Next VUG Meeting: Sept 6

[amcgilly]

The 3rd Servoy Virtual Users' Group Meeting will be held on Thurs. Sept 6 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

These meetings have been exceptionally well attended and are proving to be key learning experiences for beginners and advanced users alike. Each meeting features:

* An update from Servoy (usually from Jan Aleman, CEO)
* A panel of Servoy developers gives a series of presentations showing something interesting they've done with Servoy, and more importantly, HOW they did it.
* Each presentation is followed up with Q&A from the audience and discussion among the panelists
* The Servoy Puzzler - correct answer and winner announced from the previous meeting's' Puzzler, and a new puzzler announced

You must register in advance to attend these meetings. To register, visit the events page at servoy.com.

Anyone interested in presenting at the meeting please contact adrian@mcgilly.com.

[amcgilly]

I'm still looking for more people to present at the Sept 6th VUG. Don't be shy! Presentations don't need to be long or polished or moments of pure genius, they just need to show some interesting approach you've taken to solving a problem in your Servoy development work. Also good exposure for you and/or your organization.

If you're interested in presenting, please contact me by private message (PM button below). Thank you.

[amcgilly]

Here is the AGENDA for the Sept. 6th Virtual User's Group Meeting. To register for this exciting event visit the events page of the Servoy website at:

http://www.servoy.com/generic.jsp?mt=49 ... omy_id=492

Duration: 2 hours

1. Welcome & Introductions

2. Robert Ivens of Roclasi Software

- easy managing of (modal) formInDialogs (core routines)
- dynamic valuelists and checkboxes (how to keep non-valuelist values selected)
- using buttons/methods in search mode (one technique that also works in Servoy 2.2.x)

3. Greg Pierce of Agile Tortoise

- Using Global Methods to manage Form Events

4. Adrian McGilly of McGilly Information Systems

- Good uses for SQL Views in Servoy - an example
- Customizing Security in your Servoy solutions (update from Adrian's last presentation on this topic)
- How to rename objects (forms, tables, dataproviders, vars, etc.) without breaking your code

5. David Workman of Data Mosaic

- New Developer Tools from Data Mosaic

6. Servoy Puzzler

- Solution to July puzzler
- New September puzzler

[agiletortoise]

I've posted the slides and demo solution for my presentation in the VUG today....

http://greg.agiletortoise.com/2007/09/0 ... -and-demo/

Thanks, please feel free to contact me with any questions and feedback on my presentation. I'm not a great presenter and would love feedback to get better!

greg.

[amcgilly]

Many thanks to the presenters at today's meeting: Robert Ivens, Greg Pierce & David Workman. Also thanks to Scott Butler of Servoy for being on hand to answer technical questions, and to Servoy for supporting the VUG. Hope to see you all in a couple months.

Below are the materials from two of the topics I presented at today's VUG meeting:

1. Customizing a Solution's Security - It is possible to do management of users & group membership outside of the Servoy Security Tool, and to implement your own login form. I have posted to my website an article that describes how to do this. The article also explains how to use a free module called McGilly_Security that adds basic user & group management and login functionality to any solution. You can use this module as a starting point and customize further as needed.

The article is here: http://mcgilly.com/Security/Security_Article.htm
The module is here: http://mcgilly.com/Security/McGilly_Security.servoy


2. SQL Views in Servoy - I gave a presentation on using SQL Views in combintaion with a table filter to address a particular client need. Attached is the Powerpoint preso from that presentation.

[rafig]

Hi Adrian,
thanks for hosting & presenting.
Unfortunately I had to leave just as you were finishing the 2nd part of your pres., so missed the bit about renaming objects. That's the bit you haven't put up anything about . If you have any notes/pres. files related to what you said, I'd really appreciate seeing them.
Thanks,
Rafi

p.s. & anything David did as well

[ROCLASI]

Here is the demo solution (with core module) that I used in my presentation.
I added a lot more info on the forms to tell you what it does. So even if you didn't see my presentation you should be able to get the 3 tips/tricks I showed.

Demo 1: using a core module to easily manage a formInDialog (including disallowing a user to close the dialog by using the X)
Demo 2: How to use buttons/methods on a Form that is in find-mode.
Demo 3: how to keep non-matching values stored when using checkboxes and dynamic valuelists.


The solution is for Servoy 3.1 and above. It requires a connection named "user_data".

[BDuncan]

I heard from a couple people this was the best VUG yet -- great, well planned demos with lots of value!

Thank you all. We will post next date soon (sometime in Nov.)

Brenda

[LOGIsoft]

I would like to chime in here and express my deepest gratitude to all the presenters, who did an excellent job at providing useful insights for all Servoy fans, touching on several different areas. I know it can be a lot of work to put together and prepare for something like this, and I appreciate all the efforts and sharing. [And thanks for the prize, also! ]

Sincerely,

Ben