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How To Customize the Clarify Rule Properties form to support function-based Rule Properties

January 11, 2017 Recently I discussed function-based rule properties, which allow you to add your own code for calculating a rule property value.I was asked last week about these – specifically, what if you’re using Dovetail Rulemanager, but not using Dovetail Agent. How do you define these properties?  BackgroundThe property can be defined as a function using the Rule Property UI within Dovetail Agent.But if you’re not using Dovetail Agent, but you are using Dovetail Rulemanager, you can still take advantage of these.Rule properties are stored in table_prop_name. There is a new custom field named x_is_function that defines this property as a function. If set to 1, this property will be evaluated as a function. If set to 0 (default), it will not be.So you can simply create your rule property as normal, then you just need to set the x_is_function column to…

Clarify Form Identifier (Or, What the heck Clarify form is that?)

January 6, 2011 On occasion, while working in the Clarify Classic Client (especially in a customer’s customized environment), I come across a form that I’m not familiar with (might even be a custom form) that I need to dive into the details of. Trying to find this form in UI Editor is not always easy. It’s common that the form name and/or title aren’t very descriptive (this even happens on baseline forms).   So I typically have to start the Clarify client with some debugging and tracing switches, and examine the log file to try and find its form ID. This works, but I think there should be an easier way. An approach from the past   One approach I’ve seen done in the past is to create a custom help file (CHM) that contains the form IDs. Then pressing F1 on a…

Clarify Additional Features Forms

October 3, 2008 I recently responded to a  question about adding a Save button to the CR (Change Request) form in Clarify. Dusting off my Clarify knowledge, I gave some details about how to simply copy the Save button from the Additional Features form. I'm sure not everyone knows about these forms. We wrote about this years ago, in one of our newsletters, but I figured it couldn't hurt to share it again here. Additional Features Forms   There are three forms in the Clarify Classic Client that are never displayed in a Clarify client session, but which are extremely valuable. Clarify has placed a variety of controls on these controls that can be copy and pasted directly on to specific forms in Clarify, and they will work for you automatically.   There are two forms provided for ClearSupport, and one provided for…

A few UI Editor Tips and Tricks

July 24, 2008 Kevin walked past my laptop the other day and noticed an ugly looking hot-dog-inspired-colored window, and asked -what the hell is that?   This is what it was:   Ugly? Absolutely. Useful? I think so. I thought it deserved some explanation, so here goes. Colors   I purposely use the bright colors to distinguish the different elements, along with the exact space each element takes up, and how each element lines up. This is especially helpful for labels.   This is purely to assist with the design of the form in Clarify's User Interface Editor. These colors are not displayed at runtime in the Clarify Client.   For example, here's the same form, with the same controls, but without the colors. Notice that its hard to tell what's what, and how much space each control takes up.   With everything colored, I can…