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June 2008 - Posts

Highlighting Priority Cases
A common customization within Clarify is to highlight priority cases in a wipBin or queue by setting their color. For example, make High Priority cases really stand out by coloring them red. Clarify Classic Client The ClearBasic Customization Guide has Read More...
Interesting post on Case Types and Case Severity
Over on the 37signals blog, they're talking about some of their design decisions in tweaking their support request form . In Clarify/Dovetail parlance, we have a Case Type and a Case Severity . It seems 37signals have gone back and forth between the two, Read More...
DeleteById in Dovetail SDK
In the Dovetail SDK, there is a DeleteById method on the ClarifyGeneric object . This is useful when you know the objid of the record you want to delete. Perhaps the objid is posted to a web page, or you've pulled it out of a relation column from a different Read More...
A handful of presentations on JavaScript and jQuery
John Resig (creator of jQuery) recently posted a bunch of his presentations online , focused on JavaScript and jQuery. Check 'em out. I'm fast becoming a huge fan of jQuery , and we're now using it a lot more within Dovetail Agent . Not only is the library Read More...
Encode URLs with ClearBasic
At Dovetail one of the things we sell is Clarify Helpdesk support. This means that customers having problems with Clarify Client can get support when they run into issues. We had an interesting case recently that I thought would be good to share with Read More...
Support by Group Chat
One of the more interesting ideas I've seen kicking around the blogosphere is support by group chat. We use Campfire here at Dovetail as a group chat application, and we love it. It allows all of us to share information, even when we may be in different Read More...