All OSIS releases are packed with new features, bug fixes, and even changes to how current features work. We do our best to announce and publicize these changes for our clients, but it is always tough to balance keeping the list short enough to provide emphasis versus having so much detail that no one has time to read it all.

With the release of OSIS 2.4, one item that was not widely publicized was a new notification procedure for when the concurrent user count exceeds your license count. This notification looks like this:

We released version 2.4 a few months ago now and much of our install base has upgraded successfully. We are really excited about the new features, particularly what we call ODL - OSIS Direct Linking. At first glance it seems like a very technical addition but the impact is actually enormous. We now have the ability to load any OSIS component - floor plan, map, report, portlet or form outside of the OSIS interface.

The Scenario

You have an OSIS report that has a field (a UDF) that links to a Floor Plan or a list of Floors for you to choose a floor plan. However, Floor Plans are not available for use in Firefox. Can I hide this from Firefox and still have it visible in IE? Absolutely!

Here's How

Well here goes the technical side of the Todd Blog...please excuse the acronym's but they are all necessary.

This blog post provides an overview and introduction to what is possible with OSIS IAC and ARCHIBUS VPA. Please visit the owiki tutorial post here...

Often times the power and flexibility of ARCHIBUS' hierarchical and VPA security is overlooked in relation to how it can be leveraged in OSIS.