Tridion developer articles and tutorials

  • Naming Topology Types and Site Types

    Alvin Reyes
     

    SDL Web 8 introduces a feature called Topology Manager, which connects Content Management (CM) and Content Delivery (CD) by:

    • Removing CD details from CM (i.e. Publication Targets)
    • Removing CM details from CD (i.e. the deployer configuration seen in one of Nuno's post)
    • Storing these former relationships…

  • Prototypes and Instances

    Alvin Reyes
     

    I've explored how you might name elements in Topology Manager. Let's revisit the other "types" in the CMS.

    When you use a Word or PowerPoint "template" it's often not actual Office template (.dotx) but a prototype which has a theme or layout similar to the CMS concept of "template…

  • Work with Razor Mediator in Visual Studio. SDL Tridion Visual Studio Razor…

    Mark Vlasenko
     

     

    SDL Tridion Visual Studio Razor Extension is a VSIX extension for Microsoft Visual Studio that makes possible to work with Razor Mediator code.

    Main functionality
    • Edit razor code for Razor Mediator TBBs
    • Synchronize *.cshtml files with Tridion TBBs
    • Debug *.cshtml files
    • Create Tridion Component Temp…

  • DXA.Java Kickstart Environment

    Niclas Cedermalm
     

    I have just released my kickstart environment for DXA.Java, which I’ve used in a number of partner workshops and customer demos. This is a all-in-one environment including deployer service, OData preview web service, Tomcat and a ready configured DXA web application. This blog post will describe…

  • DXA HTML design decisions

    Bart Koopman (former member)
     

    You all know that DXA comes with a white label HTML design based on Twitter Bootstrap, which you can style according to our own wishes and then publish these changes via the CMS. In this article I will discuss the reasoning behind all of this, and also the different options you have in case you want…

  • DXA 1.2 and SDL Web 8

    Bart Koopman (former member)
     

    With the release of SDL Web 8, now everybody of course wants to give it a try, and what would be a better opportunity than to use DXA for that right? Unfortunately when you look in the release notes of DXA version 1.2 (the current and latest release at the time of writing this article) you notice it…

  • Custom page to open/localize components

    Balasubramani Palanisamy
     
    Problem:

    In the Tridion CME, Content Editor is required to navigate to different folder level in each publication to localize components or to update the localized components. This activity to perform the localization/update localized content is manual and time-consuming.

    Solution:

    One solution proposed…

  • Getting started with DXA.Java

    Niclas Cedermalm
     

    This blog post will help you getting started with DXA (Digital Experience Accelerator) for Java and setup your DXA development environment. By following these steps you are then ready to do development on the DXA stack.
      
    This is my first blog article about DXA.Java. I will publish a number of blog…

  • Interview with Bart Koopman, Technical Product Manager SDL

    Jarno Henneman (former member)
     

    Welcome to another post of the Digital Experience Accelerator (DXA) marathon, meant to explain how DXA works, what are the different ways to use it and how can you contribute to it.

    Yesterday’s post looked into DD4T (Dynamic Delivery 4 Tridion), in particular at how to use the extension point in…