I'm also one of many who has begun development work in Business Central. I'm currently in-charge of migrating C/SIDE to AL. My question is, is there a way to identify whether something is in Object form or Extension form? The documentation I have from a third-party vendor says:
"All of company XYZ's products are available in both Object form and in Extension form. Existing customers who want to migrate from the Object version of a solution to the App version will need to go through a migration...."
First a little clarification:
Object form means that the modifications have been done through C/Side.
Extension form means that the modifications are isolated within their own package with one or more dependencies to other extensions. These are not visible in the C/Side Object Designer.
When modifications are done through C/Side the system generates symbols to simulate the extension interface. This provides the needed features to extend C/Side objects.
The easiest way to determine if a modification is in Object or Extension form is to check which extensions are installed on the system. This is can be done in two ways:
In the Business Central client go the the Extension Mangement page. Here all installed extensions will be listed (apart from a few hidden Microsoft extensions that you need not worry about).
Run the command Get-NAVAppInfo through PowerShell. This will list all installed extensions on the requested tenant.
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I am novices to the field of Identity and Access management.
Till now I know, Sail point has provided the some direct connectors to integrate the known systems like LDAP, HR systems, OIM, Databases..
And sailpoint also provided the support for disconnected applications with the use of Custom connectors.
Here, My question is how to develop a custom connector..?
I do not have jar file provided by sailpoint which contain "AbstractConnector" class.
So that I can write my own class and develop..?
I also so not understand, what to do with that class?(if i have a jar)
How sailpoint will refer to that class..
Do we need to deploy that class to somewhere...
Here I am expecting the complete flow to develop and deploy the custom connector..
If anyone is working please help..
If you unzip your identityiq.war, you'll find a JAR file called WEB-INF/lib/connector-bundle.jar. This is the JAR where you'll find AbstractConnector. Once you've written your connector code, you will need to compile it and bundle it into a JAR file, which you will place into WEB-INF/lib.
Finally, you will need to update the ConnectorRegistry object (under Configuration on the debug screen) to reference the new class, which will make it available as an Application type. If it has custom connection parameters (as most do), you will also need an xhtml page that will be embedded into the Sailpoint UI to prompt the user configuring the Application.
If you have Compass access, they have a whitepaper called Custom Connectors that you will find helpful.
All that said, I encourage you to try to find a way to use an out-of-box connector if possible.
Most of the times it will be better if you use the DelimitedFile connector, you can import a CSV of identity data, and make it work within Sailpoint's workflow. You will be able to map fields, correlate accounts and create multi-valued group memberships rapidly. Of course, this means that Sailpoint will not be connected directly to the application, and you will have to develop a workflow to extract the identities and upload them. But at least, you can integrate without going the Custom Connector way.
We have a requirement that on a page publish, we need to:
Find a component presentation that has a component based upon a particular schema.
Extract certain field vales from that component and store them in a custom database table that's available to our .NET application (on the Content Delivery side).
I think this is a good candidate for either a Deployer extension or a Storage extension - but I'm a little unclear which and why having never written either?
I've ruled out the Event System as this kind of code would be located on the CM, which seems like the wrong "side" to me - my focus is on extending what happens on the CD-side after a page is published.
Read a few articles on Tridion World (this, this, this and this) and I think a storage extension would be the better choice?
Mihai's article seems to be very close to what we need, where he uses a new item type mapping:
<ItemTypes defaultStorageId="brokerdb" cached="true">
<Item typeMapping="PublishAction" cached="false" storageId="searchdb" /></ItemTypes>
But how does Tridion "know" to use this new item type when content is published, (its not one of the defined TYPE_NAMEs, which is kind of the point)?
I should clarify I'm a .NET/C# dev not a Java dev so this is probably really obvious to Java people - apologies if it is!
Cheers
Tridion will not know by default how to deploy your new entity. My advise is to create a Deployer Module (your links should give you enough information about how you can do that) that executes in post-processing phase (of the deployment process), that processes all components from the deployment/transport package, extracts the needed information and uses a custom Storage Extension to store the needed information.
Be careful: you need to set-up in config your new type but you also need to use it yourself from that Deployer Module.
Hope this helps.
I've struggled with a better solution for the following setup. I'm not actively working on this, but know some that might appreciate other ways of handling this.
