Search Cannery Update

The Andornot search cannery at http://andornot.com/Support/Utilities/SearchCannery.aspx has been updated with new choices for Content Server, more query parameters, *lots* more contextual help, and a bit of a cross-browser facelift. The search cannery is a wizard which constructs WebPublisher canned queries based on your selections. Easier than doing it in Notepad!

Inmagic Genie route slips

In Genie version 2.1 only one routing slip prints if you check in two issues of a serial at one time. To fix this:

• In the folder Program Files\Inmagic\Genie\ConfigFiles, open MyReports.config.
• Search for the entry SerDateToRoute in the Serials Reports under the Route 1on8.5x11 section. <field name="SerDateToRoute" header="Date of Issue: ">
• Add the attribute OneEntryPerRecord= "true" This line should now read: <Field Name="SerDateToRoute" Header="Date of Issue: " OneEntryPerRecord="true" /> Save the changes.
• Then open Mylabels.config in the same folder. Search for the entry SerDateToRoute: <Field Name="SerDateToRoute" Header="Date of Issue: " Style="font-size:12pt" UseFunction="FirstEntry"/>
• Remove UseFunction="FirstEntry", add OneEntryPerRecord= "true" This line should now read: <Field Name="SerDateToRoute" Header="Date of Issue: " Style="font-size:12pt" OneEntryPerRecord= "true" />

Inmagic Knowledgebase RSS Feed

Andornot's RSS Control for WebPublisher embodies a way to create feeds from any WebPublisher database, not just your own. Any public WebPublisher database, that is, which means any WebPublisher database you can reach with an internet URL. Case in point and primary victim, I mean, demonstration example, is the Inmagic Knowledgebase. The internet has taught me to be lazy, and this means I expect to get all the information I require in exactly the manner I choose. For me, the morning would not work* without opening my favourite feed reader in order to review all the feeds and blogs I've subscribed to, which tell me all the latest news in my chosen field. If I am not informed I can hardly justify calling myself an expert. Yet there is no ready-made feed of the Inmagic Knowledgebase at the time of this writing, so that (horrors) I have to actually go there and search it, which is all so 20th century. So I made one myself: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InmagicKnowledgebase (permanent URL) Subscribe to that URL from a feed reader or aggregator. The feed requests all articles added in the last 60 days. * Indeed, the sun would crumple like a wheezy balloon and all would be blood, frogs, blackness, and plague. This is to be avoided.

El Thicko

I just spent 20 minutes letting head bonk sharply and repeatedly on desk over Inmagic ODBC's "unable to open table" error, because I FORGOT that the ASP.NET worker account on Windows XP is aspnet, not network service, like it is with Windows Server 2003. I kept upping the permissions on network service to no avail. It was like I'd strapped bananas to my feet instead of shoes for the Summer Fun 10K of Broken Glass Run, and then, when things went badly, tied on bigger and bigger bananas.