If you publish metadata, G/Technology creates a set of .raw- and .ddc files, the metadata to be stored in these tables/ddc-files is read from table G3E_METADATAKEYS. This gets truncated and filled during the metadata-publishing process by procedure MG3EPopulateMetadataKeys. This blog-entry describes how to extend the G/Technology metadata system with your own tables. Key to extending… Read More »
There are two ways to show tooltips in Netviewer, they both involve changing metadata. To enable tooltips in Netviewer, you need to add the following two lines to file Customize.inc, absolute file path “C:\Program Files\Intergraph\GTechnology\Program\GViewerApp\Customize\Customize.inc” : Once these two lines have been added the option ‘Tooltips on hover’ is added in Netviewer Options : To… Read More »
Suppose we have a Cable feature with CABLE_TYPE, TOTAL_SIZE and FIBER_SIZE attributes. Whenever the CABLE_TYPE attribute is set, attributes TOTAL_SIZE and FIBER_SIZE need to be set as well. We need to implement the following list : ID Cable type Total size Fiber Size 1 Corning 12F 12 4 2 BICC 16F 16 4 3 BICC… Read More »
Fieldvalue filters are used to limit possible choices for a picklist, you can define them by setting column G3E_FIELDVALUEFILTER on table G3E_TABATTRIBUTE. Suppose you have the following table REF_FSHELF : ID MANUFAC MODEL_NAME SLOTS POSITIONS 1 KPE KP-CWDM/2 2 1 2 KPE KP-CWDM/2 2 2 3 KPE KP-CWDM/2 3 6 4 KPE KP-CWDM/2 3 7… Read More »
If you select a feature, GTech shows the selected feature in Feature Explorer. The right area of feature explorer shows attributes of the selected feature, the left area shows the identification of the selected feature. This will show something like ‘Feature name – Fid’ (G3E_FEATURENAME – G3E_FID), in the picture below you can read ‘Point… Read More »
Every time I do a G/Technology project I like to discuss how things need to be done. One aspect that always turns up is how limited you actually are as a GTech developer, due to Intergraph. If you or your teammates don’t know how a certain aspect works, your doomed. Even if you know how… Read More »
If you are busy with a team developing all kinds of GTechnology enhancements, you will find yourself most of the time in Oracle, configuring metadata, creating PL/SQL code or otherwise. When all developers are sharing the same database, it is very likely that things get messed up and I therefore always like to have a… Read More »
The G/Technology runtime environment is great and I haven’t seen much issues with it working at KPN Netherlands from 2009 until recently. A whole different story is the G/Technology developer experience and I’m very frustrated about it : There’s no clean distinction between development and runtime environment In G/Technology your feature definitions are stored in… Read More »