to produce their content. Using plain text, rich text, multi-value fields, embedded schema, component links etc. are all valid and correct, but more consideration…

7 Jun 2017

Redis - An Alternative (to) Cache - Part II

Hao Peng over 7 years ago

The Big Why You may ask, why should I use Redis? I have been working with Memory Cache and Relational Databases, and so far I am still OK. Right?

I am staring at the picture above, and asking myself the exact question: why are people still using such a phone?

It is traditional, and some people like…

3 Jun 2017

Redis - An Alternative (to) Cache - Part I

Hao Peng over 7 years ago

Redis is not a new concept but only introduced to SDL Web 8.5 recently. It is a good choice, and hope it will gain lots of popularity in SDL's ecosystem.

This series will show a few basic concepts on Redis and how it is used in SDL Web, and how you can use it inside and outside SDL products…

3 Jun 2017

Script To Find Item By Dynamic Component Template And Re-Publish

Sayantan Basu over 7 years ago

In my previous blog I have described how easily we can add or update field of the page metadata in one go and publish all the pages using Coreservice API. Today I will describe another script which is not very common but sometimes useful.

Scenario: In a migration phase (Or in maintenance phase) if you…

29 May 2017

Tridion Developer Summit Presentation: "SDL Web Extension Gotchas"

Alvin Reyes over 7 years ago

My colleague Derya Dönmez and I delivered the Tridion Developer Summit 2017 presentation "SDL Web Extension and Integration Gotchas, User Experience, and You."

This was a chance to:

Share lessons learned from the field and in my latest role as a Product Owner
Introduce Derya to the larger…

26 May 2017

SDL Web 8 - Securing Micro-Services with SSL and a CA certificate

Paul Dessart over 7 years ago

In this document we will explain how to create a custom keystore and import the CA certificate and matching key pair allowing SSL support on Tomcat Embedded as used on SDL Micro-services. The Keystore steps are general and may be used for any CA Certificate support on Java.

2 May 2017

SDL Web Deployer Extension for sending Purge requests to Akamai

Philip Medcraft over 7 years ago

Akamai provides a simple REST API for automating content purge requests. For detailed information regarding the API, please refer to the CCU REST API Developers Guide.

Akamai's REST API supports a number of calls. In this article I will only cover the calls to:

Make a Purge Request
Check a Purge…

28 Apr 2017

Workaround For a Known Issue In Retrofit Mode for DXA 1.7

Sayantan Basu over 7 years ago

I have already discussed about the Retrofit Mode (the new feature introduced in DXA 1.7). If you have missed that, then check this. Today I will share 1 common issue in a retrofit mode and workaround for that.

If you are planning to use Media Manager module and want to add ECL media Item into Rich text…

28 Apr 2017

Scripts to Find Pages by Page Template, Update Page Metadata & Publish

Sayantan Basu over 7 years ago

Let’s discuss some new pointers about CoreService API (Powerful API for Web/Tridion Developer).

Recently I have got a chance to work in a Migration project where I have received few requirements which are not very common. So I have planned to prepare some scripts and share it with everyone.

First…

26 Apr 2017