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Customizing Dovetail Carrier
Kevin has started his first in a series of posts around customizing Dovetail Carrier . Good stuff! I’m looking forward to the rest of his series. Read More...
Displaying text using a fixed width font in the Clarify Client
We received a request recently about how to deal with some text in the system that was formatted using a fixed width font. For example, a customer might send in an email that contained some text that was laid out in a nicely formatted table structure. Read More...
How to notify additional people when a commitment expires
I was talking to a customer today, and they asked me about how to notify additional people when a commitment expires. For example, if a support agent makes a commitment to call the customer back at 4:00, but the agent goes home, we want to notify others Read More...
A feed for new Knowledgebase Articles
Kevin has put together an RSS feed for our most recent knowledgebase articles . The feed can be subscribed to using a feed reader (such as Google Reader ), and any new articles will be delivered to you. Very cool. We eat our own dogfood here, meaning Read More...
45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
Smashing Magazine has a list of 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience There's some cool ideas in there. The sortable lists technique would be useful for Drop-Down list management in DovetailAdmin. I also like the Scrollable HTML table plugin Read More...
Improving case history
The case history within Clarify has always been a bit of a sore spot with users for a long time. It was good - in that it made it easy to quickly review the details of the case. But, it did have its issues: Its just one giant text blob. You have no control Read More...
Rich Text in the Clarify Classic Client
Someone recently asked me if the Clarify Classic Client could handle rich text in multi-line text controls - i.e. can text be made bold, italics, use different fonts/colors, etc. Out of the box - no. Clarify handles plain text only. But, we can customize Read More...
Dovetail Search for Clarify
Ever since we introduced Dovetail Seeker this summer , I was anxious to incorporate its capabilities with our applications. It is integrated within Dovetail Agent, Dovetail SelfService, and Dovetail Mobile Agent. Kevin also demonstrated how to incorporate Read More...
Consuming JSON in ClearBasic
Recently I had the need to consume JSON in ClearBasic. For example, I make a request to a web service, and the service returns a result set in JSON format. I want to display those results within Clarify. JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight Read More...
Keyboard Shortcuts for Dovetail Mobile Agent
In a past post , I discussed how to use GreaseMonkey to modify a web application, particularly, Dovetail Mobile Agent. In my last post , I linked to a GreaseMonkey script that added keyboard shortcuts to Basecamp. Now let's combine the two together. Access Read More...
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