Questions tagged [templating]
for questions about Page or Component Templates and Template Building Blocks (TBBs)
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Getting additional keyword information from item Xml?
I have a very generic "GetItemXml" template building block that basically reads the current item being rendered and outputs the item's xml to the delivery tier.
Component component = (Component)...
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What are the best practices to manage the sitemap for a Tridion website?
As a general requirement some/almost all of our clients require the website’s sitemap to publish automatically whenever a page gets created and published. Generally we implement this functionality ...
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Best Practices to maintain text for labels and link buttons throughout the website In Tridion CMS
How should we maintain the text for labels and link buttons throughout our website?
For example, we have link buttons named “see more” on a few pages and now the editors have a requirement to to ...
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Ordinal position of a Component Presentation in a DWT
I am looking for a way to generate a CSS Id for a Component Presentation, which is guaranteed to be unique within the scope of the page. My initial thought is to make use of the ordinal position of ...
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Are there any sources of good study materials for SDL Tridion 2011 templating?
I have been working in SDL Tridion 2011 writing C# Template Building Blogs and Dream Weaver Templates.
So far, everything I have learned has been either with help from more senior developers OR by ...
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DWT Page Template Title Syntax
An easy few points for someone, I hope!
I want to get the Page Template title in my DWT template. I could knock up a quick C# TBB, but it seems like I should be able to do it without.
I have tried:
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Templates not readily available in Tridion Content Manager
When I create a new page template it doesn’t seem to be available in Tridion straight away. That is, if I go to a page I can’t assign my new page template straight away. It does become available after ...
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Component Templates - Creating using the Output format 'XML Document'
I was just creating a new compound component template today, when selecting the output type I found/noticed something that I've not seen before.
If you select the type 'XML Document' a new tab is ...
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Get StructureGroup ID in Dreamweaver
I was wondering if this is possible? Have tried following cases:
Page.OrganizationalItem.ID @@Page.OrganizationalItem.ID@@
Page.Context.OrganizationalItem.ID @@Page.Context.OrganizationalItem.ID@@
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"Unable to get template type with legacy id" error
I am working with the XPM in Tridion 2013 at the moment. I want to change the page template of one of my pages but when I click on the drop-down, there is an error notification popping up. It says:
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Default Rendering Date Format
We have recently inherited a Tridion 2009 implementation and whilst restoring that database onto a new development server there is one thing that is working on the old server that isn't on the new one ...
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Razor Templating - Addbinary (resolve binary)
Is there a function to call to resolve path of a binary?
Example:
This works and resolves the media.ID as a path.
<img src="@Fields.asset.media.ID" tridion:type="Multimedia" alt="test"/>
But ...
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Using Function Source in Condition Sentence for DW
I'm trying to make it work to use function source(Custom Function) in condition sentence for DW Template.
The Result is,
In case of adding @@ to the function source in front and behind,
the function ...
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Updating component field while publishing does not publish the latest version of component
We are using Tridion 2011 SP1. When a component is being published we are updating a metadata field of component in our component template.
The code which updates the component metadata field is ...
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XSLT Component template transformation with external images
We have Multimedia Component that works with external and internal images. When we have external images we have two cases:
External Image that has query string parametes ...
ex: http://yahoo.com/...
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How to determine if publishing to SiteEditable/XPM-enabled site?
How can one determine if the Template is being published to a site with SiteEdit/XPM enabled?
When Experience Manager is installed, Publication Target in the CME has a flag "Enable for inline editing"...
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Accessing Embedded Schema fields via list of Component Links
I have a razor component template which is looping through a list of component links trying to read out fields that come from an embedded schema. The Embedded Schema contains fields like Title, Body, ...
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Publish Binary File in a MM Link Field
I try to think about what is the best practice of publishing binary file in a MM link field without coding like in the DW Template.
The background of this question is that I have a couple of on/off ...
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Iterate through ComponentModel List
I have a Razor Template where I need to order a list of component links by a particular field in descending order (Fields.Date). Normally when I want to loop through a list I would just do something ...
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What is the best way to manage Javascript and CSS withTridion (2011/2013)?
I've always wondered if there's a "preferred" way to manage CSS and Javascript files in Tridion. I have mine (do whatever is best for the customer's requirement) but maybe there's some kind of "best ...
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How to write out full Page URL in a Page Template
For every Page I want to write out a meta tag in the HTML head containing the full Page URL. How do I build up this URL including domain name?
We're using SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 with modular templates.
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Getting Tridion to use SASS
Is there any way to get Tridion and SASS to work together nicely? e.g. I upload my .scss files and they are automatically converted into css files when I publish or create a component presentation?
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How do I remove a component template which publishes Dynamic Component Presentations?
While trying to figure out why components on one of our publications take longer to publish then on other publications we discovered an old component template that existed on just that publication. It ...
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How to include partial (unbalanced) html in a Razor Mediator if statement?
When saving a Razor Mediator Template it fails anytime that I have an if statement with unbalanced html tags in side of it.
@if (Fields.subtitle != null)
{
<div class="subtitleColor"...
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Accessing page object in C# TBB used in the component template
Is there a way to access page metadata schema value or structure group metadata value holding that page from the C# Code fragment which is used in the component template?
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Condition Sentence for Nested multiple Embeddable Link Field
I'm trying to implement Condition Sentence for nested multiple embeddable link field in the DW Tempate.
