Comments on: SDL Tridion sitemap/navigation rendering < 5s http://www.albertteboekhorst.com/tridion_how_to/sdl-tridion-sitemapnavigation-rendering-1s/ Web Content Management Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:32:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dominic Cronin http://www.albertteboekhorst.com/tridion_how_to/sdl-tridion-sitemapnavigation-rendering-1s/comment-page-1/#comment-1971 Dominic Cronin Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:32:37 +0000 http://www.albertteboekhorst.com/?p=401#comment-1971 I wouldn't say that the "established way" of generating a site map in Tridion is to traverse the structure via large numbers of API calls. Far from it; there are various much more efficient approaches that are in widespread use. Mostly the technique involves a recursive GetListItems at publication level (i.e. a single API call), and then some XSLT. In practice you will probably use more than one API call, but a full traversal is way over the top. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with your technique, just that the comparison with CMS-side techniques isn't fair. I wouldn’t say that the “established way” of generating a site map in Tridion is to traverse the structure via large numbers of API calls. Far from it; there are various much more efficient approaches that are in widespread use. Mostly the technique involves a recursive GetListItems at publication level (i.e. a single API call), and then some XSLT. In practice you will probably use more than one API call, but a full traversal is way over the top.

That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with your technique, just that the comparison with CMS-side techniques isn’t fair.

]]> By: SDL Tridion Folder | Albert te Boekhorst http://www.albertteboekhorst.com/tridion_how_to/sdl-tridion-sitemapnavigation-rendering-1s/comment-page-1/#comment-1521 SDL Tridion Folder | Albert te Boekhorst Mon, 04 May 2009 08:44:47 +0000 http://www.albertteboekhorst.com/?p=401#comment-1521 [...] It is good practice to use the folder structure for generating the main navigation for the website. Using the folder structure for the navigation gives content editors a solid view of the navigation as opposed to other options. The drawback is that generating the navigation structure from within Tridion is slow. However there are remedies to this (todo: write about advanced navigation structure rendering) [...] [...] It is good practice to use the folder structure for generating the main navigation for the website. Using the folder structure for the navigation gives content editors a solid view of the navigation as opposed to other options. The drawback is that generating the navigation structure from within Tridion is slow. However there are remedies to this (todo: write about advanced navigation structure rendering) [...]

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