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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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Amazon S3 ECL Provider

I'm trying to create an S3 ECL Provider...But I'm not sure how to create the connection. I'm on .NET Framework 4.5.2 and SDL Web8.1 I have two possible ways: 1) AmazonS3Config config = new ...
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Creating ECL multimedia Components using Core Service Web 8

While creating ECL multimedia Components using the Core Service, we've noticed a difference between creating them via the Core Service and creating them within the SDL Web UI. Creating them in the UI ...
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Not able to preview/publish pages which are having non azure sync images in components

Publishing fails if I add images in component which are not azure synced yet. When I replace the images with azure sync ones, publishing/previewing works fine. It's a DD4T based application. I can ...
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ECL Connector Memory Leak

Has anyone ever faced issues with an ECL Connector spiking Tridion.ContentManager.ServiceHost.WindowsServiceHost CPU/Memory? We have an ecl connection, connecting to a DAM system and it is causing ...
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Select Digital Assets from Media Manager in custom page and Save in CMS as component

I'm creating a custom page(Asp.net MVC solution) using core services to create a component. And that component has Image and Video field. I need to get digital assets from Media Manager and then ...
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ECL Adapter and SDL Web 8 - How is ECL Dll linked to SDL Web 8

I am unable to find the configuration setting, where my ECL dll is referred to from the SDL CM side. I have checked, and its not there in the Tridion.ContentManager.config. Is there any standard. ...
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How to manipulate with SDL Media Manager items from core service?

I have to get some information about media items from SDL Media Manager in my core service. I found this article but I coudn't make connection to MM. I add service reference (MediaManager2011.svc) ...
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Is it possible to read a component with an EclUri in ECL provider using Core service

This may sound crazy but worth discussing it as We have alot around ECL and thought everyone should get the benefit. Usecase: Read a stub component with its ECL Uri using core service in ECL Provider ...
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How can I use Tridion.ContentManager.ApplicationData within ECL

As part of my use-case I am looking for a mapping where I can save my Key and GUID pair of a Dictionary to Tridion.ContentManager.ApplicationData in an ECL Provider. using (IEclSession eclSession = ...
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Which process select to remotely debug an ecl dll?

I'm using a ecl connector and have a dll. Similar to Flickr Provider. I know that TcmServiceHost process is used for the ECL. But if I want to remotelly debug my dll, Should I attach to ...
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ECL connector not logging in Web8

I'm using a custom ECL connector, similar to the Flickr example that can be found here My problem is that I'm trying to log something to either EventViewer, File System, with Tridion Logger, nothing ...
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Load mountpoint in a Custom page using ECL Content Library

I am developing a custom page to upload components in CMS using Core service. Image fields in component will refer media manager images. I have ecl uris for images so i need to create stub for them ...
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Identify all Media Manager images and videos based on metadata Field crieria

We have request where we need to identify all Media Manager images and videos whose title is longer than 100 chars. The "title" is value of metadata field from metadata schema added on mm-stubschema. ...
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External Content Libraries - GetTemplateFragment

I am attempting to write a few ECL's for our use of the CMS and have run into an issue with one of the features. There is a method in IContentLibraryMultimediaItem: public string ...
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Reference Media Manager Image in Component using Tridion Core Service

We have Media Manager ECL mounted on SDL Tridion and images are already uploaded on Media Manager. Now i have to link images in Component via Tridion Core service. How can it be achieved? Please ...
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ECL Mount Point Error: Failed initializing the External Content Library with id mb

Issue regarding integration of external ECL connector with SDL Web 8.1.1 instance. We have two Web 8.1.1 instances that are trying to connect to same (DAM) endpoint: 1 Sandbox = successful 1 Dev = ...
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What does this ECL error "An item with the same key has already been added" mean?

Using the E-Commerce framework's Fredhopper ECL Connector I get this error message in the CME when I open the "Fredhopper E-Commerce" mount point and browse to Categories or to Products. Unable to ...
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Is it mandatory to use the STUB schema, installed by DXA Media Manager Module?

We are already using media manager in our Project. Now it has been decided to use the DXA Media Manager Module. So I have installed that module and found a STUB schema has been also installed along ...
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Error publishing ECL Content

I have installed the YouTube ECL Provider plugin: https://www.sdltridionworld.com/community/2011_extensions/youtube_ecl_provider.aspx I followed all the steps, copied files, configured XML with ...
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Files also visible in folder tree

I am making a ECL integration for one of our customers. The problem I am facing now is that the tree view, the one on the left side of the CME, also shows the files in a folder and not just the ...
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Where can I find the latest version of Tridion.ExternalContentLibrary.dll?

I want to use External Content Library provided in Tridion 2013. Where can I find the latest version of Tridion.ExternalContentLibrary.dll to add as a reference in my provider?
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Find out current component when ECL GetItem() is called on component localisation

I have noticed that when a component is localised, the GetItem(IEclUri) method is called on the ECL ProviderContext. In that method, I make a call to an external API using metadata of the current ...
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How to have the ECL stub schema created in schema publication, and stub components in another?

