According to documentation on feature settings in InstallShield 2015 I should be able to set feature events, but I only have the General section, no Feature Events and no Run-Time Settings. I'm working on 2015 Professional Edition.
I've also tried adding the event handler from InstallScript, but I don't have a "left event-category list" either.
Is there a specific setting for enabling Feature Events? Or any idea on why I can't use them?
Is there a specific setting for enabling Feature Events?
Nope
Or any idea on why I can't use them?
As per documentation reference you have provided: "Setup Design view of an InstallScript, InstallScript MSI, or InstallScript Object project, the following settings are available in the Feature Events area" Basically what it says, you need to create these specific types of project. You probably created "BasicMSI" type of the project, which is default I believe. Please make sure you use project type which supports InstallScript or Refer to "Sequences" section of "Behavior and Logic" of BasicMSI type of the project.
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Is there any way that I can create a template within forms to utilize for every user in the company?
For instance; let's say I have the Sales Order Screen (SO301000) and the Document Detail grid configured in certain way, that display different amount of columns than the default (either more or less columns).
For each user I want to use this template (and all the ones created) that I will apply when I add the new user.
I'l appreciate any guidance and help.
EDIT:
I provided answer for Form element ASP template below. Although reading your question again I think what you're trying to do would be more along the lines of automating grid column configuration. We call this feature Default Table Layout.
There's a feature request for it here:
https://feedback.acumatica.com/ideas/ACU-I-415
The feature has been shipped in version 2017R2 and is documented here:
https://help.acumatica.com/(W(1))/Main?ScreenId=ShowWiki&pageid=30f3229f-20f1-4055-9c03-e0fe3b37080d
Image copy of documentation page:
For ASP Form templates
There are two ways to work with customizations in Acumatica:
As a Customization Project, everything is done directly in Acumatica
instance through the web browser using the Customization Project Editor.
As an extension library (DLL file) compiled in Visual Studio which is then included in the FILES section of a Customization Project.
For method 1, I believe creating custom templates would be a bit of a hack and would not be officially supported, if someone knows otherwise please chime in.
For method 2, we ship the Visual Studio templates with the Acumatica Configuration Wizard (Acumatica ERP Installer).
Those templates are in the following folder:
My Documents\Visual Studio 20XX\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual C#
The templates will be available for ASP.NET solution only. You can open Acumatica Instance Website as a solution if the website is already deployed:
When you open Add New Item dialog:
The Acumatica Templates will be available:
Those are standard Visual Studio templates so you can copy and re-use them to create your own. Microsoft documentation for creating user template applies and you can follow their guidelines. Note that working with Visual Studio and creating your own template is somewhat less user friendly than using Acumatica Customization Project Editor.
Acumatica T100 covers using Visual Studio to create customizations and would be a good starting point to learn the techniques involved:
https://openuni.acumatica.com/courses/development/t100-introduction-to-acumatica-framework/
I have project with SQL Server 2012 as a prerequisite. I added it into
Application Data -> Redistributables
and everything works fine. Now I want to add possibilities to set a custom instance name for the SQL Server. Is it possible to do in InstallShield 2011?
If not, what is the best way to do such functionality?
You can edit the prerequisite to offer a pre-chosen custom instance name, but you probably cannot reasonably offer to let the user choose the instance name. (You might try using property substitutions and setting it up as a feature prerequisite, but I think you'll have problems with the conditions.)
In later versions of InstallShield, the Suite and the Suite/Advanced UI projects have better support for some of this, as you can easily wire up edit boxes to properties to command lines. Although even there I think you may run into problems specifying a variable condition to detect the customizable instance.
I am building a plugin that utilizes the new Business Process Flow in Dynamics 2013, and in order to take full advantage of the easy to use check-list style menu I have added two new attributes to the default Opportunity entity in Dynamics CRM.
I have done this in the plugin's customizations.xml file by adding the attributes to the Opportunity Entity under the EntityInfo->Entity->Attributes section of the Entity xml.
The addition of this field to the Opportunity works just as expected, though I am running into issues when uninstalling the plugin.
Since this plugin will be widely available, I can't expect users to keep it on their systems forever.
On uninstallation of the plugin, however, Opportunities can no longer be viewed in the CRM 2013 Online. When I try to view one I get the following:
Critical
Query Builder Error
The specified field does not exist in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Is there something I can do within the customizations.xml file to ensure that once the plugin solution has been uninstalled, Dynamics CRM will no longer reference these fields?
note: This issue occurs on a brand new instance of Dynamics CRM 2013 (trial) with the plugin simply installed / uninstalled, so no other customizations are linking to changes from the plugin and causing the crash
If you were to make this change via the UI, it would block you from deleting these fields until all dependencies have been removed as well. Because you chose to do this without the assistance of the UI, it is breaking on you. If you go back and make this change via the UI, the customizations.xml file should be properly updated and you should be good to go (or it will error and say where there is still a dependency - making it easy to go and fix it).
trouble again with Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2012. I just installed VS2012 and the power tools. We use check in policies. My problem: when I associate a ticket with a check in (as my policy demands), the ticket is set to 'resolved'. I don't want this behaviour, does anybody know how to change it?
thank you
You should be able to use the process editor included in power tools to make that change.
