Archive for February 2009

Using ARCHIBUS Web Central’s Preventive Maintenance to Manage Building Contracts

Introduction Idisis recently worked on a project that stepped outside the traditional boundaries of Preventive Maintenance but utilized the base business concepts and technologies to manage contractual building maintenance referred to as “Facility Management Agreements” (FMA’s). The FMA’s represent a predetermined list of maintenance items that are performed in a building based on pre-defined contractual [...]

Announcing the YODLR (Your OSIS Direct LinkR)

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 [...]

New In OSIS 2.6 – Feature Spotlight – Custom Reports Framework – Part I

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 [...]

OSIS Quick Tip – Quick Dates In OSIS Forms

OSIS Forms offer the ability to enter descriptive names in date fields when specifying a date.  For example: if I wanted to insert tomorrow’s date I could type “tomorrow” into a date field, click off the field and tomorrow’s date value would then display in the field.  In the sample images below we use Friday [...]

ARCHIBUS Web Central Quick Tip – What axvw am I looking At?

Ever find yourself wondering what axvw file corresponds to a task in your navigator?  One quick way to find out is to right click and details shall be revealed. Applies to ARCHIBUS Web Central 17.2 and 17.3

OSIS Quick Tip – Bookmarking For A Specific Project

OSIS by default presents a user with a list of projects to choose from during log-on.  Some of you may have multiple projects in the list or just the one.  In either case you can specify your project via a bookmark so that the project is automatically chosen for you during the log on process [...]