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I would like to know how do i setup auto refresh facility on smart window which should get auto refresh whenever new records gets updated in db.
I could setup refresh button on browser and inside that call the program for retrieve. But the concern here is each and every minute new records gets updated to db so that i need to click the button if i want to see on the browser as its having only initial fetched record while opening.
So i am questioning here is that is open edge have the facility of real time update? i.e will window get automatic refresh once new records uploaded to the specific database table.
I am new and don't know how can I write a query for this. Please throw a lamp here to bright. It would be better.
Sorry if i am wrong.

There is no automatic, built-in auto refresh capability for OpenEdge.
Your idea of coding a refresh button is a good start. If you start with that, and get a manual refresh working to your satisfaction you can then focus on automating the button press.
There are a number of ways that you might choose to do that. The specifics are dependent on your platform and the application framework that you are using. You mention "smart window" so I am guessing you must be on Windows and using the really old and crusty stuff.
For that environment you probably just want to add a "pstimer" ActiveX. That's not really the modern way of going about things but it might be the best fit for the world that you actually live in.
There are many Progress kbase articles on how to do that. This might be a good start: https://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/19064
There are probably perfectly good .NET equivalents too. The key is to first code your "refresh button" so that the critical logic just needs to be triggered from time to time.

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User story for web page [closed]

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I'm Creating a web site for my girlfriend and I'm using it to get my head around user story writing / scrum and vso. I'm trying to write a user story for the homepage which will be quite simple but graphical. It's my understanding that I should write a user story in the first person and it's a quick description about what that user wants / expects. The acceptance criteria is where the specifics go. With this in mind how would you go about writing a user story for a home page. So far I have the following.
User Story
As the site owner I would like a homepage that shows my completed work in as a set of full size images that change periodically so that the visitor instantly sees what services I offer.
Acceptance Criteria
Can I have have 4 full size background images that change periodically?
Can the background images resize depending on which device they are viewed on? Can the background images load in a timely manner?
Would you say that this user story and the acceptance criteria are adequate?
The user story is in the voice of the end user, not the person delivering the service.
So in your case, it might be something like:
As a visitor to the site I would like to instantly see what services are offered so that I can easily select a service
Notice that it doesn't say anything about images. The images and their size are implementation details. The user story is about what they user wants, not how they will get it.
The acceptance criteria look fine. Be carefull of statements like:
Can the background images load in a timely manner?
Generally you would expect an acceptance criteria to define what 'a timely manner' means.
Something like:
Can the background images load in under 3 seconds when running on our production server under normal load.

How easy is to checkout the plugins being used by a wordpress website [closed]

