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    What's best practice software maintenance for self-hosted systems?

    Software Maintenance Program for Self-Hosted Systems

    Our Software Maintenance Program for Self-Hosted Systems provides for 1/4ly system updates and professional services at a 40% discount of standard rates for system maintenance and customisation. This program is intended to ensure systems are well maintained, have the latest security updates and see that users benefit from stSoftware's investment in leading-edge web technology; with little disruption and high user acceptance due to the maintenance


    by:Tina Odling - 6 Jun 2014
    How to use the site and page configuration xml

    Sample xml:

    <page>
      <head>
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
      </head>
      <param name="PAGE_NO" default="1"/>
      <param name="module" value="JOBS"/>
    </page>


    by:Lei Gao - 2 Jun 2014
    Print few layouts at once.

    For example:

    Tick the records you would like to print in the jobs report screen and select the layout 'Job Sheet'.

     

    Report


    by:Liam Itzhaki - 27 May 2014
    stSoftware's Forms is a web based designer

    by:Nigel Leck - 25 May 2014
    JobTrack Version 5 Released

    Overview

    The new powerful, stylish and responsive Control Panel menus, in the latest version JobTrack (Version 5).

    Introduction to JobTrack (Version 5). Responsive and Collapsible Menu Features.

    JobTrack’s new responsive menus, provide the ideal vertical and horizontal navigation on both pc and mobile devices. The menus utilise a mix of stylish space saving icons, dropdowns, collapsible and expandable segments. Along with a fluid-like responsive layout, that will re-size and reposition, into the optimal viewing style, according


    by:Tina Odling - 4 May 2014
    How to set the store PayPal account?

    Go to Admin/Settings menu, Database tab, you can find the Default Pay Pal Account dropdown and Use Live PayPal Server checkbox in Financials section.

    You can select a PayPal account or create a new PayPal account

    By checking "Use Live PayPal Server" checkbox, all purchases from the store will be real money transactions, uncheck this checkbox to use PayPal sendbox server (test server), no real money transfered.

     


    by:Lei Gao - 23 Apr 2014
    How is document searching performed?

    Overview

    All documents that are added to the document explorer are automatically indexed by Apache Lucene. Once a document is indexed the normal advanced text searching can be done.


    by:Nigel Leck - 21 Apr 2014
    Image searching feature

    stSoftware uses the Lucene API to provide the document indexing for searching. The functionality of the Lucene core API is extended with the Lucene Image Retrieval (LIRE) API. When an image file is uploaded/changed in the cloud file manager automatic LIRE indexing on the image is performed and stored as a searchable attribute of the image file.

    The system allows for searches of images with exact or similar image content based on the LIRE index. All documents (including images) have a SHA1 checksum performed


    by:Nigel Leck - 20 Apr 2014
    Does stSoftware support Structured data searching?

    Overview

    Any field in the system can be marked as "searchable" which will then allow the system to search on these fields in a high performance manner as they will be automatically indexed. Any field can be searched on but without an index so slower. 


    by:Nigel Leck - 19 Apr 2014
    stSoftware server is a Mature multi-tenancy Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) framework.

    Overview

    stSoftware server is a multi-tenancy software-as-a-service (SaaS) framework. The stSoftware system was awarded Australia's first innovation patent and won the National e-Business Award in 2002. The system is based on Industry standard open source frameworks and libraries.


    by:Nigel Leck - 19 Apr 2014
    Meeting invites now include an attachment with the event details.

    Overview

    When people are invited to your meeting a special file will be included in the generated email which can be imported into their mobile phone calendars so that they don't miss your special event. 


    by:Lei Gao - 16 Apr 2014
    Important notice about the Heartbleed bug for stSoftware customers

    Overview

    The Heartbleed Bug is a recently discovered vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic software library used by many of the world’s web servers to secure information using TLS. If the web site is vulnerable then a hacker could expose 64k of the server's memory without any trace in the server's logs. The server's memory exposed could include the server's private encryption key or other information such as usernames and passwords. 


    by:Tina Odling - 11 Apr 2014
    How to view current active sessions for a user?

    Overview

    By clicking on the "Welcome user name" you will be shown your user set up, with the list of current sessions.

    If you see an IP address that is unfamiliar to you, we suggest you change your password immediately to secure your account against unauthorized access. Your current IP address is displayed below the table. In most cases, we guess the location by matching your IP address to a broad geographical location. The location and IP mappings might not always be accurate, especially in cases


    by:Nigel Leck - 8 Apr 2014
    What details of a user sessions are available?

    Overview

    Normal users are restricted to view only their own session details. Administrators may see the session details for all users.

    Active sessions can be forcibly logged out from the session details screen. The list of active sessions for a user can be viewed from the "My Setup" screen. 

    User session details


    by:Nigel Leck - 8 Apr 2014
    Beta test our new control panel

    Overview

    A new responsive design for the main control panel.

    Features include:-

    • Responsive design
    • Search box now searches articles.

    Top right menu

    Try out the Demo


    by:Lei Gao - 26 Mar 2014
    Professional Services Pricing

    stSoftware Professional Services and Packs

    stSoftware's professional IT and development services are provided by our own web and cloud experts in Australia who are highly trained and experienced. Professional service packages are very popular with our clients as they can utilise the full range of our IT services at discounted rates. Packages include Continuous Improvement Programs (CIP) or Professional Service Packs.

    CIPs and Professional Service Packs allow our client's to innovate, disrupt and implement new technology


    by:Tina Odling - 26 Mar 2014
    You have such big ideas but so few characters...

    Overview

    Our free text shorter service uses a clever combination of word replacement, adorable images and good old fashioned magic to optimize your tweets. In case you don't have hours to sit with your teenager to learn the latest hipster abbreviations this service is for you.


    by:Nigel Leck - 25 Mar 2014
    How to configure the ideal stSoftware server cluster?

    Overview

    Best practice network design for a highly scalable, distributed web system has:-


    by:Nigel Leck - 21 Mar 2014
    Can you explain your development, staging and disaster recovery environments?

    Development Environment

    We normally use our own in-house development servers, as they are already setup and configured to our solution server requirements it is cost effective and efficient.


    by:Tina Odling - 19 Mar 2014
    How are server issues (faults etc) monitored?

    We have automated heart beat monitors which checks the health of the servers and a number of background tasks. In addition to checking the list of known tasks database read & write actions are performed and the available disk space is checked. If the heart beat monitor itself takes more than 5 minutes to run an alert is sent. The heart beat monitor runs every 15 minutes.

    Heart beat message

    The list of tasks that the system will monitor are defined in the class DBTask.

    List of tasks

    A task is defined by:-

    • code which uniquely identifies this task

    by:Nigel Leck - 19 Mar 2014
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