Category Archives: Misc

Various bits and pieces.

Send BOD to IMS

Posted on 2020/12/21 by potatoit

This is probably the longest time that I’ve had a post that I’ve started (in July) but haven’t finished…but it looks like we’ve finally made it 🙂 Over the last 18 months there have been several times when I’ve wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, ION, IONAPI, M3CE, Misc | 3 Comments

Testing APIs with Postman

Posted on 2020/07/26 by potatoit

Back in the old days I’d use SoapUI extensively for testing soap based connections. With M3CE we now work leverage the ION APIs which are REST based so nowadays I use Postman for my testing. As I tend to work … Continue reading →

Posted in IONAPI, M3CE, Misc | 4 Comments

Retrieving Grid Logs

Posted on 2017/09/23 by potatoit

As M3 has evolved it has become more complex. There are more components to monitor and though the grid has improved and provides easy ways to look at the logs there are a lot of logs to look at and … Continue reading →

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Smart Office – The username is not provided. Specify username in ClientCredentials.

Posted on 2017/09/21 by potatoit

As part of the removal of the modifications from IFL, I created a panel which allowed us to store and edit a number of settings through a custom panel called the “Vessel Panel” A nice and easy little C# program … Continue reading →

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Bulk Load APIs in 13.4

Posted on 2017/01/20 by potatoit

Another heads up. In 13.4 a bulk load API was introduced – so instead of having to send single transactions in a REST call, we can send multiple transactions. KB: 1831472 “M3 Foundation Integration Guide for Developers” has an attached … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Interesting Infor Articles, M3 / MoveX, Misc | 2 Comments

IES – Search Queries De-mystified

Posted on 2017/01/20 by potatoit

Enterprise Search – the much lauded but often horribly misunderstood ‘google for M3’. I thought I had penned a post around IES and some fantastic information I had been provided via support by one of Infors staff when trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Interesting Infor Articles, M3 / MoveX, Misc | 3 Comments

How We Did It – DR and M3

Posted on 2017/01/13 by potatoit

Recently I was asked about Disaster Recovery and M3. And though I haven’t really embarked on discovery of how companies handle M3 and DR I do hear people say they struggle with the changing of IP Addresses. Which prompts a, … Continue reading →

Posted in How We Did It, M3 / MoveX, Misc | 2 Comments

Extracting Data from M3 via the APIs

Posted on 2016/11/06 by potatoit

There are many ways to extract data from the APIs in M3, but often you need information that isn’t provided via the native APIs or the native APIs purely don’t exist for the table you want to query. But over … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, M3 / MoveX, Misc | 21 Comments

Basic Email Alerts / Event Based Alerts

Posted on 2016/11/06 by potatoit

Something that I don’t see talked about very often is the Event Based Alerts built in to M3, it’s a cheap, quick and easy way to notify people that something happened within M3. We of-course have the options of using … Continue reading →

Posted in M3 / MoveX, Misc | 4 Comments

Simple Move Control Script

Posted on 2016/11/06 by potatoit

Here’s a quick and easy script to simply move a control on the panel, it takes the control name and new positions as the arguments.

Posted in Development, M3 / MoveX, Misc | 2 Comments