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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. Colors I purposely use the bright colors to distinguish the different elements, along with ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 24, 2008
  • 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 - those can be problematic. ClearLogistics forms are also typically problematic - the ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 18, 2008
  • 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 its been a long time since I've done ClearBasic coding. I'm blogging this so that I can find ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 7, 2008
  • 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 a couple of examples on how to do this with the Clarify Classic Client. However, the ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on June 30, 2008
  • 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 the community. Under the hood Clarify Client uses a variant of Visual Basic called ClearBasic ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on June 23, 2008
  • 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, and haven't upgraded at all in 10 years. On the other hand, it speaks to the power ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on April 22, 2008
  • 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 end of those two years, so we did not need them. I did Clarify work from version 5 through ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on April 18, 2008
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