SalesLogix 7.5.3 | Customer FX

Adding a label to show when filters are active in the SalesLogix web client

by Kris Halsrud | Jun 27, 2012 | Infor CRM

In the SalesLogix web client, users can set filters when looking at groups. These filters further restrict the results in the group. The filter options are stored for the user in the database VFS table so that the next time the group is opened, the filters remain active. The only problem with this approach is it is easy to forget that a filter has been applied to a group and therefor questions arise as to why records can't be seen. I am go...

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

by Kris Halsrud | Nov 22, 2011 | Infor CRM

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 based service so […]

Exporting dates as local time in the SalesLogix Web client when exporting groups to a file.

by Kris Halsrud | Oct 12, 2011 | Infor CRM

How to export data in the SalesLogix web client with dates in local times when exporting group information to a text file.

Getting local time from a DateTime entity property in the SalesLogix Web Entity model

by Kris Halsrud | Oct 6, 2011 | Infor CRM

As you know, SalesLogix stores most dates in the database in UTC equivalent and the provider handles parsing the date in local time when requested. The SalesLogix entity model does not do this by default, instead the SalesLogix Date web control handles the conversion to local time. The actual date value returned from the entity […]

Errors with Activities after upgrading to SalesLogix 7.5.3 in the web client

by Kris Halsrud | Jun 13, 2011 | Infor CRM

I have had a couple of clients who recently have reported issues being able to update existing activities after upgrading to the SalesLogix web client. In the web server’s event logs you see errors similar to this: 2011-06-10 14:22:58,872 ERROR NHibernate.AdoNet.AbstractBatcher – Could not execute command: UPDATE ACTIVITY SET ALARMTIME = ?, LEADID = ?, […]

SalesLogix Web Client- Add Opportunity/SalesOrder Product grid: Binding a data grid drop down column programmatically

by Kris Halsrud | May 9, 2011 | Infor CRM

In the standard add product screen for both an Opportunity and Sales Order, the user is able to perform in-line edits to the selected products. One of the columns that can be edited is the Price Level column. By default this column is a picklist column showing the “Price Description” picklist. The problem with […]

Modifying the SalesLogix Web Client Welcome Page

by Kris Halsrud | Mar 4, 2011 | Infor CRM

I was recently asked to explain how to modify the SalesLogix Web. A common enough question IN get asked so I figured I would describe the Page and how to do some of the things. One of the things I do not like about the current implementation of the Welcome page is that it is […]

SalesLogix web client- a client side response after running a server side validation

by Kris Halsrud | Feb 25, 2011 | Infor CRM

In the SalesLogix web client it may be necessary to perform some kind of server side code, like data validation, and then based upon what is returned perform some kind of client side action like a confirmation dialog, or opening a new browser window. The nature of ASP.Net web sites is that client side actions run before server side actions so how can we accomplish performing server validations before running client side code? Well lets take a...

SalesLogix Web Client- Group list not displaying

by Kris Halsrud | Feb 17, 2011 | Infor CRM

I recently ran into an issue on a new custom entity main view page in the web client where the groups for the new entity would not display. The tabs showing the group names would display but when you clicked on the tab no group list would appear.

SalesLogix Web Client: Adding both client side and sever side validaiton to a SalesLogix checkbox control

by Kris Halsrud | Jan 10, 2011 | Infor CRM

Explaining how to add both client and server side code to a checkbox control in the SalesLogix web client.

A new public Customer FX project- User Login Auditing for the SalesLogix 7.5.3 web client

by Kris Halsrud | Jan 5, 2011 | Infor CRM

One of the things that I have been asked about several times is if the SalesLogix web client tracks when a user logs in. That functionality does not exist as standard functionality, but since enough people have asked...

SalesLogix Web 7.5.3 error “object reference not set to an instance of an object” when navigating to a main view

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 30, 2010 | Infor CRM

In the SalesLogix 7.5.3 web client, when you navigate to a main view you might receive an error stating “Object Reference not set to an instance of an object”. There are many things that might cause this. If you look in the web server’s event logs, under the Application events you should see an error […]

SalesLogix web quickforms- Changing a label’s appearance

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 29, 2010 | Infor CRM

One of the things about quickforms is that you can not control a lot of formatting options when designing them. Sometimes things blend together, especially things like section labels. One of the things you can do to make labels standout a little more is to manipulate their style attributes when the page loads, like so: […]

SalesLogix web client: Adding validation logic client side to a button click

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 28, 2010 | Infor CRM

Demonstrating how to place client side data validation on a button in the SalesLogix web client

SalesLogix Web Client: Entity Filters- Hacking for increased functionality

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 24, 2010 | Infor CRM

How to get around filter limitations in the SalesLogix web client using SQL computed columns as faux-entity properties.

SalesLogix Web Client: Determining if the current group is an ad-hoc group

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 22, 2010 | Infor CRM

How to determine if the current group in the SalesLogix web client is an ad-hoc group.

SalesLogix Web Client – Determining the selected records in the list view

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 16, 2010 | Infor CRM

How to get the records selected client side in the SalesLogix web client list view and do something server side with them.

Firefox and MultiSelect picklist issue in 7.5.3?

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 3, 2010 | Infor CRM

Just discovered it appears multi-select picklists are not working in Firefox 3.6.12. The picklist dialog comes up but when you click OK with your choices the picklist text box remains empty. The picklists work fine on IE. This is in SalesLogix 7.5.3. Update: Thanks to Todd Hardin on this. Apparently in Firefox you need […]

Breaking change to filters in SalesLogix 7.5.3

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 3, 2010 | Infor CRM

Before SalesLogix 7.5.3 filters were introduced with the concept of having a global set of conditions that could be applied to any group in the web client and have the group be filtered by those conditions. This functionality was different than the Lookup functionality in the web client group view. For Lookups the available search […]

Adding a one click history print feature to the SalesLogix web client

by Kris Halsrud | Dec 2, 2010 | Infor CRM

One of the things that the SalesLogix LAN client had was the ability to print details about a single history item by selecting the record in the history grid and clicking a print button. The SalesLogix web client does not have that capability. But I am going to show you how to implement something similar.

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