April 2004 - Posts

• SalesLogix Activity Types

  The SalesLogix Activity & History tables use a 'Type' field to store the type of Activity. If you look at the TYPE field, you'll see that the values there are numeric values such as '262147'. This number represents the type for the given activity or history record. But for someone new to SalesLogix it might be difficult to determine how & where these types are defined. Read more Posted Apr 09 2004, 05:48 PM by Ryan Farley with 6 comment(s) Tags: Development, General, SalesLogix

• New article on slxdeveloper.com - Consuming SalesLogix Data via RSS

  I posted a new article to slxdeveloper.com tonight: Consuming SalesLogix Data via RSS Read more Posted Apr 08 2004, 02:51 AM by Ryan Farley with no comments Tags: General, New Finds, slxdeveloper.com

• Embedding windows in SalesLogix

  Something that I do quite often, and have done since early versions of SalesLogix is embed my own applications into the running Sales Client. I recently posted to my main blog about some tips to get started doing this from C#. It really is easy to do (Update: Added sample code in VB.NET). Read more Posted Apr 06 2004, 05:33 PM by Ryan Farley with 12 comment(s) Tags: Development, General, New Finds

• Synchronization issue inserting blank strings into numeric fields

  Another sync issue surfaced this week in SalesLogix 6.1. This is another one of those fun things to troubleshoot since the data does in fact update on the local database but then is rejected by the remote database in the synchronization process. The problem only exists when using dynamic SQL statements to perform updates or inserts and involves putting blank strings into numeric fields. Read more Posted Apr 02 2004, 10:55 AM by Ryan Farley with no comments Tags: Development, General, Issues and Bugs