Archive for January, 2008

Integrating ALBPM 6.0 with Subversion

ALBPM on January 26th, 2008 No Comments

As you all may know, the AquaLogic BPM Studio 6.0 was built on top of the Eclipse platform. Because of this, many of the plugins that are available for Eclipse, can be used with ALBPM Studio. We created a video to show you how easy it is to use the automatic update feature of Eclipse to connect [...]

Tag Login Portlet

Portal Server on January 17th, 2008 No Comments

Today’s an easy one for you all. It’s been around forever (years!), but I usually find myself working on existing portals and not having to customize the login portlet, so I often forget about these files existing. Even if you’ve got a mature portal, if nothing else these are working adaptive tag reference samples that [...]

Adaptive Tag Magic with Publisher Data Entry Templates

Publisher on January 11th, 2008 No Comments

Here’s a neat trick: ALUI Publisher allows any HTML in the “Instructions” field for properties in a Data Entry Template. Because this HTML is then included when creating or editing a Content Item, you can do all sorts of things with the page.
One of the cooler things you can do is leverage adaptive tags [...]

Cool Tools Part VIII: ProxyTrace

Cool Tools on January 8th, 2008 No Comments

Visibility into network traffic can be a huge help in diagnosing issues. We’ve already covered TcpTrace, which allows you to proxy traffic through it and view the traffic as it flows.

TcpTrace is great for most applications (such as monitoring traffic between ALUI portal tiers), but it can be a little limiting when you’re trying [...]

Windows Services Tips

Operating Systems on January 5th, 2008 No Comments

If you’ve got a Windows ALUI portal, you know the procedure for restarting services: Remote Desktop to the affected system, open the Service Control Manager, and restart. If there are already people using the available Remote Desktop sessions, you can kick them off or use the console session, but if you just want to [...]

Community Collaboration Projects

Collaboration on January 2nd, 2008 4 Comments

A Community Collaboration project is a special type of Collab project that syncs security with a community. They’re created automatically when you add Collab portlets to a community, and it’s easy to quickly start using them without considering the long-term implications of the project being closely tied to the Community.

But, if a project evolves [...]