XTIVIA BLOG
Liferay, Solr, Elastic Search comparison
To continue this series of blogs about Elastic Search, I would like to focus on performance. A lot of customers ask the big question: for search, what is the best solution? Liferay as is? Solr? Elastic Search? Anything else? Many people would say that there is no correct...
Setup Solr Cloud with Zookeeper and integrate it with Liferay
Clustering Solr 4.x Summary The recommended method for clustering Solr versions 4 and above is by leveraging the product’s new SolrCloud distributed capabilities to manage horizontal instance scaling. SolrCloud provides the following advanced features: Automatic distribution of...
SalesLogix – Updating Time Units in Ticket Activities Entity
Need updating time Units in ticket activities Entity? Recently I was asked to customize the add/edit ticket activities form in SalesLogix (now known as InforCRM) so that when users click the save button it will auto populate the Completed Date field with the current date and...
Goodbye dbconsole from Oracle Database 12c
I was working with a customer the other day and they were asking for some help setting up dbconsole for their 12c database. It seems that it wasn't working out of the box and they needed some help configuring it. So of course I said sure no problem! I have done dbconsole setups...
How Stale is Your Data Warehouse?
This is an important question that anyone responsible for a data warehouse should ask periodically and with some frequency as well. The following table will give you some concrete ideas on what to look for and how to use the metrics. The details of how you collect these metrics...
Creating Drill Through Reports in Jaspersoft
Sometimes customers want to view more detail on a transaction or a field in a report. A convenient way to do this is to create a more detailed report which accepts parameters which are present in the summary report. To create a drill through right click on the field for which...
Informix error -244: Could not do a physical-order read to fetch next row
During my 14+ years of providing Informix services and support for XTIVIA’s Virtual-DBA remote database administration service, this is one of the more common errors that I am asked to address. I want to share three possible fixes for this problem....
Tracing Jasperserver Domain Errors
Occasionally JasperServer throws of errors in the Domain usually because of change in the Data Model. The actual error may not be obvious at first: Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the actual error: Sometimes you only get a message saying ‘There was an error’ with...
Get the results you want. Focus on deliverables not the work!
Building on the Scrum thoughts I shared in December, I'd like to discuss how we should focus on what we are trying to deliver vs the "how" of delivery. It is entirely natural and easy to focus on the tasks, but the team needs to focus on the outcomes. Derek Nerenberg -one...
InforCRM / Saleslogix Mobile Client – Multiselect Picklist Values
Today we needed to make a picklist field multiselect in the Saleslogix mobile client. Unfortunately this appears to be broken in Mobile 3.0.3. To work around this we had to override two functions in the picklist field's definition on the edit form. Hopefully this will save...