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Ben Spead · Mar 7, 2016 go to post

Nicki,

To answer your last question, the button on the bottom right of the editor bar can be used to upload images direcetly to the site:

Ben Spead · Mar 4, 2016 go to post

Agreed - normally the right-facing arrows are for forwarding :)

Ben Spead · Mar 2, 2016 go to post

The first character on each new line of a Caché routine needs to be a label or function name.  Add a tab to the beginning of each of your lines and I will bet you'll find it works better :)

Ben Spead · Mar 1, 2016 go to post

Scott - I am sure Evgeny will provide some clarification here once he gets online.  Thanks for your patience!

Ben Spead · Feb 26, 2016 go to post

Thanks for your patience Scott - it's no question that this has been a little bumpy ;)  But I am confident that we will get there.

Ben Spead · Feb 26, 2016 go to post

Scott,

There was an attempt in the past to try custom but it didn't suceed.  Why re-invent the wheel when there are already mature platforms out there?

The use of Confluence came after the Drupal deployment was already launched.  It is a fairly new tool within US team at InterSystems.

Ben Spead · Feb 26, 2016 go to post

I am doing the same thing as Stefan.  It is far from perfect currently but better than nothing.  We're working on a better specification for email subscription updates.

Ben Spead · Feb 26, 2016 go to post

Ahhh ... thanks Evgeny - that is the easier way I was missing :)  We might want to have the button renamed from "Upload file" to "Upload/Insert Image" as that would make it much more intuitive.

Ben Spead · Feb 25, 2016 go to post

I am going to answer my own question with a nice workaround that I found:

1) Save the image locally

2) Upload the image to the post you are authoring (you need to click "Change Additional Settings" to get to the Upload option

3) Under Associated Documents there is a link to the new image that was uploaded - right-click it and save the url

4) Now go to the Image icon in your post and paste in the url to the image you just uploaded

This allows you to not have to mess with 3rd party file hosting systems.  However it is still very ugly compared to just pasting an image into the editor :(  Hopefully this will be made easier at some point in the future.

NOTE:  Unfortunately this workaround can't be used to add an image to a comment.

Ben Spead · Feb 25, 2016 go to post

I am having a really hard time embedding an image in a post.  I tried uploading to Google Drive and give view rights to the world but adding a link to it or even editing the HTML to put it in an iframe isn't working.  Is there a simpler way I am missing?

Ben Spead · Feb 22, 2016 go to post

If you are planning on exporting to Excel and showing as a web page, I would suggest that you look at using Zen Reports.  It would give you the most control and you could get HTML, PDF and Excel all as output options.

Ben Spead · Feb 21, 2016 go to post

Mike,

The UI, community elements and workflow are very much in flux at the moment - things are changing on a weekly basis as the platform gets refined to be more intuitive and to make it easier for people to connect and get their questions answered.  If you have time to play around and provide feedback, feel free!  But if you don't (and it's understandable) then you can continue to hang out in the Google Groups.  We won't be moving content and users over to the Developer Community until product management feel like it would be an advantageous move and that people will get all of the value that they get from the Google Groups.  

Note that there is a subcommunity which is specifically for providing feedback on the Developer Community so if you see something that you think could be improved, please make a post about it!

Ben Spead · Feb 12, 2016 go to post

In fact, most COS programming guidelines that I have seen expressly forbid the use of GOTO since it makes the code harder to support.

Ben Spead · Feb 12, 2016 go to post

Why would you want to limit it as the only formatting language used?  That would make it more difficult for people to add marked-up posts and could be a barrier to entry for people.  Providing different options makes it more accessible for people to  participate.

Ben Spead · Feb 12, 2016 go to post

Stefan,

Is this always strickly the case?  Any web application that wants to add new UI capabilities which rely on REST needs to create a new csp application in order to do so?  

Thanks!

Ben Spead · Feb 5, 2016 go to post

Scott - even though you may not have access to the SAMPLES namespace, you can still look at Caché samples.  Go to download.InterSystems.com and pull down a free single-user version of Caché and then you will have full access to everything that ships with Caché in your own local playspace ;)

Ben Spead · Feb 5, 2016 go to post

2016.1 is scheduled for release extremely soon (barring the last minute discovery of show-stopper bugs)

Ben Spead · Feb 4, 2016 go to post

I believe you can take paramaters for %Installer from a config file so you could make a page which creates the config file with the customer name, etc. 

Ben Spead · Feb 4, 2016 go to post

Scott - have you looked at %Installer?  That should be the first place that you start for trying to create a deployment from scratch.  This is how Ensemble, HealthShare and TrakCare instances get initialized by the installer and I know a lot of customers have used this with great success.

Also, the Enterprise Manager which is coming out in 2016.2 may be of interest in this area as well.

Ben Spead · Feb 2, 2016 go to post

Kenneth,

Check out /csp/samples/upload.csp

Does this cover what you need?

Ben Spead · Jan 28, 2016 go to post

Benjamin,

You might be running into some security issues (check the audit DB to confirm).  Or, you might not have it working because you have "Lock CSP Name" set to "Yes" in one of the web applications (ref: http://docs.intersystems.com/cache20152/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls…).

I just did a quick test as follows in my 2015.1 instance:

1) Created a SAMPLES2 namespace with new SAMPLES2 DB

2) Package mapped "csp" from SAMPLES namespace to SAMPLES2 namespace

3) Edited /csp/samples2 web application as follows:

- added Unauthenticated

- added %DB_SAMPLES Application Role

- Unchecked "Lock CSP Name" AND "Autocompile" (this should be done in both /csp/samples and /csp/samples2)

- pointed "CSP Files Physical Path" to c:\intersystems\e20151\csp\samples\ 

After this I was then able to see /csp/samples2/form.csp (although with errors because I didn't map the Samples.* package to the Samples Namespace).

So it appears to work - you just need to figure out which of the above pieces you missed :)

HTH!

Ben

Ben Spead · Jan 28, 2016 go to post

I asume since you used MyPage.csp in your example you are doing tag-based and not class-based CSP development?   

Remember that tag-based .csp files compile into classes within the namespace (by default these are csp.* classes).  So you could package-map csp.* (or whatever package you configure your CSP pages to compile into) from your Readonly namespace to the XYZ namespace, and then you could point the /csp/xyz application to the source directory holding the csp pages.  I think this is likely to do what you want (although I haven't tested it).  

Ben Spead · Jan 27, 2016 go to post

It's a good point Evgeny, however I would still think that the benefit of letting people clarify their question or response outweighs the possibility of someone changing the content completely.

Also, once there is a proper up-vote and down-vote in place, people won't have to add "+1" comments anymore :)