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[Support 1]

Dear Schoerch,

Thank you for your enquiry.

The Formativ icon in the Windows taskbar tray is used to:

• indicate that applet recording is under way (Formativ Creator, Formativ Studio);
• terminate an executing applet.

It can be removed by deleting the file:

  formativ.exe

in the Formativ installation directory, eg:

  C:Program FilesAdvansysFormativ

We do not expect that there would be any ill effects from deleting this file. However, Advansys cannot guarantee that this will be true for all future releases of Formativ.

I hope this helps you.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

A correction: as noted for your enquiry about the Presentation Pack, the “incomplete installation” problem is not due to license model incompatibility.

We believe this is a rights issue which should be resolved by installing when logged into Windows as an administrator.

Kind regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Dear Harald,

Thank you for your enquiry.

No, the licensing of the Presentation Pack is NOT incompatible with Formativ Runtime.

We think this problem is caused by installing when logged into Windows with a limited user account (LUA), ie. non-power user. The installer requires Write rights to the Windows directory.

Could you try reinstalling this solution pack when logged in as an administrator? If not, please write to support@advansyscorp.com and we will help you to resolve this matter by direct email.

Kind regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Dear Harald,

Unfortunately for your customer, the Academic Timetable solutions was designed for use in an English-language environment. Advansys does not plan to add multilingual support to the solution at this time. In addition, this product is likely to be removed from the Advansys catalogue in the near future.

As for the “incomplete installation” problem, this probably is because the installer for Academic Timetable is quite old now, and incompatible with the licensing model in Formativ 2.0.1.

If you have any further enquiries on this matter, please do not hesitate to ask.

Kind regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Dear L.P.,

Thank you for your enquiry.

I know of two ways to launch a Formativ applet periodically.

• Set the applet integrations with GroupWise so that the applet is launched on receiving email. Send email from the application database to the appropriate GroupWise account. The email might contain address book data (eg. in CSV format) or else trigger the applet to retrieve data from the database. There will need to be some way for the applet to confirm that the email is intended for processing; eg. Sender email address or a special identifier in the Subject.
• Use the Formativ API. The following is quoted from the Language Guide:
  

  quote:

  ---

  Introduced in Formativ 2.0.1, the Formativ API is a COM/XML based API allowing third parties to interact with Formativ from processes external to GroupWise. The API lets third parties:

  Check if an applet is available to be executed.

  Execute an applet from outside GroupWise.

  Write the value of the Utilities.TransferData property.

  Read the value of the Utilities.TransferData property.

  The API is callable from any COM aware development environment, including Delphi, Visual Basic, C++, Visual Basic Scripting Edition, C#, VB.NET, etc.

  ---

  A solution might be to create a process scheduler which calls the API every 5min (for instance) to launch an applet.

  If you are interested in using the Formativ API, please send an email to support@advansyscorp.com

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Dear Roland,

Thank you for enquiry.

Unfortunately OpenFileDlg (the object returned by Utilities.NewOpenFileDialog), does not support multiple selection of files.

If you are using Formativ 2.0, the Forms Editor includes TOpenDialog on the Dialogs tab of the Component Palette. TOpenDialog has a similar interface to OpenFileDlg but is more powerful, with additional properties. The following is quoted from the help file on TOpenDialog’s Files property:

quote:

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Files is a string list that contains each selected file name with its full directory path. (To let users select multiple file names, set the ofAllowMultiSelect flag in Options.) Use properties and methods for string lists to traverse this list of files and read individual items.

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I hope this helps.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Dear Aldous,

Thank you for your enquiry.

Personalized Emailer does not limit the number of fields per line.

It is difficult to guess the reason for this without seeing the HTML. Could you send the template message please (as an attachment) to support@advansyscorp.com? You should find the message inside your Work In Progress folder. We’ll take a look at it and let you know.

Kind regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

That’s great news. Thank you for the update.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

The Advansys solution iCal To Appointment supports all-day events. Will this feature suffice for your needs? Perhaps you could send a sample iCal file to support@advansyscorp.com for us to determine whether this solution can do what you require.

We have replied to you also by direct email.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

This enquiry has been replied to by direct email.

Advansys Support

[Support 1]

A fix for this issue is now available.

You can download the updated Message Saver Pack from http://advansyscorp.com/formativ_download.htm .

Regards,
Advansys Support

[This message was edited by Support 1 on April 18, 2006 at 05:04 PM.]

[Support 1]

Thank you for your enquiry.

The SmartFields feature supports the following ASCII characters only:

• unaccented alphanumeric characters;
• _ (underscore);
• – (hyphen);
• : (colon);
• SPACE;
• TAB;
• carriage return;
• linefeed.

I have notified Engineering of this issue. We hope to release an update with support for accented and other characters from the extended set as soon as possible.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Thanks for the suggestion MA.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Thanks for your post MA!

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Support 1]

Every script must contain a Main subroutine – the Formativ IDE automatically inserts one when you create a new applet.

I think the source code you are looking for will be something like:

Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)

  dim oPortal
  dim oPortals

  set oPortals = GroupWise.PortalManager.Portals
  set oPortal = oPortals.Item("MyCompany")

  if oPortal is nothing Then
    set oPortal = oPortals.Add
    oPortal.Caption = "My Company"
    oPortal.TabCaption = "My Company"
    oPortal.ID = "MyCompany"
    oPortal.NavigationControlsEnabled = false
    oPortal.URLInputEnabled = false
  end If
  oPortal.Url = "http://intranet"
  oPortal.Show
  oPortals.ActivePortal = oPortal.ID

  set oPortal = nothing
  set oPortals = nothing

End Sub

Regards,
Advansys Support

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