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Experience Rules are a powerful way to provide different UIs based on certain conditions, such as the URL used by the portal, the client IP address, or the community a user is visiting.  But with this power comes some complexity:  occasionally rules don’t work out the way you want, and you run into problems with [...]

At F1, we’ve done countless ALI installations and upgrades.  So many that, frankly, we sometimes get a little too comfortable with the upgrade process: install, run scripts, import PTEs (more on upgrade tips soon), and occasionally overlook things when they’re first released.  Because the portal historically didn’t come with PTE files, I occasionally forgot to [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, Adaptive Layouts are a great way to customize your UI.  But as they were first introduced in ALUI 6.5, there are still some rough edges to the technology.  Today’s tips come from our friend Geoff Garcia at March of Dimes (interested in helping the cause?), and includes some downloadable layouts that [...]

So you know Dev2Dev blogs are being decommissioned, but there really is a treasure trove of information out there, and individual bloggers are scrambling to repost their articles elsewhere. Two of the top Plumtree/Aqualogic/ALI bloggers out there are Ross Brodbeck (new blog site here) and Fabien Sanglier (new RSS blog feed here), and a tip [...]

Yeah, this one is only marginally useful, can only be considered a “Cool Tool” in the broadest sense of the title, and not nearly as fun of an Easter Egg as we’ve posted in the past, but it’s neat to check out JavaScript internals of the portal nonetheless.
Basically, open up your portal in FireFox (this doesn’t [...]

For those of you unaware, Dev2Dev is meeting a grisly fate:  it won’t be with us much longer (apparently all content except for the blogs up there will be migrated to the Oracle Mother Ship).  No doubt our friends at Oracle will come up with an alternative way for employees to speak their minds, but [...]

Well, Oracle’s gift keeps givin’:  First, they published unlimited license keys for all ALUI products, and now, they’ve release maintenance packs for everything with all the licensing stripped out completely!
Go Oracle!
 

My love for e-licensing at BEA, or lack thereof, was no secret.  I was mostly appalled as an employee when I was working at client sites – who completely trusted me with administrative access to their servers – and tried to get a license key.  Often this process took days, and occasionally took weeks.  In [...]

Here’s a quick tip for ya – we’ve talked about using the audit log manager to track and archive events, but if you’re getting the following error:
JobShell: Exception occurred when processing operation n:nnn:  Error in function PTAuditManager.DiscardOldAuditMsgs (lAuditTypeMask == -1, dtCutoffMsgTime == nnn)
… the likely cause is an extraneous file in your archive destination, which [...]

Last week started off like Christmas in April for me.  I had a week away from customers to play around with my brand new laptop and ALI 6.5.  Sadly, after about 4 hours of fighting with Vista and the ALI 6.5 installer, the excitement of unwrapping presents faded, and my afternoon turned into one of [...]