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If I need to do something in Notes/Domino I can generally do whatever I need to do by writing some code. This, however, is not always the most efficient or expedient process to follow, especially if vast changes need to be made in a timely and accurate manner.
Yesterday I purchased YTria's EZSuite and I am happy to announce that I could have very easily completely cost justified my purchase with just one day's usage of two of the tools (the designPropsEZ and actionBarEZ.)
YTria has built this toolset to be exactly what developers and administrators need: good tools that do their jobs well.
In my first usage, only minutes after executing the transaction and downloading the installation file, I updated 3 databases' 95 views' action bar properties, checking and setting 20 different properties on each view's bar, in a little less than 3 minutes. I figure that each view would have taken at least a minute, maybe two, to process manually and in total it would have been 1900 items to check. And then I figured out how to really get going fast by selecting an existing element as a template for the changes I wanted to make...even if it is in a different database on a different server...talk about cool!
My new multi-database application has a total of 14 different databases, and each database has the same basic navigation structure, an average of 30-40 views and/or folders, 10-15 forms and a few pages here and there. One of my main goals in building this application is to provide a consistent look and feel to our previously disparate collection of applications. Consistently setting all of those action bar element properties is a NIGHTMARE if I decide to make a UI look/feel change...and it is early in the design life of the UI so this is happening frequently. This one tool, actionBarEZ, alone is going to save me countless hours of tedious error prone work!
Did I mention that there are 4 more tools in the suite that I haven't even begun to consider?
I can't believe that it has taken me this long to take the plunge and buy these things!
If I need to do something in Notes/Domino I can generally do whatever I need to do by writing some code. This, however, is not always the most efficient or expedient process to follow, especially if vast changes need to be made in a timely and accurate manner.
Yesterday I purchased YTria's EZSuite and I am happy to announce that I could have very easily completely cost justified my purchase with just one day's usage of two of the tools (the designPropsEZ and actionBarEZ.)
YTria has built this toolset to be exactly what developers and administrators need: good tools that do their jobs well.
In my first usage, only minutes after executing the transaction and downloading the installation file, I updated 3 databases' 95 views' action bar properties, checking and setting 20 different properties on each view's bar, in a little less than 3 minutes. I figure that each view would have taken at least a minute, maybe two, to process manually and in total it would have been 1900 items to check. And then I figured out how to really get going fast by selecting an existing element as a template for the changes I wanted to make...even if it is in a different database on a different server...talk about cool!
My new multi-database application has a total of 14 different databases, and each database has the same basic navigation structure, an average of 30-40 views and/or folders, 10-15 forms and a few pages here and there. One of my main goals in building this application is to provide a consistent look and feel to our previously disparate collection of applications. Consistently setting all of those action bar element properties is a NIGHTMARE if I decide to make a UI look/feel change...and it is early in the design life of the UI so this is happening frequently. This one tool, actionBarEZ, alone is going to save me countless hours of tedious error prone work!
Did I mention that there are 4 more tools in the suite that I haven't even begun to consider?
I can't believe that it has taken me this long to take the plunge and buy these things!
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Posted by Kevin Pettitt at 09:36:07 PM on 05/26/2007 | - Website - |