SDL Web 8 has been around for a little over a year now. Its successor (SDL Web 8.5) was recently introduced. You’d think that to an old Tridion hand like me, by now Web 8.x would be as familiar as any of the earlier (Tridion) versions. The sobe...
Plato (~423 BC – ~347 BC) was a pretty smart guy. Among his many ideas and thoughts, his Theory of Forms had an immense influence on how we perceive and solve the philosophical Problem of universals. It basically comes down to the idea that eve...
Today we released version 2.0.7 of DD4T for Java. This version includes support for the Thymeleaf view language. Thymeleaf is a fast-growing view framework for Java web applications, which can be used as an alternative for JSP. I recently blogged abo...
In part II of these series on ViewModel functionality in dd4t–2-java, it was explained how to create ViewModel classes and how to implement basic field types for the mapping between Tridion fields and DD4T ViewModel properties. This post handles the ...
A picture says more than a thousand words, right? That’s why a web site needs images. In the old days before DD4T, the approach was very simple: out of the box, Tridion would publish your images to the file system, where the web server could pi...
Scenario:
We have had an interesting issue where when we sent a large batch of components and pages for publishing in a SDL Web Cloud and DXA environment – After publishing many of these items, the publishing got stuck in different phases like ...
Earlier in December, I had the opportunity to travel to Boston for the two-day SDL Web 8 System Administration Course in Wakefield, MA. It’s an excellent course, especially for those transitioning from Tridion 2013 to Web 8 and for people ̷...
In this final post in the removing distractions series, I’m going to discuss another way to streamline the editorial experience – by simplifying the (content and metadata) fields that an SDL Web editor is presented with.
When an implement...
SDL Web 8.5 (formerly SDL Tridion) has been released, and here are a few of the headline features you can expect. For full details, consult the documentation portal here.
Content Manager
Data Storage & Migration – Multimedia assets can no...
SDL Web 8.5 (formally SDL Tridion) has been released, and here are a few of the headline features you can expect. For full details, consult the documentation portal here.
Content Manager
Data Storage & Migration – Multimedia assets can no...