Ian Wann's blog

Swiching logins in iMIS15

Ian Wann — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:13:44 -0500

In iMIS15 since logging into iMIS is server side you can not specify which database to login based on associated iMIS libraries. This makes it so it is easier to by mistake log into the wrong instance of a customer's setup.

When using RDS this is not done on a per user bases. This means that iMIS users accessing the Desktop to access instance A will change the default database being logged

Maintain DTS packages in SQL Server 2005

Ian Wann — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:18:24 -0400

Have a bunch of sql 200 DTS packages that won't upgrade to sql 2005 SSIS? Until these can be replaced they must be maintained. Here is a good link on how.

http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1251587,00.h...

How to open docx files in old versions of office

Ian Wann — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:33:24 -0400

Office 2007 introduced a new file format called docx. Since many people only have older version of office installed on their system they can use the following download to be able to read these files:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4...

Marketing a specific event using iMIS public views

Ian Wann — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:48:45 -0400

Question: How can you take a user directly to an specific event using iMIS public views? I need want to do email marketing for our new event.

Answer:
To navigate to a specific meeting within the public view the url is:

http://127.0.0.1/iMISpublic/Core/Events/eventdetails.aspx?meeting=AC2008

Replace 127.0.01 with the IP or the domain of your public site.

Replace AC2008 with the product code for the meeting you are linking to.

Web Services implementation in iMIS for .NET

Ian Wann — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:04:30 -0400

iMIS for .NET provides a facility to make a Web Service available. This Web service allows a user to submit the name of a query, already defined in iMIS using the Query Architect, along with optional parameters, and receive an XML representation of the query results.

There are numerous techniques and tools for interrogating and receiving results from Web Services. A useful .NET Framework-based tool called “Web Service Studio” is available at http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/tools/web_svc/default.aspx . A tool like this is useful for checking setup and behavior, prior to writing a script or code implementation to utilize the Web Service.

Using 64 bit Windows vs. 32 bit

Ian Wann — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:23:24 -0500

Question:
Is there an advantage to putting a 64 bit windows on our server vs. 32 bit.

Answer:
Yes there is an advantage to running the 64 bit version of Windows provided all of the software you are running it supports and you have 64 bit hardware. 64 bit hardware is pretty new on the market. ASI has not tested iMIS on 64 bit version of windows with iMIS so we don’t support it. For now clients should run the 32 bit version of windows. In the future iMIS will support a 64 bit operating system.

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Ian Wann — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:27:52 -0500

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ER diagrams for 10.6 iMIS for .NET components

Ian Wann — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:38:51 -0400

ASI consulting has created ER diagrams for both e-Opps and the entire iMIS for .NET table structure. These are for the 10.6.06 release. We generated these from the schema using a tool called ER Studio. I recommend this tool for anytime one must to understand what relationships are enforced between tables enforced at the database level. It is great help on iMIS conversions.

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/erstudio/index.html