November 2009 - Posts

• How to invoke a web lookup control’s popup event in the SalesLogix web client

  One of the things that is often asked is how can you call a certain lookup’s “Popup event” from code in the SalesLogix web client.  The SalesLogix web uses JavaScript to launch these lookups.  You can see the invoke code of the JavaScript by... Read more Posted Nov 27 2009, 03:44 PM by Kris Halsrud with 4 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• A heads up: The SalesLogix web Lookup Control is session cached

  I recently was having problems seeing changes I was making to a deployed ASP.Net SalesLogix web page.  Specifically, the changes I was making to a Lookup control.  What I discovered is that the changes to my page were not reflected in my lookup... Read more Posted Nov 20 2009, 07:03 AM by Kris Halsrud with no comments Tags: SalesLogix Web

• Error attempting to sort a SalesLogix web grid control

  If you have ever added code similar to: mygrid.Sort("CreateDate", SortDirection.Descending); You may have seen an error similar to this: System.Web.HttpException: The GridView 'mygrid' fired event Sorting which wasn't handled. Read more Posted Nov 20 2009, 05:29 AM by Kris Halsrud with 1 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• How to tell if a SalesLogix web form is in insert or edit mode

  One of the cool things about the SalesLogix web client is that you can re-use the same form for inserting a new record or updating a record.  While you could do this with Data forms in the SalesLogix LAN client, if you wanted to use the same form... Read more Posted Nov 19 2009, 11:50 AM by Kris Halsrud with 3 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web

• My Christmas wish list for the SalesLogix Web

  I have been asked a couple of times about what are the things that I would like to see work better/different in the SalesLogix web client.  I have thought about it and have come up with a few things I think would make a big difference.  So here... Read more Posted Nov 19 2009, 11:23 AM by Kris Halsrud with 1 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web

• A bug in the SalesLogix 7.5.1 Web Lookup Wizard

  I recently ran into a situation where I had built several quick forms on the SalesLogix web that contained lookups. Once the quick forms were deployed to a web site, when attempting to use the lookup the lookup would open with the defined lookup columns... Read more Posted Nov 19 2009, 06:26 AM by Kris Halsrud with 1 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• Dynamically restricting SalesLogix lookups controls - Using the SeedProperty

  In the SalesLogix web client it is often the case where you want to dynamically restrict a control based upon some property of the current entity.  For instance, lets say I have a Widget screen and on that screen I want to identify the Account that... Read more Posted Nov 18 2009, 04:57 PM by Kris Halsrud with 2 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• Retrieving the current grid row ID in the SalesLogix web control

  The SalesLogix grid control exposes an OnRowSelected event during design time to allow adding code when a row is selected. This functionality allows you to build out additional functionality around selecting a row, other than just bringing up an edit... Read more Posted Nov 18 2009, 09:33 AM by Kris Halsrud with 2 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• A serious problem with the SalesLogix Entity Model as it relates to displaying data in grids

  In the SalesLogix web entity model you are able to define an entity based off a underlying database table.  You are also able to build relationships from one entity to another entity.  These relationships can either be 1 to many or many to 1... Read more Posted Nov 11 2009, 11:25 AM by Kris Halsrud with 6 comment(s)

• Changing the default width of a column in the SalesLogix Web GridView

  The SalesLogix GridView control does not offer settings fro controlling the width of columns placed within it during design time.  Apparently, the though was the control does such a fine job of auto-sizing the grid that exposing those kind of properties... Read more Posted Nov 11 2009, 09:22 AM by Kris Halsrud with no comments Tags: SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• Another warning about naming conflicts within the Sage SalesLogix entity model

  In a recent post I wrote about being careful about what names you give your Entities to prevent them from conflicting with other assemblies or classes that are used by the SalesLogix Web application. On a similar note, I thought I should share another... Read more Posted Nov 09 2009, 04:16 PM by Kris Halsrud with no comments Tags: Application Architect, SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• Creating new custom entities in the SalesLogix web entity model - A warning

  I recently ran into a problem where after adding a new custom entity to a system I was unable to do a build in the application architect. I was suddenly getting errors like: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Sage\Platform\Output\implementation\Account.cs(159,23):The type name 'Int32' does not exist in the type 'Sage.SalesLogix.Entities.System' Read more Posted Nov 06 2009, 12:40 PM by Kris Halsrud with 1 comment(s) Tags: Application Architect, SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• Column formatting in the SalesLogix web grid control

  In the SalesLogix web grid control there is a TextFormatString property to grid columns.  Unfortunately there is no documentation currently on how to use this property.  Hopefully this article will help with that.   In the SalesLogix Application... Read more Posted Nov 06 2009, 11:58 AM by Kris Halsrud with 1 comment(s) Tags: Application Architect, SalesLogix Web, SalesLogix 7.5, SalesLogix 7.5.1

• A new version of Power2Quote is available (7.4.0)

  We have recently released a new version of our Power2Quote module that now allows the option to set cost at the quote and opportunity product level.  This is a feature that many clients have requested and it is finally a part of the core module. ... Read more Posted Nov 05 2009, 09:30 AM by Kris Halsrud with 1 comment(s) Tags: SalesLogix