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BinaryData Folder issue in DD4T

This is a known issue in DD4T. The root cause is that a non-existing image was requested. When somebody tries to access a non-existing image url (in a non-existing folder), the BinaryFactory creates ...
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Unable to save item (large mp4 file)

Can you go to the Event Viewer on the CM server and grab the entire stack trace for this error? Couple of thoughts: 1)System.OutOfMemoryException seems would be due to lack of actual system memory,...
Nickoli Roussakov's user avatar
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How to get binary file from Broker DB using CIL?

Binary should be treated as a separate entity similar to pages and component presentations. In your case, you would need your Rest service to serve your binary as a stream. Like Mark highlighted, you ...
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Accessing pdf as a Component using url

A pdf is also a multimedia item except it doesn't render on any page like images. If you place url of any pdf on any link or anchor tag, on link click it will automatically download that pdf file. DXA ...
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Broker query for published binaries using a certain schema

AFAIK, you don’t need DCPs to be able to query for Component metadata. For example, the Latest News widget on the DXA Example Site Home Page queries embedded Component Presentations. In general, the ...
Rick Pannekoek's user avatar
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Broker query for published binaries using a certain schema

Based on my quick investigation, I could say it is possible. As I could retrieve multimedia components by adding a one more additional query criteria of new MultimediaCriteria(true) in the ...
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DXA binary files are still available after unpublishing

Finally found what was the root cause. There is an issue with BinaryFileManager.IsCached method. It does not account if file was unpublished. When you call IsCached method it will get ...
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How to get binary file from Broker DB using CIL?

@Shiva already answered might helpful for using .NET CIL. To get the Binary using Java CIL. Java Example: import com.sdl.web.api.dynamic.BinaryContentRetrieverImpl; import com.sdl.web.api.dynamic....
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Accessing pdf as a Component using url

DXA assumes that Binaries (Media Items) are published under the "Multimedia URL" as configured on the CM Publication. This will happen if you publish the Binaries without specifying a StructureGroup. ...
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How to prevent cached binaries to get deleted on file system in DXA?

Option1: Try to use the persistent storage mapping in your web app, for example, try to use EFS (NFS storage) symbolic or soft link folder map to your web application for BinaryData folder so that ...
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Unable to save item (large mp4 file)

In addition to what Nickoli suggested, should try checking and possibly increasing the sendTimeout attribute value of web.config to 10 minutes, as discussed in KB article https://gateway.sdl.com/apex/...
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Publishing issue with Binary files after upgrade from 2011 SP1 to Tridion 2013 SP1

Sumit, I had gone through with your question and comments again and I came to below conclusion:- You should only use httpupload as deployer instead of deployer windows service. Kindly stop the ...
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Updating the RootPath for binary items published to the broker db

The response from Tridion Support confirmed that this is not supported for database publishing: documentation for the root element and path attribute says they're used for the filesystem storage ...
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Why doesn't BinaryContent get expanded for embedded components?

It does look like you reached the configured expansion depth. If you debug the template in Template Builder (with Debug logging enabled), you will get more insight in why Entity Models are not ...
Rick Pannekoek's user avatar
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Duplicate binary info in publishing error message

I'm afraid this will be pretty hard to achieve, if at all possible. The cd_core log file of the deployer will contain a more helpful message (although in the form of a warning, there is no error ...
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Updating the RootPath for binary items published to the broker db

Mark, not sure if you considered using custom Template Building Blocks. Although not a quick solution, in the custom TBB, we should be able to update the root path just for PDFs by calling the Engine....
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Restrict Indexing of documents/binary/multimedia component on SOLR

SI4T based SOLR search integration framework already has the option to restrict indexing of binaries by file extension. You can configure DocExtensions="pdf,docx,doc,xls,xlsx,pptx,ppt" in ...
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Why doesn't BinaryContent get expanded for embedded components?

Increasing Generate DXA R2 Page Model template parameter expandLinkDepth to 3 in Render Page Content TBB solve the issue <expandLinkDepth xmlns="http://www.sdl.com/web/schemas/dynamicpage"...
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DXA binary files are still available after unpublishing

It seems you are right that cached Binary files are no longer automatically removed when the Binary is unpublished. The cleanup code was removed in DXA 1.8: https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-...
Rick Pannekoek's user avatar
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Obtaining Binary content from content.svc

Maybe it helps to have a look at how DXA uses the CIL API to retrieve Binaries? https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-dotnet/blob/release/2.0/Sdl.Web.Tridion/Statics/BinaryFileManager.cs
Rick Pannekoek's user avatar
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Obtaining Binary content from content.svc

To clarify to understand you correctly. I would say you won't worry about the VariantID anymore, you stick to use CIL API to get the images by Id or URL, In case if you looking to get the specific ...
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How to publish metadata-binary to Broker database?

Does the actual content of the binary end up anywhere? Or is the question purely about some metadata information in the broker tables? If you want to have the actual binary content in the database, ...
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Custom binary publisher with an older version DD4T

Create a new Custom Build Manager extending default BuildManager (DD4T.Templates.Base.Builder).In this implementation, use your custom BinaryPublisher extendending default (DD4T.Templates.Base.Utils). ...
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BinaryData Folder issue in DD4T

To me, It seems your Publication properties is meshed up, if it's Web8, try to look at the Get-ttmMapping and your RelativeUrls, basically if that's not set properly it should not allow you to save ...
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