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You know how you always ignore all those warnings and errors in PTSpy?  Or how you don’t bother looking at the /ptlogging/logs/portal/portalserver-log.spy file because it’s just filled with so many benign errors that you don’t care about ‘em any more?
The problem with this, of course, is that there may be “real” errors getting lost in that [...]

The User Profile Page has always been available in the portal, but it’s always kind of taken a back-seat to My Pages, Communities, and the Knowledge Directory – the only way you’d see it is if you searched for a user and clicked on the user, or clicked on “My Account” and then “View User [...]

Here’s a quick and very welcome feature – I’ve alluded to it before (Drag ‘n’ Drop Portlets), but every Community Page and My Page has a set of context-sensitive one-click action links at the top. Remember how many links it used to take to create a new page? Now, if you have privileges, you can [...]

Like virtually all other end-user visible pieces, the Knowledge Directory has undergone a radical transformation. Documents are shown with their titles, description, and modified date. New to the KD is the ability to sort, one-click access to the document link, document type filtering, ability to create folders in browse mode, and a completely revamped look [...]

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 use [...]

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

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 [...]