Posts by Mark Anderson
Tech Tuesday: Extender Update SQL View Display Names
In our latest release of Extender (16.00.0050), we have added the ability to change the Display Name of the SQL Views created for Extender objects. In previous versions, the display names were created for you. IF you do not change the display names, it will default to the exact same way it did in previous…
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Tech Tuesday: Extender Filter Lookups on Detail Windows
In a previous Tech Tuesday article, we discussed how to add restrictions to lookups on forms and windows. This article will discuss how to apply this to fields on a detail window or a detail form. This is currently only available in our latest Extender 2016 version (build 16.00.0030 or higher). In this example, we…
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Tech Tuesday: Extender Auto Expand Scrolling Window on Open
Have you ever created a window or a form within Extender that has detail information in a scrolling grid? Have you ever wished there was an easy way to have that scrolling grid automatically expand? Well, there is. With only 2 lines of code you can automatically expand that grid when the Extender form or…
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Tech Tuesday: Default Batch Code Description
Have you ever wanted to create a process that automatically defaults the batch number on a window to a specific value? On our website we have a template for “Default Batches” you can download and import for Extender Enterprise version. Here is a description of what the lines of code does so you can understand…
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Tech Tuesday: Extender Filter Lookups
Within Extender you can create lookups to look up data from an Extender form. It would be nice to be able to filter that list to exclude let’s say inactive codes for an example, or filter based on a value on the extender form or window you are using the lookup. Let’s start with creating…
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Tech Tuesday : Create a New Global Variable CRM Query
When you need to create a map pulling data from a CRM query data source, and you want to limit the data pulled based on criteria. To do this, you need to create a global variable and set that value in a Map Pre Task. The first thing you need to do, is create a…
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Tech Tuesday: SalesForce.com Street Address
When using SmartConnect to pull the account (customer) information from Salesforce.com to keep data in sync to another system, people have run into issues trying to get Street address 1 and Street Address 2 as SalesForce stores these in one field called Billing Street. It is stored in a comma separated format. Here is a…
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Tech Tuesday: How to update a form field from totals on detail lines
We have a form where we are tracking Customer POs, a Current Amount which is the total of the detail lines. As the user enters additional amounts to the detail line, we need to update the Current Amount to be used in a report.With Extender Enterprise edition, we can write code as the detail line…
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