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Basic Portlet Styling in Liferay
Portlets are the basic building blocks of any site running Liferay. The default portlet styles are fine; but to really make your site sing, you can get a handle on them and dress them up to look as good as the rest of that theme you so lovingly handcrafted. Let’s start with the...
Do I need a portal or a content manager?
This question comes up a lot. I think it's important to understand the primary features and functions of what each does. Portals arrived in the the late 1990's with Yahoo.com and Excite.com. They are a way of personalizing and aggregating information from disparate...
Common Themes (and reusable components) in XTIVIA’s Enterprise Portal Implementations
These are exciting times in our Enterprise Portal practice – we are implementing challenging projects for some of the most recognizable names in Corporate America, growing our top-notch team, and solving interesting technical problems. All of this translates to being incredibly...
Dashboard framework for data warehouse in Liferay, Part 2
Part 2: Personalization and Security A previous blog post in this series introduced the Liferay dashboard framework that XTIVIA has developed as serviceware that is available for purchase by our Liferay implementation customers. This post will continue the discussion by...
Make Your Portal Searches a “Hit” with Users (A Quick Primer on Full-Text Search)
Liferay has extensive web content management capabilities. It can easily scale to present millions of pieces of content via the web. But, how do your users find what they want? Enterprise search can be a mystery to the uninitiated. Often it becomes a guessing...
Dashboard framework for data warehouse in Liferay, Part 1
A requirement that is often found in enterprise IT environments is the need for "dashboards" that provide integrated, highly visual (e.g., chart-driven) representations of key data to executives, analysts and key decision makers. In addition to the data visualization...
Cannot obtain the schema rowset “DBSCHEMA_TABLES_INFO” for OLE DB provider
While creating a linked server from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2000, I got the following error when I tried to query the remote server. OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "XXXXXX" returned message "The stored procedure required to complete this operation could not...
Speed up DB2 database restore on AIX (PART 2)
Hello again, I wanted to follow up on my last blog entry about speeding up the DB2 database restore on an AIX machine. We did some more testing last night by enabling the jfs2 logging back to how it should be. The restore took only 5 minutes when it used to take 5...
Speed up DB2 database restore on AIX
Hello, I wanted to share some lessons learned with AIX kernel parameters and DB2 database restore performance. We have a client with a 21 GB database on AIX version 6.1 and DB2 9.7 fixpack 6. The server has 8 quad-core CPU and 32 GB of memory. This is a very...
Dashboard and Scorecard Differences
We get quite a few questions around Dashboards and Scorecards. I think it is good to enumerate the differences between the two so that when you are ready to implement you don't lose sight of the differences. So, without further ado, here are the differences that I like to...