This years SDL Tridion User Group in Ohio is a wrap. SDL came to present their road map for the Tridion platform. I presented some updates to Alchemy and a number of plugins that are under development.
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Author Archives: John Winter
Migrating gigabytes of binaries into SDL Web 8
I recently worked with a small team within Content Bloom to migrate over 200 gigabytes of binary files into SDL Web. Actually it was 244 Gigs to be exact ☺
It was quite a learning experience and I wanted to share some of that learning.
Alchemy Training Video 5: Adding CSS and JavaScript to our Tridion Popup Window
In this Alchemy Training video, I’ll demonstrate how to use the Resource Group Class to easily add CSS and Javascript to your SDL Tridion / SDL Web GUI Extension.
Alchemy Training Video 4: Creating a Popup Window
In this forth Alchemy Training Video I’ll show you how easy it is to create a popup window for your plugin.
Creating an Alchemy Plugin 3: Ribbon Toolbar and Context Menu
When building a GUI extension it’s best to only show your functionality when relevant, this behaviour starts with the buttons you add to the Ribbon Toolbar and the Context Menu.
How to install (and uninstall) Alchemy for Tridion / Web
If you’ve still not given Alchemy a shot, I’ve created a couple of videos to show how easy it is install (and un-install) the framework within your SDL Tridion / SDL Web Environment.
Creating an Alchemy Plugin 2: Sample project overview and refactoring
In this second video, I perform a quick review of the Alchemy Starter Project (SP).  The SP provides a basic hello world project.  It’s recommended to go through the project and rename some items and add your own icons this, this is all covered.
Creating an Alchemy Plugin: Step 1 – The tools
I’m going to be presenting a session at the Tridion Developer Summit next month that walks everyone through the creation of an Alchemy Plugin, so I thought I better get some practice!  I also thought it would be useful to record this practice into a series of mini videos, so here goes with the first video of the series.
GUI Extensions – Styling items in the collapsed ribbon bar
When creating a GUI or an Alchemy Extension, you may end up with a Ribbon tool icon that appears outside of the main ribbon.  This area doesn’t automatically use the 16 x 16 icon, so here’s what you need to do to ensure you’ve covered this one off.
SDL Web Presentation Frameworks : DXA, DD4T
I recently gave a presentation at the Ohio Valley SDL Web User Group, which focused on the two main Content Delivery frameworks DD4T and DXA.  If you were not present for this presentation, you can find a copy of my slides after the jump.