Ever since the acquisition of the ecommerce search and recommendation engine Fredhopper by SDL in 2010, the market has eagerly anticipated what the result of this merger would mean for them. The combination of Tridion and Fredhopper was released in 2011 and baptized SmartTarget. But it wasn’t until the release of the latest version, SmartTarget 2014 SP1, that this integration was seen as stable and production-ready.
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SmartTarget 2014 SP1 and DD4T in a Java environment
As Nick Roussakov explains in his excellent post, it is very easy to integrate DD4T and SmartTarget 2014 – at least, no harder than it is to implement SmartTarget on any type of system.
If you are implementing the java version of DD4T things are even easier. First of all, you can simply add the out of the box Add to SmartTarget TBB to a dynamic DD4T component template. This will make sure that the component presentation is available in FredHopper – as described by Nick.
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Previewing pages with DD4T
In a DD4T implementation, your templates generate data (XML, JSON) instead of HTML. It’s the web application which turns this data into good-looking HTML pages (or so one would hope).
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Using the TridionConfigurationManager
Have you are ever been in the situation where you need to write your own DD4T templates? I don’t mean views, mind you, but real, modular Tridion templates.
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Removing metadata by extending the TransportPackageHandler
One of the requirements during on of our recent projects was that content items in Tridion (Components) should have internal metadata.
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