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  • Making the app work the way the user expects it to work

    Every morning I get an email report containing all of the Full Text Searches that our customers performed within our SelfService application, along with how many results each search resulted in, and if there were any errors. Our volume is low, so it's not too much information for me to process on a daily basis. This report allows me to gain some ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on May 9, 2007
  • Using the fcSDK in PowerShell

    Years ago, if I wanted to ''script'' Clarify, I would use UNIX shell scripts, including UNIX mini languages such as sed and awk, that would create dat files that could be imported with dataex. When ClearBasic was introduced, we also got cbbatch, which was a command line interpreter for ClearBasic, so we could script Clarify using CB. When we ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on April 25, 2007
  • Extending SuperEmailClerk.NET to call your own APIs

     SuperEmailClerk.NET (SEC.NET), when running in API Invoke mode, will invoke requested APIs and return the results in a reply email. SEC.NET can be configured to execute API toolkits purchased from Dovetail Software, such as the ClearSupport toolkit, or custom-built APIs. This post will walk through creating a custom API in .NET ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on March 20, 2007