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  • Dovetail Search for Clarify

    Ever since we introduced Dovetail Seeker this summer, I was anxious to incorporate its capabilities with our applications. It is integrated within Dovetail Agent, Dovetail SelfService, and Dovetail Mobile Agent. Kevin also demonstrated how to incorporate it into your own applications (his particular example was integrating Seeker with an ASP.NET ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on November 18, 2008

  • Consuming JSON in ClearBasic

    Recently I had the need to consume JSON in ClearBasic. For example, I make a request to a web service, and the service returns a result set in JSON format. I want to display those results within Clarify. JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. JSON is a pretty popular data transfer format, especially for ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on October 22, 2008

  • Keyboard Shortcuts for Dovetail Mobile Agent

    In a past post, I discussed how to use GreaseMonkey to modify a web application, particularly, Dovetail Mobile Agent. In my last post, I linked to a GreaseMonkey script that added keyboard shortcuts to Basecamp. Now let's combine the two together. Access Keys for Mobile Clients Keep in mind that Dovetail Mobile Agent already has Access Keys ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on October 7, 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 handful of presentations on JavaScript and jQuery

    John Resig (creator of jQuery) recently posted a bunch of his presentations online, focused on JavaScript and jQuery. Check 'em out. I'm fast becoming a huge fan of jQuery, and we're now using it a lot more within Dovetail Agent. Not only is the library itself cool - but the plethora of available plugins really make it rock.
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on June 24, 2008

  • 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 Clarify, there's a list titled CR_DESC that is a three level list for CPU, Operating System, ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on December 10, 2007

  • Using modern JavaScript libraries to create a better user experience in fcClient

    Over the last couple of years, a number of very useful JavaScript libraries and frameworks have been introduced that make it tremendously easier to build rich web applications. A few of the more popular ones: Prototype Script.aculo.us MooTools These frameworks allow developers to easily write very rich, cross-browser web applications. I've ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on September 26, 2007