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A small nugget of information is hidden in a technical white paper for WebCenter Interaction (Page 7). Oracle suggests that “Each (search) node can contain up to 10GB of index data for 32-bit operating systems and 100GB for 64-bit”. What the white paper fails to mention is what happens if this limit is exceeded? In [...]

Recently, one of our customers asked us to help them improve the search experience for their 6.5 portal users, and before I could even think about the problem, the first thing that popped in my mind was this:

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 [...]

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 [...]

You’re no doubt aware that you can go into Administration: Select Utility: Search Service Manager, then click on “Status” to see the status of your Search Server: You probably also know in 6.1 (if you remember to import the searchserver.pte) that there’s also a Search Cluster Manager in Administration. This tip is about checking out [...]

We’ve discussed restricting security on the Everyone Group, so that the guest user can’t search for other users, but what if you don’t want users searching for other users at all? Or for that matter, anything but Documents in basic search? You can go into “My Account” and click on “Search Preferences” to change the [...]

There are a handful of under-utilized Search Server settings that you can use to provide more accurate search results to your end users. You can find these in Administration: Select Utilities: Search Results Manager. Best Bets allow you to specify up to 20 documents that are returned in response to specific search terms. You would [...]