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Migrating a case from Clarify into a Zendesk ticket
I recently received a request asking how to migrate some data (specifically, cases) from Clarify into Zendesk . Seems the company is in the process of turning off Clarify and rolling out Zendesk.     It’s all about the APIs We provide a full Read More...
More fun with Powershell
I was recently working on porting some existing ClearBasic batch (cbbatch) scripts to PowerShell. I’ve blogged in the past about using our SDK with Powershell . For this particular project, I had multiple scripts to port, and I was looking to extract Read More...
Proposal for a change to EmailAgent
We're considering a change to Dovetail EmailAgent , and wanted to float it by our users to see if anyone had any concerns or objections. Currently, when EmailAgent adds more information to a case, it actually performs a Log Note action. Clarify has a 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...
An RSS feed for Dovetail Recent Knowledgebase Articles, courtesy of Dapper and Yahoo Pipes
We publish our knowledgebase articles online: http://www.dovetailsoftware.com/resources/knowledgeBase.aspx . We use the Dovetail SDK to query the solutions in our Clarify/Dovetail database and build the HTML pages. In addition, we have a page that lists Read More...
Hierarchical drop-downs in Dovetail Agent
Many customers use hierarchical (multi-level) drop-down lists in their Clarify/Dovetail implementations. So, when one level of a select list changes, the down-level lists change as well. Clarify allows up 5 levels for a list. As an example, in baseline Read More...
cctvtmmain : a useful, but broken, and poorly named, utility for closing child cases
We recently received an inquiry from a customer asking about Clarify's cctvtmmain utility. Specifically, it was throwing a useless error message, and they wanted our help. Our first response was WTF is cctvtmmain ? A little research, and we discovered Read More...
SLA Monitoring
One of the common tasks for a support/call center manager is making sure the team is living up to its service level agreements (SLAs). Pretty much every customer I've ever dealt with has different SLAs. As you can imagine, there's a zillion ways for companies Read More...
A new version of fcSDK and finalizing the move to .NET 2.0
New version of fcSDK available fcSDK version 2.3.2 is now officially available. The big news in this release is that the fcSDK is now built on the .NET 2.0 framework. (fcSDK was previously built on .NET 1.1) There are also number of bug fixes in this Read More...
fcSDK Cache files: sometimes more trouble then they're worth
One of the features of the fcSDK is its ability to cache frequently-used, rarely-changed data, such as the schema meta-data (ADP tables), lists (Application Lists, Status codes, User-defined lists), geography data (states, countries, time_zones, currencies), Read More...
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