Greetings all, The Better & Better committee of the U2 User Group would like to announce the availability today of the B&B application online.
We would like to thank all the current and past U2 B&B Committee members that have helped craft the vision over the last few years for this website, as well as the various U2UG Board members that have provided crucial guidance. We are glad to partner with DesignBais, one of the leading providers of software in the Multi-Value / U2 industry. The B&B application was developed in DesignBais with UniVerse on the backend. Please thank David Mclean and all the folks at DesignBais, along with us, as you have opportunity. http://www.designbais.com/ As with so many U2UG projects, a big thanks also goes to Brian Leach for hosting the application on his server, along with the U2UG website. http://www.brianleach.co.uk<http://www.brianleach.co.uk/index.html> A word about the B&B application itself: The primary purpose is to advance the role of U2UG in providing feedback to IBM regarding their U2 product offering suite. You can log enhancement requests or bug-fixes for specific products. (Please do a search for your request before entering it to avoid duplicates.) Please be aware that logging bug-fixes here should not be considered a replacement for communicating with your IBM channel partner that is providing you support. There is no desire on the part of the U2UG B&B committee to undermine the relationship that each U2 shop has with their software / service provider. Our role is to provide a clearing house for requests in order to provide synergy and focus to help carry IBM's efforts forward, and to provide a forum for the "troops in the trenches" to express their expert input regarding the requests in the channel. What will happen with the requests? The role of the B&B committee will begin to transition now to start reviewing these tickets as they come in and facilitate their presentation to IBM. Be ready to provide a business case for your request should you be contacted for such. Also ---- we need help in this task. This is your opportunity to provide input on where the U2 suite is going. We know IBM has direction in this regard, we are simply partnering and facilitating in this mission. Send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> if you would like to join B&B. Temporary limitations of the B&B application: Because the B&B app and the website are sharing the same UniVerse seats on the backend, don't be discouraged if you get a 303 error 'cannot display webpage' just try again later. We don't expect a flood of folks to get on at once, but if more than a few try to login at once this could occur. We hope to upgrade the UV license in the not too distant future, which is a separate project that the U2UG Board is actively working on. A separate login is required for the B&B application at present. Soon you will be able to login to the U2UG website and simply click a link to the B&B app, without entering through a separate login dialogue. You will still see the splash page so that you know where you are and that you are entering the B&B app. There are still a few enhancements that are planned but we thought it best to go ahead and get the application 'out there' for the user community to begin using, and providing feedback. To request an enhancement, enter a ticket in the application, selecting B&B application from the Products drop down. The folks at DesignBais delivered the application to U2UG in much the same form as you will see when you login. Donald Bridges with Sunset Programming is now helping to tweak the app further to better serve the U2 community. Brad Davis is also developing some reports in the app. Other on the B&B committee who know or are learning DesignBais will help them in these efforts. What Browser to use? There were recent questions about different browsers working with the app. The following notes / instructions are provided to resolve those questions. We again thank Donald Bridges for his on-going labors on this application, for beyond the call - he compiled these notes. Regarding Firefox. Although I normally use IE7, I performed the following updates to my Firefox install and was able to connect, no problem. There are some screen shots that Donald included with the Firefox instructions that will not post to the U2 list. If you need these, request a copy by emailing [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. One of the B&B members will email you the graphical version of these notes. Hopefully, this new offering for the U2UG community will help take our collective energy and success to the next level, and help insure continued success for the U2 suite of product offerings from IBM. Warm regards, -Baker Hughes U2UG Board Member (at large) On behalf of the entire B&B group 1. The application is located at http://212.241.202.162:8080/db. 2. If you are using Firefox, please read this section. The application can run in Firefox if you have the IE Tabs add-in installed. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419. When you go to any website in Firefox that is IE Centric (.asp pages, .aspx pages, etc.), you will click on the little firefox logo on the lower right side of your browser to switch the browser engine to IE. Alternatively and recommended, once you have the add-in installed, click on Tools in Firefox and select the IE Tabs Option. The default tab is Sites Filter. Enter the application location to the URL input box and click Add. You are now setup to use the IE Rendering Engine for the website each time you go to the location specified. 3. The application runs natively in IE7 and IE8. There have been instances in IE8 when the website will not load correctly. These have been resolved by making all of the forms in the application W3C compliant. If you should experience this, please let us know so we can troubleshoot the situation. 4. If you are using an application other than IE or Firefox, please let us know. We are currently looking at how Safari could use the application and will update this information later this week. ________________________________ This communication, its contents and any file attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential proprietary information. Access by any other party without the express written permission of the sender is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this communication in error you may not copy, distribute or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
