December 2006 Edition
Feature Spotlight: Inactive Users
Q&A with Technical Support: Setting Up the Collaborative Appearance
Smart Tip of the Month: MetaScript Example - Display a Decimal field value
Additional Resources: Setting up an SMTP Server
Knowledge Builder: New Articles
Feature Spotlight
Inactive Users
New in Production Portal is the ability to make users inactive. Inactive users are users who are no longer employed or no longer using the system. To make a user inactive, simply open the user record in Users and Groups in the Administration tab of Production Portal. Click Edit and choose the Inactive radio button to make the user inactive. While any previous records created by these users can still be searched on and located in the system, an inactive user will no longer appear in the various user selection lists nor will they be able to log in to the system..
For more information visit:
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16256
Q&A with Technical Support
What purpose does the collaborative appearance serve and how can it be set up?
The collaborative appearance of Approval Manager allows the Administrator to establish a branded look and feel unique for collaborative users logging in to Approval Manager. The Administrator can specify a custom logo, HTML-formatted text that appears on each page, and background and link colors... all of which are displayed only for collaborative users. To set up a collaborative appearance, choose the Collaborative Appearance link in the Administration tab of Production Portal. Once inside the Collaborative Appearance page, the various options for background, logo, colors, and text can be configured and saved.
For more information visit:
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16257
Smart Tip of the Month
MetaScript Example - Display a Decimal field value as Currency
From time to time it may be necessary to display decimal field values as currency, complete with a dollar sign and commas. By using a simple MetaScript, decimal field value can be formatted to appear with the necessary dollar sign and commas in a separate variable field. Knowledge Base article 16173 provides an example form and MetaScript for formatting decimal field values as currency.
For more information visit:
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16173
Additional Resources
Setting up an SMTP Server
The ability to send email notifications from the Workgroups 2006 Suite requires an accessible SMTP server. If you email is hosted by a third party provider, the SMTP server may not allow sending email from Workgroups 2006. One workaround to this problem is to set up your own SMTP server for the purpose of sending these emails. The following documents describe how to set up your SMTP server.
Set Up and Configure an SMTP Virtual Server in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308161
SMTP Server Setup (IIS 6.0)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/e4cf06f5-9a36-474b-ba78-3f287a2b88f2.mspx?mfr=true
Knowledge Builder
New articles this month
16078 - Producing a printable report of all cost center task assignments
This article provides a custom query example for producing a list of all cost center task assignments.
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16078
16256 - Configuring users as inactive
This article describes how to configure users as inactive in the MetaCommunications Production Portal.
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16256
16257 - Setting up the Collaborative Appearance
This article describes how to configure the Collaborative Appearance portion of Approval Manager.
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16257
16258 - Resolving the error ‘’could not process event with id #<XXXXX> for digital resource id #<XXXXX> because invalid column ‘path aux’ “
This article describes how to resolve an error message that may appear in the event viewer due to an older version of a MetaCommunications solution being installed.
http://www.meta-comm.com/support/knowledge_base/article.asp?id=16258
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