Here is a blog post detailing several ways to make this change:
Changing the default Check-In Option
Check the WITD of the ticket (work item).
The XML will have Action="Check-in" under the transition "Active" To "resolved". Remove this action. That's it.
I have an event handler feature that I've built for sharepoint 2007 and have deployed by moving the DLL to the GAC and creating Feature.xml and Elements.xml in the necessary folder and then installing them using the stsadm commands. I'm looking to avoid doing all this and instead have a WSP file that I can run to install the feature automatically in a production environment.
Thanks
Here's how I would proceed to convert your unmanaged items into a managed solution package in Visual Studio 2010:
Create an "Empty SharePoint Project".
Set the deployment target. In Solution Explorer, click the project node and look at the Properties pane. Set the Assembly Deployment Target property between GlobalAssemblyCache and WebApplication. In this case, we'd leave it as the default GlobalAssemblyCache.
Note also there's a handy property called Include Assembly In Package. This is used to exclude your default project assembly from the output package. Why do you need this? If your project contains no code: for example, you're just bundling up some third-party DLLs for deployment.
Replace your SharePoint DLL references. Follow the steps in Adam Macaulay's article to remove the v14 DLLs and add back the v12 DLLs.
Add an Event Receiver item. Right-click your project and point to Add > New Item... and select "Event Receiver". Give the event receiver a proper name and click Add.
Configure the Event Receiver. Visual Studio will connect to your (2010) SharePoint instance, then prompt you with a wizard to walk you through what events you want to handle and for which item types. The end result is an Event Receiver item in your solution with a stubbed-out class that overrides the proper methods, as well as an Elements.xml file that is configured appropriately. If you have both of these files already, you don't really need to complete the wizard "truthfully"... just select the first option, click Finish and let Visual Studio create the Event Receiver and corresponding Feature.
Add your code logic. In Solution Explorer, expand your Event Receiver node to reveal the .CS class and the corresponding Elements.xml. Copy the contents of your existing files into those locations.
Configure the package feature. In Solution Explorer, expand the "Features" node and locate the default feature (Feature1.feature). This was created when you added the Event Receiver item. For clarity's sake, rename the feature to something logical, then double-click it to open the feature in design mode. You should see your Event Receiver has already been added to the right-most pane ("Items in the Feature"). Were there others, you could selectively add/remove items from the feature. Here is the place you set the feature scope between Farm/Site/Web/WebApplication.
Also importantly, while in the Feature designer, notice the Properties pane has a wealth of additional options to set on the Feature. These can't be accessed any other place, so keep in the back of your mind that is where to find them.
Lastly, if you click the Manifest tab at the bottom of the designer, you can preview what the feature manifest will look like. The manifest can be manually edited if need be (effectively disabling the designer), but I have yet to find something I need to do that I can't configure via properties.
Configure the overall package. In Solution Explorer, expand the "Package" node and locate the default package (Package.package). Just as for features, double-click the package to open it in design mode. This is the same UI that features use, allowing you to pick which features will be part of this package. Your event receiver feature should already be added to the right-most pane ("Items in the Package").
Again, same as features, while you're in Package design mode, the Properties pane will make available certain properties that can't be edited elsewhere. Most notably, it is here you should clear the value out of SharePoint Product Version.
Also, we have the same manifest preview available to us via the Manifest tab at the bottom of the screen. This is handy for checking things like SafeControl entries (if you need them) and the like. The Assembly entry should reflect the correct deployment target (in this case GlobalAssemblyCache) that was set on the project.
Finally, the Advanced tab allows you to specify additional assemblies/SafeControl entries to the package, which is helpful if you're bundling up additional DLLs to the default project DLL.
Build your project. Obviously we want to make sure it compiles!
Test the deployment. When I test, I deploy to my 2010 instance first (because it's handy) and double-check that everything has been installed as I expected: DLL in the correct place (BIN/GAC), appropriate Web.config entries created, feature installed at the right scope, feature activates properly, etc.
Package the solution. Point to your Build > Package menu item. The WSP will be placed in the appropriate output folder for the active configuration. Test deploy to your SharePoint 2007 instance.
Check out "Build a SharePoint 2007 Web Part with a Visual Studio 2010 Visual Web Part Project" written by Adam Macaulay. I used this as a reference when I wanted to do the same, and the methodology works great. I've successfully converted a lot of our Visual Studio 2008 projects to 2010 projects, while maintaining compatibility with SharePoint 2007 environments.
I will make one suggestion: if you don't absolutely need the Visual Designer for your web part (i.e. your web part's output is made programmatically), then using the Visual Web Part template adds extra "junk" to your solution which I dislike.
Rather, in step 1 create instead an "Empty SharePoint Project", then right-click on your Project in the Solution Explorer and point to Add > New Item... and select "Web Part" (not "Visual Web Part"). You don't end up with the ASCX control and you can ignore the parts of Adam's tutorial that deal with updating the Register declarations.
This also has the added benefit of capturing the correct name for the web part files up front, so you don't have to rename a bunch of "VisualWebPart1xxx" files.