by XTIVIA | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Java
Occasionally JasperServer throws of errors in the Domain usually because of change in the Data Model. The actual error may not be obvious at first: Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the actual error: Sometimes you only get a message saying ‘There was an...
by XTIVIA | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Building on the Scrum thoughts I shared in December, I’d like to discuss how we should focus on what we are trying to deliver vs the “how” of delivery. It is entirely natural and easy to focus on the tasks, but the team needs to focus on the...
by CRM Team | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog, Customer Relationship Management
Today we needed to make a picklist field multiselect in the Saleslogix mobile client. Unfortunately this appears to be broken in Mobile 3.0.3. To work around this we had to override two functions in the picklist field’s definition on the edit form. Hopefully...
by XTIVIA | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog, Databases
I have been working with Informix for just over 15 years. This has caused me to stop, pause and think about all the changes in the industry that have happened in that time. Back when I started, databases were still small. Databases were maintained to...
by XTIVIA | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
If you have ever tried to install a Linux distro on XenServer you have probably run into the installation showing the non-GUI version. Which is perfectly useable, but sometimes it’s just faster and easier to click through the install. So how I get around this issue is...
by XTIVIA | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So at one time or another most of us have run into an issue where no matter what we install or try we just can’t get a unix system to throw an x window for anything. Well I personally have run into this issue often enough that I thought I would throw together a...
by Kathleen Long | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Bloated Transaction log in Simple recovery mode will not shrink Received a request today from a Virtual-DBA customer asking XTIVIA to help troubleshoot why a database which is only 50MBs in size would have a transaction log of 181GB. My first thought fell to an open...
by CRM Team | Jan 22, 2014 | Blog, Customer Relationship Management
Today we wanted to add several custom buttons (schedule activity and complete unscheduled activity buttons) in an editable grid. At first we thought about doing the usual convert to custom smart part, however that would have made simpler customizations down the road a...
by XTIVIA | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
What you need to know about Database Mirroring In recent months I have set up database mirroring for a number of clients. Why you may ask? It is a great option for disaster recovery and even gives the organization additional options when it comes to maintenance...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2014 | Blog, Customer Relationship Management
In Infor CRM / Saleslogix 8.1 a lot of the operations are now performed in an out of process service called “Job Service” for improved performance. This is great because no longer does the web server need to be bogged down with bulk activity operations,...
by XTIVIA | Jan 8, 2014 | News
01-08-14 XTIVIA, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Strategic Sales Systems, a specialist in the Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence market. Headquartered in St. Louis, Mo. and founded in 1998, Strategic Sales Systems (SSS) is a leading...
by XTIVIA | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Overview Recently we put together a demo site for a prospective customer, and I was asked to create a couple of portlets using the Drools rules engine for personalization. Implementation The requirements called for one portlet to display the user’s training...
