Tridion Gui Extension: Go To Owning Publication

31 July 2015 Guus-Beltman Tridion
I was inspired when reading the blogpost from Jaime Santos Alcon about his first bookmarklet Go To Publication. When seeing a blueprinted item in a child publication, it would be great to browse with one click to the same location in the origin publication. Great idea, that can save a lot of clicking and browsing in Tridion. When trying out, I found out that it doesn’t work in Tridion 2011. Probably due to missing some JavaScript API hooks, which work in Tridion 2013. Later I tested it in 2013, there it works fine. From my point of view bookmarklets are useful, but have some drawbacks: The ... [More]

Get Tridion Component Xml trick

30 July 2015 Guus-Beltman Tridion
When developing you sometimes want to know the actual XML structure of a Tridion component. When having the Tridion Powertools installed on the CMS server, you’re lucky and can use that. When you don’t have it (or aren’t allowed to install it), there is another way. Via the Tridion Javascript Framework (Anguilla), you can also get the XML. The trick here is to open the component, press F12 for the Console and enter:$display.getItem().getXml(); .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ff... [More]

Free cloud back-up of your photos

10 July 2015 Guus-Beltman
If you care about your holiday pictures and other nice memories, you need to backup them for in case your harddisk fails on you. Some people use DVDs, NAS or other devices, but the cloud is becoming a more and more popular solution. A few weeks ago Google announced the new plans around Google Photos. Google Photo gives you unlimited storage space if you are willing to limit photo resolution to 16 megapixels and video resolution to 1080p. You do have the option to store at higher resolutions, but the storage counts against your Google Drive quota. For a more in depth-review, see this excellent ... [More]

Tip of today: enable source map scrollbar in Visual Studio

03 June 2015 Guus-Beltman Visual Studio, TipOfToday
Last week I was at the Microsoft Tech Days 2015 in The Hague. One of the sessions was about Visual Studio Productivity. The presenter showed us a ancient feature that is already available since the early: convert your VS scrollbar into a sourcemap-scrollbar. This helps you navigating a long source files, since we humans are picture oriented: You can enable this by right-clicking the scrollbar itself and choose Scroll Bar Options from the menu. In the dialog check the ‘Use map mode for virtual scrollbar’-setting. Et voila!