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Former_Member
Accelerator III
9 years ago

Item Characteristics and Common Grid Utilities

We have installed Aras 11SP9 on premises once again to look at setting up a solution for some internal processes. I merged a majority of the Item Characteristics And Classification community package.  But I am confused about the Common Grid Utilities overlays?  Where are the ItemTypes for tgc_Configuration and etc?  I can't seem to find any documentation for this package. These seem to be referenced in a number of other packages that got moved to the GitHub repositories. Mark DeArman Product Engineering McCauley Sound, Inc. http://www.mccauleysound.com Direct: (253) 200-5353 Office: (253) 848-0363 x7172

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  • Yoann_Maingon's avatar
    Yoann_Maingon
    Accelerator I
    9 years ago
    Can you precisely give us the project references you have imported (project url). Not sure what is the common grid utilities, is it part of one of these community projects?
  • Former_Member's avatar
    Former_Member
    Accelerator III
    9 years ago
    The partial overlays exist in two or three github repos on this site such as: github.com/.../1-Other Dependent Packages github.com/.../javascript Or in the archived project “Item Characteristics And Classification” github.com/.../characteristics-and-classification The problem is that that these methods to parse the grid layouts seem to depend on ItemTypes that are not defined in the default Solution template and I can not find the AML definitions to import anywhere.  For example, “tgc_Configuration”, github.com/.../cFolders Structure Grid v5-0.xml
  • Former_Member's avatar
    Former_Member
    Accelerator III
    9 years ago
    Maybe an admin could delete the post #9574 which has the issue in it. There is some type of layout issue in Chrome 58 when I posted that URL to the form and it will not let me edit it or delete it. Just to continue.  I gather Common Grid Utilities allows different Grids to be loaded from XML definitions stored on the file system.  Most likely I could just reconstruct the ItemTypes (tgc_Configuration, tgc_Constant, tgc_*) working backwards from the definitions I have, but that seems kind of silly. I have merged both Collaboration Folders and Item Characteristics Packages successfully. Both fail when they attempt to load their configuration grid data from the XML file during runtime, due to the missing ItemTypes. www.cascadeacoustic.com/.../tgc_Configuration.png
  • Yoann_Maingon's avatar
    Yoann_Maingon
    Accelerator I
    9 years ago
    ok, I'm checking with the author of these projects. I know he is a busy man these days ! :)
  • eli_donahue's avatar
    eli_donahue
    Community Manager
    9 years ago
    Hi Mark, The Item Characteristics project has been updated for Aras 11 SP9 if you are still interested in this community project. Additionally, Aras 11 SP11 is available to subscribers and introduces capability for extended classification. This new feature provides more flexibility to assign groups of characteristics to items. Eli
    Eli Donahue Aras Labs Software Engineer
  • Former_Member's avatar
    Former_Member
    Accelerator III
    9 years ago
    Very good news.  This is such a funny coincidence as I was just looking at starting work on this project today. Thanks, Mark.
  • Former_Member's avatar
    Former_Member
    Accelerator III
    9 years ago
    Although, I don't see any more recent commits to the git-hub repo? Any idea on the types missing from the Common Grid Utilities ? I was using the v4.1 zip archive before.  It appears to be incomplete. Well, that was a huge disappointment.  I'm not quite sure why no one has an answer on this. Or why you would tell me there was an updated version.
  • eli_donahue's avatar
    eli_donahue
    Community Manager
    9 years ago
    Hi Mark, I have contacted the author for the Characteristics and Common Grid Utilities project. He is working on a fix, but it will take a few days. I will let you know when we have an update for the project. Eli
    Eli Donahue Aras Labs Software Engineer