Entry for October 09, 2006
Manage 2000 7.2 sp0 is "in the can". Most of the preparations for Perspectives have been finished. And now the development team is settling into a pleasant lull after the long hard summer. There remain the perennial small projects to occupy us until the beta sites start feeding us the work which will make 7.2 "sea-worthy".
I am happy with amount of "cool stuff" which made it into 7.2. And yet, in each major project, I can see another level to climb up to.
The ERPBusinessObjectService, in particular, has some very important new features. Unfortunately there is no session planned for it as Perspectives. But maybe I can sneak in some attention to it.
There is the beginnings of legitmate interest in web services among clients, and 7.2 ERPBusinessObjectService provides new useful methods:
* ValidateRecordKey - for validating parts and customers without having to export and refresh Manage 2000 file contents to SQL tables
* CallUdtSub - for running UniBasic subroutines across SOAP. A Unibasic programmer can write a routine and a web developer can instantly make use of it.
* UniQuerySelect, GetKeysFromCookie, and GetItemsAsXML provide the foundation for running UniQuery processes returning XML content.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Product Configurator Challenge
Entry for April 18, 2006
The long nights of winter have passed. The garden is uncovered. Most of the spring pruning is complete and life is bursting out to greet the strong sunshine.
FRx deployment has been passed along to Lane. The PageView Filter system has been completed. The web Product Configurator is undergoing testing and revision. Some version of rule support will definitely make the 7.2 cut. Trying to run Unibasic prompt after subs in the middle of a web page will not make the cut. Although it does make my head hurt.
"The World Is Flat" continues to resonate with increasing numbers of 7.1 Manage 2000 sites. We have work to do.
The long nights of winter have passed. The garden is uncovered. Most of the spring pruning is complete and life is bursting out to greet the strong sunshine.
FRx deployment has been passed along to Lane. The PageView Filter system has been completed. The web Product Configurator is undergoing testing and revision. Some version of rule support will definitely make the 7.2 cut. Trying to run Unibasic prompt after subs in the middle of a web page will not make the cut. Although it does make my head hurt.
"The World Is Flat" continues to resonate with increasing numbers of 7.1 Manage 2000 sites. We have work to do.
Friday, February 10, 2006
FRx Interuptions
Wimpy Winter Weather here in Minneapolis this year. The side roads are finally died white after todays not so rush hour dusting. Like one who grew up with the white trunks of a birch forest there is an unconscious expectation of color reversal which surprises me when it goes missing.
Round II of PageViewFilters and completion of the CTO Interpreter have languished while I help with field support for the FRx interface to the GltInquiry web function.
All of my relections lately are colored by Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat". I wonder about the shift of emphasis from internal development in Manage 2000 to building the myriad of interfaces onto complimentary products available with 7.1. I wonder how the 7.1 web function capabiliy will help customers cope with the flattening world. How fast is the game changing. How much time do business have to adjust, deploy, invent.
Round II of PageViewFilters and completion of the CTO Interpreter have languished while I help with field support for the FRx interface to the GltInquiry web function.
All of my relections lately are colored by Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat". I wonder about the shift of emphasis from internal development in Manage 2000 to building the myriad of interfaces onto complimentary products available with 7.1. I wonder how the 7.1 web function capabiliy will help customers cope with the flattening world. How fast is the game changing. How much time do business have to adjust, deploy, invent.
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Through the Looking Glass
Well I am getting ready for move number 3 since EPICOR bought out ROI Systems. Friday I pack up my cubicle for relocation to the 11th floor. Somehow the square footage of cubible allocated per programmer continues to dwindle. I am hoping the accountants are not shooting for equilibrium based on square foot costs in Monterey. On the upside the hallways are very wide and luxurious!
As I reflect on email queries from client web programmers obviously schooled in SQL and not so familiar with the Unidata world or the Manage 2000 toolset, it is clear to me that the REPORT.BUILD interpreter and the roiHyperQuery control offer extremely cheap efficient options for exposing ERP data out to the world. Only it is difficult to help them 'see' it. The expectation that knowing sqlCommand is enough is too stultifying. Is it worth learning another layer beyond Microsoft technology? When that layer provides CrossRef and Function Security and F1 help and edit patterns and defaults maintainable in dictionaries on the application server, and dictionary driven queries, and interactive UI screens based on REPORT.BUILD prompt definitions, the answer to me is clearly yes. But you have to expect to spend some time coming up to speed. There is a lot of tooling knowledge to learn.
As I reflect on email queries from client web programmers obviously schooled in SQL and not so familiar with the Unidata world or the Manage 2000 toolset, it is clear to me that the REPORT.BUILD interpreter and the roiHyperQuery control offer extremely cheap efficient options for exposing ERP data out to the world. Only it is difficult to help them 'see' it. The expectation that knowing sqlCommand is enough is too stultifying. Is it worth learning another layer beyond Microsoft technology? When that layer provides CrossRef and Function Security and F1 help and edit patterns and defaults maintainable in dictionaries on the application server, and dictionary driven queries, and interactive UI screens based on REPORT.BUILD prompt definitions, the answer to me is clearly yes. But you have to expect to spend some time coming up to speed. There is a lot of tooling knowledge to learn.
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