Welcome to SDL Tridion World

Buddies on Tour

They seem to be spreading like a plague, reaching the four corners of the globe... well, a little dramatic but as you can see from SDL's Buddy Tour page the SDL Buddies are reaching some far flung places. Hawaiian beaches, Norwegian snow (complete with an awesome scarf) and the mountains of New Zealand, the buddies seem to be travelling the globe.

Using P&P in Distributed Environments

Mihai Cadariu shows how to solve the challenge that occurs when you use the Content Delivery software component called Personalization & Profiling (P&P) on a different server than the server to which the Web site visitor logs in.

SDL Tridion Certification!

The SDL Tridion Certification Program for Technical Consultants is a Professional Services initiative targeted at the SDL Tridion Technical Consultant community.

Q-go integration demo video

To better understand what your web site visitors are asking for on your websites, natural language search helps you to increase customer satisfaction.

SDL Tridion 2009 Released!

SDL Tridion, leader in global Web Content Management (WCM), today announces the launch of SDL Tridion 2009, a unified online marketing suite providing a complete end-to-end solution for customer engagment. The platform will allow marketers to creat and deploy fully intergrated campaigns incorporating customer managemnt and interaction, mulit-channel marketing and web content management.

Digital Asset Center

Photos, videos and sound are a crucial part of your marketing communication to provide your target audience with a compelling message and a great online experience. Digital Asset Center enables you to produce, manage and distribute multiple types of multimedia assets. The eXtension is not an SDL Tridion product, but an integration with the SDL Tridion platform that enriches the capabilities of Marketing Communications

Using SDL Tridion Object Caching with Apache Active MQ

In R5.3 GA, SDL Tridion introduced Object Caching using JMS as a mechanism for synchronization of the caches. The mechanism allows cached objects, cached by the websites, to be invalidated in the event of a newer version of the object being deployed to the website. JMS based messaging provides a more scalable mechanism for cache updates than RMI based messaging which was the only option prior to R5.3.

What is the SDL Tridion Object Cache?

The SDL Tridion Object Cache is an in-memory cache that stores frequently used objects from the Content Data Store. The cache keeps objects available to applications for repeated usage. This prevents SDL Tridion Content Delivery from having to retrieve objects from the Content Data Store for each request. Typically caching includes linking information, metadata and component presentations. The Object Cache is designed to significantly improve the performance of your Web sites and is available to every Content Delivery module. SDL Tridion recommends implementing it in every production environment.

About SDL Tridion World

SDL Tridion World is a community Web site for customers, partners and other stakeholders with interest in Web Content Management. You can find and share information on both business and technical subjects.

Maintaining SDL Tridion Databases

The SDL Tridion uses two and possibly three different databases. The SDL Tridion Content Manager Database (called Tridion_cm by default) that is used to store all Tridion content, the SDL Tridion Logging Database (called Tridion_cm_log by default) which holds all error and warning messages that the Content Manager server logs and the SDL Tridion Content Delivery Database (called Tridion_broker by default) which stores all dynamic content and metadata information that is available for the Content Broker, Dynamic Linking, Dynamic Content Delivery and Personalization and Profiling on the Presentation Servers.

Connector 2009 for InDesign released

Web and print are a proven combination in marketing campaigns. However, it is a difficult and time consuming task to synchronize the messaging in your printed collateral with your Web channel. Connector for InDesign integrates the Web- and print channel and manages these channels from a single source, hence guaranteeing unified messaging, and improving efficiency and shorter time-to-market.

Visual Studio 2005 To COM and .NET 1.1

Making your Visual Studio 2005 code work with COM and .NET 1.1 This article explains: * how you can make code you develop in Visual Studio 2005 visible to COM applications * how you can make code you develop in Visual Studio 2005 run in a .NET 1.1 environment

Monitoring Tridion Publishing with Tridion Application Monitoring

SDL Tridion introduced Application Monitoring as part of the SDL Tridion R5.3 GA release. This functionality enables Administrators to monitor certain aspects of the environment to ensure optimal uptime of essential processes. Tridion Application Monitoring can be extended to enable Administrators to monitor even more than what is delivered out of the box.

10 tips for installing SDL Tridion R5

There is more to installing SDL Tridion R5 than simply clicking 'Next'. The following few simple guidelines can help you install SDL Tridion R5 in a way that leads to less issues and better results.

Dynamic Linking in ASP.NET websites

This article gives a detailed step-by-step guide to configuring both your ASP.NET Web application and your SDL Tridion Content Manager to enable the publishing of pages that contain dynamic links using the new ASP.NET Server Controls introduced in version 5.3 of SDL Tridion R5. Although all this information is available in the standard documentation, it is spread out over several documents. This article brings the information together in one place. To perform this task, follow the numbered steps below.