Overview
The stSoftware application life cycle consists of weekly incremental releases with stake holder planning and demostrations. The release cycle is two weeks from the planning phase to feature release, features are broken down into small enough tasks to be able to fit into the two week release cycle. This project management methodology is known as Agile/Scrum
Agile project management is broken up into three main phases:-
- Planning
- Development Sprints
- Release Sprints
stSoftware cloud systems have three main environments
- 19 Jun 2021
Overview
Advanced keyword searching is now available on PDF, WORD and HTML files once automatic indexing is enabled and the indexing process has been completed.
https://www.stsoftware.com.au/site/ST/blog/article/advanced-text-search/
- 31 Aug 2018
The standard email gateway for sending emails is Amazon Simple Email Service
If your domain has configured an SPF record you will need to include the domain amazonses.com
For example:-
"v=spf1 include:amazonses.com -all"
- 3 Apr 2018
Overview
All the data from a stSoftware server can be fetched via the standard ReST API, all the standard ACLs and validation rules are applied whether the data is access via the standard screens or via the ReST API
- 16 Aug 2017
Summary
- Performance enhancements
- Excel template for accessing ReST services
- Screen expander
- Xero sync support added
- Fixed all XSS issues in core system identified by scans with https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
- Fixed text expander
- ReST sync fixed
- Upgrade of core components
- ReST v7/class enhancements
- Other
- 26 Oct 2016
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) offer faster, leaner cross platform (iOS/Android) app development with the look&feel of a native app but with the maintainability of a web site. PWA templates have been integrated into our CMS. PWA are a game changer for old native app development with it's lean low cost development life cycle, automatic security updates and rapid design tools. The user experience is smooth & consistent with offline access.
- 28 Jun 2016
The CMS has now integrated support for Progressive Web Apps ( PWA).
PWAs are reliable, fast, and engaging. They can be accessed when the user is offline or on unrelaible networks.
- 23 Jun 2016
Below is the current lightouse report for the template app-contract-list
- 22 Jun 2016
The user's timezone can't be detected by a ReST call itself.
The client's public IP addresses we can be used in combination with freegeoip.net ReST service to find a rough location.
When a client logs into the system, the client's timezone is passed as a parameter in the ReST call /v1/auth/login/{username}.
The web pages that use the library jstz to detect the timezone and then does log-in via ReST. We remember the user's timezone in the database session record.
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- 11 Jun 2016
Summary
To enable spell checker, the package 'aspell' needs to be installed on the server side. TinyMCE calls a web service 'v1/spell' to check spelling and store words in the user's dictionary.
- 10 May 2016
All stSoftware's web services are published using Swagger which gives interactive documentation, client SDK generation and discoverability.
Below are all the standard RESTful web services and how to use them.
- 30 Mar 2016
To set up a new API key for a ReST service:-
- Choose the ReST service to create the API key for ( steps 1-3)
- Open the data entry screen for the selected service ( step 4)
- Select the "security" tab ( step 5 )
- Create a new magic number ( step 6)
- Choose the user access to use for this service and press OK ( step 7-8)
The demonstration system can be used to try out the ReST services.
https://demo2.jobtrack.com.au/magic/3101/A5AE-9806
- 2 Feb 2016
To set up Google Analytics tracking of your web site.
- Log into you Google Analytics account.
- Create a new Tracking ID
- Switch to the SEO tab in the web site and enter the Tracking ID
- All standard templates will automatically create the Google tracking script when a tracking ID is entered and not in design mode.
- 29 Oct 2015
