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Learn about WebFormZ for iMIS - Conditional Rules Tutorial

rfranks — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:07 -0500

One of the things that gives forms a lot of their power it Conditional Rules. We introduced the Rule Manager in Applications Manager and some of the most powerful implementations of App Manager have been done by buiding branching and conditions into forms. When we designed WebFormZ for iMIS we wanted to give the flexibility that Rules manager offered but implement it so that most iMIS system managers will be able to create and apply these rules. Rules has always been one of those areas where a picture is worth a thousand words so please take a look at this video and use it as a reference point for experimentation with forms.

Submiting items purchases with iBO 15.2.0.2229

IOrtega — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:42:43 -0500

Hi everyone,
I have an application that uses iBO. So far it was working ok with iBO 10x and 15.1.3.x but when I tried it with 15.2.0.2229 I started to have problems submiting purchases.
At this moment I only tried paying products and dues renewals, getting the following errors:

Err Num: 1000 - Source: (iboSubscriptions.CSubscriptions.Save): Unknown error. Description: ActiveX component can't create object
Err Num: 1000 - Source: (iboOrders.CStdOrder.Save): Unknown error. Description: ActiveX component can't create object

It's most likely the same issue, but I can't undestand why it stoped working, and I can't debug deeper than those metods invocations.

I've already tried reinstalling iMIS and iBO, checking if the dlls in Windows/system are the correct ones, but the problem remains.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

How to remove "Messages" text from Password recovery page

jharrison — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:31:46 -0500

Hello, does anyone know how to remove the "Messages" text from the password recovery page? This is displayed on the message iMIS gives after you enter your username. There is a block of text on this page that iMIS lets us update via the admin panel, and that is fine, but there is a title here called "Messages" that we cannot access and our client would like us to change it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Video on publishing to WCM from WebFormZ for iMIS

rfranks — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:28:55 -0500

We have been asked to tell more about the details of publishing forms with WebFormZ for iMIS. This video covers an overview of the settings in WebFormZ and the auto publishing process. One of the great things is that an averagely skilled user who doesnt understand how to use content publisher can just make the basic settings in WebFormZ and then the system will publish the completed form iPARTS into the menu. This is a major step forward in iMIS ease of use.

Change Login and Passwords using iBO.NET and CContactUser

mriley — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:11:16 -0500

Trying to get this script to change logins and passwords on existing users. Any idea how I get access to the CContactUser object to assign the new login and password?

The program compiles and runs, with no reported errors, but it does not change the login and password.

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Asi.iBO;
using Asi.iBO.ContactManagement;

Getting user from cookie or session

Ian Wann — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:32:43 -0500

I am looking for equivalent code using web services only to get the WCM user from either a cookie or the session if possible.

Terminal server log in issues for iMIS desktop client

glbarth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:54:48 -0500

iMIS 15.1.3.6699 version.

New client install on Windows 2008 remote desktop server. Group Policy created to publish application to users. The iMIS client can be launched without error when directly on the remote desktop server when logged in as my user ID. When I test to log into another server with the same user ID, the iMIS desktop comes up blank like below. Is this most likely some type of permissions issue? I can't seem to nail down what is causing it.

Conditional Javascript not allowed??

stokuta — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:41:57 -0500

We have a very basic <script> tag placed in the content placed holder header of a custom aspx page. The javascript causes a text box to appear when a radio button is selected. However, the for loop (that parses selected radio button options) as well as the conditional (if/else) statement are NOT firing. When i developed the page on my local host before integrating it, it worked flawlessly (it's a simple function). However upon incorporating it into wcm......broken! i placed alerts all throughout the function to see where it's not firing and it refuses to execute the conditional or the loop. Is there something in wcm that must be enabled to allow conditionals? Is there something else I'm not aware of in WCM?? Any assitance is appreciated.

Getting closer and closer to WebFormZ for iMIS module availability

rfranks — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:35:15 -0500

Take a quick look at this short intro and demo of WebFormZ form building. For best viewing choose the 720p HD version and turn your speakers on.

For more information join the WebFormZ group on Linked in or take a look at www.facebook.com/webformz or www.twitter.com/webformz.

