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I am very pleased to announce a new & free open source tool from Customer FX named the SalesLogix Mobile Developer Toolkit. This toolkit will make your life easier when working with the SalesLogix Mobile product and provide automation to some of the tedious tasks you have to complete before you actually get to start writing code. Let's take a look.
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When integrating another system, application, or website with SalesLogix there are many options. If you're need to make connections to the SalesLogix database via the provider using user credentials you either need to prompt the user for login (again) or you can pass the connection information along to the other system.
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If you've followed my posts on Sublogix, or even better, given Sublogix a spin, you'll know that if you're doing SalesLogix development Sublogix can save you a ton of time and give you a much easier to use data access and entity model. This post will show you how to extend the Sublogix entities to give you even easier access and save even more time.
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A couple of weeks ago I announced the .NET Extensions Helper open source library. I figured it was time for a more complete walkthrough so this post will show a video of how to get the library and use it to embed a .NET UserControl on a SalesLogix account tab. Let's take a look.
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If you're working in the SalesLogix Windows (LAN) client, why not make as most use as possible of a modern development environment, language, and tools? The SalesLogix .NET Extensions feature in the SalesLogix Windows client is one of the best, and likely least used, features in the SalesLogix Windows client development story. A choice bewteen using an out-dated development environment and VBScript, with no possibility of using source control or a true multi-developer experience verses using Visual Studio, with source control, a modern language and framework where the sky is the limit? I'll take the latter any day. Still not convinced? The .NET Extensions Helper library comes to the rescue. This new open source project from Customer FX will make embedding .NET controls in SalesLogix a breeze.
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I've pushed version 1.2 of Sublogix to NuGet. There's some changes in how the custom entity templates are created by default. In previous versions of Sublogix, the custom entity templates used the display names for tables and fields in SalesLogix to create classes and properties. This caused several problems which this version addresses
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In this fourth post in the SalesLogix SData series, I will introduce how to write queries for SalesLogix SData and will point to a useful resource as you get started, or more comfortable with SData. View the SalesLogix SData series index SData Query Language...
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If you followed my last two posts, you'll know some basics of what SData is and how to get it to use in your projects. In this post, we will take this a step further and look at how to actually use it, starting with how to query data from SalesLogix.
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Chances are, if you work or use SalesLogix (or any Sage product) you've heard of SData by now. SData is a basically a web enabled API for SalesLogix allowing you to interact with SalesLogix data from an external application or website. The great thing about SData is that it is a specification that is implemented via RESTful web services. This means you're not limited to using SData with a particular technology (such as exclusively via .NET). In a nutshell, SData works via sending and receiving XML payloads via a URL. Pretty simple. This article will take a high-level overview of SData as an introduction (which means there will be several more in-depth posts on the way).
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I'd like to introduce a new open source project from Customer FX that allows you to create and run background tasks in the SalesLogix Web platform. Background Tasks for SalesLogix provides a framework for you to use to build custom tasks that will run on an interval and perform some action in the background while the SalesLogix Web platform is running.
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Sublogix, the simple repository and entity model for SalesLogix, is now available via the NuPack package management system! You can now easily get Sublogix to use in your own custom SalesLogix projects. Best of all, you can get it easier than ever using the NuPack package management system.
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A few weeks ago I announced Sublogix. Sublogix is Customer FX project that provides a simple repository for SalesLogix development, allowing you to use an entity model and repository in any version of SalesLogix and is great for use in .NET Extensions in the LAN client, stand-alone or addon applications for SalesLogix or whatever. Death to SQL statements. Things are progressing nicely with Sublogix so I decided it was time to give you a closer look.
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Using external assemblies in SalesLogix development, rather than built in Code Snippets, is a better & more efficient way to customize SalesLogix entities, with far less headaches. Some of the benefits include a better and more complete development environment and having all your code in one place (instead of digging around through all the entities to get to the code). Let's take a look at how to do it.
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For some who have been working in the SalesLogix LAN client for years, the transition from using SQL queries to retrieving data using a repository with the entity model can be a difficult change. This post will look at some common data retrieval methods and the SQL equivalents to help you get your head around how to get work done using the entity model.
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Creating modules for SalesLogix Web is something that is likely something that is often overlooked or not used because they are assumed to be too complex or are just not understood. A module is an assembly that you've added to a page or the portal that adds functionality to the page. The great thing about a module is that you can change things about the page without needing to resort to doing something like modifying the deployed pages or SmartParts. This article will look at how to create a module to conditionally hide a menu item at runtime.
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There are many reasons why extracting a SalesLogix Report from the SalesLogix database might be useful. There are possibilities of integration, automated running of reports, as well as the need to generate a PDF from some code on a server using a SalesLogix Crystal report. This post will show you how and show you the code to do it.
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Five years ago I wrote a post about how to determine if a user is a member of a team in SalesLogix LAN scripts that is still referred to today. I've been asked on occasion how one would go about doing the same in the SalesLogix Web platform, so I thought it was time for a follow up post. In this post I will demonstrate how to use a HQL query to create a reusable function in the SalesLogix Web platform to determine whether a user is a member of a specified team.
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There are likely many cases in SalesLogix Web where you need to access properties on the User and Security related entities that are not included in the entity by default, meaning that there is no public property exposing the value. For example, the IsManager property on the User entity. Modifying these entities won't work, so how do you get to these properties? This post provides an explanation of why you can't modify these entities and how to get to these property values.
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I announced a while ago that we will be offering some public developer training classes for SalesLogix Web. We will be making some changes to the class outline I posted earlier.
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Ever since the new SalesLogix 7.2 Web client and platform was released, I've had numerous requests for development training. Until now, I've done that on a very individualized basis, providing web training to single companies at a time. I've decided that it is time to make my web development training classes public, and I'd like your feedback.
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There are many ways to get the "current" account in SalesLogix Web. For those coming from developing for the SalesLogix Windows client, you'll likely want the same capabilities that the BasicFunctions CurrentAccountID provides. In the web platform, however, there is all of that, plus more.
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One of the best things about working with the SalesLogix 7.2 Web application is how great the entity model is. You have this single place to put all your rules and logic, the UI is really just an afterthought. Something that I do quite often is create business rules to return data specific to an entity instance. For example, a rule to return the primary contact for an account. Let's take that a step further and return a list of objects from an business rule. For this scenario, we'll create a business rule that will return a list of child accounts for the current account instance.
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In my last post, I shared some code in VBScript to PING a remote server to check for availability before attempting to use a resource on that remote server. This wouldn't be my blog if I didn't also share this code in C# as well. IMO, this sort of thing is a far better suited for a .NET Extension if for the SalesLogix Windows client.
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I've released a free addon for SalesLogix 7.2 Web for account relationships. The account hierarchy screens that exist in the SalesLogix Windows client is missing for the SalesLogix 7.2 Web Client. This bundle will bring this functionality into the web client. The addon works exactly the same as this functionality in the windows client. Full source included.
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I've been using the following C# class for creating SalesLogix table ID values lately and I just love the elegant syntax it provides. It's really been growing on me. Here is the class: using System; using System.Data.OleDb; namespace SalesLogix...
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