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 of the hat to our friends at BDG, who have gone on to "find other fun things to do with our time and money"; Chris Bucchere will no doubt have plenty of interesting content on his Ruby on Rails/Enterprise 2.0 blog.
Another prolific blogger back in the day before leaving Bea/Oracle was Ray Gao, who has given us permission to post more of his previous blog entries here. While I won't rehash all of his old articles in this blog, one in particular that stood out for me as a "neat trick" was his post on getting IE7's search bar to search your corporate portal.
Rather than reprinting his entire article, I'll just share the the steps he described:
- Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx?dcsref=http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx.
- Enter http://<your_portal_server>/portal/server.pt?in_hi_space=SearchResult&in_hi_control=bannerstart&in_tx_query=TEST in box 3 on the right.
- Enter a name for the search provider ("My Portal Search") and click "Install".
- Confirm the security prompt and specify if you want this to be the default provider.
- You should now see the new provider in the search bar!
Good Tip. You can also add all of the ALUI Blogs, and important ALUI sites to your search bar as well. When browsing http://nanek.net/alui/ you should see a search provider "Aqualogic Blogs" available to add to your search engine list. The quickest way to find articles like this one again.
Cool tip Matt! I've never seen this before, and I hope I get a few more chances to use it in the future ;)