Yoav Niran has written and blogged about another great Tridion GUI extension. This time providing a really elegant solution for developers/users that need to see the full XML content of an given item without having to (in my case) faff about with ID’s, Paths or templates.
I’ve just recently written a script which imported a load of content from flat files into Tridion. Using the flat files, the script creates the various folders, pages and components etc that it needed. Unfortunately I cannot share the code as the client contract permits me to do (plus it was a throw-away tool written specifically around the format of the import data) but I can share a couple of titbits that I learnt about item naming and WebDAV lengths.
One of the search terms entered to find this website reads “sample code to delete keywords in tridion”, which I do have a vb script for.
Obtaining an item from the Tridion database can either be done via Tridion TCM ID, or using the item webdav path. The latter is always the safest bet in the event the item has been deleted and recreated or the code is being moved over different environments but if the item name contains special characters you’ll need a resource which lists what they are .
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