OT: adv - from The FP Room

[Fairlight]

Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:20:02AM -0500,
John Esak blabbed on about:
> 
> have been boring Brian White, Jim Asman, Fairlite, Richard Kreiss and a

FairliGHt.  :)  I'm just bustin' your chops, buddy, honestly...  Common
mistake.  :)

> long way? Just hit Windows-key-R and enter the URL. If you want it in a

Ooh...cool!  I found out about Windows-key-M from her but didn't know about
R.  That will save me mousing down to scroll a VNC session to my in-laws'
start bar!  Thanks for that--and thanks to Cathy.

I've truly never seen anyone that knew so many keyboard shortcuts as she
appears to.  I almost exclusively use the keyboard, including mousekeys
functinoality rather than a mouse (unless I'm gaming), and I've learned
some cool things from her.  I've spoken with Cathy a couple of times, and
she's really friendly and a great user-friendly person that I think must
make an excellent instructor.  And we all know I'm not easily impressed.  :)

> Anyway, Cathy mentioned she is running a seminar (webinar) on Outlook this
> weekend... She is teaching for 8 hours 4 per day Sat/Sun, giving a $100 text
> book (on CD) and a complete recording of the sessions all for $50.  I know

I'm a little hazy on the details.  The book is $100, but covers more than
the course--the course being recorded and another $50?  (Another 5hr sleep
night, but our car dilemma is resolved at least!)

> more for your money and have a good time doing it. I have taken some of
> Cathy Anne's seminars before. They are great.

I can imagine.  She's very helpful and user-oriented.

> valuable resource. At the same time, I would also point to Mark's LiteMail
> product (which works with the Outlook program or any other mailer) as a
> simple way to send mail (with attachments) from filePro. He is also a great
> resource in the Room... and while I'm at it, if you don't have a copy of Jim

Thanks John!  

Slight correction though...and this needs clarifying.  Lightmail requires
either a local sendmail-compatible MTA, -or- a usable listening SMTP port
through which you're allowed to send mail.  It does -not- use any part of
the Windows mail system, including MAPI, their storage to .PST or other
files, etc.  I've had a request to store to their folder format, in fact,
and it just wasn't something I felt was viable or desirable because it
would not be in line with keeping it "light".

However, it works "with" Outlook and Outlook Express in terms of being able
to fully handle inline-images in HTML messages that are fully viewable as
normal when delivered -to- someone who uses OL or OE as their client.

Just wanted to get that nailed down properly.

> Asman's MKPCL program, your filePro reports and forms are really suffering
> from lack of pictorial/logo creativity. Best money you will ever spend.

Also excellent is Bob Rasmussen's WePO object for IE.  It basically lets
you (when combined with CGI in my case OneGate) turn your filePro server
into a worldwide print server--someone in the office or across the world
gets information out of fP and it prints right through the ActiveX control
straight to your Windows printer--right through your web browser.  In
fact, I've demonstrated as a proof of concept that you can emulate IUA
add records mode on the web and give receipts or confirmations or whatnot
in printed form at the same time.  You submit a form that adds a record,
and (<shameless>in our case OneGate</shameless>) the CGI kicks off fP,
and fP generates both the next blank add-record web page -and- a receipt,
confirmation, letter, whatever, using PrintWizard if you have it or just
plain old reports or whatever, and OneGate in our case will ship back the
HTML file that uses WePO.  The new add-record page will go to the browser,
the report or whatever you had print goes to the printer--all at the same
time in the same transaction, no buttons involved.

It's truly slick to see something like that in action.

> Others have been frequenting the Room from time to time... Alan Mazuti (sp?)

Alan's the one that showed me WePO in the first place.  :)  

>    www.tinyurl.com/yuag7 24/7  (really)

No doubt.  I've been known to be on at 4-4:30am through 7am lately, in
addition to earlier in the evening, and Brian and John have kept the
occasional odd hour talking with me as well.

We all learn a lot about a lot of different things--not even necessarily
fP-related, although that's always made the prime focus if someone brings
an fP-related question or problem to anyone that's on.

Great bunch of people that hang out there, really.

mark->
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