1. Tridion 5.3 Templates

2. Agenda Introduction to Tridion 5.3 Advantages of Tridion 5.3 Templates
Code Migration (VB Script to C#)
XSLT, Custom Page features in Tridion 5.3
Event System Implementation
Demo

3. Introduction New Version of SDL Tridion R5 Features Compound Templates
Application Monitoring
Publish the Binaries to any Web folder
ASP.NET Server Controls, JSP Custom Tags
Workflow changes, Blueprint Diagram for each Items
Publish the Component Presentation as ASCX control

4. Compound Templating (R5.3)
Templating Framework
Component/Page
Template (VB Script)
Published Content
Normal Templating (R5.2)
Component/ Page
Template-1
Compound Templating (R5.3)
Published Content
Template-2
Template-n

5. Compound Templates The most important new functionality in Tridion 5.3
Compound Templates are nothing but groups of Template Building Blocks make use of various technologies
To manipulate the content from Content Manager we need .NET assembly Template Building blocks. To visualize the content, we need Dream weaver Template Building Blocks.
Classified into Compound Page Templates, Compound Component Templates & Template Building blocks
Template Building Blocks are classified into C# Fragment, .NET Assembly and Dream weaver files

6. Compound Templates Types
Compound Page Templates
Transforms the Page (object) into publishable content (XML).
Compound Component Templates
Transforms the Component into publishable content (XML)
Compound Template Building Blocks
Cores the often-used tasks that can be included in compound Page Template and Compound Component Templates

7. C# Fragments (Compound TBB)
C# code can directly enter into source tab of Template Building Block for the simple operations on the package
Advantages
Doesn’t require IDE to write the code
No need of Build the code as DLL
Exception Handling, DB connectivity, WS Invocation, etc
Drawbacks
It is not possible to Debug the Code

8. .NET Assembly (Compound TBB)
To perform the most complex operations, we created the .NET assembly in visual studio IDE and upload in a Template Building Block
Advantages
Able to Debug the Code
Language Independence (C#, VB.NET, J# and VC++)
Exception Handling, DB connectivity, WS Invocation, etc
IDE to develop the Code & Build the DLL

9. Dream weaver (Compound TBB)
This template mainly used to specify the visualization of the content. A valid Adobe Dream weaver (.dwt) file that you create and add to a Template Building Block in Content Manager
Advantages
Separate the Presentation from Script (C#)
IDE (Adobe Dream weaver) to visualize the Content
Visualize the content with out script (C#)

10. Compound Templates over Monolithic Templates
Easy to re-use and modify the templates sequence in Compound Templates
Enables the user to separate the Template Building Blocks for each step
More easy to extend our compound templates by re-use the existing one
Easy to distribute the Template building Blocks according to the Skill set like Web-Designer can work on Dream weaver Templates and Developer can work on .NET assemble Templates
Content Integration from multiple environments (PROD1, PROD2)

11. Code Migration (VB Script to C#)
The current implementation (VB Script) for generating the Page XML & Component XML has been migrated to C# fragments, .NET Assembly
Advantages
Reduce the code complexity
Able to debug the Code
Exception handling
Make use of advanced features (WS Invocation, Threading, etc)

12. XSLT, Custom Page features
The XSLT filter for RTA fields (remove empty <p> tags) and Custom Page for populating the security groups has been implemented in Tridion 5.3 without any issues.
Event System Implementation
Tridion 5.2 supports .NET framework 1.1 and Tridion 5.3 supports .NET framework 2.0.
So far we build the DLL using NANT with .NET framework 1.1 assembly will not compatible to Tridion 5.3 environment. So we need to build the DLL with .NET framework 2.0 assembly.