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. 

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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

Creating graphs & charts can benefit many businesses to provide clear & concise management reporting, providing real-time “One truth” data, directly from the system. Genie is a 5250 on-the-fly modernisation tool for your green screen which allows you to go beyond traditional “screen scraping” to create 100% browser-based UI elements and modern navigation without the need to re-programme. 

Profound Logic NodeRun
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Business Applications

Building business web applications can be costly and labour intensive. With NodeRun, you can reduce this by creating custom-built business applications faster by using built-in functions. NodeRun is Profound Logic’s latest cloud-based rapid application development platform for Javascript & NodeJS and is free for you to use.

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

A company’s identity is important and part of that identity is a font specific to the brand. If that is the case, you may wish to install a True Type 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

Incorporating images into your business documentation not only makes your documents look more professional and on brand, they can save you money by being distributed digitally. Below are 2 videos for InterForm400 & InterFormNG on how to implement this.

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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