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Passing Connection Information from SalesLogix Web to Another Website

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...

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SalesLogix Web 7.5.4 SpeedSearch Setup

When running SpeedSearch on a new SalesLogix Web installation I received the following error when searching with the Web client. "Error building result list items: The type initializer for 'ApiInitializer' threw an exception." While it is not mentioned in the 7.5.4 Implementation Guide...

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Accessing a user's Secured Actions to determine functionality in the SalesLogix web client

Since SalesLogix 7.5.3, SalesLogix has exposed user Roles and actions within the roles. See this post for an overview. SalesLogix has a IRoleSecurirtyService that can be utilized to to determine if the current user has access to a particular secured action and then take some action on it. This is a server...

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Setting dates to null in the SalesLogix web client

Most dates in the SalesLgix web client are nullable DateTimes meaning that they do not need to contain a value. However if you try code like this: lead.LastCallDate = lastHistory.HasValue ? lastHistory.Value: null; You will receive an error about how you can not implicitly convert a DateTime to null...

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Displaying alerts in the SalesLogix web client with the Client Message Service

There are a myriad of ways of displaying alerts in the SalesLogix web client. You have of course the standard javascript alert: <script type="text/javascript"> function launchAnAlert() { alert('A plain alert from javascript'); } </script> This produces something very plain...

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How to resize the activity window in the SalesLogix web client

If you have done any customizations to the activity area in the SalesLogix web client you have likely run into the fact that new fields added to the screen will likely make the screen to large for the window frame it loads in. This causes you to have to scroll around to see all of the controls on the...

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Errors caused by invalild dates in the SalesLogix entity model

Working with non-nullable types in C# can be a bit of a pain. In the world of SalesLogix you may occasionally run into an error like this: The key to this error is the part about "Data value overflowed the type used by the provider ". How do you know? Well trust me it is. We can take a look...

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Formatting date columns in a SalesLogix group

One of the questions I have been asked a couple of times is how to format dates shown in a group in the SalesLogix web client. By default when you add a date time field to a layout of a group the date will display as something like "Tues Jan 16, 2001". To format it to be the standard short...

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SalesLogix Web Manifest "wizards" buggy

I had a phone call yesterday with a client who was trying to use the Application Architect's manifest creation "wizards" by project difference and by change date and was running into the fact that these wizards have bugs that malforms the XML representing the manifest. This prevents the...

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Launching Schedule Activity functionality in the SLX Web client

On a recent project, I worked on emulating functionality similar to what is found in the LAN client where a user is presented a dialog asking them to choose between different activity types then launching into the Schedule Activity functionality. I found this was fairly easy to duplicate in the web client...

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