Questions tagged [ecl]
External Content Libraries or ECL providers are an extension point fully introduced in SDL Tridion 2013 which allow editors to browse and use media content from another system as if it were managed in Tridion. Open source providers for Flickr and YouTube have been released.
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how does publishing works with ECL item when using template less publishing, does it include ecl external metadata as well
When publishing a page having component with ecl item attached. it publishes successfully.
adding screenshot of page and component for reference
component:
when checking response on graphql it doesn'...
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Creating ECL stubs without netTCP ecl api
When creating content through the WCF core service that includes references to ecl items there is no automatic conversion to a tcm uri of the stub component like the UI does.
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ECL connector(Widen DAM system) on Sites9.6 not working on new UI(Experience space), but working on classic UI
We have upgraded Sites from 9.1 to 9.6 and the Widen ECL add-on is working fine on classic UI. That means we are able to access the folders, images etc. But when we switch to new UI, the parent level ...
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Can you index ECL items with Search Integration 4 Tridion (SI4T)?
I understand that Search Integration 4 Tridion (SI4T) can index binaries only if they are linked from other published Components (or perhaps Pages).
Can SI4T index, or be made to index, binaries ...
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Tridion Sites 9.6 Multiple ecl items in RichTech only resolves one ecl
We are using Tridion Sites 9.6 also we have installed dxa-2.2 on CM
recently we came across the issue when we have multiple ecl items attached to the rich text field, but it doesn't resolve other ecl ...
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Custom ECL Provider GetItem method behaving differently in 9.6 environment
We are performing an upgrade from TridionSites 9.0 to 9.6.
A custom ECL Provider that we are using appears to be behaving slightly differently and is causing errors in the 9.6 environments.
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Need to extend DefaultModelBuilder.CreateViewModel to map additional fields to ECLItem class which is coming as Metadata on MappingData
We are using DXA 2.2 on the .Net project
Need suggestions on how can we extend functionality to map DefaultModelBuilder.MappingData metadata field to Model.
we have this Model class
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Where can I find the package for "External Content Library templating assembly" for Tridion sites 9.6
I am trying to get the source code for "External Content Library templating assembly" for Tridion sites 9.6.
I have cross checked all below path to find out, till couldn't find out.
https://...
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Is External Content Library search exposed in Content Delivery?
External Content Library (ECL) started as mainly a Content Manager-side extension mechanism with the ability to publish references or external items directly to Content Delivery.
However, in later ...
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Error "One or more Extensions in the Add-on failed to run. Contact the developer(s) of the Extension(s) to have this issue resolved.... "
We have an Add-on package (a ZIP file) that contains a manifest file, configuration, and External Content Library (ECL) Provider-related DLL files as per guidelines from SDL docs.
https://docs.rws.com/...
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supported ECL connectors for 9.6
I saw in the preview group that SDL is releasing a connector for PoolParty. Is there any other new connector that SDL will release, or is that the only new one?
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ECL Pagination Buttons Not Active
I've read that pagination is supported by the Connector Framework and in my code, I've incorporated the paginationData sent to the connector to be able to get different page data from the External ...
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Get list of ECL Ice portal images
In our Tridion CMS, we are using ECL to connect to Ice Portal (our third-party multimedia assets provider). How do you get the list of eclUris of all the available assets?
We tried getting the list by ...
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which .net project reference has SessionFactory.CreateEclSession(subject.Session)
i am trying to write 1 event system code for ecl items. i am facing error to use following method SessionFactory.CreateEclSession(subject.Session)
following is the compiler error shown in visual ...
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SDL ECL connector timeouts/connectivity
We're running into an issue where we have an ECL connector that connects to a DAM session is expiring or is killing the CMS. I'm hoping someone can answer the following questions.
Does Sites create ...
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Decommissioning ECL items
I am in the process of decommissioning Media Manager, so I have more than 50K ECL items in Tridion that should be unpublished, removed and MM connector removed.
Now I was wondering, is there any ...
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ECL Connector Proxy Settings
How can I configure proxy settings in ExternalContentLibrary.xml
which would be applied to all the calls made from ECL connector?
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Is the title of an ECL file available via Core Service?
In the CM GUI, when you view source on an ECL item, the xlink:title of the image is available:
But when you retrieve the same component via Core Service and view its Content, the xlink:title is gone:
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New ECL connector using integration framework showing error
I am trying to create a new ECL connector for the new dam system for sites 9.1. using the integration framework. I am following the blog created by @Niclas.
Suddenly I started getting the following ...
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cannot resolve Component Link to EclItem in Rich Text Field
Tridion 9. 1 DXA 2.2 Component Link to EclItem in Rich Text Field cannot resolve.
Example:
<a title="abc" href="ecl:11-bynder-1DCC6C05!2D;0C7D!2D;4B93!2D;9D94D25AD6CC445F-Bynder!5F;...
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Supported ECL connectors for 8.5
Since Media Manager EOL is December 2020, my question is which ECL connectors are available and supported for 8.5?
I know that Bynder is. Are there any others?
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Tridion.ExternalContentLibrary.V2.dll location
I am trying to create custom ECL connector for Tridion 9.1 and Widen DAM system.
To do that I need to create a .NET solution where i need to put Tridion.ExternalContentLibrary.V2.dll references as i ...
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Issue referencing ECL Components
Recently developed ECL provider and was able to see the ECL Components in the mount point.
But when trying to add ECL Components as multimedia links, cannot save or check-in the Components.
Are we ...
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ECL error: Failed initializing the External Content Library with id
We are using Web 8.5 and begun development on an ECL provider for AEM. After adding mount points to the ECL config file, error seen is:
2020-03-05 09:46:06,348 [100] DEBUG UI.DataExtenders - ...
