First let me explain what nav links i’m talking about and how they’re created by Peformance Point 2007 Dashboard Designer. These nav links appear at the top of the default Dashboard and represent the different pages of reports. They are automatically generated by Dashboard Designer by injecting JavaScript into a DIV element called “ppsmaPageOverview”. It starts off by creating a label and container for the dashboard with this function “createPageOverview”. Then the related pages are called with this function “createPageOverviewTab”, these functions also check for a property to see if that tab is selected or not (all this done dynamically with JavaScript). This is not the most elegant method of generation navs, but that’s how Dashboard Designer does it.
So alot of times I’m asked to modify those links, like the layout, rename links or even add a custom link that can’t be generated by Dashboard Designer. This product is so new that solutions for this tasks aren’t posted yet, which forces me to come up with a solution. I’m not saying my solution is the best, if someone from Microsoft could chime in or email me a better solution then i’d gladly thank them and use it!
Ok I was asked to add a “Print Report” link to the auto-generated list navigation. My workaround was to create a new “Web Page” from “Report Templates” and in that web page I entered the link to an auto-generated PDF file. That was it, you can of course create a custom aspx page that embeds your PDF or has custom controls on it and link to that in the “Web Page” as well.
I spent hours trying to figure out the cause of this on Firefox, even tried writing some custom JS but in the end all i needed to do was include these in my master page!
Just testing all features of the wordpress iPhone app. So far it’s a clean interface which males it easy to navigate. I’ll take a pic and see how nicely it integrates. However previewing a post the layout rendering was a little funky. Overall it seems to work well and is a convienent app for posting from the couch.
Update: the app crashed when trying to take a new photo and attach it. Gonna try again. Funky markup was due to some ads, photo worked second time around but I guess you can’t position the photo. Also be sure to hit DONE to finish up your post and SAVE to publish.
I recently had to work with Akamai Secure Flash Sreaming for on-demand videos and wanted to share some notes on how we got this to work.
You’ll need 2 zip files from Akamai:
Akamai Flash Media Kit
Akamai Secure Token Generator
Inside the Akmai Flash Media Kit you will have to open CS3SampleOnDemand.fla in Flash and edit the ActionScript. First declare a constant for the token:
Sometimes some projects visually hide the SharePoint navigation links so I wanted to list some here because I can never remember them:
Site Content and Structure - sitemanager.aspx
All Site Content - viewlsts.aspx
Site Content Type Gallery - mngctype.aspx
Site Features - ManageFeatures.aspx
It’s a small change, but I always forget how to do this so I’m blogging it! Locate the siteMapPath control in the Master Page and add a PathSeperator attribute shown in the example below:
When the Lakers lost game 4 it hurt, I felt like someone punched me in the guy, kicked me in the balls and stole my wallet. But losing that game meant something bigger, it meant that every game from here on is an elimination game for the Lakers. I’m pretty nervous today and at this point will be happy if they make it to 7 games.
Even though I wish the aptera was available to check out. Well i’ve negotiated what I think is an okay lease but still trying see what the best deal is since we’re in a little recession and gas prices are rising.
Here’s what I’ve negotiated so far, has anyone gotten a better deal?
In the last few years, cars are getting more horsepower, amazing styles and designs at reasonable prices. This makes it tougher for me to decide on what car I want, factor in cost, dealership headaches and proximity saturation (who else do I know that owns this ride) and it will take me forever to decide. But the longer I wait, the hot new cars will simmer a little down in price and of course a whole new fleet of hot cars will arrive.
Here’s my search criteria in order of importance:
Luxury coupe
Good tech package (touchscreen nav, bluetooth, ipod, high end sound system)
Over 250 horsepower
Under $45,000
Cars I have researched and are interested in (I know some of them may not fit the criteria):
Audi A5
Infiniti G37
BMW 335 coupe
Jaguar XF
Does anyone own any of these or know of any special pricing on these rides?
Everyone knows you can check traffic off of Google Maps built into your iPhone, but what if you don’t have 2 fingers available to pinch-out and see all the traffic conditions? My answer is the simple Traffic Checker (alpha) http://ragingminds.com/iphone/traffic which simply lists out traffic conditions within an area.
Just something I whipped up real quick for fun, I need to add some error handling and the ability to search by “city” and/or “state”. It’s using Yahoo Traffic Webservice and the ASP.NET 2.0 XmlDataSource. Please feel free to use it and provide some helpful feedback for the next version!
