Author: Gary Sherman

July 22, 2010 Thanks to those that attended today’s webinar on Rulemanager and Advanced Business Rules We had a good turnout, and some really good questions from attendees. Slides The slides from today’s presentation are available on Slideshare. Links Rulemanager Wiki: http://rulemanager.wikispaces.com/ Blogs: http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=rulemanager Next up: Advanced Business Rules (Part 2) I’ll be doing a follow-up webinar next week. The second session will build on the first, and will discuss even more advanced usage of Business Rules. Advanced Business Rules (Part 2) User-defined Business Rule Events Business rules based on custom object types New Event Creation Times and Calendars Custom Notification Methods Time Bombs Tips & Tricks Troubleshooting Tips etc. When: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/138608689

July 8, 2010 Thanks to those that attended today’s webinar on Rulemanager. We had a good turnout, and some good questions from attendees. Slides The slides from today’s presentation are available on Slideshare.   Links Rulemanager Wiki: http://rulemanager.wikispaces.com/ Blogs: https://clarify.dovetailsoftware.com/search/?q=rulemanager Knowledgebase Articles: http://www.dovetailsoftware.com/resources/solutions/rulemanager.aspx Code I was asked to share the script I used to post a message to Campfire using a web service. I’ve posted CampfireSpeak.bat and CampfireSpeak.ps1 to github: http://github.com/gsherman/powershell And here’s the business rule message I used: c:powershellcampfirespeak.bat [Object Type] [Object ID] has been dispatched to the [Current Queue] queue. http://myserver/agentlite/cases/summary/[Object ID] Also, you do this same thing using curl without using Powershell. I blogged how to do this previously here. Upcoming Webinar: Advanced Business Rules I’ll be doing a follow-up webinar in 2 weeks. The second session will build on the first, and will discuss more advanced usage of Business…

June 28, 2010   A few months ago, I threw out some thoughts regarding Clarify training and knowledge: One of the themes I’ve picked up on recently is that there seems to be a lot of organizations who still use Clarify /Amdocs, but not to its full potential. Nowhere near its full potential. I’ve recently talked to a bunch of people who don’t really know how to use it fully, extend it, what functionality is available, or even how to maintain it. I’ve seen the same issue on both sides of the house: Technical IT resources who don’t know how to customize it, what all of the moving components are, what to do when something goes wrong, or even where to look for knowledge, Business resources who don’t fully know what the product is capable or what exactly they even have. For example,…