In my most recent role as a Product Owner, I've been catching up on the Translation Review and Translation Preview concepts. To my chagrin, I've even accidentally written one when I clearly meant the other.
The Difference Between Translation Review and Translation PreviewOne of our senior QA engineers Yevgeniy Bruhov noted that though we sometimes focus on the technical details, preview is all about presenting context…
Though I can't be present, I want to congratulate and thank the attendees, presenters, and organizers of the SDL Web Developer Summit 2017 in India. Your initiative in wielding the "Midas Rule" leverages the strength of a growing, vibrant "local" community* to take advantage of knowledge sharing.
The Midas RuleI coined the term the "Midas Rule" in response to enthusiasm I saw in the PowerTools…
"What, did you expect slides? This is a boot camp. If you end up having fun, well that was an accident."
That was my intro, as I remembered delivering it, to our initial SDL Web 8.5 R&D boot camp attendees last month. In this post I will share some of the planning process, topics we focused on for Web 8.5, and lessons learned from the two-day session. Let me also explain this initial bootcamp is definitely…
As a follow-up to my previous post on the SDL Web Privileges feature, I created a video showing how the Group Management privilege works.
As a product manager, I regularly receive questions about our products, but occasionally someone will ask about our "user groups and forums." Let me tell you about that. ;-)
SDL Web has both official and ad-hoc, organically created user groups and forums including two annual Developer Summits, user groups in Europe and the US, a Tridion Stack Exchange site, and the SDL Web-related groups on SDL Community.
This…
As mentioned earlier, we announced the merger of the SDL Web Digital Experience Acceleration (DXA) and Dynamic Delivery 4 Tridion (DD4T) projects.
At the recent SDL Web Most Valued Professional (MVP) retreat in Portugal, I worked with some of the other MVPs (Tanner, Jonathan, Robert, Saurabh, Pankaj, David, and Nick) to create this proposal for the future of modules for DXA.
My main point was that "configuration isn’t…
You may have noticed me posting this blog before the weekend. I wasn't actually using our software, I should have. Read on about embargo Workflow below.
Preamble to SDL Web 8.5Last year we introduced a new micro-service architecture as part of SDL Web 8 to significantly reduce the deployment and setup complexity while increasing scalability and redundancy. We received very positive feedback from customers and partners…
Here are is the second in a series of Quick Start Guides to introduce you to the power and simplicity of SDL Web 8. This guide will introduce you to the Content Interaction Library (CIL), the recommended method of communicating with SDL Web's Content Interaction Service (CIS). The guide aims to practically get you up and…
Here are the first in a series of Quick Start Guides to introduce you to the power of DXA. These guides will introduce you to DXA and practically get you to setup a development environment as well as creating your first Model and View.
There are two guides, one for Java and one for .Net.
Downloads:
uat.community.rws.com/.../8233.QuickStart_5F00_DXA_5F00_Java.pdf
We are very pleased to announce a Summer Discount offer on our classroom courses for SDL Web 8
During August and September all Web 8 classroom courses have a 2 for 1 discount offer. This means that when you register 2 people for the same classroom course you will only be charged for 1.
We offer education opportunities for everyone in your organization who uses SDL Web. We design our courses utilizing the most current industry…
As highlighted in a previous blogpost and as well in a blogpost by Alvin Reyes which explains our intentions, we are looking for input for the content editing functionality currently available in SDL Web (also known as SDL Tridion).
Update: The survey has been closed. Thank you for your input!
You may have seen Nikki's post about the SDL Web Content Editing Survey or received the following invitation from Support.
If you haven't, feel free to read about and participate in the survey, especially if you regularly use the rich text formatting (RTF) feature in SDL Web or Tridion.
Question FormatAs you take the survey you may notice something unique about the format of the questions, as seen in the following…
SDL Web (also known as SDL Tridion) is looking for input from you.
Our Research and Development department is reviewing the content editing functionality currently available in SDL Tridion and we need your help. We developed a survey to help us validate what you and your editors consider important. We ask 10-15 minutes of your time.
Please forward this page or below link to the survey to your editorial team. The more input…
The following video demonstrates SDL Web 8 functionality, including new features like the ability to Promote and Demote items within the BluePrint hierarchy, the Instant Site wizard, and "view on site" feature as well as other usability and interface improvements.
uat.community.rws.com/.../Web8ReleaseVideo_2D00_nomusic.mp4
Authors: Nuno Linhares (SDL) and Quirijn Slings (Trivident)
If you attended the excellent Tridion Developer Summit 2016, you may recall that we announced a merger of the DXA and DD4T projects during the keynote session, and now we’d like to take this opportunity to dive deeper into what exactly this means to the product and the larger group of implementers that today use one, both or a combination of these solutions…
Last week there was a webinar discussing the future of SDL Web and several questions around DXA were asked there. Unfortunately I couldn't attend so I've decided to handle those questions in this blog post, since it is my responsibility as the DXA Product Manager to clarify any type of questions about "my baby", and the answers could interest a broader public.
One of the biggest questions around DXA…
Edit (2017-06-08): images fixed and post republished.
SDL Web 8 introduced the ability to adapt your BluePrint through promote and demote features. These functions, available to CMS end-users as well as developers, lets you move parent items up or down a BluePrint.
Though we've seen appreciation for the ability to fix content accidentally created in the wrong publication, this feature is more than a correction for…
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