News from Members Only: Spring 09
Monday, May 11, 2009
(Members Only Software, Inc.)
It's been a busy spring here at Members
Only Software. Here's a few of the more
interesting challenges we've been working
on.
Online Standards Locator
For
a major trade association that coordinates the
development of ISO and ANSI technical standards
in its industry, we've built an online locator
allowing website visitors to quickly search for
Standards Documents on a variety of parameters.
The Locator is completely integrated into our
online store; visitors can start a cart from
any Standards page and buy the document as a
pdf -- with their company name watermarked onto
every page! The exciting thing about this
project was that it gave us the occasion to
build extensibility into our online store,
making it easy to add complex custom
item-types with their own table
structures into the product
list.
Using Lists and Workgroups for
Website Security
Often the control you need
on your website is based on information already
available in your database. For example, you
may want to give Board Members access to
special pages where minutes and other documents
can be posted. Now our OS/MOsys uers can set up
pages in their website that are automatically
visible only to the members of specific lists
or workgroups. Available
now.
Unicode Support
The world
gets smaller and the web gets bigger. Our users
can no longer assume that information that they
need to clip into a memo or a log entry in
Members Only is in the Roman alphabet. So we've
added unicode support to these text blocks. Now
you can note that Так как каждая
ассоциация служит
уникальной
промышленности или
профессии, это должно
отследить уникальный
набор данных, которые
имеют отношение с той
профессией. Available starting in
Service Pack 10
APIexecutor
If
you are building custom web pages using the
Members Only API, its nice to be able to
execute the functions outside of your web
pages, to make sure that they return exactly
what you are expecting. The APIExecutor does
exactly this - allowing you to see what the
input and output streams look like, and to
verify that the server is indeed up and runing
and returning data.