My ECL provider is working, meaning I can view/browse external images through the provider icon in the Tridion GUI. Now I want to start linking to the ECL items from my components MM-link fields. ...
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Using logging in custom ECL connector

I am writing my custom ECL connector but cannot get it to log my own logging statements using log4net. I placed my App.config file including log4net config next to my ECL DLL, log4net has been added ...
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Changing a previous Workflow Approval Status for a *NEW* Workflow [closed]

I have a number of items (Components, Templates) that have a workflow Approval status (from another vendors' past workings with Workflow) that is less than that required to Publish to LIVE. I can ...
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Word-PDF "rendering" from Tridion workflows

Currently looking into a requirement for using workflows to solve some of the manual processes for approvals / publishing. One manual process is to convert the approved Word document to a PDF (Binary),...
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Has anyone connected Tridion with Digital River for payment processing?

We are using Digital River to host an online store front (as well as process the transactions) and now we would like to take control of that store front in Tridion while still passing to Digital River ...
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Does Tridion Connector 1.3 for Media Manager work with a proxy server?

Currently we are setting up the ECL provider for Media Manager with Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1. We followed the SDL install instructions and configured the certificates as it should be. Only when accessing ...
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ECL File Unavailable when adding multimedia link

I created a ECL for Brightcove. All the videos show up properly and you can browse through them. When I try to create a component with a link to an ECL item the preview shows up correctly. When I ...
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ECL - Error saving a component with ECL image

When I try to save a component with an ECL image linked as component link I'm having an error related to "The given key is not present in Dictionary". I changed the log of ExternalContentLibrary to ...
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Creating ECL Component using Core Service

I'm trying to replace all the multimedia items uploaded in Tridion for same images stored in an External Content Repository. We made a WS that we call with the name of the image stored in tridion (f....
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ECL - Merging folders and files in the same parent folder

When I try to add folders and files in the same folder, all the elements that I'm adding are showed as folders. My DisplayTypes: public IList<IDisplayType> DisplayTypes { get ...
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ECL - Creating MetadataSchema - Using keywords

In my integration using ECL I'm defining a metadataSchema. var schema = BrandCenterProvider.HostServices.CreateSchemaDefinition("Metadata", "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007"); schema.Fields.Add(...
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External Content Library - Managing subfolders

I'm developing my first ECL provider. We have to connect to a custom-made image repository. The structure that we defined is: In the first access, I retrieve a list of countries. For each country I ...
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Issue in Content Port with ECL item

I am facing an issue at the time of content port when a component having an ECL item attached with it. Export is working fine but when I am trying to import it is giving error for the ECL items. Is ...
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Is it a good idea to publish ECL Stub Component but not the content of the multimedia item?

We are in the following scenario : We have created an ECL provider which implements the GetDirectLinkToPublished method from the IContentLibraryMultimediaItem interface --> no binary content to ...
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Tridion ECL provider package referenced in a TBB : Could not load File Assembly

We are using Keepeek as external DAM solution and we have developed an ECL Provider. Assembly Name : KeepeekProvider.dll On the publishing side, we need to execute specific treatments on Keepeek ...
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YouTube API v2.0 deprecated ECL Tridion youtube ecl provider Fails - unable to open component

YouTube API v2.0 deprecated ECL youtube_ecl_provider integration Fails -> please refer to https://www.sdltridionworld.com/community/2011_extensions/youtube_ecl_provider.aspx . Please let us know is ...
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Error on ECL items that are removed from source repository

What to do when an ECL item is not available anymore in the source repository and Tridion still has components linked to it? Case: we have a video integration with 23video and 1 of the video's has ...
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Tridion STS certificate getting deleted from the personal store

Context We have a fully scaled architecture where CM and Publisher servers are separate. We use the aDAM Tridion connector for connecting with aDAM for digital assets via the connector and the ECL ...
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External Content Libraries not resolving images

I am trying to test accessing images directly into Tridion from an external source, so I am trying to get ECL's working on my dev server but have hit an issue. As a test I am using the Flickr ECL ...
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SDL Media Manager Youtube Distribution is not Appearing in Tridion Interface

We have Tridion 2013 Sp1, with SDL Media Manager Connector. We are able to see video player distributions in Tridion interface, but not YouTube ones. Are we missing any configurations? If that is ...
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Failed initializing the External Content Library with id mm

I know this is probably asked in a previous thread but I'm getting an issue integrating fredhopper and SDL media manager with Tridion 2013 SP1 The code was running previously and suddenly it stop ...
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ECL provider for Fredhopper is not working

I have prepared the FredhopperECL connection provider code and deployed the dll into the different environments. That code is running fine in the lower environment but When I am trying to fetch the ...
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Eventsystem code call on new ecl component creation?

I have created an ECL provider for Fredhopper in my provider, Now I want to store some metadata from the external content in the ecl component. For that I have created below event System code ...
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How to access the preview url of Image (Created on SDL Media Manager) from Event System Code?

I have implemented the ECL connector for SDL media manager. Components are coming properly on the CMS end. On component save I have implemented an event system code for the ecl component which is ...
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Dismount ECL provider

What is the best practice for dismounting an ECL provider? My doubts are mainly related to the removing of the stub components and stub schema. Has anybody had (good or bad) experiences with it?
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Failed initializing the External Content Library with id flickr

I know this is probably asked in a previous thread but I'm getting an issue integrating flickr with Tridion 2013 SP1 After downloading the package from SDLTridionWorld, I updated the flickr.cs file ...
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Error importing a component which links to an ECL stub

I am using Content Porter to export/import a component which links to an ECL stub component. When exporting and importing I have the Structure and Content dependencies checked (and no others). If I ...
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How to access stub component in ECL StubComponentCreated method

I'm creating an ECL provider, and in my provider, I want to store some metadata from the external content in the stub component. While I could use the event system, using the example that can be found ...
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