Setup:
Tridion-managed page has a single "linked list" component Linked list
Single component has component links to other components in Tridion
Linked-to components often link to multimedia component (mm)
An XSLT component template (XSLT CT) renders XML with above content and with links to PDF
XSL document() function used to grab embedded (linked-to) content, all content converted to XML nodes and attributes
TCMScriptAssistant namespace with publishBinary() publishes related PDF and other media
Page template just outputs the result of the CT
Business requirements:
improved publishing (last I worked on this, some of these files created a 2GB publishing transaction because of the PDFs)
published XML content file must reference the associated PDFs; hyperlinks work but identifiers might not help because of...
no Tridion content delivery APIs, mainly for independence from the storage database but also to avoid Tridion-specific code on the presentation server (loosely coupled setup and less training for developers)
The biggest issue is the huge transport package during publishing. The second problem is publishing any of the linked-to PDFs will cause the page to republish.
How could this setup be improved or re-engineered, preferably without too many changes to the existing templates, though modular templating could be considered.
Dynamic component presentations could possibly work, but would need to be published to the file system and not use dynamic linking or broker objects (e.g. no criteria filters, binary metadata, etc).
There are indeed 2 questions. I will handle them in reverse order.
To prevent the page from being republished when you publish a binary, you can use the event system in older versions of Tridion (pre-2011) to turn off link resolving, or with newer versions you can use a custom resolver to prevent this. There is an article by Nuno which explains this(http://nunolinhares.blogspot.com/2011/10/tridion-publisher-and-custom-resolvers.html)
Your second one is a bit tougher, in no small part because of your criteria for not using the SDL Tridion CD APIs. I would have suggested publishing the binaries separately (this would keep the file size down of your transaction package), and using Binary Linking to resolve the paths at request time.
Given this is not an option, I think the only was I would approach it would be to still use dynamic component presentations, and then use predictable unique file names for the PDfs (i.e. use something like 317-12345.pdf based on the URI), and use one directory for all the binaries. That way you could enter the paths to the binary using your XSLT template, as you know where the binaries will be located later. You could then use a custom resolver to publish the binaries when you publish the main list component or page.
Hope that helps
Chris
How can I able to find the usage of default tables available in drupal.
Is there any documentation available?
For example: there is a table called node. I need to know what is the usage of it and how it acts.
Any suggestions or answers will be helpful and grateful.
Your question is not very clear (the term "usage" is quite ambiguous), but you could install the Devel module. After setting it up it will show, for every page loaded (home page included), which SQL queries are run.
Every module can add tables to the database. A default Drupal install uses core modules, either required ones or those installed as dependencies of the default installation profile. These modules install their own tables.
Each module declares its tables in its implementation of hook_schema. The Schema module use the information from the implementations of this hook to provide a schema documentation.
Most of the time, you shouldn't directly access the database but use the API provided by the modules managing the data. Tables are usually considered private for their modules. New release of a module may change its schema in an incompatible way. Using API is much safer. Unfortunately, sometimes database access is the only option. In these cases, implementation of a data access layer between your code and the database is advised.
Setting the scene:
My asp.net web application carries a version number which is incremented during every release. We're releasing every week internally for our test team and after four weeks or so to our client.
The question:
I want to include the version number on our application. What methods have you used so that your web app carries the version number? meta tag? simply added it to the footer?
If you are in contact with the client a lot (for bug fixes or changes) you should keep the version number in a place that is easy to find (such as the footer). You will find yourself asking the client what version they are running, if they cannot find it it is frustrating for both the client and the support staff.
Make sure your footer is a user control or that the version is stored in either a database table or a resource file so that you update once rather then going through each page updating. My recommendation is a user control and if you want to track versioning store the version numbers in a database and read it into your user control.
You can take the MS route of doing a help->about given a menu and displaying the version number in say a js popup or on another page.
If for some reason you do not like the version number on a footer or even a help menu popup and you do not deal with the client regularly you can put it as meta data or in the source code of your HTML.
I've seen a lot web applications (and websites) I've seen that add the version number as a comment within the generated HTML. The BBC is one of them - view the source and you'll see <!-- Barlesque v34.8 --> in the header. (Barlesque is the BBC's layout system.)
We have some information page where we display the version number (SaaS application).
But seriously, with web software version numbers are irrelevant. It is the point of migrating to the web - so that the users finally forget about those versions, updates, service packs etc. Otherwise the idea of a constantly updated web application (perpetual beta) is not really grasped by either party.
In some Projects we added the Version number to the footer. We displayed the Assembly (any of our Assemblies) Version number.
With that method we did not have to care about the text in the footer as long we incremented the Assembly Version.
Assembly Version was extracted with Reflection.
Check out the code posted here. It will gather and display the .NET Framework version info. Anytime you need the version information of the current assembly, you can use
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version
Similarly, to get the version info for a particular assembly, you can either reflect directly on the assembly, or simply use a class in the assembly
typeof(ClassKnownToBeInTheTargetAssembly).Assembly.GetName().Version
where ClassKnownToBeInTheTargetAssembly is a class declared in the assembly you want the version info for.
BTW, these comments assume that the assemblies are signed.