Article John Murray · Apr 13, 2017 1m read CSP skeleton key In this recent post I highlighted the importance of a CSP session's Key property in enforcing the level of security your web application may be relying on, and in particular the need to keep the property value secret. #Terminal #Security #Frontend #CSP #Caché 1 0 0 349
Article John Murray · Apr 13, 2017 1m read When CACHE means cache and not Caché I only recently noticed the presence of a local database named CACHE alongside the more familiar CACHESYS, CACHELIB, CACHETEMP and CACHEAUDIT.A bit of digging through the documentation archive led me to conclude that the CACHE database arrived in 2010.2, where the release notes say: #Caché #Ensemble #HealthShare #System Administration #Tips & Tricks 0 1 0 533
Article John Murray · Apr 11, 2017 1m read Portal tip: Create a non-Ensemble namespace (2017.1+) Prior to 2017.1, whenever I created a new namespace using Portal on Ensemble or HealthShare it was automatically configured to host productions. This used to irritate me, because sometimes I'm setting up a namespace (for example, to host our Deltanji tool) that doesn't need the extra Ensemble baggage. #Ensemble #HealthShare #Tips & Tricks 2 0 0 353
Article John Murray · Apr 10, 2017 1m read Portal tip: Get to the bottom of the Console Log Sometimes I observe people scrolling manually down to the bottom of the Console Log document when they want to see the most recent messages. So I want to draw attention to the handy link that does the job for you in a single click: #Caché #Ensemble #HealthShare #Tips & Tricks 2 1 0 337
Question John Murray · Apr 10, 2017 Why does the Analytics page now ask for credentials? When I use the Analytics option from the Community menu I'm now being prompted for credentials:This didn't happen before. Has something changed? #DC Feedback 0 3 0 216
Article John Murray · Apr 7, 2017 1m read "Where am I?" - Adding extra information to the Terminal prompt If you deal with multiple instances of Caché / Ensemble / HealthShare and sometimes have to work at the Terminal command prompt, did you know that you can easily add extra information to that prompt which may help prevent you running a command on the wrong instance? #Caché #Terminal #Ensemble #HealthShare #Tips & Tricks 4 3 0 547
Question John Murray · Apr 6, 2017 Questions about Top Stories The DC homepage has a Top Stories panel.What makes a story appear here?When I click the "View All" link (highlighted above) I get the page at https://community.intersystems.com/top-storiesThis one seems to reload periodically, each time displaying more and more posts. Will it ever stop? Or maybe it'll try and load every post there's ever been. #DC Feedback 0 2 0 152
Question John Murray · Mar 29, 2017 ETA for the next Field Test? Now that 2017.1 has been released, any indication when we can look forward to the next Field Test starting?Update on 27-Apr-2017: the 2017.2 FT for Caché and Ensemble is now available via this page.Update on 02-May-2017: announcement posted here. #Caché #Ensemble #Field Tests 1 4 0 372
Article John Murray · Mar 28, 2017 1m read Using different CPF files During startup a Caché/Ensemble/HealthShare instance must consult a parameter file to get some information it needs at the early stages of startup. By default it uses the file called cache.cpf, but by adding an extra argument to the ccontrol start command you can make it use an alternative file. #Caché #Ensemble #HealthShare #System Administration 1 2 0 625
Article John Murray · Mar 27, 2017 2m read Automatic crossposting from Developer Community to Google Group by user intersystems.dc Before this Developer Community existed a Google Group named intersystems-public-cache was an active forum for people working with Caché and related products. #DC Feedback 3 9 0 554
Article John Murray · Mar 17, 2017 Minor font inconsistency around DC "Back" button #DC Feedback 0 0 0 192
Article John Murray · Mar 17, 2017 1m read Portal tip: System Mode If you work with Portal on multiple instances of Caché, Ensemble or HealthShare you might find it useful to set the System Mode of the various instances, so as to give yourself a visual reminder of the role of the one you're currently working on.For instance: #Caché #Ensemble #HealthShare #Tips & Tricks 6 1 1 822
Article John Murray · Mar 16, 2017 1m read Portal tip: Your system at a glance In case you've never used the "About" link at the top of Management Portal, here's a screenshot of the kind of information it shows. I've highlighted the link and some of the information I find it handy to get from here. #Caché #Ensemble #HealthShare #Tips & Tricks 1 1 0 290
Article John Murray · Mar 16, 2017 1m read Suggested change to "Developer Community" tag From time to time someone adds the "Developer Community" tag to a post that's actually about something else. I wonder if by renaming the tag to "Developer Community Feedback" this wouldn't happen so much. After all, the group is called "Developer Community Feedback". If folk feel the proposed new name for the tag is too long, how about "DC Feedback"? #DC Feedback 0 0 0 134
Article John Murray · Mar 3, 2017 1m read Atelier - the first three months Almost exactly three months ago Atelier 1.0 was released. If you are an early adopter and have any feedback to share, here's a thread we could use.For instance, during the Field Test I posted this article about the two explorers, Atelier Explorer (AE) and Server Explorer (SE). Presumably more people are now using Atelier, so I'd be interested to hear how it's going. 2 4 0 678
Question John Murray · Mar 2, 2017 Is the "no answer" view faulty? Below is a clip from the https://community.intersystems.com/homepage/default/no_answer page:The entry I've focused on reports having 3 answers. So why is it listed? #DC Feedback 1 2 0 199
Article John Murray · Mar 2, 2017 1m read Suggestion for improvement to Answers tab of My Account The top of my Answers tab looks like this:To get to the question, first I have to click on the "Answer:" text (which only gets the appearance of a hyperlink when I mouse over it).That click takes me here:I now need to click on "Back to question page" in order to get where I want to be. #DC Feedback 1 2 0 224
Question John Murray · Mar 2, 2017 Can I retain a post as a favorite but cancel my subscription to it? Suppose I find a post that seems really useful, and that I expect to want to return to in the future. I click on the star to favorite it (giving the author some kudos). But later there's a lot of commenting on it that I don't care about. Can I keep it as a favorite but unsubscribe from updates? Or should I resort to browser bookmarking? #DC Feedback 0 2 0 173
Article John Murray · Mar 2, 2017 1m read Trusting the code you import As more people join Developer Community, and with increasing efforts to promote code sharing, I'd like to draw fresh attention to this post I wrote a year ago. It spotlights a feature within the class compiler which is both useful and dangerous. When importing code (e.g. from an XML export of classes received from someone), it's worth considering the risks.Even if that post doesn't seem relevant to you at the moment you may wish to note it for the future. A handy way of doing this is to click the star icon at the end of it. #Code Snippet #Deployment #Object Data Model #Tips & Tricks #Caché 2 1 0 303
Article John Murray · Feb 14, 2017 1m read Can you keep a secret? If you are developing applications that use CSP or Zen, or potentially any of the other InterSystems web-related stuff that's built on top of CSP, then it's important to know how to keep one particular secret.A central part of the CSP security architecture is a server-side session key. "Server-side" because its value should never be revealed to the client that is issuing the web requests. If it is revealed, a malicious client might be able to use it to bypass your security and make your server do things you don't want it to. #Security #Frontend #CSP #ZEN #Caché 7 1 0 685
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