Tridion developer articles and tutorials

  • Using multiple character sets

    adewit@sdl.com
     
    Introduction

    This document provides an overview of how a web developer can code multi-language websites with different character sets. The examples uses ASP as the presentation server development language. A brief description is given on which settings needs to be configured within Tridion per website…

  • How to create a Folder Processor

    ProfessionalServices
     
    Introduction

    This document shows how to implement a way to pick up all the elements from a folder, extract this information in XML format, sort all the elements choosing the criteria and display this information.

    Prerequisites

    This code was developed to solve the following problem:   

        * The customer organizes…

  • Creating PDF files using the Tridion PDFCreator

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    Introduction

    The Tridion PDFCreator module converts Tridion Components into PDF documents. It uses 2 open source projects to perform this, namely html2fo and Apache FOP. In its simplest use case, PDFCreator will create a new Multimedia Component in the same folder as the source component containing a…

  • Creating PDF files using Apache FOP

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    Introduction

    Because Tridion R5 separates content from layout, many different page formats are possible. However PDF, a popular document format, remains difficult because of its tangled structure that contains many elements in an almost random order, referring to each other. A solution to this problem…

  • Create custom errors in GUI from event system

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    Introduction

    It's possible to create a custom error message in the GUI from the event system. You can use this functionality for example in the OnComponentSavePre Event (e.g. to check values of fields before saving a Component).

    1. Adding the code to your event system

    Add the following code to your…

  • Accelerate Tridion GUI

    Nuno Linhares
     
    Introduction

    This document describes 4 simple actions that should be taken by every Tridion Infrastructure consultant when installing Tridion on a new environment. These actions will speed up IIS' performance and are valid actions for any other Web Site, not Tridion only.

    Prerequisites

    Tridion 5…

  • Event System and Workflow Developer's Guide

    jenglish@sdl.com
     
    Event System and Workflow Developer's Guide

    Contents:

    1                     Introduction  

    2                     Workflow Scripting  

    2.1                 Exposed objects and functions  

    2.2                 Problems and solutions  

    2.2.1             Working with users and groups  

    2.3                 Retrieving Updated Component details within a Workflow  

    2.3.1             Retrieving items when activity is "Assigned"…

  • Checklist Business Connector version R5.1 SP2 and higher

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    Introduction

    Please check points 2 to 9 to confirm the correct installation and configuration of the Tridion Business Connector.

    1. ISAPI

    Go to the www master properties of IIS. Select the ISAPI  filter  tab.

    Make sure the ISAPI filter ASP.NET_1.1.4322.573 is installed and running (green arrow up). If not…