As OSIS continues to grow and improve, we sometimes lose pace with emphasizing our new features and how users can take advantage of them to improve their users’ experiences. As one part of our effort to fix that, we recently conducted a series of webinars with our partner Avatech Solutions to emphasize some of the [...]
Sorting’s back. Many versions ago (7 or so) OSIS supported user sorting in it’s reports. Of course back then reports were completely different than they are now. Finally, this simple ability is back so that end users can once more re-sort a report on the fly. Download the full resolution video of this feature here: [...]
This will be the first post in a series highlighting up and coming features in our next release of OSIS (currently identified as OSIS 2.8.) We are excited about the next release as we introduce new functionality to streamline access to data, continue to polish features, and further enhance the core of the application (behind [...]
In this article we will learn how to turn the report we created in Part II into a OSIS Portlet. An OSIS portlet is simple in structure and consists of the following pieces: A database record describing the portlet (stored in the osis_portlets table) A file stored in the osis/cfm/portlets directory that acts as a [...]
In Part I I introduced the concept of custom reports and how they are implemented in OSIS 2.6. In Part II I’ll outline the actual customization (ie., code content) of the report. The sample provided with osis 2.6 generates a Tag Cloud of the count of rooms per division. The larger the division text on [...]
OSIS Direct Links (ODL) allow users to create specific URLs for every feature of the system. These ODLs can also include some additional parameters to further specify how the page should look and behave. The following is a list of URL parameters for reports. Note that these can be added to the end of the [...]
Idisis is extending access to ODL with some new management tools to help you share information and spatial data in OSIS. ODL or OSIS Direct Linking was introduced in v2.4 but we quickly realized that we needed to improve access to this feature. Now users can easily create these direct page links and share OSIS [...]
OSIS 2.6 includes the ability to create custom report content utilizing the standard reporting frame work. This allows you to format a report page utilizing data returned by the OSIS reporting engine in a any way you wish while preserving security, VPA/IAC, UDFs, searching and report restrictions. This tutorial is intended for Advanced Admin users [...]
Campus Mapping with OSIS is often a significant opportunity for our clients to easily expand their systems to analyze information in new ways and share their hard work with others in the organization. The discussion of campus mapping has three major areas of uncertainly for users: Does campus mapping apply to my type of organization? [...]
Facility record drawings, progress check sets, tender drawings, consultant data…how does this relate to ongoing facilities and project management? Facility Managers and Project Managers often need to share information. While the facilities group manages existing conditions the project managers are managing “what-if” scenarios and the impact of facility planning and construction on existing conditions. Enter [...]