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Converting from Clarify Desktop to Dovetail Agent (part 3)
Welcome to part 3 of the series on converting an application from the Clarify Desktop environment to work in Dovetail Agent/Admin. The Employee Manager Utility (EMU) is being migrated into Dovetail Admin, and will provide the tools needed to manage workgroups Read More...
Converting from Clarify Desktop to Dovetail Agent (part 2)
This is the second installment of a series of posts on migrating applications/enhancements from the Clarify desktop application to Dovetail Agent features. The plan was for this post to cover converting Clarify Forms into Dovetail Agent/Admin pages. That Read More...
Converting from Clarify Desktop to Dovetail Agent
This is the first installment of a new series of posts on migrating applications/enhancements from the Clarify desktop application to Dovetail Agent features. There are usually a few components involved – schema changes, customized forms, and custom code Read More...
Use Dovetail SDK in .Net
One of our customers ran into a roadblock trying to migrate custom projects over to Dovetail SDK. The primary issues were getting the right references set up for a project, then creating and referencing the database objects using APIs in the various Dovetail Read More...
Dynamically Loading jQuery plugins
In previous iterations of Dovetail Agent, there have been jQuery plugins (i.e. spellCheck) that could potentially be used on any page in the web application, so each file containing the jQuery plugin code actually included on every page so the plugin Read More...
Running mklink in NAnt
Since there is not an executable for mklink , it took me a minute to figure a good solution to running mklink as a target in my build script. The NAnt has an exec task that is used for running command line targets, but it requires an executable as its Read More...
Transitioning Beyond 255 Transitions
In Clarify, Logistics and Quality both use transitions to determine how a request moves from one condition to another. To change a condition, a transition must be defined between the two conditions for that part request type. To restrict access to critical Read More...
Using jQuery to check all CheckBoxes in an iframe
In Dovetail Admin, there are a few pages where there is an option to check or uncheck a list of checkbox controls that are in an iframe. The Select All and Unselect All buttons perform the action, and using jQuery the codes becomes really simple and efficient. Read More...
Removing an iframe by using AJAX
One of our core products at Dovetail Software is our classic ASP application, Dovetail Agent. This application has been in production for many years, and is very stable and reliable. However, since it is a classic ASP application, there is a lot of room Read More...
Developer Walkthrough - Workflow Event Handling
Dovetail SDK is a software development kit for writing applications, using .NET, to access Clarify™ databases. One of the more common requirements for objects created for Clarify is performing workflow operations on those objects, such as assigning cases Read More...
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