iMIS Community blogs

How to modify the public view screens for shopping cart - ie: PO# or the words purchase order

zjaneliunas — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:24:08 -0400

I am trying to find the page in public view that says purchase order when going to shopping cart. I want to change this to CHEQUE. Can anyone tell me where I can find it/

Simplifying browser jumping: Firefox's IE Tab

Mary Connor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:34:22 -0400

I've just installed Firefox's wildly popular IE Tab add-on, which promises to make my life easier! The problems:

remembering to always open certain applications and sites in IE
doing without functionality (such as Window Resizer) I have in Firefox only
needing to quickly toggle a given URL between both browsers, for testing

The solution is this add-on that hosts Internet Explorer inside of Firefox and allows you to control which browser context is used for which site. (That is, open the site via FF, and it launches in the right browser; one right-click lets me toggle between browsers.) Sites I run in IE include Sonexis (web conferencing), Outlook Web Access, and the iMIS Full view (.../imis15/admin). Some tips:

Refreshing View Meta-Data

Paul Bradshaw — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:11:27 -0400

When database schema changes, as it often does during upgrades or customizations, any existing views refering to that schema remain unaltered. For example, if a UserId field is lengthened from 30 to 60 characters in the schema, any view referencing that field will remain at 30 characters. The solution to this, short of editing all the views, is to call sp_refreshview on the view.

The following is a little script that can be run on your database. It will refresh the views for all schema objects in the 'dbo' schema (which includes all IMIS tables). If you have a lot of tables in your database that exist in other schemas, you may wish to eliminate the clause that limits the script to only 'dbo', in order to ensure everything is refreshed and up to date. This can be run at any time, and it is completely non-destructive. If this script throws any errors, it's likely due to the existence of old obsolete views that reference schema that has either been renamed or dropped... you'll have to manually fix such issues by either fixing or dropping the offending view.

Don't use "ID" as a fieldname in your User-Defined tables!

B McPhail — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:02:28 -0400

Be aware -

Re. public & casual view iMIS15.0.3 - don't include a field with fieldname 'ID' field in your User-Defined Tables. Because if you do, and you make these fields available for update in public/casual view, then your clients (and their members) will get the following error on update: "The variable name '@ID' has already been declared. Variable names must be unique within a query batch or stored procedure"

Great presentation tool for zooming the screen and more

Mark Dennison — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:52:25 -0400

With age catching up to my eyes, I plan to put this on all my machines, so I thought I'd share it. It is from Microsoft but is unsupported. It takes almost minimal space (1.2 MB RAM) but very powerful tool.

iMIS and eSeries 10.5.28.02 with SQL Server 2005

tombernard — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:51:05 -0400

It is getting progressively harder to find older copies of application software. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use SQL Server 2005 with iMIS and eSeries version 10.5.28.02?

Customer portfolio error shutdowns too frequent - SQL deadlocks

Jberes — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:36:57 -0400

We have been running iMIS 15.03 for four days now and having lots of issues. Our most critical users are experiencing far too frequent customer portfolio errors. When you look at the error logs, it appears that we are getting SQL deadlocks.

"Transaction (Process ID 134) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim."

Here's another log entry -

Are there any issues with a Citrix installation of iMIS 15 client?

Jberes — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:19:01 -0400

We just upgraded from 10.6 to 15.03 and need to install the iMIS client on our Citrix server. Has anyone successfully done this? What is the proper method to install?

Thanks for any advice!

Jean B

IQA Web Service

Jay McCormack — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:15:53 -0400

Having Don Robertson in town (Melbourne, Autralia) has already been beneficial and he's only been here for a few hours. One of the things we have been struggling with for a while now is how to use the IQA Web Service to call an IQA query with parameters and get a filtered result set as a response.

The key problem in the past has been trying to find information on how to pass the parameters into the query service, Don was able to set us straight, so here is the information you need.

eSeries and Coldfusion MX 8

tombernard — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:15:50 -0400

I know this is ancient, but a search produced no results. Does anyone know a reason why eSeries 10.5.28.02 will not work with Coldfusion MX 8?

.NET Framework CAS Policy Manager error on iMIS 15 client install

Jberes — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:34:34 -0400

We have just upgraded from 10.6 to 15.03 and we are going around installing the client on our 88 users' PCs. One of them is throwing an error message:

Microsoft .NET Framework CAS Policy has encountered a Problem ....

Then -

CASPOL.exe -pp off FAILED

Any clues what caused this?

Event Registration - No Fee Event

MacM — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:47:18 -0400

Event Registration - No Fee Event

This video will show you how to complete a simple event registration. watch this video.

ASIers Build Personal Energy Transports - and Ride on One too!

Anne Gentle — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:58:08 -0400

A group of us volunteered to build some Personal Energy Transports at a workshop here in Austin. Personal Energy Transports, or PETs, are devices that enable people with mobility limitations to move around as quickly or more quickly than anyone in their village. You can read more about the project at the PET Texas website.

Their design is quite economical and does not waste raw materials. Our guide, Jim Scott, showed us that there are only four small pieces of wood left over after all cuts are made. The wood workshop is located in the back of a church here in Austin. They have bandsaws, routers, a paint shop, and storage for the pre-assembled parts and the fully assembled vehicles.

We assembled the wooden seats, tailgates, the storage area, and attached the metal structural support. Their workshop has excellent jigs already made, and an inventory of stored pre-cut pieces in labeled areas. So we set the parts into the various jigs, pre-drilled holes, tightened screws, and toe-nailed in boards according to their assembly instructions. By far the most difficult assembly step is attaching the welded metal structural support. By the end of a three-hour shift, we had assembled three of the wooden assemblies so they were ready for paint!

We're definitely planning for a return visit and another three-hour shift in July. Courtney and Estelle each got to try out one of the fully-assembled vehicles.

iMIS public-personal page error!

tkim — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:17:10 -0400

When I logon to iMIS public and go down to account and click personal> A problem occurred loading this page.

Please help~

Thanks,
Tim

Defining pricing fee category?

tkim — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:34:56 -0400

If I am setting up event that require different prices for example, memebers has option to purchse single ticket or diner table of 5. Do I specify this fee at registration class window? Where would I setup difference price category?

We aer using imIS 15, Thanks~

Tim

EventXpress faq-enSYNC

tkim — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:15:54 -0400

Does anyone use enSYNC's EventXpress and or Badge Manager? We are currently using iMIS 15 and in need of these add-on module's for our event registration. Please give us some feedback on the proudcts and also you can include some of experiences with it that give us idea of how much installation work is involved that would be great!

Thanks~

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

John Mann — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:05:55 -0400

I went to a presentation on the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) at the Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge on Tuesday.

Here is the blurb:

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can make the shift from being statically compiled to dynamically composed. If you are building extensible applications, extensible frameworks and application extensions, then MEF is for you.

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Fun article on MSN for long time computer folk

Mark Dennison — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:04:47 -0400

Where Are They Now? 25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die

Remeber your setup from 20 or so years ago: dot matrix printer, Hayes modem, monochrome monitor, Hercules video card, 5 1/4' floppies, etc.

Collecting partial payment of a product?

tkim — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:02:53 -0400

I noticed AR-TR 1201 shows up in batch report when I collect partial payment of a product. Why does it use this refund account 1201? I am processing our sponsorship under A/R cash>enter and edit orders>

How would prenvent purging member status "D"

tkim — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:42:36 -0400

Whenever I run script to purge "marked for deletion" members, it also delete our deceased member as well? How would I code our deceased member type?