Techie Corner
Our Techie Corner is delivered by email monthly. In our Techie Corner, you’ll find a variety of tips and insights from our product solutions portfolio which will aid you in your quest to transform your IBM i business applications.
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Below you’ll find a selection of our Techie Corner blogs, along with links to video tutorials.
Universal Display Files Feature in Profound UI
This revolutionary feature enables RPG developers to integrate AJAX, XML, CSV and Web services with your IBM i business applications to create a range of dynamic documents incorporating several technologies with your RPG programmes.
Profound UI
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Variables in HTML Emails
You can create personalised emails with a variety of variables in a HTML file, such as the customer name, number and invoice number. You also have the ability to refer to a dynamic image, (if you use a variable as a part of the image path/name) within the HTML file.
InterForm400
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Profound UI Rich Visual Designer
Are you ready to start modernising your IBM i? The Visual Designer is an intuitive drag & drop, graphic development tool where you can create professional-looking browser interfaces. In the video below, we’ll kick start your modernisation project.
Profound UI
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Multi-Codepage Conversion
Are you running a multi-codepage environment? Do you sometimes see a reverse block on the green screen? Then this video is for you. It may be that some characters cannot be displayed correctly in the codepage when your 5250 (Green screen) session is running.
InterForm400
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Mobile Applications II
In part two of Creating Mobile IBM i Applications with Profound UI, Scott Klement of Profound Logic demonstrates the ease of using Rich UI widgets for mobile application development, using the Profound UI Visual Designer tool.
Ready to go mobile?
Profound UI
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Mobile Applications I
Are you ready to start some mobile application projects on IBM i? In part one of this three-part series, Scott Klement of Profound Logic will be demonstrating the intuitive Mobile Canvas and Layout features in the Profound UI Rich Visual Designer, in an easy step by step guide.
Ready to go mobile with IBM i?
Profound UI
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Multiple Watermarks
A classic challenge is: I have made a design, but now I want multiple versions of the output e.g. two different watermarks – one original and another depicting file copy. How can I do that without duplicating my single design? You can use copy management and do either a primary or secondary merge or you can introduce an extra layer of templates.
InterForm400
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Web Service
Generating a Universal Display File (UDF) web-service using Profound JumpStart is a simple process. With JumpStart, you can generate a web service that provides data to chart. In the video below, you will find out how Profound JumpStart decides which database fields go into your JSON output. You can also set up your web services for the UDF web connector.
Profound UI Jumpstart
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Import Resources
The import & export feature within InterForm400 and InterFormNG is perfect for duplicating the setup from one machine to another, for example, if you were to move from a test machine functionality to a live production machine after a successful test, or for sending us a support call.
InterForm400
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InterFormNG
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Creating Graphs
Profound Logic NodeRun
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Business Applications
Profound Logic NodeRun
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Greyscale Printing
Printing images using InterForm has previously only supported colour or black/white images. Now we can print in greyscale. The new format will give you the ability to use a colour image in your design it will then automatically produce a greyscale output, giving a better quality output.
InterForm400
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InterFormNG
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Installing a Font
Below are 2 videos for InterForm400 & InterFormNG on how to implement this.
InterForm400
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InterFormNG
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Dynamic Images
InterForm400
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InterFormNG
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Printer Drawer Support
When printing from either InterForm400 or InterFormNG, there are several ways in which you can select a specific drawer on the printer – as you may have various drawers that contain paper in different colours or paper with your corporate branding.
InterForm400
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InterFormNG
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Watermarks
Adding watermarks to your suite of documents adds another level of personalisation, branding & security. They can be added to indicate the state of a document, a logo for brand recognition, as well a level of security for each document you produce. Click here for an example.
InterForm400
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InterFormNG
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