SoftPro Users Conference 2014

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The 2014 SoftPro Users Conference has come and gone. It was an exciting event with SoftPro Select and the combination of 360 with SoftPro Live taking the main stage. The Select feature set is growing with superb elements, global rules, unheard of automations, and a soon to be a 100% coverage API allowing developers to fully integrate with Select. It is faster, cleaner and more secure. The current API is robust covering over 90% of the system

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Fixing ProForm Classic SQL PFWIN-028

Recently a client upgraded their ProForm Classic Standard installation from MDB to SQL. They have a terminal Server which wasn’t included in the update as only IT people use it. ProForm was coming up saying it could not find a unknown file relating to the databases, the error was PFWIN-028. Looking at the information in odbcad32.exe 32 bit or 64 bit showed no visible issues.

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How to overlay data into a ProForm file for Prompts Dialog items

Sometimes we get new documents which require the same default information to be put in the Prompts Dialog of ProForm Classic. (Standard or Enterprise)  The Default template can be used to fill out those new items on new files, but what do you do with the files in the pipeline.  After proper priming, SoftPro defined Prompts can be filled out from a .PXT overlay file.

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Data Collector Mass Update

Today I needed to add 25 fields to Data Collector.  Where as it’s totally doable using the correct application, it is the slow way. And since we work on development servers, the same changes need made on the production servers, so the time is duplicated.  There is a quick and safe (mostly safe) way to update ProForm Data Collector, from SQL Server Management Studio

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