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There is a major change that you need to make to the configuration of Publisher before deploying it into production and it is a change that is overlooked in a lot of ALUI deployments. When you install Publisher, it is not set up to use as much memory as a production instance of Publisher should [...]

If you’ve ever had Content Managers who produce content by cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word, chances are you’ve has problems with “Smart Quotes” or other characters that end up looking bizarre when they’re presented in the portal:

This problem is due to the character encoding of the published content, which basically is the mapping of [...]

Here’s another quick and easy tip for AquaLogic Publisher. Did you know you can select multiple items in Publisher Explorer by clicking on a row containing Content Items or folders to select it, then holding down SHIFT and clicking on another row? (Remember, click the row, not the item itself).

This is particularly useful [...]

Publisher is one of the most critical infrastructure pieces of the ALUI portal, since it provides some of the most visible pieces of the average portal page (such as the header and footer). For this reason, it should be configured to be as fault-tolerant as possible.

A common misconception is that Publisher is a single, self-contained [...]

Integration products in the Aqualogic product suite often have diagnotic pages built in, and sometimes it’s not that obvious how to get to them. But if you know the right URLs, they can provide a huge amount of useful information and sometimes even tips on how to remedy common problems. Note that you may be [...]

In ALUI Publisher 6.3, there’s a bug that prevents you from adding a Selection List to a Data Entry Template (DET). You can create Selection Lists and try to add them to a DET:

… but once you click “OK” the selection list property magically becomes a property of type “Text”.

In the ALUI 6.1 Portal (reproduced in at least 6.1.240495 (Java) and 6.1.0.235226 (.NET) ), there’s a bug that basically prevents you from creating pages based off of Page Templates. If you create a page created from a Page Template and inherit the template, you’ll notice the portlets don’t show up “greyed out” like [...]

Logging Spy works by capturing UDP messages sent from various portal components. This way, depending on the network configuration, log messages generated from multiple systems can all be captured in one Logging Spy console. Two of the lesser-known components that can send messages this way are Collab and Publisher – Logging Spy is [...]