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    The system comes with a number of standard components but any valid script/HTML can be added as a component using the ActiveHTML component.

    Active HTML


    by:Tina Odling - 27 Nov 2013
    Rotating Banner ads

    yes, the site owner can/should be able to change anything.

    And technically they can as it's all just JavaScript/HTML/CSS.

    An example is     SRL when they publish an article the banner image is placed on the carousel and linked to the article. The page reads this information from the RSS feed. 

    Article Banner

     

    carousel


    by:Nigel Leck - 27 Nov 2013
    Content Management System (CMS)

    The stSoftware CMS is a complete online solution with everything you’d expect from an advanced CMS, plus a whole lot more to give you greater control over your website and business data, and unify your communications.

    Designed to make it easy to manage the flow of content across multiple websites, our CMS is the ideal solution for group-based organisations such as franchise networks, enterprises and government agencies.


    by:Tina Odling - 27 Nov 2013
    Does the system have comprehensive error handling and logging?

    All web access is recorded in the standard Apache web access logs.

    The server logs can be configured via log4j

    All database changes are logged by user and time.


    by:Nigel Leck - 27 Nov 2013
    Aged breakdown of job charges according to billing cycle

    Categories in the job summary screen (Not Completed, Ready to Invoice, Balance Payable, Paid)

    Not Completed

    Sum all the labour charges/tasks which are still opened.
    This will give us indication about how long the tasks are still opened.

      • Current - we started to work on the task in the last 7 days
      • 7 days - we started to work on the task more then 7 days ago but less then 14 days ago.
      • 14 days - we started to work on the task more then 14 days ago but less then 30 days ago.
      • 30 days - we started to work on the task

    by:Liam Itzhaki - 27 Nov 2013
    What coding standards are used by stSoftware?

    Our Java coding standards can be found here which are adopted by all our developers. 

    We follow Agile development processes, which includes writing automated unit tests for business logic. This allows systems to evolve with confidence.

    Self test results

    References:-

    • Original stSoftware coding standards document.

    by:Parminder Singh - 27 Nov 2013
    What are the security, back-up, disaster recovery and firewall services?

    Security

    Industry standard best practice for passwords for both the web server and Linux machines. Site designers do not have direct access to the underlying Linux server, the raw database or files. All changes are done within sandbox of the system. 


    by:Tina Odling - 26 Nov 2013
    Easily integrated with other web applications through open standards.

    Users may access all allowed data via the Web Forms or via Industry standard protocols such as:

    • ReST which returns data in both JSON and XML formats. 
    • SOAP 
    • WebDav
    • ICal 
    • GWT RPC
    • JDBC

    All requests for data or modification to data goes via the DAL ( Data Access Layer) no matter which protocol is used. There is NO direct access to the underlying data store. The DAL checks the ACLs ( Access Control Limits ) for each data request and performs all validations on each data modification. When data is modified


    by:Tina Odling - 26 Nov 2013
    How to access ST data from Microsoft Excel via ReST web service

    Excel connection details

    1. Click the Data menu, select Import External Data/New Web Query

    2. Enter the XML REST address in the Address field, and click "Go" button, the login dialogue pops up, use your ST system user name and password to login

     

    3. You should see the XML below it once you login.

    4.Click the little yellow array on the top left of the XML to select the XML to import, then click "Import" button

    5. select the position to import the data and click "OK" button to import.

     

    6. Data imported

     


    by:Lei Gao - 26 Nov 2013
    Validation for Emails, phone numbers, first and last names.

     The following field validations have been added.

    Validations
    Field Validation Reason
    Email

    The host name for the email will be looked up to match sure it's valid and active.

    The email must match the following pattern:-

    ^[A-Z0-9._%+\-#'&]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|edu|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|asia|jobs|museum)$

    Examples of valid and invalid email addresses:-

    • bill@microsoft.com
    • bill@junkdomain.com
    • abc@.
    		 When sending emails a large number of bouncing emails will cause our servers to be marked as spammers

    by:Nigel Leck - 1 Nov 2013