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Howdy all, hope this note finds you well and recovering from Turkey overload. Warning: This is a pretty specific discussion of a pretty specific situation that occurs when you’re moving a bunch of stuff around in Publisher.  If you’re not interested in Publisher and it’s idiosyncrasies,  you should save your time and skip this post. Anyhow, [...]

There’s no better way to express my creative side than building colorful announcements and news articles with the ALI Publisher Rich Text Editor. Aqua text with burgundy background and cool animated gifs are all I need to create eye-popping, nausea-inducing, kaleidoscopes of information. But ALAS, one of my trusted clients could not share in this excitement [...]

These are exciting times with Aqualogic (ALI) and its direction as a Portal technology after Oracle’s acquisition of BEA Systems.  Some of our ALI clients have decided to migrate off ALI’s Content Management System (CMS), Publisher, and adopt a different platform; e.g. Adobe Contribute. While others are embracing the new Portal CMS Web Center Interaction [...]

Ruh, roh.  This one’s a doozy.  Yeah, I’m pretty high on Publisher 6.5, especially the feature where Publisher no longer issues a redirect for published content, greatly improving performance because it allows the portal to cache all this content. Unfortunately, I just ran into a major problem with this feature in a dev upgrade: the [...]

I mentioned the ALI Interoperability Matrix (login required) in the Publisher 6.5 post, and realized that I don’t always go to the official site to check compatible versions of the Aqualogic stack; instead I just use a locally saved copy because it’s quicker to pull up.  Obviously, the locally saved snapshot can get out of [...]

As you may have heard, Publisher 6.5 was released last week.  And this isn’t one of those baby releases that just changes the BEA branding to Oracle – it’s a legit upgrade, and I’d encourage everyone to make the move – if not for the new features, for the boatload of bug fixes.  Even if [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]