November 2005 Edition
Feature Spotlight: Improved Compatibility with Citrix
Q&A with Technical Support: Associator Example - Sorting Help
Smart Tip of the Month: Creating a Slideshow
Third Party Software: GraphicConverter X
Support Bookshelf: AppleScript for Absolute Starters
Feature Spotlight
Improved Compatibility with Citrix
A recent improvement in Job Manager and Virtual Ticket’s cache management will provide an easier method for implementing the two products in Citrix and Windows Terminal Server environments. Now, for each Windows’ login, Virtual Ticket and Job Manager record all cache information directly to the user’s Windows’ profile instead of to the Windows\MetaCommunications directory. This improvement provides systems administrator with a single point of application management.
For more information, visit:
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16214
Q&A with Technical Support
Can a sort in Virtual Ticket be set up based on different parts of a file name?
Yes. You can sort the results of finds based on the different components of a file name. By using InterSync and Associator you have the ability to separate a file name into its individual components. When displayed in a Find, the list of files can then be sorted based on these components. For example: Suppose you organize your newsletter PDFs with a special naming convention such as month and issue number. (Ex. Jan0123.PDF) You can use Associator to categorize the different components of the file name (month and volume number) as the files are scanned by InterSync. You can then use a Virtual Ticket Find to sort on all of the files with the same month or by issue number.
For more information, visit:
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16215
Smart Tip of the Month
Creating a Slideshow
A Virtual Ticket user was recently looking for a method to provide his Mac OS X users with a slideshow feature for files located in one of his Virtual Ticket file collector fields. This was accomplished using MetaScript and the AppleScript ability of a Mac OS X bundled application named Graphic Converter X. Using an AppleScript, it is easy to pass the paths of files in a Virtual Ticket file collector to Graphic Converter X for a nice slideshow of all of the files in the collector. For full details on how this solution was implemented, visit:
For more information, visit:
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16216
Third Party Software
GraphicConverter X
In this month’s Smart Tip, we mentioned an application named GraphicConverter X, which is made by Lemke Software GmbH. GraphicConverter X is a shareware application with numerous features including: import and export capabilities for hundreds of file types, the ability to apply batch conversions, and perform batch functions to files such as, resize, rotate, etc. Another nice feature is GraphicConverter X’s AppleScript support, including the ability to rotate, resize, color correct and slideshow.
Some examples of this AppleScript support can be found here:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/toolbar/
For more information, visit:
http://lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm
Support Bookshelf
AppleScript for Absolute Starters
AppleScript for Absolute Starters is a beginner’s guide to AppleScript which is free to download. Available in PDF format, the guide provides some step-by-step examples which will help a new AppleScripter to harness the power of the scripting language. Examples in the guide include: building and working with lists, creating records, conditional statements and more.
AppleScript for Absolute Starters can be downloaded from:
http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/tips/AS4AS.html
New MetaCommunications Knowledge Base Articles this month:
16113 – Filtering files from the Virtual Ticket database
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16113
16214 – Improved compatibility with Citrix and Terminal Server environments
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16214
16215 – Configuring sorting based on file name parts
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16215
16216 – Create a slideshow of files in Virtual Ticket file collectors
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16216
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