Tip for temporarily making a business space unavailable

[pbrad]

Every once in a while I need to take a business space offline while I fix a problem with the underlying database data(either directly using Navicat or phpmyadmin or through AwareIM export/import) and I need to prevent users from logging in and changing the data while I am working on it.

I have often wished that AwareIM provided the ability to take a Business Space offline for this purpose. After thinking about it for one minute and executing my idea in about two minutes I came up with a pretty fair solution for adding this functionality.

Here it is in case anyone ever has the same requirement:

- Add an attribute to the SystemSettings BO called SystemAvailable of plain text type, size =3, default = Yes, choices = Yes,No

- Copy an existing Visual Perspective and paste it to a new Visual Perspective called SystemUnavailable.

- Delete all menu items from new Visual Perspective except logout.

- Under 'Main Page', click on 'static HTML' and add message like: 'Sorry, this application is temporarily unavailable while system maintenance is being carried out. Thank you for you patience, please try and log in again shortly.'

- Create new process called SystemUnavailable with the following rule: 'If SystemSettings.SystemUnavailable='No' Then
DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE SystemUnavailable'

- Under 'General' tab of each Visual Perspective except 'Administrator' and 'SystemUnavailable', select checkbox 'Run initialization process' and select dropdown item 'SystemUnavailable'

- Now just login as Administrator and change the 'System Available' attribute to 'No' while you need to limit other user inputs.

Hope this is of some use,
Cheers,
Pete

[christopherb]

Nice one!

[christopherb]

Ok I having a some trouble getting this to "go" correctly

2 BO's
MerchantPayment
SalesMember

The MerchantPayment BO contains attributes such as AmountPaid, SaleCode, CommEarned and others. When a MerchantPayment is applied i need to take the SalesCode attribute and find the matching value in the SaleMember BO to get the value of the attribute SaleMember.CommisionRate.

From there I would calculate the value for the CommEarned attribute in the MerchantPayment BO

After writing PHP and such I am having a hard time getting my head around doing this one - any suggestions would be great!

[christopherb]

oops my bad

[tford]

Good one Pete!

Thanks much for sharing it!

Tom