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How to delete contact extended detail field
Operations that might result in data loss are not yet in the UI, due to the challenges and risks involved. That includes changing the type of a field.
So for that, you need to do what you did in the ...
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What is the purpose of the Namespace element in cd_storage_conf.xml
You may want to change it if you're not using TCM as the source content management system for Content Delivery.
This is not yet a thing, but very soon it will be.
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Special Characters not rendering properly on live website
There are normally three places that I would check for character display issues such as this:
Do the characters look correct inside of the Components in the Tridion Content Management Explorer (CME)?
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Where are the core service timeouts configured?
Have you tried increasing the SendTimeout of your local (client side) binding, rather than the setting you found on the server? Default is 1 minute, which would seem to match your exception. Code &...
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Is it possible to make deployer's incoming directory as symbolic link?
Sounds like a permissions issue to me. If the deployer cannot see the symlink, i expect whatever user it is running as doesn't have permission.
The deployer is probably accessing the folder through ...
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How to read ‘Tridion.ContentManager.config’ file from my ‘Custom resolver’ c# code
As a new answer to an old question, SDL Tridion Sites 9.1 added the ability to create and read custom configuration files as part of one or more extensions as part of the add-ons feature.
See how to ...
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Topology Type naming to facilitate database restores back through environments
A1. Indeed, to support porting/restoring the CM DB as a whole across DTAP environments, you should ensure that each environment has the same set of Topology Types (IDs) defined.
You don't need to ...
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ADF <globallyacceptedclaims>
It sounds from your question that you want to specify a wildcard in a Globally Accepted Claim and allow processing any forwarded claims that match this wildcard.
Unfortunately you cannot specify ...
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ECL Adapter and SDL Web 8 - How is ECL Dll linked to SDL Web 8
Actually, those settings are available in the ExternalContentLibrary.xml file under
C:\{SDLWEB Installation Folder}\Config\
You can find mount points for each of your ECL links,
Example:
<...
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What is the benefit of Storage Layer configuration parameters in environment variables?
AFAIK, the idea to support use of environment variables in CD configuration files was born in the context of support for Docker containers (which are immutable).
But use of environment variables can ...
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What is the recommended best practice for C# Workflow using External Activity for Logging and Configuration?
I normally add it GAC on the CM server and on publisher machines. It is so widely used (because it is standard now) that it makes sense to have it there (to be system-wide available).
There are quite ...
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Is it possible to make deployer's incoming directory as symbolic link?
I have given a quick try by creating both soft and hard symbolic links and it works fine with SDL Web 8 deployer in my environment
Looking at your below error line,
java.nio.file....
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Special Characters not rendering properly on live website
just adding to @jonathan's - Check various options available on Elena's blog. i overlooked it recently to resolved my chinese characters issue but ultimately it resolved my issue, it takes care of all ...
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Where are OData/ADF Access Tokens stored?
The data can be shared across machine using following:
In the cd_storage_conf.xml, in session wrappers give the same machine name across all the servers that are sharing the access token.
Given ...
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Web 8.5 how to configure Target Language for Pages and DCPs?
Hotfix for this issue is available. With it installed you should be able to get a Page in JSP and Component Presentation in REL format with following settings in tcdl_conf.xml:
<Property Name="...
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What is the benefit of Storage Layer configuration parameters in environment variables?
By allowing the configuration file to be parameterized with environment variables, is one way to allow for easy automated deployment of cloud environments, while not having hardcoded values in the ...
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How to target the root directory in a website for a page published using cd_storage_conf?
Check your Publication's Publication Path property in the Content Manager - Suspect you'll find that it is set to \us\en, which is dictating where your page in the root Structure Group is deployed.
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Webdav with LDAP configuration
Online docs would appear to be your friend :)
Configuring WebDAV Connector for LDAP authentication or single sign-on
No specific steps are needed to make use LDAP or SSO authentication
work if ...
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Linking across 2 publications within Tridion
I would guess this might be product information or other content that might be shared, but not necessarily wanted in every child publication. I would recommend a solution based on the following.
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Tridion Search User Credentials
have you tried to search in MMC-Snapping in the Search Settings sections?
you have to check in Query engine Settnigs and Indexer Service Settings
Hope this helps!
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Access Tridion configuration from Event System by different events
Your question is not 100% clear, so I will try to answer on the basis of how I understand it. If the question becomes clearer, I will update the answer as appropriate.
In general, the Tridion ...
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Cloned Tridion 2013SP1 environment issues with Configuration Manager
Albert got me going in the right direction, although that specific direction didn't pan out. I was able to decrypt the Tridion.ContentManager.config file on the old server, but when I attempted to ...
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DXA 1.2 installation and configuration
I had used -defaultDbName "MYDBNAME" in my install script. That inserted the following code in my cd_storage.
<Property Value="DATABASENAME" Name="databaseName"/>
We use sevice name to connect ...
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Can I use GetConfigValue() function from ASPX Page?
I haven't tried it yet for aspx code behind but you should be able to use WebRequestContext.Localization.GetConfigValue("YourConfig"). Please update here if you face any error in using that?
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ECL Adapter and SDL Web 8 - How is ECL Dll linked to SDL Web 8
Mountpoints configured in ExternalContentLibrary.xml
Every mountpoint element has attribute type (e.g type="My Custom Provider")
Every provider has main class that implements IContentLibrary
And ...
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ECL Adapter and SDL Web 8 - How is ECL Dll linked to SDL Web 8
This entry should be in the Tridion.ContentManager.config file Under {Tridion Home}\config\ folder.
Search for extensions tag. Under that tag you can find the entry for ECL Library. If it is not ...
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What does `Add-TTmSiteTypeKey` do and can we do something similar?
Add-TtmSiteTypeKey does not configure a Publication to be a Site Type (you do that by setting the Publication's Publication Type to "Site Type"), but it associates a Site Type (Publication), with Web ...
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Web 8.5 how to configure Target Language for Pages and DCPs?
We've been struggling with a similar problem. As far as we can tell, now that the setting has moved to the deployer, you only have one place where you can configure it.
This was a logical ...
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Setting up Web 8.5 Experience Manager with legacy publishing
Topology Manager was a no go. There is not enough data points to give the information that is needed. So I made a band aid with the EventSystem and found the TargetType from the PublicationTarget that ...
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Increasing the 'MaximumJobSize' in Translation Manager
This limited mostly by how big of a request TMS API can handle.
Translation Manager send all files in one request so if it is not split, at some point TMS API will fail with timeout or something.
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