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List of processed items in Publish Transaction

You'll need LoadFlags.Expanded, and then you can get the items from the PublishContexts. I've just done a little POC with the following code and a published Structure Group and both resolvedItems ...
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Why does the Search host service require the core service and content manager

The Tridion Search Host service is indeed nothing more than Tomcat in disguise. It hosts the Tridion SOLR search index. It doesn't depend on Content Manager and/or Core Service. The Tridion Search ...
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Problem creating a new publication without parents

As Nuno and Shiva stated, this may be a problem with the database, and if it comes from a migrated database, what we have suffer many times is the existence of orphan elements in the queue tables. ...
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How do you access the field of a parameter schema from a Razor Mediator Template?

You have three options to retrieve any values from the package, which would include parameter schemas: @Package.ItemName @Package.GetByName("ItemName").GetAsString() @Package.GetValue("ItemName")
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How do I configure my web application for Binding with core service?

If you're starting out with the Core Service then I'd highly recommend that you check out the Core Service Recipes section of the Tridion Practice project on GitHub. This has examples of getting a ...
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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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Media Manager Connector - default sorting

There is a hotfix for this issue for MMC 1.3 that you can request from CS. The fix for this issue is already included in latest Media Manager Connector 1.4 release.
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Is there a supported way to split up the DXA Master publication in a schema and template publication?

Lets start with a few (short) answers: Q: is splitting the DXA Master publication supported A: in short: no. slightly longer: depending on what you expect under supported, but as you already ...
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Hiding SDL Tridion sub folder based on permissions

To do this, first make sure that the "Hide organizational items if no access to content" setting is set to "1" in the Tridion Content Manager configuration ("General settings"). You can then remove ...
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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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Component Link and Image source are not generating correctly

i also faced similar kind of issue which got resolved after applying Hotfix Rollup #1 for SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 as suggested by SDL. Kindly contact SDL for the hotfix or log a ticket in SDL support
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Media Manager Connector - default sorting

One would indeed expect the ordering to be (alphabetical) similar to that of the CME, but as @Marko mentions, the order is coming from the external system. That is basically how ECL works. In an ECL ...
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SDL Tridion 2011 CME is randomly hanging on IE 11

SDL Tridion 2011 supports IE 7, 8, 9 and 10 (hotfix required). We do not have support for IE 11 (this was added in to Tridion 2013), and do not intend to add this to a platform that is close to being ...
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Arabic characters in Tridion output as HTML character references

You'll have to verify the entire chain from CM source to client side interpretation to see where this conversion is happening; you've already verified that the HTML encoded characters are sent from ...
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More than one publisher & transport installed on the same server

Nope, this won't work. The only way to scale these services is to add more render and transport threads.
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Changing MTSUser after installation in web8

Answer of Dominic is correct but incomplete. Here is the complete list as far as I am aware: Update MTSUSer credentials of SDL Web Content Manager COM+ app Update MTSUSer credentials in Tridion....
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How to achieve - Release Management and Automated Deployment of cms items in Tridion 2013 SP1

This has long been one of the pain-points of a Tridion implementation. You can do it, but it's hard work and requires discipline. In recent years, we've seen the emergence of MVC-based approaches ...
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Is it Possible to Configure Dedicated Publisher Box by Publication?

If you look for it in the documentation you will find the following topic https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20Web-v5/GUID-EF85DD70-BC3A-4C54-A01A-AC65AE83EA83 You can install the ...
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Hooking into events on Item Toolbar in Component View

OK - the issue was my incorrect assumption that the Item Toolbar was of type Tridion.Controls.TabControl, when it is in fact Tridion.Controls.RibbonToolbar! The following line: var tabs = $display....
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Load balanced CMs, temporary upload location and sticky sessions

Both settings are required. The reason is that the sticky sessions are enabled per WCF client. In order to create a multimedia component (or TBB), two WCF clients are used: one for uploading a binary ...
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Adding custom instructions

Short answer: it is the preferred way, yes. Longer answer: For unpublish you can only use the ITransportHandler. For publish you can use both the RenderedItem.AddInstruction and ITransportHandler, ...
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Adding new column to User Management

User Management has a 'faked' TCM id which is "cme:usrmng" (not usermng, as you mentioned) Have you tried this: idmatch="^cme:usrmng$" ? <extensions> <ext:editorextensions> <ext:...
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Web 8.5 CMS - Rollback all items of selected publications to a specific date

As noted, you can script this. In fact anything you can do on the GUI can be scripted - and this is certainly a good candidate. A couple of Points to note where you will need to consider a strategy: ...
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Binaries un-publish themselves?

Frank van Puffelen described how binaries are handled in delivery in his Binary Event Tracker extension. Basically delivery counts how an image (or binary such as a PDF) is referenced in delivery ...
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Arabic characters in Tridion output as HTML character references

Hey Neil check out this encoding roadmap for Tridion, you're probably referring to point 6 in the article, but definitely good to re-check all points listed. http://elenaserghie.blogspot.com/2012/01/...
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Unable to retrieve item with id

The problem was due to an incompatibility with some VB templates. We have already solved the problem.
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Unable to debug Merged .NET assembly Template Building Blocks

Thanks all for the answers and comments. But it was a silly mistake from my side, So to upload the DLL (and other TBBs) in Tridon I was using the command below TcmUploadAssembly.exe config.xml "...
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Disable publishing for sometime

If you want publishing disabled, I would just stop publishers' service. No need to remove targets and other stuff. You can even push notifications about maintenance. You can check how to achieve this ...
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Tridion New UI - Creating a Component Template

In the Tridion Sites 9.5 and 9.6 for the Component Template Creation in the new Experience Space UI are still not yet supported. yes for creating the new Component Template you need to switch to ...
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Binaries un-publish themselves?

Q: Is it possible the system can unpublish the Component for some reason? A: No not by itself, but there could be event handlers which take care of this. However in that case you should see the ...
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