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  • Improved Case & Solution linking workflow within Dovetail Agent

    One of the more underused features within Clarify/Dovetail is the ability to link cases to solutions. Its a great feature - I just don't see it used often enough. This allows organizations to track which solutions are used the most, and use that information to feed back to production groups (development, engineering, documentation, etc.) to help ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on November 18, 2008
  • Commenting on Solutions

    One of the things I've wanted to do for a long time is have the ability to add comments on objects within the Clarify/Dovetail system. As a specific example, I've wanted to be able to add comments to a solution. For those not versed in Clarify/Dovetail speak, a Solution is essentially a KnowledgeBase (KB) article. By allowing comments, I (and ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on September 28, 2008
  • Run-Time Query Parameter Evaluation

    Overview One of the new features coming soon in Dovetail Agent 4.1 is the enhanced capability of using parameters in fcQuery that will be evaluated when a query is executed. This allows queries to be designed with much more flexible structure. Dates are a very important parameter to be evaluated at run-time, and being able to build the query ...
    Posted to Sam Tyson (Weblog) by styson on September 22, 2008
  • My first Ubiquity command : view a case in Dovetail

    I was pretty excited to play with Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension that lets me think and act in a more natural language with my PC. From the Ubiquity Tutorial: Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web. You're used to telling Firefox where you want to go by typing Web ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on September 8, 2008
  • Spell Check feature added to Dovetail Agent

    As part of the continuous effort to enhance and improve our applications, a new Spell Check feature was added for the next release of Dovetail Agent. This feature was added for every text area input in the pages of Agent. Currently there are almost 100 different pages in Dovetail Agent that use text area controls. Adding the new functionality to ...
    Posted to Sam Tyson (Weblog) by styson on August 26, 2008
  • Customizing Seeker: Indexing and Searching Custom Objects

    In previous posts, we've covered the basics of Seeker, along with searching custom attributes of an object (such as case.x_notes). Continuing on, lets look at how to index and search custom objects. In our environment, we keep track of the software license keys that we send to our customers, and we do this in our Dovetail system. This is an ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on August 15, 2008
  • Sneak Peek: Dovetail Mobile Agent

    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on August 14, 2008
  • Re: create_soln_list and fclist()

    The custom field lists will only be applied to the base object for any of the APIs, so you will have to have seperate code to update the workaround table after the API call.
    Posted to General (Forum) by styson on August 7, 2008
  • Customizing Seeker: Searching custom data

    In a previous post, I covered some details on Seeker - our full-text search engine, along with its integration with applications, such as Dovetail Agent. One of the other things I really like about Seeker is its extensibility. Via configuration, Seeker can easily be extended to search additional (including custom) fields (such as a custom field ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 30, 2008
  • Search your Clarify/Dovetail data

    Dovetail Seeker is our search engine for Clarify/Dovetail. One of the things I really like about Seeker is that its easy to take advantage of its search results from different applications. Because Seeker is a web service, its relatively easy to have applications use this search service. For example, we've added Search capabilities to Dovetail ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 28, 2008
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