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What really happens when we restart the Tridion Publisher service?
The Publisher for sure caches objects, but the lifetime of that cache is normally from the point the the Publish Transaction is picked up from the queue to the point that rendering (of all items in ...
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Unable to delete item. The item is published
I'll suggest an approach, hopefully it will work.
Create the target again with the exact same name. Since the target is no longer there, you can recreate the target with dummy values for deployer.
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Outputting SVG image assets inline - can it be done?
We have a TBB "Output Multimedia Component as String", which may (or may not!) work for you with a little adaptation:
BinaryContent binaryContent = component.BinaryContent;
byte[] bytes = ...
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DXA 1.5 TBBs do not output Multimedia Component Field - External Url, recursively
DXA follows the behavior that SDL Web (or Tridion if you will) delivers, when using an External URL in a Multimedia Component, at Publish time, the content of the External URL is fetched and published ...
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Publishing an item should trigger publish from parent publication and avoid infinite loop
Not that this sounds like a particularly good idea but - are you sure you're not publishing with "publish child publications" checked?
Also - you'll have to catch (using the Event System - which ...
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Publishing an item should trigger publish from parent publication and avoid infinite loop
Instead of creating tbbs for managing publishing, i suggest using event system. It is much more elegant solution. You can manipulate objects via event system more easily and will have more control ...
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How to consume XML sent by C# TBB in Razor template?
AFAIK, you won't be able to get the Keyword titles directly in a Razor TBB; however, you can create your own custom function in the Razor TBB that manipulates the XML and returns the titles.
The ...
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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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.NET Framework 4.0 templating DLL support SDL Web 8.5
First - Tridion has a very long history of supporting templates through an upgrade without changes. My DWT Get Extension was written for Tridion 2009 and it still works in Web 8.5 without a single ...
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Differences between PTs in DXA
They do appear to have the same metadata and includes, so in the default dxa setup, they are the same.
However, separating the home page and section pages in two different templates can be useful, ...
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Unit test TBB in C# in Web8
It's tempting to see Tridion templating as an exercise in object-oriented programming, in which idiom the most obvious automated test is a unit-test. It's often better to see it as a data ...
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Publishing linked dynamic components
Actually you can achieve this via templating, no need for custom resolver. You can add additional dwt in your page template in which you will have RenderComponentPresentation() function for your ...
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Publishing linked dynamic components
You could use a custom resolver; much like as described in this article: http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/a-custom-resolver-in-practice
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Retrieve list values in DWT template
There is a TBB called Get Linked Components in the Template Base framework for DWT.
You can find it here: https://www.sdltridionworld.com/community/2011_extensions/generic-2011-tbbs.aspx.
It will ...
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component.Schema is null in SDL Web 8
Sounds like an issue with lazy loading of TOM.NET objects.
In general, TOM.NET objects can be partially loaded (i.e. not all property values are retrieved). This typically happens when getting a list ...
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UsingItemsFilter not filtering result for publication context
Since you seem to be interested in classified Components: did you consider using Keyword.GetClassifiedItems ?
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DXA dynamic type mapping
No, it doesn't; DXA uses Strongly Typed View Models. The supported View Model property types depend on the CM field type you are mapping to.
In case of a CM Component Link field, you can map it to a ...
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How to check publishing or rendering context using TOM.NET in the new publishing framework
If all is well, the same logic can still be used; the new publishing franework uses Topology Manager Mappings instead of Publication Targets, but you will find that there is still a PublicationTarget ...
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Can we add Preview Functionality in CME for DD4T based Application
Not sure how current this information is, but according to this blogpost, yes you can.
There's some template and webapp changes needed to get it to work, they're detailed in the post I linked to.
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Publishing getting failed in Template rendering but able to preview the Page
A few things you may want to check:
Is the TBB reliant on some/certain content being published to Publishing Target?
Is your Publisher scaled out from you CM? If so, then it may be that there's an ...
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Error on Publishing ECL Items
The error you are getting is a .NET error in the CopyTo() method, that tries to copy a closed stream.
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to use the IContentResult stream object directly inside ...
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Can a CT be created to be only allowed in one PT?
Another option would be to use Event System on Page Save and interrupt the saving if the Page Template <-> Component Template combination is not allowed. You can throw an exception with a ...
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2 DWT Tridion 2013 questions
DWT is not that powerfull to read fields from linked components out of the box. You can check SDL AppStore to see i there is some templating (dwt) extensions that can read fields from linked ...
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UsingItemsFilter not filtering result for publication context
Did you try InRepository.
UsingItemsFilter = new UsingItemsFilter(pub.Session)
{
ItemTypes = new[] { ItemType.Component },
IncludedVersions = VersionCondition.OnlyLatestVersions,
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Binary Publishing without TCM URI
When wanting to publish a binary with a different name (allowing you to not have the TCM URI appended), you have to make sure you are using the right AddBinary() method.
There are two obsolete ...
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Unable to delete item. The item is published
You need to verify where is item published and with what template. It might be that your template is published to target that is no longer valid, or it is published with template that is no longer ...
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Use of a tcmUri list in component template
What you are roughly trying to do I think should read something like
<!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="Paragraph" -->
<div>
@@RenderComponentPresentation(slideshareList[${...
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DXA 1.5 compatible with 2013 SP1?
Is DXA 1.5 compatible with 2013 SP1, the simple answer is yes, as mentioned in the documentation http://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20DXA-v5/GUID-DD402008-D5C5-4DCA-A74F-893272D2B659
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Processing Multimedia Content
Apart from the question why you would want to store XML data in a BLOB instead of in a regular/structured/XML Component, I have the following comments on your code:
You are first loading the binary ...
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Processing Multimedia Content
If what you need is JSON, rather than processing this at publish time, might it not be easier (and better for performance) to process it at creation time already?
For starters I would never suggest ...
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