Tridion developer articles and tutorials

  • Workflow Script in PowerShell Module

     

    In the last MVP retreat I have learned about the new PowerShell module introduced by Peter Kjaer.  Since I attended that program I was planning to spread it in the community and also contribute more on that module.


    I discussed with Peter and Alvin regarding the use cases and came up with a new script…

  • HTML Designs for Tridion Sites – Part I

     

    I am writing this blog mainly to share my experience and thoughts on HTML designs which we get from customers when we are implementing Tridion Sites (SDL Web/Tridion). Even though DXA is shipped with layout of web pages, it might not be sufficient enough meet customer’s expectation with respect to look…

  • SDL Tridion Sites community review #14

     

    Episode 14!
    What was new in the Tridion Sites community last week?

    Blogs, articles and video
    "Small tweak for DD4T 2.2.1 templates to get result in XML"
    How to configure a DD4T template to output XML instead of JSON.
    Naveen Kumar: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/sdl-tridion-dx/tridion-sites…

  • Small tweak for DD4T 2.2.1 templates to get result in XML

     

    In one of my previous blogs, I did mentioned steps to upgrade DD4T templates in CMS. And, this blog talks a bit more about it and issue which I faced after upgrading templates.

    Issue: DD4T 2.2.1 templates returns data in JSON format by default because of which after publishing components, data was not…

  • SDL Tridion Sites community review #13

     
    Episode 13!
    What was new in the Tridion Sites community last week?
     
    Blogs and articles
    "Event System and Publishing – a look at performance tests"
    In great detail Paul describes how he tested publishing, and concluded that logging publishing event in the Content Manager does not significantly…
  • SDL Tridion Sites community review #12

     
    Episode 12. Happy New Year!
    What was new in the Tridion Sites community last week?
     
    Blogs and articles
    "Should I use a JavaScript framework with a Tridion implementation?"
    Four questions to decide whether you need a JavaScript framework on your website.
  • Content Delivery without services: Running a Tridion web application without…

     
    Your Tridion Sites powered website get its pages and content from the content delivery micro services *. Those HTTP-based OData services can be simulated to run your development or testing website without the content delivery stack. Or to be more precise, with a simulated content delivery stack. Hoverf…
  • Using ECL Images in DXA

     

    This blog post will describe how to use ECL images in DXA. This is based on work I've done with ECL providers for Bynder, MediaBeacon, Amazon S3 etc. In addition I've also released a simple DXA module to render ECL images in a generic way.

    Local or remote image?

    First thing you need to figure…

  • Quick start to use Salesforce Community Cloud with vanilla DXA

     

    In my previous blog post I described how to setup a standard Salesforce Community Cloud portal to consume SDL Tridion Sites content. This blog post I will describe some simple steps to quickly get started with Salesforce Community Cloud and vanilla DXA using the white label design.

    Introduction

    DXA comes…