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Explaining our thought process and course of actions....... As a result.... We improved the forecast and as a result the marathon sponsors added extra water stations to prevent heat exhaustion to the participants and spectators. 

Testing email content on blog subscription

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  How does the asset publisher display this content?   From issue #2937: In the AWIPS2 community the Asset Publisher on the front page "Home" is setup to set the "Asset Link Behavior" to "Display in a Specific Portlet". This works fine for the web content and forum entries but the wiki entries are being redirected to the "Projects" page but the wiki page shows: ...

Trying to see if you have to subscribe to a blog post every time

Again, just testing.  Please ignore this post

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Team, If you are ready to run a local copy of Liferay EE you will need a license file.  Our license file has been uploaded to the "Misc" folder within the VLST document library.  Anyone on the team can use this file.  The file is also related to this blog post.  LIferay's instructions on using it are: 1.  Start the application server 2.  Go back into...

Did you know that it is possible to use https with Gerrit Git operations? If not read on.  Othewise continue being productive solving VLab issues:) Gerrit allows users to now only use ssh as the protocol for cloning, pushing, and pushing content to Gerrit based git repositories but also to use https.  ssh is easier to use on a daily basis because it doesn't require passwords...

Team, Here are some more details on how to work with Liferay's patching tool. Patching Liferay with the patching-tool Setup your environment Download the latest patching-tool from liferay.com's Portal mv any existing patching-tool directory cd /home/liferay/bundles/liferay-portal-6.2-ee-sp7 mv patching-tool/ patching-tool.17 Expand the latest patching tool into...

This is just a test blog to see Tweet/LikeRecommend widgets are still around.

Liferay's Forums Integration with Mailing Lists I spent a fair amount of time yesterday afternoon digging deeper into Liferay's forums (Message Boards) and mailing lists.  It turns out that the mailing list option available through the edit interface associated with each category is intended to be used with true mailing lists as opposed to regular email accounts. See ...

Team, I have been working with liferay's patching tool to pull in changes from liferay and get them deployed in my local instance and also on the shared development instance.  Here are some notes on how to use the patching tool. Download the latest patching tool through Liferay's Customer Portal (accessible through liferay.com after signing in).  Click on the "Patching...

  The following instructions provide some of the basic tools necessary to research issues associated with Liferay. If you start running into an issue within the VLab Collaboration Services (aka "portal"), use the following questions to troubleshoot the issue: Can you reproduce the issue? Does the issue also occur on the development site? Can you reproduce the...

Through the VLab Development Services we support Jenkins continuous integration.  Jenkins allows projects to build their software and also run unit tests.  The building of the project can be triggered manually, from a gerrit trigger, or scheduled.   This blog will attempt to document what steps are necessary when configuring a new Jenkins "Job". When a project first asks...

Mike asked me via IM if it makes sense to create assets, including web content via the Asset Publisher portlet.  Here are my thoughts on the matter.   Asset publisher portlets allow users to create any of the following asset types (e.g., blogs, bookmark, calendar entry, document, web content) if the portlet is displaying them.  I think it is fine to create content from the...

The following describes how you go about requesting a NOAA email account to be used with the message boards.  The Help Desk refers to these type of accounts -- tied to a function, not a human -- as function accounts. Fill out the Help Desk form .  Set the type of request to "New Account", type of account to "New Email Account", Estimated arrival date to "ASAP", First Name to a...

I hadn't gone through the LIferay Marketplace in a while.  Here are some apps that might be of interest to us: Document library folder notification  - allow users to subscribe to changes within a document library folder Carousel Portlet - give us the ability to loop through different images within a portlet. Custom Landing Page Hook - Give us the ability to have...

How exactly do I delete a tracker in Red Mine?  I tried selecting it and hitting "clear" but that did not work. Also, is there a way to "edit" a tracker?  It seems that I am unable to change the name or the description of our Test Objective.  I can update it, but only its status.

If you are interested in learning more about authentication and authorization in VLab look at: http://www.liferay.com/documents/14/a347295b-707d-43f0-b294-2f35a7f4e58f For more information on Central Authentication Service (CAS) see: http://www.jasig.org/cas Ken

Occasionally you might want to be able to display a DDL within one community (e.g., AWIPS Community) but the DDL exists within another community (e.g, Virtual Lab).  Unlike a web content display portlet the DDL Forms porlet does not have a mechanism built in that allows you to select a DDL from another community.  There is however a workaround:     Within...

Putting this here so we don't lose it.    Strange Wiki authoring behavior.  I added a table to a wiki post I was preparing, and selected "Left" for the "Alignment" field in the Table Properties dialog box.  This was apparently a bad thing to do, as the display was all fetumult.  I asked Ken to take a look, and as usual, he had the...

Hello V-LiSTers! I'm posting this because I had to take a couple of minutes to figure out how to do this, so figured somebody else would be equally flumoxed and search for an answer.   I am a newly anointed "Community Administrator", and had two emails show up in my in-basket regarding New User requests for my community (it is marked as "Restricted" which means that it is...

  The landing page is just complicated web content displayed through a web content display portlet.  What you need to know about the landing page is that in order to update the content you may need to go to three different places:   Edit the web content through the web content display While on the landing page click on the icon with the...

  There are a couple of ways to upload images.  One is to use the document library portlet.  The other is when you are editing web content within the WYSIWYG editor you click on the image icon.  Here are details on the second option: Click on the image icon within the WYSIWGY Click on the "Browse Server" button Select the "YOUR...

The WYSIWYG editor contains an image button that allows users to include images within their web content.  If you want your images to take up a certain percentage of the portlet you can use a percent (e.g., 100%) rather than the number of pixels for the width.  If you do this please make sure and clear our the height field.  Doing so will ensure that the original aspect ratio...

Within the VLab portal it is possible for an administrator to create advanced web content.  What is meant by "advanced web content"?  By default web content has a title and content (WYSIWYG/html editor).  LifeRay allows you to create new structure to collect additional information (e.g. additional fields) from an admistrator or web content provider.  The portal also...

  Web Content Display By creating links with the following format you can send content to a particular instance of the Web Content Display portlet (see portal-trunk/portal-impl/src/com/liferay/portlet/journalcontent/journal-content-friendly-url-routes.xml):   <pattern>/{p_p_id}/{groupId:\d+}/{articleId:[^/]+}</pattern>   An example of a...

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