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What should I see after installing the SDL Web8 Content Service
I would use the token service to test the other two, thus ensuring that all 3 of them are working.
To do so, though, you need to be able to create a specific HTTP request, setting the method and ...
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Component Presentations in SQL 2012 DB shows up as a different encoding with 2013
You can get readable content from the COMPONENT_PRESENTATION table directly in sql by double converting the content field like this:
SELECT
CONVERT(varchar(max),CONVERT(varbinary(max),content))
...
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Help to understand the need for multiple CD databases for Discovery, XPM and normal Broker with SDL Web 8
Yes you can re-use the Broker database for the discovery-service. The reason why we provide it separately is so in the future we can have different options. You can imagine you can register different ...
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SDL Web 8 Installation - Content Delivery on separate server
The short answer is "Follow the documentation". I would say 95% of implementations are distributed between CM and CD machines (and often more with dedicated GUI, Search, Publishing and DB on the CM ...
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SDL Web8 Content Service standalone microservice won't start
If you don't see any other errors, I'm guessing it is a port conflict. The default port for the Content Service is 8081; perhaps something else on your machine is already running on that port.
You ...
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CD Stack filling up Temp files
Recently spoke to SDL about this issue and they didn't really give me a good answer to solve this issue.
I found that a scheduled restart of the deployer service clears out the .tmp files but keeps ...
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Target Types and Publication Targets: Why an additional LEVEL of Target Types is required?
The reason behind Target Types is abstraction.
In principle, for most implementations, all you need is 2 target types:
Staging
Live
On a true global deployment model, "Staging" for your vietnamese ...
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Web 8.5 Deployer Error when Publishing
Yes, it turns out we were indeed missing a Content Delivery hotfix. We installed the latest cumulative CD hotfix (CD_8.5.0.9057), which solved our issue. The specific hotfix that originally caught our ...
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Are there any recommendation to install Content Delivery (8/8.5) on Windows or Linux?
Yes, the CM can only run on Windows as it is a .NET based application. Content Delivery, however, is separate and you can deploy to whatever your enterprise standards or needs are.
The answer to the ...
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Is the Content Interaction Library the right way to go?
The Content Interaction Library (CIL) is the public API to the REST service providing a native JAVA or .NET interface for the developers, so yes - today the recommended way to program against our REST ...
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Experience Manager (XPM) without CDA in client application
XPM itself does not require any Content Delivery DLLs, it works based on the bootstrap Javascript which injects HTML on your staging site. The content is edited directly in the CM through the XPM ...
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What should I see after installing the SDL Web8 Content Service
Your assumption that the first two responses are OK, but the third is not is correct.
When OAuth is enabled (the default), all CD microservices (except the token service) expect an OAuth bearer token ...
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High Memory usage of Content Deployer and Content Discovery services
Are you using the default service configurations? Is this graph in-use or running idle?
You can try reducing the maximum memory used by the Discovery Service down to 128Mb (see the bin/install.ps1 or ...
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Wrong topology configuration issue
To update Website in Topology Manager use following command:
Set-TtmWebsite -Id websiteId -BaseUrls newBaseUrls
Full list of Topology Manager commands are listed by: docs
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Get list of publications from Content Delivery
You can use new PublicationMetaFactory().GetAllMeta() to retrieve a list of all published publications.
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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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Tridion:ComponentPresentation embeded in the page - SDL web 8.5
I was able to fix the problem making this change on tcdl-conf.xml
Old value:
<Property Name="tcdl.target.language" Value="dotnet"/>
New value (this fixed the problem)
<Property Name="tcdl....
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How can I purge old session preview data?
This should happen automatically if the staging site's app pool identity is setup correctly. In IIS you need to set the app pool identity to NETWORK SERVICE, and then give NETWORK SERVICE file system ...
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What are the TCDBroker, TCDLink, and TCDWAI in Tridion 2013 SP1? I am getting event log errors on startup
TCDBroker, TCDLink and TCDWAI are Windows services which serve Tridion Content Delivery capability to your web applications.
Your issue is probably got to do with that no valid JDK runtime is ...
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How to sort GraphQL query results by custom metadata field?
The GraphQL result sorting currently supported the following fields only, It's possible to extend GraphQL extension in sites 9.1.
CREATION_DATE
INITIAL_PUBLISH_DATE
ITEM_ID ITEM_TYPE
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Retrieve Multimedia Component Metadata when linked to Page Metadata
Since the actual components with the needed metadata linked in the metadata of the page will not be in the transport package, you'll need to find a way to that metadata in there. There may be a couple ...
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content not changing in dd4t
DD4T has built in caching also.
For DD4T Java 1.31, I think you have to alter your dispatcher-servlet.xml to use the NoCacheProvider but I've never done it myself. See comments about caching in the ...
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Is it possible to add comments to page/components while publishing?
Short answer is no. Not out of the box anyway. You could look at a GUI extension (I'm sure one was started in the Alchemy Plugin Framework and, as Raj indicates there was one in the 2011 Power Tools) -...
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Linking.svc URL in SDL Web 8
Linking service is moved to root of the content service. You can access it like
http://my.sdlweb8.server:86/linking
For example to get Component link
http://localhost:8081/linking/componentLink?...
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Is the Content Interaction Library the right way to go?
You ask for code samples: the point of the CIL is that any code samples for the previous version of Content Delivery ought to work just fine. CIL is intended as a drop-in replacement.
The most ...
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How do I query for Tridion Docs content with conditions?
The issue is that I was missing the ISH Cartridge (ish_ambient_cartridge.xml, now called
udp-cis-ish-cartridge.xml). I was missing the steps here. But, as I observed, in addition to those steps, the ...
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Context path not working with micro-services
After playing with install scripts, I was finally able to install services with domain URL containing context path. To help others with similar requirement, I am writing the steps to install service ...
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Tridion 2013 SP1: Error in CD Website
Thanks to Elena Linhares for putting me on the right track.
I queried the TDS_DB_INFO table in the Tridion_Broker database and discovered that it had not been upgraded yet as it was showing version 6....
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Keyword criteria vs custommetakey-value criteria
In terms of gauging performance, I can't give you a direct answer but I can point you in the right direction of sorting this out. In order to gauge the performance, we want to break down the query ...
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Help understanding which elements are installed on which servers for SDL Web 8
Your understanding seems to be quite OK.
If you want to minimize the number of DBs, you could combine the Discovery and Content Broker DBs, but I wouldn't recommend that; it's more convenient to keep ...
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