Development Practices

Retrieve Tags for Content in WCM

Is there an easy way to retrieve the tags associated with a piece of Content in WCM? I need to identify the tags from an item to determine whether to display a paticular panel

iXtend Partner Program

iXtend logoASI serves a base of 3000+ non-profits through its core iMIS software products. However, there are numerous specialized functionality areas that our core offerings do not and cannot provide quickly enough to meet all needs. Fortunately, ASI has a large community of partners (80+ AiSPs and Authorized Consultants) that are knowledgeable about these diverse needs, and over 30 have already developed proven iMIS add-on applications that are sold separately, either as standalone applications or true extensions. ASI now invites this community of partners to co-develop the next generation of iMIS add-on applications, and it extends this invitation to new developers, be they third-party companies, individuals, or customers.

Linking from one IQA query to another

Looking for input regarding an online member directory for version 15.0.3 (client licensed for Public Views, but not CM). We are trying to utilize IQA & existing public views functionality for a product-based solution. In the default Committee Rosters area of Public Views, there is a page that utilizes an IQA query to display a list of committees in the database. Each of the committees has an orange arrow "link" beside it.

Visual Studio 2008 hangs - TFS Compare dialog not visible

The other day I tried to do a history comparison in VS 2008, but got no dialog, and VS was not responsive. After I stopped it in Task Manager, VS restarted without problems, but with the same issue with the compare dialog. The problem was that the dialog location was set in UISettings.config to a location off the screen. I found details here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1138647&SiteID...

iMIS 15 using Membership and Profile Providers

I noticed that the web.config of iMIS 15 has the Membership and Profile providers setup along with the corresponding tables in the database. How much are these providers used in native iMIS? Are these providers that we, as developers, can use? If so, what features are supported and what are not.

Thanks,

Neil

Moving agile processes electronic and virtual

Mike Wethington posted Martin Fowler's article on lessons learned in doing agile with overseas teams. Many of the points struck me as relevant for the problem of telecommuting teams as well:

  • Bring distributed developers onsite for critical first iterations of new projects, to get going
  • Expect to need more documents than with a collocated team: it's the price of being virtual 
  • Extend conference calls with video, especially for project background lectures 
  • Extend instant messaging to group-based messaging, such as with Campfire

Role of Open Source in public sector

Our family made a road trip to west Texas for the Open Source Symposium, held on Saturday April 26 at Angelo State University, in San Angelo. Its mission is to introduce open source to those working in college environments, which was why UT Austin was pleased to have my husband, Adam attend and report back to them. STC Austin's own Janet Swisher presented on how to participate in OS projects.

Turning Off Smart-Quotes in Outlook 2007

I typically find myself typing actual code into many emails, and get annoyed when Outlook replaces my single and double quotes with the curley "smart-quotes"... as this makes cutting/pasting without syntax errors painful. So after a little digging, I found out how to turn smart-quotes off in Outlook 2007:

  1. In the main Outlook window, on the Tools menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options dialog box, click the Mail Format tab, and then click Editor Options.

Development Mode

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is an option to enable E-mail redirecting to a single account to prevent Customers in the database from receiving test E-mails?

Thanks.

Setting up an iMIS 15 Home Page/Dashboard

Does anyone have a way to set up the home page/dashboard for iMIS 15?

I'm not sure how to get to it now that none of the Framework pages are available.