Author: Jason Hardy-Smith

September 27, 2018

First Couple of 12.1 Features: Even Better Grids

Work on our next release (12.1) is well under way. Here are a couple of features that are ready for you to play with: ListGrid Rotated Titles In 12.1, listGrid field titles may be rotated to optimize the use of screen space. Note how in the grid below, many fields with long titles can be shown at once without scrolling...

Categories Release 12/Release 12.1

September 20, 2018

Bot Editor Chrome Extension – Developed w/ Smart GWT

A great variety of companies use the SmartClient platform. They: Range from startups to large corporations Are located around the globe And span the full spectrum of verticals (pharma, govt, telecoms, you name it!) However, we still occassionally come across solutions built with our technology that are a little off the beaten path. For instance, here’s one from long time...

Categories Customer Success/Tools

August 9, 2018

Grid Filters: Pick the right tool for the job

It is generally accepted that a good user interface is one that allows users to perform the task at hand efficiently and effectively. It should be as simple as possible to limit distraction and misunderstandings. When it comes to filtering data in grids, providing users with every filtering capability in the toolshed is therefore probably not the way to go....

Categories Tools/UI

July 17, 2018

Top 10 License FAQs

We thought it might be useful to proactively provide answers to the licensing questions we’re asked most often. Here goes: #1 Which should I use? SmartClient or Smart GWT? What is the difference? SmartClient and Smart GWT are “sister technologies” with a common Ajax / HTML5 runtime. Both technologies provide: a zero-install Ajax/HTML5 client engine rich user interface components & services client-server databinding systems...

Categories Services

July 10, 2018

Feature Spotlight: CubeGrid

Huge amounts of complex data can be overwhelming: Where should you start? How can you focus in on what’s important without missing the big picture? Could there be correlations between seemingly unrelated aspects of the data? You need the right tools to explore and interrogate the data, then the ability to display it in the most appropriate ways to draw...

Categories Feature

July 3, 2018

Top 10 Developer FAQs

We thought it might be useful to proactively provide answers to the questions we’re asked most often by our developers. Here goes: #1 I’m seeing a javascript error. What do I do? You should see a stack trace logged for the error either in your IDE’s main error Console, or if not, then in the Developer Console. This may make...

Categories Services

June 27, 2018

Performance tips from the experts

If your web apps are slow, nobody will want to use them. It is as simple as that. Capabilities such as adaptive filtering, lazy rendering, and of course the architecture of SmartClient mean that if you have selected our platform, you’ve already put your best foot forward. But, of course, taking a wrong turn during development can still quickly degrade performance....

Categories performance

June 20, 2018

Customer Success: SmartB2B

What is SmartB2B? SmartB2B is a cloud based web application (built using Isomorphic Software’s SmartClient) which resulted from years of experience in online retail, wholesale and distribution. It streamlines the B2B eCommerce process: Increases sales: Fast and simple for customers to find the right product and place orders. Improves communication: Cuts down up to 90% of unproductive emails (“do you have...

Categories Customer Success

May 14, 2018

Feature Spotlight: Grid HILITING

What’s HILITING? The ‘hiliting’ system in SmartClient allows data highlighting rules to be defined to automatically surface important information in grids.   Here is an example of a grid with various hilting rules defined. How Does Hiliting Work? When data matches the conditions of a hiliting rule, the format can be changed to be make the information highly visible. For example,...

Categories Feature

March 30, 2018

Bonus Stuff in Release 12: SVG support for images, calendar event selection, and more

  OK, so there are a few extra things in Release 12 we didn’t get around to telling you about. SVG support for images With Release 12, SVG may be specified as the source file for an Img or ImgButton. For example, the three Img widgets below are defined by SVG using common external CSS. By changing the Color Scheme...

Categories Feature/Mobile/Release 12/SVG/Tools/UI