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Access Tridion object in Browser Console?
No takers, so I'm posting what my colleagues explained, as a community post (no points, but feel free to update and add details).
With SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, you will find the Browser console ...
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Get selected text in Format Area
Just found out in this blog that simple .toString() over
>$display.getView().properties.activeEditor.getSelectedHTMLElement().toString()
will return the text.
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Is it possible to expose Tridion page content as JSON, for React application?
At the moment I imagine that your current implementation is "baking" your HTML during publishing and including some JSP code which is executed on the server.
There's nothing to stop you from having ...
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Retrieving data from APP_DATA table
First you are using the TOM.NET API in your own defined web service, that is not appropriate usage of the TOM.NET API. Basically you should only use the TOM.NET API in Template Building Blocks and in ...
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Javascript Anguilla API : Is there any meaningful API documentation online? (not auto-docs)
As far as I can see, there is no "meaningful API documentation" that I can find either. There are, however, various tutorials online on putting together GUI extensions, for example:
Validating ...
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Adding third-party JS to CMS page
Quick answer yes, there are many ways to refer the libraries. It depends upon where you need to refer and your use case like is it on content management end or on the actual web pages. Here are a ...
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Debugging web service call method in Tridion
To debug it on the server, you need to attach to the w3wp.exe process that is hosting the web service. To debug it on the client, you can either set breakpoints in the development tool of your browser ...
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How to add custom links on top Header & Left Menu
oh boy, explaining gui extension requires a lot of time, i suggest you take a look at how they are created using this page in documentation:
https://docs.rws.com/816112/696275/sdl-tridion-sites-9-5-...
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How to pass parameter to pop up page by GUI Extension?
That is indeed the correct way to pass arguments to an 'external' popup. You are just missing the right way to read them again.
To do so, you should register a view ($display.registerView) in your ...
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Validating title text field using Anguilla Framework on save, save & close and save & new
Since you wish to validate data, you are really should be hooking into the 'validate' event of the model object(s) in question instead of the commands.
The 'validate' event is fired in all of the ...
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Minifying javascript with yahoo minifyer
Looks like you've solved it. If you were executing your template via publishing, then, IIRC the DLLs should be in Tridion/bin or GAC. However, Template Builder looks for them, as you found out, in ...
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JavaScript library with Tridion & XPM
There can certainly be issues with XPM and other JS libs, in particular those that rely on heavy Ajax. The project that John is describing was actually full of JS issues (though most we're not XPM ...
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JavaScript library with Tridion & XPM
We've done a lot of work with JQuery (and DOM manipulation) and a whole host of other JS libraries, and not experienced any technical issues.
We've added XPM to an existing site in the past where ...
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How to pass Tridion Content TCM URI to Javascript
There is nothing special about Javascript in this context. As I see it, you have exactly the same situation as if you were publishing a binary link in some HTML. (It's all text!). So if what you have ...
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How to pass Tridion Content TCM URI to Javascript
As per your comments, you are trying to add all the UI design on Component. It's not a right approach.
Ideally you should attach the multimedia component on the actual component as component link ...
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Minifying javascript with yahoo minifyer
We had a similar issue of referring a 3rd party DLL from the templating code. Instead of putting the 3rd party DLL in GAC which requires approvals from the clients, we used ILMerge to merge the 3rd ...
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SDL Web 8 JS Error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'isLoaded' of undefined
Looking at the component with Dev tools enabled, could see this invalid markup character at the end of the namespace:
error on line 1 at column 67: xmlns: 'http://site.domain.com/folderPath/...
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Javascript Anguilla API : Is there any meaningful API documentation online? (not auto-docs)
As far as I know, there is no documentation per se other than the "auto-docs' which you have found. You are correct to say that this documentation is often not as fully detailed as you may wish, ...
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is there a way to open websockets in Tridion
Short answer: Yes, but read the long answer.
Long answer: Unlike some CMS solutions, Tridion does not serve your website, it provides various means of publishing content, which your web application ...
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How to add custom links on top Header & Left Menu
I'll add some info on custom pages and the slide out navigation.
Custom pages
For shortcuts to other applications, consider using the built-in Custom Pages feature for adding custom (iFramed) pages.
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How to make Tridion folder structure configurable in custom GUI Extension (to hide retired schema)?
Rather than a folder, could retired schemas not have their title/description updated with a token like "[Retired]" that you can then detect and remove if you subsequent methods?
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What is "this" in global scope when using a JScript component template
Although you can use JavaScript in both "Classic" ASP and in "Classic" Tridion templates, these technologies are very different. I don't remember much about classic ASP, but I don't think the this ...
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Retrieve page ID on the first OnSave
Here is an untested code sample to get you started.
You can add the code to check if the current page already has a version to know if the event was triggered on first save or not.
Add this to a ...
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Debugging web service call method in Tridion
The method Hao Peng suggested was useful. The call of web service method had to be changed to pass parameters like a handler for the functionality to work properly and OnComplete and OnError in order ...
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Debugging web service call method in Tridion
I presume you are calling wcf in an asynchronous way in which case the call following your wcf request would execute as expected even if the request failed
You might want to add parameters for ...
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