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Tech Tip: Customize ItemType Icons in Aras
Aras provides a collection of built-in SVG images for use in ItemTypes, forms, documents, and more. While the default images fit a range of use cases and needs, you may have a scenario that requires a custom ItemType icon. In the ...
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9 years ago Place Aras Labs Blog
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Tech Tip: Add Property Data to Aras Structure Browser
The Aras Structure Browser is a useful feature that allows users to view all items related to the selected context item. It's a great way to get a "big picture" view of your data structure, without getting overwhelmed with eve...
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Styling Aras Tech Docs: Numbering Content
The Aras Technical Documentation application provides a powerful framework for defining highly structured document types and styling document content. In this article we'll explore one of the many ways that we can customize the documen...
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9 years ago Place Aras Labs Blog
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Customizing Your Aras Forms: Part 2
As we covered in the first part of our blog series, the possibilities for your Aras forms extend beyond the configuration options in the Aras Form Editor. In this article, we'll see how we can combine a little CSS and Javascript to apply custom ...
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Tech Tip: Style Non-Current Items
It's easy to lose track of whether you're looking at the current version of an item, especially when opening an item from a relationship or item property. This tech tip demonstrates two ways to show whether an item is current at-a-glance using form s...
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Tech Tip: Calling a Date Dialog From a Method
Collecting date/time input from the user on a form is as simple as adding a Date field to your Aras form. But what if you need to query the user for input during the execution of method code? The Call Date Dialog project on the Aras Labs GitHub page&...
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Styling Aras Tech Docs: Adding Predefined Titles with CSS
Working on some new complex technical documentation schemas, I needed to have predefined section titles. Here is the piece of document I wanted to have: The blue arrow shows where I want to actually type information The red arrow shows a static text...
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Using Content Generators in Tech Docs
Content generators are server-side methods that create content when a specific schema element is initialized. These methods can be used to generate dynamic content, such as the table of data displayed in a default ItemInfo element. The first example ...
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Filling a Purchase Request From a Part
This is another case study I gave during a development training class. The whole training went quite fast and trainees wanted another use case to work on. So here is the use case I suggested. The USE CASE We start from an physical BOM (read the prev...
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Calling a REST Web Service From an Aras Method
Data federation is something we are asked to implement more and more when we are evaluated for PLM projects. Mainly because of the legacy systems in place, but also because some dedicated software may be very well suited for some specific people in y...
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