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A few UI Editor Tips & Tricks
Kevin walked past my laptop the other day and noticed an ugly looking hot-dog-inspired-colored window, and asked - what the hell is that? This is what it was: Ugly? Absolutely. Useful? I think so. I thought it deserved some explanation, so here goes. Read More...
When Clarify grids go bad
For the most part, Clarify is pretty easy to customize. Occasionally, you run into Clarify forms that just don't behave as you would expect. In particular, the "old" Clarify forms, that were all written in C, long before ClearBasic was considered Read More...
App.ShowSolution in ClearBasic
I'm sure most of the ClearBasic brainiacs already know this (and I may have at one point), but the parameter to App.ShowSolution is a record of type "workaround", not a record of type "probdesc". I probably knew this at one time, but Read More...
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...
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...
Clarify 6 - still running after all these years
I'm currently working with a customer who is running Clarify version 6. Not Amdocs CRM6, but Clarify version 6, or as the marketing brainiacs tagged it - CFO98 (Clarify Front Office 98). I'm amazed that they're still running a 10 year old enterprise application, Read More...
Dovetail knows Clarify as good as, if not better than, Clarify
Over on IT toolbox, a recent post was inquiring about people's experience of dealing with Dovetail . One of our customers responded: we were a customer of theirs for about 2 years (purchased Super Email Clerk)...we moved on to a different package at the Read More...
A few of my common utilities
Whenever I have to do something more than a few times, I like to make a shortcut or a utility for it. I have all of these in my c:\bin directory, and I have my system path set to include c:\bin.  These utilities mean that I don't have to think about Read More...
Expanding text boxes, font-sizing, and readability within Clarify
While talking with a customer recently, they were showing off a "feature" that they had implemented. Whenever they added a note to a case, they have some ClearBasic code that automatically uppercases the entire text of the note before saving Read More...
Clarify on an iPhone
AppSwing looks to have created their own front end for Clarify, geared for iPhone users. The functionality is limited, but it looks interesting. Although with my fat fingers, I would have a hard time typing in case notes on the iPhone "keyboard". Read More...
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