Author Archives: potatoit

Adding Security to your Development

Posted on 2015/09/15 by potatoit

How do you secure the larger stand-alone developments that run within Smart Office?  This is a question that I have had to ask on some developments.  Because your development isn’t native M3 code you can’t secure it through the traditional SES400 or SES003 … Continue reading →

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WebService Dataload

Posted on 2015/09/13 by potatoit

There are times when you want to bulk load data, especially if you are doing significant process changes or new customer installs, unfortunately there aren’t really any generic bulk load tools that I’ve come across that are…um…free or don’t offend … Continue reading →

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Stars

Posted on 2015/09/13 by potatoit

When I was a kid, I had an Amiga 500 – and I absolutely loved watching demos, especially when they had starfields…I saw the evolution of simple parallax starfields out to more complex starfields that you would fly through and … Continue reading →

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Forums

Posted on 2015/09/13 by potatoit

Some of you will have noticed a few changes recently…a new font for the site 🙂 And a new domain…and the purpose of this post – a page which will take you to some development forums (http://forum.potatoit.kiwi). For quite some … Continue reading →

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Smart Office Settings

Posted on 2015/09/13 by potatoit

A little heads up – M3 UI Adapter 10.3.0.0 moves much of the mne\ directories into either a Postgres or MS SQL database. Looks like the JScripts move in to the database too. See the ISOAG_10.2.1_W.pdf (Smart Office Admin guide … Continue reading →

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Mashup SDK

Posted on 2015/09/13 by potatoit

A little heads up – if you have licenses for the Mashup Designer, the Mashup Designer SDK is available from the download portal. (Technology -> Infor User Experience -> Infor Mashup Designer) It’s also worth noting that the Smart Office … Continue reading →

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The Poormans M3 Monitoring Part 2 – the AUTOJOBS!

Posted on 2015/07/18 by potatoit

Back in the dim dark past, before IFLs M3 install became gridified I had set up Nagios (an open source monitoring tool) to check the autojobs – this would verify that the autojobs had a status of OK and it … Continue reading →

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The Poormans M3 Monitoring – Powershell and REST

Posted on 2015/07/03 by potatoit

Todays post is about the poor mans M3 monitoring, I want to demonstrate that with existing tools you can quickly and easily get emailed notifications if any of your grid applications go offline. You don’t need to install anything for … Continue reading →

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MWS Designer – Installation and Basic Usage

Posted on 2015/07/01 by potatoit

Over the years I’ve seen a number of people whose environments aren’t configured correctly and don’t have MWS Designer installed correctly. This post is to run through the setup and creating some webservices. I deliberately haven’t gone in to detail … Continue reading →

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ADFS Installation Heads Up

Posted on 2015/07/01 by potatoit

Just a wee heads up for rookies like me using ADFS with Mingle. When installing ADFS, make sure that the server name for the Windows server you install ADFS on is different to the Federation Service name.

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