Archive for February, 2008

Beware Publisher Bug: Broken URLs when Publishing to Knowledge Directory

Publisher on February 20th, 2008 No Comments

I ran into this one a couple months ago with our friends at the American Diabetes Association. (Give early, give often :)) Seems that with the latest build of Publisher (6.4), if you Publish to the Knowledge Directory using a Content Item that has a Description field, that field is used when generating the Open [...]

Cool Tools Part IX: CurrPorts

Cool Tools on February 17th, 2008 No Comments

I ran into a problem recently where my Automation Server wasn’t starting up. Checking the logs, it showed that something was already running on port 7777. Sure, it’s easy enough to change the automation server port (hint: it’s in serverconfig.xml), but Automation Server used to run on this server, so I needed to find out [...]

Run PTSpy on Remote Server

Portal Server on February 11th, 2008 No Comments

We’ve written about using PTSpy to capture Publisher events before, but a lot of times network switches don’t allow UDP messages (the kind generated by this logging subsystem) to go to other machines, even on the same subnet. So even if you can add a message sender for, say, Collab, to a PTSpy instance running [...]