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There’s a way in ALUI Collaboration to tweak how pagination functions, and it could mean big performance gains in Collaboration Project Explorer. Basically, you can allow lists of items (such as documents) to be pre-loaded by Project Explorer, instead of having a small part loaded every time a user paginates through them.

The setting is [...]

If you’ve ever had Content Managers who produce content by cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word, chances are you’ve has problems with “Smart Quotes” or other characters that end up looking bizarre when they’re presented in the portal:

This problem is due to the character encoding of the published content, which basically is the mapping of [...]

Collaboration notifications are a great way to stay in touch with the activities in a Collab Project. You simply subscribe to the project, folder, or even a specific document, and emails show up in your inbox when things change:

What you may not be aware of is that these messages can be fully customized. [...]

Welcome John Pusey to the Function1 team! John brings extensive ALUI portal and consulting expertise to our team, and we’re thrilled to have him help bring premier services and solutions to our customers. For a brief history of his experience, see our About Page.

As we’ve discussed again and again (and again), there are a lot of network connections flying around your network, and without additional tools, you likely don’t have a lot of visibility into what that traffic looks like.
You could download a network sniffer like Ethereal, but the results of a sniffer can be confusing at best, [...]

This post is a little more technical than we usually write about in the blog, but it was an interesting exercise that I thought was worth sharing.

The IDK, or AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit allows remote code to load and manipulate ALUI objects. This is done primarily via SOAP calls to the WS API Server. For [...]

The Aqualogic portal has a neat feature called the Parallel Portal Engine, or PPE. This allows you to set up multiple remote servers (for custom code, or even clustering some of the Aqualogic products, like Collaboration Server) and get the portal to distribute requests to all of them.
The way this works is you start [...]

In the old 4.5 days of the Plumtree Portal, it was important to install a separate, dedicated Administration Server in the portal infrastructure. The need for such a server in versions 5 and 6 of the Plumtree Portal (aka Plumtree Foundation, aka AquaLogic User Interaction) is greatly mitigated by the option to delegate CPU-intensive [...]

If you change the ACL on a folder in the portal (Administrative or Knowledge Directory), you’re prompted with a question like this:

In general (unless it’s a very small folder), if you do want security to propagate, you should select “Yes” for this prompt. What this will do is create a JOB in the Intrinsic [...]

Here’s another quick and easy tip for AquaLogic Publisher. Did you know you can select multiple items in Publisher Explorer by clicking on a row containing Content Items or folders to select it, then holding down SHIFT and clicking on another row? (Remember, click the row, not the item itself).
This is particularly useful [...]