Archive for March 2009

Revised Search

Search is a big part of our internet lives and a large part of finding information related to OSIS, ARCHIBUS, and our services amongst Idisis’ various web sites. In order to help we are introducing a unified search approach using Google Custom Search. This will allow you to search for information across all our various [...]

OSIS Cookbook – Adding a Quick Select List To a Report

Recently, while working on a feature for next release of OSIS I started thinking about how similar functionality could be achieved via existing versions of OSIS.  In this case I am refering to the ability to add a quick pick type filter to an OSIS report.  Here is what I came up with. Requirements OSIS 2.4 [...]

Deploying Web Central Across Various Platforms

The setup and configuration of the ARCHIBUS Web Central application is well documented on the Windows platform. In fact, many who do not want to go through the trouble of setting up its Tomcat web server will usually opt for the self-deploying executable that guides the administrator through the setup of the Java Runtime Environment [...]

OSIS Floor Plans – Hovers and Labels

OSIS provides a flexible system for managing the look and feel of floor plans. One example of this is using the hover/label tools to present information to users. We could literally explore your options here for hours, but let’s at least start with a basic scenario – changing a Rooms by Department layer to show [...]

Controlling OSIS Reports with URL Parameters

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 [...]