Article John Murray · Nov 8, 2016 1m read

While testing Atelier 1.0.255 I noticed that the namespace subtree of my Atelier project used different icon shading for the top-level Classes folder compared with the top-level Routines one:

Drilling down into parts of the Wasabi package helped me work out the significance of white-filled icons versus brown-filled ones:

A package is white if there are no classes in it, but only subpackages.

As a footnote, this only happens when browsing the namespace within Atelier Explorer.

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Article John Murray · Nov 7, 2016 1m read

I'm pleased to see this in the documentation of the just-published 2017.1 Field Test of Ensemble:

"In certain circumstances, it is useful to create namespaces that are not enabled for Ensemble. In this release you can do this by clearing the Make this an Ensemble namespace checkbox when creating a new namespace. "

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Article John Murray · Oct 26, 2016 1m read

I used the Members option from the Community button to look up Evgeny's profile. Above the tabs ("View", "Mentions", "Posts (53)" etc) his name was displayed (correct).

Then I clicked on the "Posts (53)" tab. It showed his posts, but displayed my name above the tabs.

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Announcement John Murray · Oct 25, 2016

We at George James Software recently released a new version of Deltanji, the native source code management tool for Caché, Ensemble and HealthShare.

Version 6.1 includes several enhancements, including easy creation of labels. Bulk transfer of large codesets is also now available from the browser UI.

A perpetually free "install and go" Solo Edition of Deltanji is available. Licenses can be purchased for other editions that provide more advanced code management and deployment features.

Deltanji is compatible with Atelier. It can also manage external files.

Please visit http://georgejames.com/deltanji

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Question John Murray · Sep 30, 2016

Here's what I get when I check for updates from my 1.0.245 on Windows:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: Atelier IDE 1.0.255 (com.intersys.eclipse.feature.estudio.feature.group 1.0.255)
  Missing requirement: Connection Manager 1.0.255 (com.intersys.eclipse.connmgr 1.0.255) requires 'bundle com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind 0.0.0' but it could not be found
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Atelier IDE 1.0.255 (com.intersys.eclipse.feature.estudio.feature.group 1.0.255)
    To: com.intersys.eclipse.connmgr [1.0.255]
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Article John Murray · Sep 2, 2016 1m read

I was recently troubleshooting a problem on a Linux (RHEL) instance of 2016.1 at a site. For policy reasons their sysadmins wanted to update the Caché installation so it used network accounts for its cacheusr and iscagent users and groups instead of the locally-created ones that had been set up during original install of Caché.

To do this they ran various commands including chown

Afterwards non-root users couldn't obtain a terminal session using the csession command.

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Question John Murray · Aug 25, 2016

I just got a digest email alerting me to a change in the article https://community.intersystems.com/post/studio-tip-running-cos-commands…

 and when I use the list-style view of the dashboard it appears at the top with a recent "updated" timestamp:

But when I open the article the date info on the article and on all of the comments all points to changes 5 or 6 months ago.

I wonder if someone voted up the article earlier today and perhaps that triggered the update notification. If so, I think that's a bug. I don't want to know every time someone votes up (or down) an article.

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Question John Murray · Aug 25, 2016

The FT keys InterSystems currently make available to us in the zips from the download pages are due to expire at the end of this month (31-Aug-16). Will there be new keys soon?

Also wondering when we might expect new FT builds for 2016.2 and 2016.3. The last published ones were 24-Jun-16 and 16-Jun-16 respectively.

I haven't seen an Atelier update for a while either.

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Question John Murray · Jul 28, 2016

Studio's "Package Information" dialog, accessed from the context menu of a package on the Namespace tab of the Workspace pane, includes a field titled "Routine Prefix"

Help says this is a "String that is used as a prefix for the routines generated from classes in this package".

But if it set a string here, then recompile a class in the package, it doesn't affect the name of the generated routine(s). Nor does it influence the routine names generated when I create new classes in the package and compile them. I have tested on 2016.1.

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Announcement John Murray · Jul 22, 2016

We at George James Software are pleased to announce the release of version 2.6 of Serenji, our editor and debugger for Caché, Ensemble and HealthShare.
The main enhancement in 2.6 is the ability to run on a Linux <edit> or OS X </edit> workstation using Wine 1.8. More release details are here.
This is a free upgrade to users already holding an activation key. For new users a free 30 day evaluation period is granted upon installation.
John Murray
Senior Product Engineer
George James Software

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Article John Murray · May 27, 2016 1m read

Please make these dialogs easier to use, for example by treating a double-click on a list item as a signal to select the item and effectively click the "Next" or "Finish" button. Using Tools\Add-Ins as my example, on the first page:

I want to double-click on a project and get to the next page. At the moment I have to click it, then click the "Next" button. And on the next page:

it's not as easy as it could be to select and run my chosen add-in.

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Article John Murray · May 25, 2016 1m read

I'm pleased to see the new Source Control menu in the recent 1.0.165 build. This gives me access to the features of the same server-side source control class as Studio has always supported. It is particularly relevant for our Deltanji source control tool.

Our class makes use of CSP to serve up some dialogs through which the user controls the source control operation. Two observations so far:

1. In Atelier the window you display our CSPs isn't resizable. In Studio it is.

2. Atelier isn't detecting the page we send that's supposed to close the dialog.

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Article John Murray · Apr 22, 2016 1m read

I'm using Atelier 1.0.145 on Windows (x64). When I open the Help menu from the menubar the final entry (About Atelier) has a huge version of the Atelier icon alongside it. This distorts the menu. I can't post a screenshot here because my simplistic screen capture tool causes the faulty menu to close. But the large icon I see is also (correctly) displayed on the About box itself:

This isn't a new problem in build 145. I also had it in earlier ones and had been holding off from reporting it, assuming that it had already been noticed by someone at ISC.

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Article John Murray · Apr 10, 2016 1m read

My comments here relate to Atelier 1.0.137 on Windows connecting to Ensemble 2016.2 FT build 627.

I've been looking at what the Atelier Explorer view (hereafter AE), whose root elements are projects, lets us do with the contents of the namespace that the project is connected to:

versus what the Server Explorer view (here after SE) gives us:

Here are my observations so far.

1. CSP files are only accessible in SE. I'm guessing this is because Atelier's support for CSP files is so new as not to have propagated yet to everywhere that it's planned to cover.

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Question John Murray · Apr 6, 2016

Here is a screenshot from my 2016.2 FT instance of Studio and Ensemble:

I don't recall having seen the highlighted "+" suffix on document names previously. Who can tell me what it denotes?

I originally posted this in the Field Tests group but it turned out to be a 2016.1 feature that I hadn't previously noticed. So I subsequently moved the post to the Cache group.

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