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Adaptive Tags were a new and welcome innovation in ALI 6.0, and to some extent, the 5.x versions. 6.5 makes another dramatic leap forward by implementing tags for virtually every part of the navigation available as a tag: These tags are what make Adaptive Layouts possible, but imagine all the different possibilities for you to [...]

They’re here!  Stay tuned for more insight into all the great new features of these releases… ALI 6.5 ALI Collaboration 4.5

We’ve been at a lot of accounts, and have developed a lot of software to help us do our jobs. While we are still ramping up our software development practice to sell enterprise solutions, a lot of this code just doesn’t fit in that category. So rather than keep it to ourselves, we’re starting a [...]

Sure, the ALI navigation has always been incredibly customizable and pretty “future-proofed” – using Pluggable Navigation, you could tweak pretty much whatever you wanted in the portal. You know, you pick a section (“Above Header”, “Left of Body”, “Below Footer”), and you could programmatically create whatever HTML you wanted returned in that area. But it [...]

I can’t being to tell you how many times customers have asked us (as ALI consultants) to implement the ability to drag and drop portlets within the context of a single page – like My Yahoo or other self-respecting Web 2.0 companies do. We’ve done some form of it in the past, but I usually [...]

By now, you’re probably aware that “Patch 2″ was released last month for ALI 6.1 MP1, and that it addresses a “security vulnerability”.  Specifically, this is a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that is patched by swapping out a single file (uiinfrastructure.dll), so it’s pretty easy to apply the patch if you already have 6.1 MP1 installed. Note: [...]

You’ve been waiting for it since 5.0.  You may have even purchased the BID Services add-on (LiquidSkin) to get it.  You’ve pulled your hair out trying to get indexed by Google (if you’re an extranet site) because it doesn’t recognize the different query strings, or trying to figure out a way to allow your marketing [...]

For those of you that have installed PEP out there (and to some extent, Analytics before that), BEA started to embrace the concept of providing web-based configuration for their products. Analytics was pretty rudimentary, and PEP started to look a little better with its standardized approach. But the “Configuration Manager” is now going main-stream, and [...]

A couple of months back I had the pleasure of working with the BEA engineering team on a small part of “Shasta”, the 6.5 version of the AquaLogic Portal.  Now that the release date is imminent (a couple of weeks now), we’re starting a new feature here called “ALI Insider” to get you on the [...]

Studio is a decent application; it allows you to create relatively customizable input forms and has good reporting capabilities, but occasionally you might want to customize something little bit more. This post isn’t going to show you any miraculous innovations in Studio (like, say, getting it to interact with existing databases), but it does give [...]