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I was going through a site and saw that site is developed in wordpress. However, when i land on below page. I am unable to understand whether they have used a wordpress plugin or api to develop functionality:
https://legaldesk.com/affidavits/affidavit-for-change-of-name
Above link shows me a form when I select any city and click on create agreement. It asks for my details and on the right it shows preview.
Please answer . If this question should not be asked here, please do let me know the right site on which I can ask this. I like learning new technologies.
The forms themselves seem to be from "TemplatesForm" sourceforge.net/projects/kobject/files/kobject-java/tests/tests/…
Generally, the process of finding which plugins and scripts is one of a kind of forensic detection using, on the one hand, direct links to scripts' sources, which lead to the publisher's url and on the other, class names and other names or function calls, for example, found in the HTML.
Apart from obvious signs like "Powered by WordPress" or similar lines which some sites will have clearly displayed on them, you can find out a lot from the HTML page source.
Right click your page, select "view source" and search for, for example, "plugins" in the paths you find. One plugin used here is http://codecanyon.net/item/mega-main-menu-wordpress-menu-plugin/6135125 MegaMainMenu also Woocommerce, LayerSlider http://codecanyon.net/item/layerslider-responsive-wordpress-slider-plugin-/1362246 and FlexSlider https://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
In this case, this is the theme - http://themeforest.net/item/envor-fully-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/9251688
They are also using Visual composer WYSIWIG plugin to help build it. codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-page-builder-for-wordpress/…
You can launch scripts in browser windows as text by clicking on links to them in the HTML itself (at your own risk but it usually pops up in the browser as text) and you will often find the licence agreement texts at the top of the script.
You can see what national language the script has traces of to establish nationality (for example the forms scripts have traces of French in their variable names, which match with those on this site) This will help to confirm if you have discovered a script which was produced in the country you expect.
You can also see what programming language is involved, to help in your search and understanding of how the site works.
Website traffic in this case is monitored by Data Sumo Me https://sumome.com/ and Google Analytics. Also the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is used. The URLs and names here are fairly obvious in the page's HTML and in HTML comments.
The part that pops up the overlays wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/95661/… myModalLabel is BootStrap Modal - More on Modal Popups from http://www.tutorialspoint.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_modal_plugin.htm which seemed a very clear tutorial and explained the application of modal popups well.
More on Modal dialogue boxes - there is plenty you can do with those and they have been used extensively on this site en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/modal-dialog modal-dialog for popup dialog boxes - you may find other bits on this site, including the usual jquery, bootstrap and fonts/css.
Another script called "imageareaselect odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect is used for selecting image areas.
As this question is a little "off topic" for Stack Overflow you should probably try on Wordpress StackExchange, wordpress.stackexchange.com though they don't actually recommend any specific plugins as a matter of policy. I am also not recommending any here, only answering your question as to what has been used here and hope that the focus on what actually makes it work will be of use and interest to programmers who read this answer.
I can't see any other ones indicated in your webpage example - there may be some I have not noticed, but this answer is also intended partly as an example of the forensic analysis processes involved in working out what powers a site, which is at least partly within the scope of StackOverflow and I hope you will be able to use it to help you complete the discovery of any I missed. This started out as a collection of comments but seemed to develop a life of its own.

guidelines for multi user, multi session, multi tab, cookie environment [closed]

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Our current application is working fine but when you try to misbehave like we found out that When login with same user in multiple tab with different organization(there is a organization dropdown in the master page which sets the cookie whenever it is changed.)
in tab one it is org 1 and tab 2 it is org2 , cookie has the later org 2 in it but when we go back in tab1(which had org1) and save the record org 2 will be saved with the record
So can some one share some sort of a checklist with us which address these types of problem.
Unfortunately there is not much you could do about this. Browsers share cookies between tabs. And forms authentication uses cookies to track users. That's the same behavior you will get with other sites as well such as gmail for example.
you can add hidden field with data for recognize each view.
you store all data in server side such as session,cache,Database and serve "unique" view
I hope you'll find an elegant solution to this problem, but AFAK one instance of browser simply shares one identity.
To deal with this situation we use HIDDEN on master page, that is a part of main form. Its value is randomly generated when first page loads. Later, the value is kept between requests. Session values are stored with HashTable key of hidden value.
2 more hacks needed to get it work.
Response.Redirect is done with simple form that uses POST method to pass HIDDEN value to the new page.
All hrefs clicked with left button also posting HIDDEN value (if user uses 'Open in new TAB/Window' direct redirect without post simply creates new HIDDEN value - new subsession.)

Is there a way to know if someone has bookmarked your website? [closed]