But in the 1st Repeat sentence, I can't judge if the 2nd embeddable link field is empty or not.
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How do I determine if a Component is Published based on the current TargetType
I'm using Component.IsPublishedInContext to determine if the Component is published but the value returns true irrespective of the current TargetType where the Component is being published to.
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DWT Syntax TemplateBeginIf & TemplateRepeatIndex
I am pushing keywords onto the package with keys like
Keyword1Title
and pulling them out in my DWT using
@@Keyword{$TemplateRepeatIndex}Title@@
The problem is I want to test the contents of ...
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Insert youtube and vimeo video in the wysiwyg editor by replacing component link
I want to display youtube or vimeo videos on a page.
I already created a specific schema and a component template so that the user can add the videos to a page via the component presentations of the ...
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Page object not fully loaded when retrieving PublishPath property
In one of our Compound Page Templates, we need to provide an overview of all pages in a certain Structure Group, and show links to these pages. We use Page properties Title and PublishPath for this. ...
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Error : Cannot generate template with name Builder, since a generated template created for another assembly template is already present
We have two publications (Desktop Publication - Parent and Mobile Publication - Child).
In compound templating setup, we have two projects which contains Template classes with same name in both ...
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Level of .NET experience needed to take the SDL courses
We need to know what is the level of .NET experience needed to take the SDL courses? Is basic knowledge (Beginner) adequate or do we need to take more advanced courses?
And are there any ...
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How do you access the field of a parameter schema from a Razor Mediator Template?
The following is a simplified example:
I have a Razor Mediator template and a parameter schema. The parameter schema "News Article Class" is attached to the Razor template and contains the mandatory ...
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Error using 'Extract Binaries from Html' with new 2013 XSLT TBBs
I am using the new out-of-the-box XSLT TBBs offered by Tridion 2013. When I use a DWT TBB to render my component content, and add the 'Extract Binaries from Html' TBB directly after it, everything ...
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DW Template for Multi Embedded Multi Component Link Field
I'M trying to implement DW Template using the Useful TBB("Get Linked Component") found the following URL.
https://sdltridionworld.com/community/2011_extensions/generic-2011-tbbs.aspx
This TBB have ...
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Where should I put PDB file in SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 to enable debugging?
I am putting my Tridion Base Templating project DLL in the Global Assembly Cache (not in Tridion Environment).
This has worked fine until now when I want to do the debugging on tridion. Earlier, ...
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XPM inline editing of Multi-valued field inside a multi-valued embedded field
I have a schema with a multi-valued embedded field, which further have multi-valued text field. Need to loop through the embedded field first and then loop through the multi-valued text field - using ...
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What versions do templates and TBBs run against?
In at least SDL Tridion 2011, Content Manager Explorer and Template Builder run against the current, even if minor, version of a template. Publishing will use the last major, checked-in, template ...
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Razor Mediator Helper Functions TBB Not Working with Experience Manager Preivew
We have a page region in XPM and it works fine with adding/removing components until you add the 6th+ component to it. After doing so the following error is produced:
TemplateCompileException: ...
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Editing Razor TBBs in Visual Studio
Using Visual Studio 2012 I am able to edit Razor TBBs by opening and saving them back via webdav. The problem is that if there is a Razor syntax error, it seems like they are saved OK, but actually ...
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DW Template for implementing multiple text field in component link field
I'd like to know how to implement multiple text field in component link field.
My situation is
Component A has a single component link field "Note1".
"Note1" field has a value of a Note Component.
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Resolve Link TBB for Form Actions
Does anyone have a sneaky way of having tridion resolve component links within a form action?
For example:
<form action="@@Component.ID@@">
Ideally based on standard tridion format href and ...
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Why does the Cleanup template fail to remove the tcdl:ComponentPresentation wrapper in publish mode?
I have a page template containing two TBBs. The first renders the component presentations, and the second is the default finish actions. The page contains a component presentation that writes an XML ...
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Problems with multiple TBBs using same parameter schema
I have a DD4T Component Template which contains 2 TBBs:
Publish Binaries For Component
Generate Dynamic Component
Both of these have the DD4T TBB parameters attached, and in this particular template,...
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TcmUploadAssembly tool throws error while uploading dll
I have a base project deployed to GAC that implements the ITemplate interface.
e.g) class PageRenderMaster : ITemplate
public void Transform(Engine engine, Package package) {}
I have domain ...
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Component Template - Parameter Schemas (2011 SP1 HR1)
Couldn't find an explanation in the online documentation but the Parameter Schemas option on Component Templates - can this actually be used the same way parameters are used on TBBs?
After adding a ...
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How to escape single quote Where Custom DWT function not allow to write
I have a DWT TBB having code something like that -
<!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="Video_Array" -->
<li>
<!-- TemplateBeginIf cond="Component.Schema == 'Video Collection'" -->
<a ...
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Error while creating Template Building Block with core service
We are currently working in Java to export data from a tridion environment, creating files like template.tctcmp and template.dwt. When importing these files back into tridion with the core service, no ...
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Publishing linked dynamic components
We have following case to solve: When a Page is published, which contains a component that references certain Multimedia components. Those mm components need to be published dynamically.
The reason ...
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Generate JSON objects
We are having a requirement to generate JSON objects combined with html fragments out of the pages created in Tridion. We need to publish these to another application which will further process the ...
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