Installing the UGC extension for Content Deployer

To add User Generated Content to your Content Deployer, add the ugc_tcdl.jar file to your Content Deployer installation and configure the cd_deployer_conf.xml configuration file.

Procedure

  1. Go to the location where you have your Content Deployer running.
  2. Open the Content Deployer configuration file, cd_deployer_conf.xml in a text editor.
  3. Add the following element just above the closing tag </TCDLEngine>:
    <TagBundle Resource="ugc_tag_bundle.xml" />
  4. Add User Generated Content functionality to the Content Deployer:
    1. Access the SDL Tridion installation media.
    2. Navigate to the Content Delivery\roles\ugc\java\lib\ folder.
    3. Copy the following files:
      • ugc_tcdl.jar
      • ugc_model.jar
      • ugc_storage.jar

      to the Content Deployer directory, that is, one of the following:

      • lib subdirectory (if installed as a Java process or Windows service)
      • WEB-INF/lib/ subdirectory (if installed as a Java Web application)
      • bin\lib\ subfolder (if installed as a .NET Web application)
  5. Restart the Content Deployer to apply the changes.