Introduction G/Technology provides functionality to run dynamic queries, the so called ‘Ad-Hoc queries’. A Large telecom provider in the Netherlands is moving Fiber Cables from CRAMER to FOW and AdHoc-queries provide a great tool to analyze and visualize migrated data At this provider Fiber Cables are contained by Fiber Inner Ducts who themselves are contained… Read More »
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 »
Consider the following code: This Controller method creates a bundle and includes a css-file located at ~/Content/base.css and then returns the view. The css file looks like this : This file imports another css file b2.css. This includes a style to render the ‘important’-div red: The last line in our C#-code renders file ~/Src/b.cshtml :… Read More »
If you need to request a certificate to use for a website, you need to generate a certificate request resulting in a certreq.txt you need for buying the actual certificate. Once the certreq.txt is generated, you can not use another certificate for your website because your request is still pending. The below figure shows the… Read More »
Intergraph has an internal database for keeping track of all kinds of software issues, if you file a Trouble- or Change Request, it will end up in this database. This database will become public available in the 3rd quarter of 2013 according to Intergraph sources at Hexagon 2013. Also, if a problem gets fixed, the… Read More »
It doesn’t take much to create a Netviewer extension: Derive a class from Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.ModuleInit Create a constructor with a [ServiceDependency()] WorkItem argument Modify your ProfileCatatalog.xml The class would look like this: This code is using a pattern from the Microsoft Enterprise Library version 2.0 (no longer supported by Microsoft) for setting up an external library… Read More »