Functionality introduced in SDL Tridion 2013
This section describes functionality introduced or changed in SDL Tridion 2013.
- Device Preview
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Device Preview allows you to preview and edit content in Experience Manager as it is displayed in a handheld device such as a mobile, smartphone, or tablet. Device Preview, released previously as a separate product called Device Emulator for SDL Tridion 2011 SP1, has been fully integrated into the SDL Tridion platform.
- SDL Safeguard
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Safeguard allows you to analyze a Web page in Experience Manager to ensure consistency with branding and standards guidelines. Safeguard has become available as part of the SDL Tridion platform.
- User interface
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The user interface update for SDL Tridion 2011 SP1—a new user interface to replace SDL SiteEdit, a product released as a separate add-on product for the platform—has been fully integrated into the SDL Tridion platform and has been renamed to Experience Manager.
- Workflow in Message Center
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In Content Manager Explorer, the contents of the My Tasks node in the Shortcuts area have moved to your Message Center at the top right of your screen. The only My Tasks node that remains in the Shortcuts area is Checked-out Items.
- Workflow
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- A new implementation of Workflow brings an end to the one-on-one relationship between Workflow Activities on the one hand, and items in workflow on the other hand. Instead, an Activity can apply to one item, multiple items, or no items at all.
- Automatic Activities are now coded in C# and can reference .NET assemblies.
- Changes in default Workflow Process Definitions
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In previous releases of SDL Tridion, any new Publication you created included the default Workflow Process Definitions "Page Process" and "Component Process".
This is now no longer the case: new Publications do not get a default "Page Process" or "Component Process". In addition, both existing Publications and new Publications get a new default Process Definition called "Task Process".
Your existing Page Process or Component Process items that are already in use continue working, but if you are upgrading from a release that is earlier than SDL Tridion 2011, you still need to make a change to these default Process Definitions.
- Bundles
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Bundles are new items as of SDL Tridion 2013. A Bundle is a container for grouping content items from one Publication in Content Manager so that you can apply workflow to these items or export or import them as a set.
- Publish transaction information available from templating code
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From your compound templating code, you can now access information about the current publish transaction, including which user initiated the transaction and the priority of the publish transaction.
- Support for multiple operations in TOM.NET and Core Service
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The Content Manager APIs now let you perform multiple operations, that is, a single operation applied to a number of items at the same time. Refer to the API reference documentation for more information.
- Undo publishing
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The Content Manager APIs now enable you to undo a publish transaction. The functionality is intended for use in Automatic Activities in Workflow Process Definitions and requires configuration on the Content Delivery side.
- Personal information center
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Experience Manager and Content Manager Explorer user interfaces now show user information, notifications, and Workflow tasks in a personal information center.
- New Template Building Block type: XSLT template
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In addition to the existing types that Template Building Blocks could have: C# fragment, .NET assembly, Compound Template, and Adobe Dreamweaver Template, there is now a new type of Template Building Block: XSLT template. This replaces the need for a separate XSLT Template.
- External Content Library
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The External Content Library is a module for exposing multimedia contained in an external system in SDL Tridion so that you can use the media in SDL Tridion-driven Web sites. External Content Library, previously released as part of SDL Tridion Connector for SDL Media Manager and SDL Tridion Connector for ADAM, has been fully integrated into the SDL Tridion platform. You expose media in external systems using the External Content Library API. The External Content Library is an API for developing Providers, Template Building Blocks and Event Handlers that communicate with an external system and expose the multimedia contained in the system in SDL Tridion.
- Optimizing LDAP authentication
- The Core Service lets you optimize LDAP authentication of users who access the Content Manager through Content Manager Explorer or Experience Manager. If you are using LDAP, the retrieved LDAP user and group authentication information are embedded in SAML tokens which are passed to the Core Service.