Monday, July 13, 2015

Installing Alchemy Plugins for Tridion


Before installing an Alchemy Plugin, you must install Alchemy on your CMS server. Once finished, an Alchemy Plugin could be installed in two ways:


1. First one is to access the web store inside your Tridion GUI and install it clicking on install button. 
  •     Go to the Web Store by clicking the tab "web store" on Alchemy landing page, Search for the plugin you want to install.


  •     On the search result page, click the plugin you want to install


  • It will redirect you to the Plugin page, Locate to the "Install Plugin" button and click it

  • Watch the Tridion notifications about the progress



  • Great, your Plugin is installed and ready to use 





2. The other way to install a Plugin is to go to  
www.alchemywebstore.com and download the plugin (a4t file) and drag and drop it on the Alchemy landing page inside the Tridion GUI.





Installing Alchemy for Tridion (A4T)

As a Tridion developers we all know, Developing a Tridion GUI Extension is not a piece of cake. Form developing the code to the configuration, It's a complex process that requires some good technical skills and time.


So here comes Alex Klock and his team to rescue. They developed a system called Alchemy at Content Bloom, and the Beta version is announced recently.


Alchemy is basically a system set to revolutionize the way Tridion Extensions are built and installed. The system comprises of a open source extension framework to develop the extension plugins and a web store to upload/download and manage plugins.

So to use the Alchemy Plugins, First We need to install this awesome thing named Alchemy.





  • Run the installer on your CMS server

 Installation wizard starts


Specify the installation location for Alchemy


Specify the system admin credentials (Optional) needed for plugins like "Servicer", which performs some system administrative task like restating a window service. If you skip this, you can update this information post-install as well, these are stored in the "impersonation" node of the Alchemy.xml file found at: [Tridion Home]\web\Alchemy\Configuration\ 


Click Close once installation is complete



  • Refresh Tridion in browser. Boom!!! Welcome to the world of alchemy.



  • Click on the Alchemy link in left panel, it will show you the Alchemy landing page. And yeah, you are all set to install Alchemy plugins for the environment.