Mass publish content as individual publishing jobs

publish_wordWhen mass publishing content from Tridion, the publish job is handled as a single transaction.  Using the Alchemy Page Publisher plugin it’s possible to perform this task but create single items for publishing.

After the jump I’ve created a short video to demonstrate this functionality.

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Dynamically Generate SDL Tridion Documentation

Document CreatorWe’ve been quietly releasing some new plugins over at the Alchemy Webstore.  As part of those releases I’ve made some quick demonstration videos as it’s far nicer to watch a video showing how to use a plugin than reading the description :)

To crack things off, after the jump we have the first in the series dedicated to generating Tridion documentation automatically.

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Event System and Publishing – a look at performance tests

tortoise-and-the-hareOne of our clients uses Tridion 2013 SP1, and has strict audit requirements for their publishing. We need to know what is on the site at any particular point in time. The auditors might ask, for example, what the user saw if they viewed the site two weeks ago last Tuesday at 3am.

We have to track what gets published, and make sure that we have no significant performance degradation while we’re doing that. Publishing for our releases already take several hours, and we can’t extend that by any significant amount of time.

These tests let us look at different options for this timing. Once the tests have been run, we will then have a better idea of which one to implement.

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Extending the SDL Knowledge Center GUI

Many of us are familiar with GUI extensions in SDL Web, as well as Alchemy plugins, which integrate into the GUI via the Aguilla JavaScript framework. With SDL Knowledge Center, the story is a bit different. At first glance, Knowledge Center appears to have a GUI very similar to Web’s, in terms of look and feel. Under the hood, however, it’s implemented differently. There is no Anguilla. Anguilla is more of a Tridion thing. And from my experience, the concept of a GUI extension does not really exist in KC. There is documentation on plugins and extensions. But there is no clear, simple approach to extending the GUI, as far as I can tell. In this post, I outline a simple technique for extending the GUI functionality of your Knowledge Center implementation.

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Finding duplicate binaries in your SDL Tridion Publication

duplicate filesThere’s been quite a lot written about Duplicate Binary Issues in SDL Tridion.  A couple of years ago I released a PowerTool to solve this issue.    Knowing it can still be troublesome for some SDL Tridion users, I decided to give it a little rewrite and release it as an alchemy plugin.

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