If you’re attending COMMON next week in Anaheim at the Disneyland Resort make sure to stop by booth #105 where BCD will be set up. You can enter our draw for cash or an iPad, and we do have BCD t-shirts and highlighters to give away so no one will walk away empty handed.
We’ll also be more than happy to demonstrate any of our products or answer any of your technical questions. Product demo highlights include the very soon to be released Presto 4 (with new page layouts optimized for mobile devices) and WebSmart 9.2 (the new grid template is one of the highlights).
And if you haven’t filled up your Tuesday and Wednesday session schedules there’s still room in the two sessions I’ll be doing:
We hope to see you there.
WebSmart 9.1 is now available for download. You can download this from our public site or from within myBCDSoftware.com.
Some of the features and fixes are:
- When you are building a definition with both a list and a single record maintenance screen, the wizard now defaults to using the same set of fields on the second screen as you picked for the first.
- The Files Window now includes a column for the field number, meaning that you can sort the list of fields back to the original order in the file.
- For WebSmart PHP we have added a new new PHP function, getnxinfphp, which you can use to retrieve Nexus session information.
- This version of WebSmart now allows you to open two files with the same name from different FTP sites. This makes it easier to compare program versions.
- And finally, a primary focus in this release has been on improving the PHP validator. The following areas have been particularly improved Read More…
Catapult 7.72 is now available for download. This version includes three fixes for issues recently reported by customers as well as all previous changes in version 7.71 and earlier.
These are the fixes in Catapult 7.72:
- Resolved an issue where Split segments were adding question marks in place of certain characters. Read More…
There was a recent post in the WebSmart Developer Forum in myBCDsoftware asking how to navigate from an HTML segment to the PML or PHP. That made me wonder about how many WebSmart developers are familiar with all the keyboard shortcuts in the IDE. Here’s the full list, hopefully they’ll save you a bit of time. If I missed any or if there’s a shortcut you’d like added to WebSmart please add a comment to this post.
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If you work with CSS, you know that at times you will need to write IE-specific styles… or worse, IE-version specific styles. Some particularly common examples would be when you’re working with the position property, or padding/margins, where it’s quite common for the placement to vary between IE and other browsers. There are a number of different approaches that have been tried, including JavaScript plugins that (only somewhat reliably) detect the browser type and version, CSS hacks that for reasons that don’t need to be stated, should probably be avoided (they’re hacks), conditional comments, and probably more.
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We have published the first update for Nexus 4.03. Update NX403001 includes a number of fixes for the Nexus calendar portlet:
- Fixed a problem where the main portlet would appear blank.
- Corrected problem where appointments wouldn’t appear on the days scheduled.
- Corrected a reported problem where invalid dates (9999-01-01) were defaulted on the Add and Edit appointment screens.
- Fixed a run-time error when clicking the date selection icon.
You can download update NX403001 from the bottom of the Nexus 4 updates page.
Please let us know if you have any questions!
We have published a new version of the WebSmart 9.0 IDE (r12383) to address a recently reported problem where struct declarations containing carriage returns would generate incorrect RPG.
You can download this update from the WebSmart Updates page.
Please call if you have any questions!
I had a client that wanted to only allow one user to maintain an order record at any given time. When a user is in an order we will set a field to the user that is using the order so we can tell anybody being locked out who currently has the lock. For some applications it is fine to simply set this lock in one location where the user enters the order and unset the lock in another location when finishing the order. Similarly to WebSmart’s Change Management, we know this can often result in orphaned locks over time if the browser is ended abnormally. In this case even the simple act of the user closing the browser will not trigger the unlock.
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We recently released Presto 3.8 which contains many new features for end users and Presto developers. You can start using the new features below by downloading Presto 3.8 from myBCDsoftware or from the BCD website.
Export Data as Spreadsheets or HTML
With the new Export Data element you can add functionality to your web enabled screens that lets users click a button or text link to export DB2 data as CSV spreadsheets or HTML pages. Users can open the spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel with no copying and pasting of data or macros required. The spreadsheet or HTML page is populated with the results of an SQL query you define in Presto.
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WebSmart PHP 4.2 is now available for download at our public site or via myBCDSoftware.com. Here are the key new features:
- Validate .php files: The syntax validator has been upgraded to allow you to validate any php files in addition to your WebSmart phw files. It’s always been possible for you to edit any php files with WebSmart. The ability to validate them makes WebSmart a better general purpose php editor.
- Debugging Options Panel: The debugger, which was added in version 4.0 of WebSmart PHP, is more flexible now that you can specify an automatic launch path and query string. It is now possible to launch any path of your program when debugging it including the edit screen for a specific record, or different paths or domains to debug the same program that is running in different environments such as test or QA.
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