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Installing Eclipse Groovy Plugin

Posted by Issa Ennab on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 10:21 Cool Tools, Development, Web Experience Management Eclipse, Groovy, WebCenter Sites
     ­­­As of WebCenter Sites 11g, Groovy is supported when used as an element type. It is suitable for when what you want to implement some business logic/computation in a familiar JAVA syntax-scripting environment (1). Groovy Language has a lot of features that are GROOVY! You need to install the Eclipse Groovy Plugin (if you are using eclipse as your IDE) for better development experience, error checking, code completion, code coloring, and etc. 

How to install Eclipse Groovy Plugin:

1-    In your Eclipse in the top...
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Be Nice To Your Users ... And Your Lookups!

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 10:08 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Lookups, editor, User Friendly

Introduction 

In today's blog I will describe a method that we recently used at a customer site in order to solve a problem for a portion of their Splunk user base. This group does consist of frequent and avid users of Splunk, however they have a fairly low permission level and for the most part, are not the most tech-savvy. Their use of Splunk is limited to only one app and the pre-built dashboards within it. 

The requirement for this user group was as follows: They wanted a lookup table where they could enter some notes for specific product ids. They also wanted this...

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Macros and Tokens: Getting the Best Use of Them

Posted by Elizabeth Makepeace on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 11:04 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Cool Tools, Simple XML, macros, Operational Intelligence, tokens

While at a client recently, I had the task of creating a dashboard with the ability to look at Linux and Windows data's highest points and averages. The Windows and Linux data needed to be viewed separately, but still have the ability to view the data in total. To accomplish this, I created a base search using six macros: two to encompass both operating systems with each calculation mode, and two per operating system for each calculation mode.My first step was to create the macros. This is done by Settings > Advanced Search > Search Macros. Once at this page, click “New”. You will be...

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Introduction to Drupal 7 Maps - Leaflet

Posted by Jon Reid on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 10:01 Cool Tools, Drupal maps, Drupal, Javascript

This is my second post in the Drupal mapping series. Introducing Leaflet! 

In my previous post I described the steps to create a map in Drupal using OpenLayers. Since that post was published the OpenLayers Drupal module has been completely rewritten. The current stable 3.x release is beta3. While this is a stable release, the module is still under heavy development. This gave me the...

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Splunk Alerts in Slack!

Posted by Rupak Pandya on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 09:16 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Splunk 6.2, Cool Tools, Slack, Splunk, Alerts, Integration
Here at Function1 we use Slack in order to stay in constant contact with our co-workers. If you haven't heard of Slack before, Slack is a team chat and communication tool. We use it to talk about our projects, company announcements, sports, random water cooler talk, technical questions, etc. Slack has integration built-in with a lot of services. We rely heavily on the GitHub, Asana, and Twitter integrations, but they have many others.
 
Since we do a lot of Splunk development for our own projects and our clients, we thought, "...
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Red Hat Storage Server, an Innovative Hybrid Storage Solution for Big Data

Posted by Rishi Das on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 09:10 Cool Tools, Data Security, Operational Intelligence Big data, data storage, red hat storage server, Splunk

Big Data surrounds us all, in some shape or form. Typically Big Data (billions or trillions of vast and complex records) is so large, that it requires new and powerful computational resources to process and store. These gigantic sets of data can be analyzed to comprehend patterns, associations, trends, and statistics that help better understand user experience, human behavior, interactions, engagement, etc.

Big Data analysis, such as the services offered by our Function1 Operational Intelligence team, can be provided for a range of industries including but not limited to: financial...

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A BACnet Spec for Drupal

Posted by David Thompson on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 12:43 Cool Tools, Development, Drupal, Function1 BACnet, Drupal, A BACnet Spec for Drupal, Energy, Smart Energy, Drupal Energy, Open Energy, BACnet Web Services

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Pittsburgh is a cool city.  It has rivers, museums, tunnels, bridges, trolleys, universities, mountains, inclines, sport stadiums ... and from any of these you can glimpse its awesome skyline.  Internationally, it may best be known as home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. WIRED magazine listed it as a Top 10 Tech Town in the USA. But, before discussing the...

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Introducing the Red Hat Storage App for Splunk Enterprise

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Friday, August 15, 2014 - 09:29 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Red Hat Storage, RHSS

Welcome Splunkers! Today, we are proud to announce the release of the Red Hat Storage™ App for Splunk Enterprise™ on the Splunk Apps site.  This app is the result of collaboration between the Operational Intelligence Team at Function1 and the Red Hat Storage Server team.  The app provides operational insight for your Red Hat Storage Server (RHSS) deployment.

For those that aren’t familiar, Red Hat Storage Server

“…is an open software-defined...

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Drupal Coming Soon to a Phone Near You!

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 17:00 Cool Tools, Development, Drupal Drupal, Drupal8

Happy new year everyone!  With the start of 2014 comes the much anticipated release of Drupal 8.  While the official release date hasn’t been determined yet, it is being marketed as the most customizable and adaptable release of Drupal. The following features has been included that are particularly aimed to help End users/clients: Authoring – using the Spark project to review what was currently available in the market for out of the box functionality, Drupal 8 will allow in line editing which can be used for...

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Godzilla and the Marketplace

Posted by Isheeta Gandhi on Friday, December 6, 2013 - 15:31 Cool Tools atlassian, jira

JIRA, the issue tracking tool created by Atlassian, is a popular product to use in software development. Fun Fact: The name "JIRA" is commonly thought to be an acronym, but it's actually a shortened version of the word "Gojira," which means Godzilla in Japanese.

JIRA is so popular because it's extremely useful to manage all of the moving parts in a software development project. It can be used to keep track of bugs, requested improvements, and to perform overall project management. But, in order to...

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