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Are there plans for DXA .NET on ASP.NET Core?
The answer is yes, DXA does have plans to move to .NET Core, in line with the plans for SDL Web to move its APIs to .NET Core. These plans actually date back to February 2016 back when .NET Core 1.0 ...
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Publishing images for CSS in DXA HTML Design zip
There is a component which is linked to in the HTML design component called build-files. It points to the Modules/Core/Admin/Build Files component. This component's zip file contains a gruntfile ...
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Accessing Page Model Metadata from Entity View in DXA
The page model is available in an entity view though the WebRequestContext.
@WebRequestContext.PageModel
It is considered bad practice though to use page data in your entity view. It is code smell, ...
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Web 8 DXA 1.5 Java web site failing with "Unable to get response from OData service"
It turns out this is all to do with encoding.
In each microservice bin/start.sh script replace the JVM_OPTIONS with this:
JVM_OPTIONS="-Xrs -Xms256m -Xmx512m -Dorg.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder....
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SDL Web 8.5 + AngularJS + DXA
The problem with using DXA 1.x for a client side JavaScript framework is that you are using a fully blown MVC web application to essentially deserialize JSON and map it to models. It can certainly do ...
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SDL Web 8.5 + AngularJS + DXA
I've seen an implementation DXA was set up to just be a JSON API. Vue.js was used as the templating framework.
XPM was dealt with by using .NET Core to render VueJS server-side (So XPM was accessing ...
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How to install the DXA 2.1 Model Service extension
Indeed! documentation is bit unclear, an example command not work for windows, I did manage to install successfully, I have sent the message to fix the documentation, I will leave the comment in the ...
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Very slow DXA response times under performance testing
There are various optimization and checks you can do for performance in DXA
Enable DD4T caching.
<add key="CacheSettings_CallBackInterval" value="30" />
<add key="DD4T.CacheSettings.Page" ...
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Invalid v2 service endpoint for content-service
Solved it, I re-ran:
Java –jar discovery-registration.jar update located in the /config folder of my discovery service
:)
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How to render component presentation dynamically based keyword in DXA 1.5
The recommended way to achieve such dynamic, query-based page assembly in DXA is by creating a custom Controller.
Unfortunately, DXA doesn't support custom Region Controllers yet, but you can create ...
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DXA & DD4T: Activate json compression
You can turn it back on in your Spring dispatcher servlet XML:
<!-- DD4T Provider beans -->
<bean id="binaryProvider" class="org.dd4t.providers.impl.BrokerBinaryProvider">
<...
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Retrofitting DXA publications to an existing BluePrint
I like Harald's blog post (referred to by Nuno above). But note that the DXA import PowerShell script also supports importing into existing Publications (see the script's parameters).
Get-Help .\...
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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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How to enable XPM button on DXA, SDL Web 8
For starters on Web 8, the XPM button is on the top right, and the CME URL in your pages is coming from a configuration file, which is generated when you publish the Publish Settings Page in the ...
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Referencing the SDL.Web.Tridion Assembly in DXA
With "the DXA 1.7 Nuget package" I'm guessing you mean "SDL Digital eXperience Accelerator Framework for SDL Web 8", which when you inspect the contents of the package, does contain the SDL.Web....
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Custom Link and Richtext processing in DXA Java 1.7
Some time ago, we also worked on a DXA implementation where we customized the link resolver (I think we were using DXA 1.5 or 1.6, but the approach should be similar).
The Spring framework should ...
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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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DXA website header and footer do not work on DXA 2.1
Indeed!, you missed to Installing the DXA Model Extension in content service.
Try the following steps to fix:
Create the extensions folder in content service root.
Copy the \dxa\cis\dxa-model-...
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Keyword key field mandatory
There's no 'out of the box' way to make the Key field of a Keyword mandatory, unfortunately.
I recommend that you do this using the Tridion Events System.
It should be quite simple to write the ...
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DXA 2.1 Map two publications to the same application
It's not possible to use the exact same url for two mapped publications. This way, DXA would never know which publication to use to read content from.
You can point two publications to one dxa web app,...
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Add new option inside the Hyperlink window
As Neil and Mark have noted, what you are looking for is a GUI extension extending the FormatArea.js and three other JavaScript and ASPX files:
%Tridion Home%\Web\WebUI\Core\Controls\FormatArea\...
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Create page with region .NET
When you are trying to create a page with regions, Tridion would give a notification asking you to update the set of nested Regions to make it valid. In the Event System code, you would want to ...
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Getting a document link in DXA?
Since DXA 1.1, Component Links to Multimedia Components are resolved as Binary Links (so a direct link to the MM Component's binary content).
I see you have tagged dxa java, which means that you will ...
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HTML Designs How to modify and upload
The layout and content of the zip is indeed very specific to the DXA - I suggest that you examine the default zip and Gruntfile.js to understand the layout and build process.
Before you invest a lot ...
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SDL Web 8, SPA and Mobile App architecture
Ad 1) Not really, CIL is the term used for the "client" libraries for the Content Interaction Services (CIS). SDL Web 8 comes with .NET and Java CIL. They are intentionally very similar to the public ...
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Applying advanced styles to embedded RTF Images in DXA
When the DXA publishes binaries (either linked from MM link fields, or embedded in RTF) it publishes the original full res image. When the image is rendered by a view, it will be resized according to ...
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DXA 1.2 doesn't support PAGE LINKING in the Page meta data schema OOB?
Indeed, DXA model mapping doesn't support Page Links just like CM itself doesn't support that.
What you are suggesting (putting a Page TCM URI in a text field) is a bad idea in general; it is not a ...
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Where and how do we read keyword component fields (name & description) in DXA?
This behaviour is 'hardcoded' in the Model Mapping logic. Check out this line in Sdl.Web.Tridion.Mapping.DefaultModelBuilder:
string displayText = String.IsNullOrEmpty(keyword.Description) ? keyword....
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In Web 8 Components stopped resolving after changing Publication path
This is a bit long for a comment but after walking through this I'll either delete or change to be an answer.
Can you clarify what you mean by when I tried to publish a Component, it is not resolving....
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Can DXA be configured to not have to recycle app pool after republishing theme?
DXA agressively caches configuration settings in-memory for performance reasons, but the AdminController (/admin/refresh URL) can be used to flush the cache without having to recycle the AppPool.
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