by XTIVIA | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Tasked to think of an easy way for users to create a mega menu, I came up with a 2 portlet display/config portlet combo. At the same time, I also wanted to try JSF after hearing so many good things about it. Here we go! Menu Config Portet Let’s first see how the UI...
by XTIVIA | Mar 31, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So I just wanted to share this quick write up on how to stop and start your Oracle database and listener automatically on a Linux server. I use this approach for 10g, 11g, and 12c and so far I haven’t had any issues. Oracle provides the means to do this using scripts...
by XTIVIA | Mar 28, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
In cases when a database change needs to be made there are some good rules that when used can save you a lot of time down the road. Run changes via scripts – Scripts add for precise execution and help remove human error when it comes to typos. When creating scripts...
by XTIVIA | Mar 27, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
To pass parameters from the Main report to the datasets, the parameters have to have the same name. That is, if the name of the parameter in the main report is ‘Region’, then the Datasets which need this parameter will have to have a parameter with an identical name....
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog, Customer Relationship Management
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...
by XTIVIA | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases, Perspectives
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...
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
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...
by Barrie Shaw | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog, Databases
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....
by XTIVIA | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Java
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...
