DovetailConnect Blog

Name
Gary Sherman
Title
Recovering Clarify Junkie
Mini Bio

As Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Products, Gary is responsible for guiding overall product strategy and product development, where he gets to apply his customer-centric values and beliefs in creating the next generation of Customer Service and Support products.

 

Gary started his tenure here at Dovetail in product development, and was one of the principal architects and developers of the First Choice Foundation Library, which serves as the backbone and development platform for the current Dovetail suite of applications. From there, he served as the Director of Software Development, leading the development team on the current Dovetail suite of products, and then later serving as VP of Services and Support, where he led a team of dedicated professionals that helped make Dovetail known for its world-class support.

 

Prior to joining Dovetail Software in 2001, Gary served as a principal technical consultant at Clarify for over four years, focusing on all aspects of implementation and customization. He worked on the implementations of some of Clarify's biggest customers, including IBM, Compaq, Sprint PCS, AT&T and Best Buy.

 

Before joining Clarify, Gary worked at The MathWorks, where he managed and maintained their Clarify implementation, including system administration, customizations, interfaces, reporting and upgrades.

 

Gary has a BSEE degree from the University of Lowell.

 

Gary regularly blogs about Dovetail and Clarify at http://www.dovetailsoftware.com/blog/gsherman

Contact Gary

Email: gary@dovetailsoftware.com

Phone: 512-610-5466

Blog Posts

Deletes (Drops) in SchemaEditor

Gary Sherman May 3, 2013
While discussing Dovetail SchemaEditor recently, a question came up around deletes (drops), i.e. How do you delete a column using SchemaEditor, as it doesn’t seem like SchemaScript supports deletes. First, a little background. SchemaEditor works with Data Dictionary files and with SchemaScript files.

awesome CSS Specificity cheat sheet

Gary Sherman February 4, 2013
Over the weekend I attended the HTML5.TX conference here in Austin, along with an awesome CSS workshop by Estelle Weyl. It was a great conference and workshop. Austin is such a great community for technology. Every time I think I got a handle on CSS, I learn some new stuff that blows my mind, both practical tips and fun stuff. For a bit of CSS fun, check out her Gangham style done with CSS sprite animations.

Job Opportunities – here and there

Gary Sherman January 28, 2013
A couple of job opportunities to share. Front End Web Developer here at Dovetail We’re looking for an experienced front end web developer to join our team. HTML/CSS and heavy JavaScript. What you bring to the table:

You got Dovetail in my Gmail!

Gary Sherman December 13, 2012
If you use Gmail, you may have heard of Rapportive. It’s a plugin that brings in social information into the context of an email. For example, when I’m looking at email from from my buddy Kevin, the sidebar fills in with contextual information, like so:
We’ve worked with a couple of customers recently who use some other application for authentication. Basically, Single Sign-On. One was using CA SiteMinder, and another had a home grown application. In both instances, we were able to easily allow Dovetail Mobile / AgentLite to work with their existing authentication mechanisms, allowing single sign-on capabilities.
Last year I had to do some customizing of the Clarify attachment form (form 1006) for a customer. This is one of those old-school forms that doesn’t always behave very well with ClearBasic. I shared some of my findings and solutions on customizing this form. I had a new request come up this week. How do I enable a user to add an attachment on a case that they don’t own?

Troubleshooting Bad Time Bombs

Gary Sherman November 1, 2012
There are times when Rulemanager will report a bad time_bomb in the system. Although it’s easy to just ignore when this happens, it’s better to diagnose the issue to understand (and resolve) the root cause. This post will walk through an approach to troubleshooting bad time bombs.
Using Dovetail SchemaEditor to add a new relation to your schema is super easy. For example, here’s my schema script for adding a new one-to-one relation between the modem table and the user table:
Finally! Safari for iOS6 supports file uploads. Which means we can upload image or video files as attachments in Dovetail Mobile. sweet!
I’ve talked in the past about how to create custom events in Clarify/Dovetail, and how to fire business rules based on these events. In short, code needs to be written that creates a custom activity log and time bomb. A recent webinar covered details on how to do this: http://www.slideshare.net/gsherman/advanced-business-rules-part2 (starting on slide #18)
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