This year’s Tridion Expert Summit all-digital event was organized by RWS (formerly SDL) and features technology experts participating from across the world, sharing their knowledge, innovations, favorite CMS features, roadmaps, and a number of engaging demos. Welcome & Keynote — RWS Technology & Innovation The event opened with Azad Ootman (CTO, RWS) introducing the broader...Read More
After a successful first day, my expectations for TXS2020 Day 2 were high and I was not disappointed. On this second and final day of TXS, a number of RWS partners (Tahzoo, Fonto, and Aprimo) took to the virtual stage and presented interesting and engaging demos. A number of developers shared their technical experience through...Read More
With the introduction of Tridion Sites 9.5 and Tridion Docs 14 SP2, there is a new set of UDP libraries (i.e. content delivery libraries), which includes JAR files such as these: udp-datalayer-11.5.0-1095.jarudp-data-model-compatible-11.5.0-1044.jarudp-common-config-legacy-11.5.0-1055.jaretc. Note that some, but not all, of these JARs may be available in the SDL Maven repository, as of December, 2020. However, you...Read More
This year’s Tridion Expert Summit was virtual and organized by RWS. Even though it wasn’t an in-person event, you could still find people and businesses attending and participating from all over the world, sharing their own experiences with various RWS technologies. #TXS2020 began with Marcus Hearne (Senior Vice President, Product & Solution, RWS) on RWS keynotes. He...Read More
Today RWS released version 9.5 of its content management system, Tridion Sites. Version 9.5 introduces the biggest change to the CMS user interface since version 2011, nearly 10 years ago. Other major updates include boosts to Search and Content Delivery. Experience Space: The new Interface Named “Experience Space,” the new Tridion Sites user interface is geared...Read More
For the 10th consecutive year, Content Bloom has ranked among RWS’s best. Of the fourteen 2020 Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) selected globally, Content Bloom is home to three. Congratulations to Josh Hebb, Manish Mehmood, and Sabarish Senthilnathan! Each year Tridion makes a point to recognize those who stand out in the RWS community. These technology...Read More
Improvements to Taxonomy Connections In Part 1, we explored the process for creating custom metadata fields before continuing on to configuring taxonomy connections in Part 2. Out-of-the-box and custom solutions use the Sites Core Service internally to retrieve keywords from Sites. We saw that a custom metadata binder can be used in place of the...Read More
Taxonomy Connections and Custom Metadata Binders In the first installment of this three-part series, we covered how to prepare the Docs CMS for connecting to external taxonomies. Continuing from there, now that we have placeholders for our new custom metadata fields, the next is to create a taxonomy connection in order to pull in values...Read More
As companies move toward combining web and structured content delivery, we’re seeing more and more integration between content management systems like Tridion Docs and Tridion Sites. This is certainly true for taxonomies and metadata. The latest versions of Tridion DX (Sites + Docs) provide various valuable mechanisms for connecting taxonomies in a meaningful way. These...Read More
If you’ve ever migrated content between RWS environments, you’re familiar with RWS’s Content Porter tool. I’ve personally had a lot of experience with Content Porter (*smug face*). In the beginning it was painful — the process would fail and it would give a very technical error message. I’d blame the tool, I’d be throwing my fists...Read More