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I want to make stats for my website. One thing I want to do is to know how many people bookmark my website. What's the best way to do that without a survey?
There is no way to tell.
A proportion of people who arrive at the page without sending referer information will have bookmarked it — but they might also have come from a link in an email, typed the URL, dragged it from their history, turned referers off, etc, etc,etc.
Your best bet is to have a Javascript "Bookmark us" link that bookmarks the site and makes an AJAX call to a backend script to store info about a new bookmark in your db. This won't catch people who bookmark your site directly using their browser, but it will give you some idea about the stickiness of your site.
As David said there's no way to tell how many people bookmark it in their browser.
But I do all my bookmarking with Delicious.com, so you could look at getting some sorts of stats from the various third party bookmarking sites.
It's not 100% accurate but you can try putting a cookie when they first arrive to your site. If a request is made with that cookie and no referrer information in the Request object, than you can assume that the user has added your site into bookmarks (a very optimistic assumption but the worst case is that the user is loyal enough to visit your page directly typing the url which is as good as adding to the bookmarks I believe...)
I think the answers given are over complicated. Just use Addthis.com. It gives you an analytical report that shows you have many people bookmarked the link.
You can put a link which add your website in user's bookmark, and notify you that someone added your site to his bookmark.
You can also monitor numbers of people that come directly to your website, that usually means they have you in their bookmarks, or better, that they know your site's name so well that they just type it.
Edit : Using google analytics, you can have a good overview of the proprotion and number of people comming "directly" on your website.
No other way i think, except polls
This is not useful information. Bookmarking is meaningless in isolation. I currently have hundreds of bookmarks, most of them for articles that I tagged as "looks interesting, but I don't have time/energy to read and understand it right now, so I should come back later"... and then never got around to going back to. On the other hand, I have about a dozen bookmarks that I visit daily. Even if you knew I had your site bookmarked, you wouldn't know which group you're in (but it's overwhelmingly likely that you'd be in the "never used" bookmark pile).
The only way to determine which category you're in is to count actual visits to your site. This also has the added advantage of telling you about people who subscribe to RSS feeds, which are at least as "sticky" as bookmarks, regardless of whether or not they bookmark in addition to subscribing.
It sounds like the actual information you want may be how many "loyal" visitors you have - people who keep coming back. Counting bookmarks won't tell you that. Counting visits, along with some simple cookie and/or IP address based code to identify repeat visitors, will. If you don't want to write the code to manage that visit tracking yourself (and there probably isn't any reason why you should), you can get it free and easy from Google Analytics.

What's the best way to hold an ASP.NET page until long-running operation finishes? [closed]

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Javascript?
Metatag refresh?
Response.Redirect (to self)
Server.Transfer (to self)
Ajax update panel?
Let's look at the options:
Javascript?
That works fine, as long as the user haven't disabled it.
Metatag refresh?
A deprecated method in favour of the Javascript method. However, you could use it as a backup if the user has disabled Javascript.
Response.Redirect (to self)
That doesn't work, as the browser would not show anyhing useful for the user while redirecting. Also, the browser will stop requesting after a certain number of redirects to protect the user from infinite redirects.
Server.Transfer (to self)
Doesn't work either, as the code on the server would just loop without sending anything to the browser. The effect is the same as just having a loop in your code.
Ajax update panel?
Works fine, as long as the user haven't disabled Javascript. It's basically the same as the first option, only the Javascript does the request itself instead of letting the browser do the request.
If you can report any kind of progress to the user, I tend to run with an asxh and a variation of a forever frame. Add a bit of jQuery UI Dialog and jQuery UI Progress Bar and you've got a shiny way of holding the users attention while you do the heavy lifting on the server.
I gave some example code at 874204 that demonstrates the technique.
If you can't give progress to the user, I tend to still use UI dialog and pop a "please wait, processing..." message with a web two dot oh compliant spinny gif.
Check out this article on Asynchronous Pages. Here's also an example from CodeProject that includes Asynchronous pages and META-REFRESH.
You can find a sample implementation of this kind of functionality in the Beer House Starter Kit- http://www.asp.net/Downloads/starter-kits/the-beer-house/.
The pages SendingNewsLetter.aspx and SendNewsLetter.aspx will be useful to you. This might be overkill for your need though- it even shows progress of the long running operation.
What about using the AJAX WebModalAnchor to pop up a window with a cancel button?
Hope this helps,
Bill
I'd recommend using Ajax and displaying an UpdateProgress so the user knows it's still churning away.

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