In the web client you are able to retrieve the raw SQL statement of a group. At some point along the way in the life cycle of the web, the storage format of the SQL statement changed. There is a method GroupSQL that used to return the same SQL as what you would see if […]
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Retrieving the SQL from a group in the Infor CRM web client
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“Service Sage.Platform.Application.IEntityContextService is not available in the current context” in Infor CRM web client
If you are trying to navigate to a page in the Infor CRM web client and get a message of: We apologize for the inconvenience, but your request cannot be completed. Service Sage.Platform.Application.IEntityContextService is not available in the current context. Fear not, nothing is wrong with your system. It is an unhandled error that is […]
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Infor CRM Web Client- Determining the Tab Height Using Client Side Scripting
How to size a control within the tab workspace of the Infor CRM web client to fit the available height of the tab control.
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New Group Favorite Functionality in Infor CRM 8.3.06
One of the new features introduced in 8.3.06 is the concept of favorite groups. Previously a user saw all groups that were released to them when they went to a page in the web client. This caused performance problems to load all of these groups when the page was rendered- especially once you got above […]
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Infor CRM 8.3.06 Proximity Search Sorting Error
In the web client there is now a proximity search to find records within a specified distance of one another. There are 2 proximity searches- one for account and one for contacts. This functionality is in 2 custom smart parts both in the ProximitySearch folder: ContactDistanceSearch.ascx AccountDistanceSearch.ascx Searching on the Contact version has a problem […]
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Infor CRM Web- Making Labels Wider on Quick Forms
In the Infor CRM web client, quick forms render controls inside of a div. The div is where a lot of the visual attributes are, like how a control’s label spans 40% of the overall width. There is no direct way to manipulate this server side since the divs do not contain IDs. Even doing […]
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Fixing Misaligned Toolbar Buttons in a Dialog in the Infor CRM Web Client
How to align the toolbar icons that show in a dialog workspace in the Infor CRM web client.
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Changing a Checkbox’s Appearance in the Infor CRM Web Client
The Infor CRM implementation of a checkbox does not use a standard ASP.Net CheckBox control. Instead it uses its own control implementation that inherits from the CheckBox control. One of the things that I struggled with recently was how to both change the text showing with the CheckBox as well as change the color of […]
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Determining if a user is on a Team or Department in the Infor CRM Web Client
I thought I would show a way you can check to see if a user is in a specific Team or Department. While there are other ways of accomplishing this also, this is a pretty easy way to check. This may not be the most efficient way of doing it, especially if your teams and […]
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Breaking Changes to the AttachmentList.js Library when Upgrading to 8.3.x
In the Attachment List’s client side code there were breaking changes to the code from version 8.1x to 8.3x, some of the highlights of this include: The date time columns in the grid are defined with a type attribute of “colDateTime” colDateTime in 8.1 was declared as ‘Sage/UI/Columns/DateTime’ colDateTime in 8.3 is now declared as […]
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Infor CRM 8.3.08 Introduces Duplicate Data to the APPIDMAPPING Table
During the upgrade to Infor CRM 8.3.08 the upgrade process introduces a duplicate APPID row into the APPIDMAPPING table. This is because the APPIDMAPPING table does not contain a unique constraint on the ID (shame, shame): This results in the inability to manage the SData Sync Configuration. You will also see similar errors popping up […]
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Error with Currency Controls in Infor CRM Web 8.3.08
I recently have run into a really frustrating behavior of the Currency control in the Infor CRM web client. Running in an 8.3.08 system, the following issues exist out of the box: If you bring up the edit screen for an Opportunity Product, you can see this issue with the Currency control. By default this […]
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Finding References to A SQL Object within Views and Procedures
We recently had a customer who wanted to find out if there were any references to another SQL database within the SQL views and procedures that had been developed within their Infor CRM database. There is a way to do this by using the sql_modules. Objects of type Store Procedures, Replication Filter, View, Trigger, Scalar […]
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Setting the Default Group/Default Layout Group for All Users in Infor CRM
In the Infor CRM web client, each user can define for each Entity level what the default group is, as well as the group used in the Lookups. This is normally set by each user from within the web client under the Tools…Options menu item, and then accessing the Groups tab. If you want to […]
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Resize the Lookup Popup in the Infor CRM Web Client
In the Infor CRM web client the lookup control’s popup dialog defaults to being something like 750px wide. Sometimes this may not be wide enough to incorporate a lookup whose grid contains a lot of columns. You can modify this behavior by extending the base sDataLookup widget. In a previous post I talked about how […]
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How to Update Data with Update-able Recordsets
This was an oldie but a goodie that I originally wrote for slxdeveloper.com way, way back in 2005! While most of my work is geared towards developing in the web client now, every once in a while I have to dust of the VBScript brain cells and remember out how to do these things. In […]
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Infor CRM Contour Geocode mapping
Starting in Infor CRM 8.3.04 they added a feature called Contour which can utilize either Google or Bing mapping APIs to geocode the ADDRESS table in Infor CRM and then allow you to map addresses and find other close records. Scott Weber has a nice demo of all the features here. I wanted to get […]
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Infor CRM 8.2 Editable Grid Quick Form Naming Issue
I just ran into an issue working on an 8.2 version of the Infor CRM web client. I was building a quickform with an editable grid that contained various tools that should be rendered on the toolbar. When I deployed the grid would not load and I was getting a client side error of: This […]
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Getting the Primary Office Address in the Infor CRM Web Client
To get the address defined for the primary company in the Infor CRM web client you can utilize a BusinessRuleHelp method called GetPrimaryServerBranchOptions. From this method you can then get the AddressID property of the BranchOptions object that is returned, and from there get the IAddress object.
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Infor CRM Web Client Import Lead Bug
Starting in version 8.3.06 the import lead wizard no longer functions in the Infor CRM web client. This is normally accessed from the Tools IMport Leads menu. When you select this menu you will get a message similar to: “We’re sorry, you’ve encountered an error. If applicable, please try again” If you look in the […]
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