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ECL ported from 8.5 not working - 'Tridion.ExternalContentLibrary.Adapters.FromV2.FolderContentV2ToV3Adapter' not found
I have a major issue with an ECL that work perfectly in 8.5 but no longer works in 9.1. When doing a search via the CME for images in the ECL, I get the following error every time:
Unable to get the ...
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Connect to ECL via .NET giving permission issue
Trying to connect to Tridion via ECL WCF api but getting permission issue. Here is my code:
EndpointAddress eclServiceEndpoint = new EndpointAddress("net.tcp://localhoast:2660/...
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Performance issue with S3 ECL provider
I have identified a performance issue with our S3 ECL provider. Its an improvement based on https://github.com/vikaskumar185/S3ECLProvider
I am seeing Tridion is downloading thumbnails into ~SDLWeb\...
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Dynamic image renditions from "dist" URL
I am trying to use Media Manager's dynamic image rendition feature. I'm doing this by adding a querystring to image URLs in my view files, as documented here.
The image URLs are delivered from the ...
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ECL - GetTemplateFragment - Empty Attributes
We have implemented a ECL with a custom image provider and it works well in most of the cases. We also have a requirement to use the ECL in RTF along with attributes like style, height, width etc.
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Tridion ECL Implementation
I need to work on implementing ECL to integrate external assets to tridion. I have gone through few documents. Can you please help on working example of ECL (which has working external service ...
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Web 8.5 - ECL - Get metadata
We have a requirement to use both external metadata and internal metadata of ECL items.
We were able to define both in the schema and are able to use and get the external metadata as well.
But the ...
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Failed initializing the External Content Library with id clp
I'm facing an issue with ECL setup.
We have an ECL setup in SDL Tridion 2013. When we are migrating the same to SDL Web 8.5 it is giving the following error -
018-09-26 14:18:36,377 [55] ERROR UI....
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Updating external metadata of an ECL item
I can successfully set metadata properties for an ECL item and display it in External Metadata Schema as shown below:
I am not able to figure out how to read the updated Metadata fields in the ECL ...
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ECL Copy data to metadata Stub schema
ECL components has an stub schema that can have two types of metadata:
- Metadata that comes from the external system and it's requested in real time every time that the component is open.
- Metadata ...
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ECL integration
I checked the documentation for SDL Web 8.5
https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/web/pub.xql?action=home&pub=SDL%20Web-v5&lang=en-US#docid=GUID-9859C89E-3333-4AA1-B4D9-CA5F5163EEB7&...
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ECL item 'ecl:1262-cel-226-cea-file' not found
I'm working on an ECL integration for Web 8.5 right now. My plan is to resolve the ECL components with my own TBB. However, I cannot even publish a page using the default DXA TBB.
"Generate Dynamic ...
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Media Manager ECL GetContententLibraryUris result contains only one IEclUri - expected two
SDL Web 8.5 integrated with Media Manager via the connector - we have two mount points configured and they appear fine in the GUI for the publication I'm working with - they have ids of mm02 and mm05 ...
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Error connecting to ECL
I constantly get an error on the Test CMS when I try opening components with images.
Attached is the error encountered on opening any component
There also is the below mentioned error captured in the ...
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How to retreive ecl components using java or c# (using tridion core service 2013 sp1)?
I need to export the physical media files (using keepeek) stored as ecl items in Tridion for a data migration project. Any advice how to achieve this?
Thanks.
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Error on Publishing ECL Items
To publish ECL Items we have placed a custom build TBB to add external binary to our file system.
On publishing ECL Items we're getting error as Cannot access a closed Stream.
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How publishing works for ECL Items when published alone or published as Multimedia Link
Trying to explore more on Tridion, found that ECL External Content Library framework bit interesting.
Started implementing the same in Tridion CME with the help of a few tutorial and blogs, which ...
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Is it possible to use a custom ECL Schema for Stub Components?
Is it possible to use a custom multimedia Schema (with ECL Mutlimedia Type as one of its allowed type) for creating Stub Components?
How we can configure in ECL Provider, so that Stub Components will ...
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Error on previewing an ECL Component
I'm trying to implement Bart's Flickr ECL provider to get content from Flickr. Successfully configured to Tridion, Flickr images are now exposed to Tridion. I'm testing on how ECL Components rendering ...
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Thumbnail doesn't appear for Flickr ECL Components
I was trying to implement Flickr ECL, using extension and configured in my Tridion.
Images and Albums are reflecting in Tridion, but thumbnail images are not working properly, I see a blank image.
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Not able to use ECL service
We were trying to use ECL service to get list of all stub URIs or generate them if they are not already generated.
Update:
I do have specific need where we have some new ECLs in a specifc folder that ...
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Changing the title of a stub to a shorter version (Web 8)
we're using a custom Amazon S3 ECL Provider. The problem is that there are some Components that have titles longer than 255 character long and it's throwing an exception. The problem is that the file ...
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Media Manager Connector - default sorting
Do we have any ways to change default sorting to alphabetic order for folders that rendered using ECL for Media Manager in CMS explorer.
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GetThumbnailImage not always gets call on ECL Provider
I've improved an Amazon S3 ECL provider got from here and it's working fine. My problem is when I open an image (jpg for example) from the Mountpoint.
Sometimes it shows the image in the General tab ...
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SDL - The specified path, file name, or both are too long
Looking for some insight, literature or experience out that describes ecl uri encoding.
We have a url that looks something like this that is imported via coreservices from s3 bucket into our CMS ...
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ECL Errors Impacting Entire Instance
I am trying to run down a few ECL errors we are encountering from an ECL connector in Web 8 connected to an S3 bucket mountpoint.
It is valid to recognize that we are in a multiple mountpoint ECL ...
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