How quickly the computing world is changing

Mary Connor — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:33:31 -0500

Here is a great visualization of how rapidly our technology is changing. These steep velocities speak volumes about how disruptive the rise of mobile devices has been, and is:

fxing your indexing service

Dave Charlton — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:41:28 -0500

If you don't see any events or products listed on your site, and your services are running, and apparently configured well, there is another thing to check.

go to you IndexServiceProtected folder, right-click, hit properties, and Advanced.

Make sure that "Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties." is checked.

If you had deleted & recreated the folder, this may have become unchecked, and the indexing service won't see what's there.

Finding Data in the Database

Paul Bradshaw — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:04:38 -0500

It's sometime useful to search an entire database to find out where some specific data is... for instance, you entered data into the UI but you aren't sure where it got stored.

This post contains a SQL Script to search a database for any specific string in any column in any table in your database.

To use this script, simply edit the first line to set the @value variable to the string you wish to search for (see the comment). You can include "%" as the standard SQL Wildcard character. As is, the script will search for any string starting with "C:\" ... but you can use exact strings or any arbitrary string you wish.

iMIS, ACCPAC and Crystal Reports: crpe32.dll

Conrad HenleyCalvert — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:43:59 -0500

We are having problems with clients that have both iMIS 15.2 and ACCPAC (financial package) installed on workstations. Following the upgrade of iMIS from 10.6 to 15.2, some machines were having problems runnig custom Crystal Reports, with a message reading "iMIS Crystal Runtime Error. Unable to load report." Standard Crystal Reports were running fine, and we narrowed it down to a known issue with multiple copies of the crpe32.dll. ASI/iMIS community advice is to delete or rename this file in every location except the one in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0.

iBO COM Code Error with 100% Discount Registrations

David Spina — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:07:46 -0500

Within a product we are using COM based iBO code for processing of registrations. For some clients we have included the capabilities to include discounts on the registrations via discount functions containing a negative amount to offset the cost of the registration in other functions.

For example:

Main Registration = $100, Discount = -$20, Total Cost = $80.

This code is within a product we created and is not using eSeries any other components other than iBO.

Phone numbers being overwritten during rostering

Arpita_Ray — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:03:27 -0500

I have a query :-
when an individual is rostered to an organization, iMIS will ask the user to “Verify Overwrite”, saying “Do you want to overwrite the current Organisation Name and Address?” The answer to this is always yes, however, this will also overwrite phone and fax numbers listed in the work tab, as well as erase mobile numbers. Email addresses are untouched.

This means that unless the user has noted what the phone numbers of an individual are, that individual’s phone numbers will be lost.

An Agile fortune...

Henry Huey — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:44:35 -0500

...from Fire Bowl Cafe in Austin.

This one is from Lotus Restaurant in St. Paul, MN. The next time I ate there, I got "You can prosper in the field of medical research", so I disregarded it.

Task Centre's maintenance mode

rfleming — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:22:55 -0500

Clients tasks had stopped running and when I tried launching a test task manually, I got a message the server was in maintenance mode and the task could not be started.

Do you know how to get it out of this mode? I've never known it to be in this mode in the past.

Rob

Business objects will not pubish

rfleming — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:04:17 -0500

Using 15.1.3 on a 64 bit server, I am trying to publish the UD business objects using Tools > Utilities > UD fields.

Problem is when I click Build All it comes back 'unknown failure'. I've retried like 5-6 times to no avail.

I've even submitted to ASI and after uploading a copy of the db, they were able to publish from their server but i still cannot on mine.

Can anyone think of anything I could be missing on this?

Task stuck in loop

rfleming — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:44:12 -0500

Very strange occurence here. We have a task that fires and completes successfully at times. Other times it fires but gets stuck in a loop and causes the tempdb to grow too large and eats up all the server disk space.

Here's the error:

Could not allocate space for object 'dbo.CWT'.'CWT_PrimaryKey' in database 'tempdb' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full. Create disk space by deleting unneeded files, dropping objects in the filegroup, adding additional files to the filegroup, or setting autogrowth on for existing files in the filegroup.

Any idea what CWT in the tempdb is referring to?

Security Context Change 15.2

bswetnam — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:44:49 -0500

We have been using a security context in tha past with 15.1.3 to identify an individual as follows

string contactID = ((Asi.Security.AppPrincipal)Asi.Security.AppPrincipal.CurrentPrincipal).AppIdentity.ContactMaster;

I have since loaded the new 15.2 on a server and this context no longer works.