One of my favorite features of bpm’online is how you can create your own custom web services that you can consume from the client-side code in the UI. This allows you to offload heavy operations to the server that you can easily call from your code in the UI. These web services are referred to […]
Bpm’online has a powerful backend due to the ability to create processes. You can do just about anything at all in these processes. However, there are times that you’ll want to let the front-end javascript know that something happened on the backend, so it can respond as needed, for example to refresh the screen and […]
Showing and hiding tabs in the Infor CRM (Saleslogix) client should be an easy thing. It should be something you can do on demand, and any time, no matter where things are in the page life-cycle. You should be able to show or hide tabs based on changes in other controls on the detail form. The help in Application Architect describes creating a module, an external assembly that you can wire up for the portal to show and hide tabs and runtime. That...
In my last post I wrote about using the OnClientClick property of a control (or button) to run JavaScript prior to running the actual server-side click action in order to prompt a confirmation message. To piggy-back on that post, there are a lot of useful things you can do with javascript that will run before your form submits back to the server to so some action. In this post, we'll look at that same idea to clear the dirty-flag with client-...
I'm not a huge fan of bugging end users. I figure, if an end user clicked something, he or she meant to click it. However, that's not always the case. It's especially a good idea for destructive actions or for things that will make a lot of changes and you want to make sure before you pass the point of no return. If a user clicks something and you need to confirm the action with some sort of "Are you sure?" prompt, then it m...
In most places in the Infor CRM (Saleslogix) web client, it's pretty easy to use security roles. You simply add the role string to an "Applied Security" property and the rest is magic. But what if you need to get more granular than that? What if you need to access the roles at runtime and apply security to something that doesn't have an Applied Security property? What if you need to apply role security to individual controls on ...
When checking for two (or more) different values for a property in a code snippet, you can't simply look at the string values without an error being thrown. For example: Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount acc this.BindingSource.Current as Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount; if (acc.type != "Customer" || acc.type != "Prospect")
Recently, I had a request to create export functionality for a datagrid in the SalesLogix web client. I had a little difficulty exporting data from the actual grid, but as an alternative, we put together functionality to export data based on a provided SQL query. (Thanks to Ryan for working out the SmartPart code) By creating a new custom smartpart, we can simply export the results of a SQL query to a CSV file, save it on the webserver and dow...
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.
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, and in this post, I'll quickly go through the steps for creating that type of functionality.
One of the many great things about developing for the SalesLogix Windows client using .NET Extensions is that you are able to unit test your code. However, since .NET Extensions are passed references to the running instance of SalesLogix, it's important to be able to mock those objects so you can test properly. Best of all, this also allows you to fully test and debug within Visual Studio without the need to have SalesLogix even running.
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...
If you've ever created a SSIS package and wanted to provide a way for end users to run that package without having to run the Business Intelligence Development studio, you can compile the package into a dtsx file for them to run. This would require them to manually alter connections and variables, which can get complicated for an average end user. Alternatively, it is pretty simple to put together an application which can be used to run the ...
It's easy to access the UserService interface from a Code Snippet Action item in the SalesLogix web client. For this example, I'm just going to add a button on account detail which will launch a DialogService message with the current user.
Something that was born out of a project I've been working on is a simple repository for SalesLogix that supports all the way back to SalesLogix v6.2 up to the current 7.5.3, both LAN and Web as well as stand alone applications and utilities. I've named it Sublogix. Sublogix is a simple object model and repository for SalesLogix. Sublogix is not meant to replace the SalesLogix Repository that lives in SalesLogix Web. It's purpose is t...
Showing a message to a user in SalesLogix Web is an easy task. It should be, right? Of course - and it is, however, you might need to know where to look to do it. This post will take a look at how to do this from both a Code Snippet Action and a C# Snippet Action.
Before I get back to Sage CRM topics, I wanted to mention an issue I bumped into an issue in a couple of SLX 7.5.1 databases. Account Type/Subtype combination are generally pretty easy to set up. You just need to create a picklist and name it using the "Code" value for an item in the Account Type Picklist. (For "Lead" for example, create a picklist named "Account Lead" for example). This works fine in most cases, ...
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.
For this post, I'll outline how to use a business rule to enforce field requirements on a Insert view in SalesLogix web
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 ...
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