JAM/Panther Newsletter

JAM/Panther Newsletter
VOL 6 ISSUE 7 February 2018

•	Newsletter Archive
•	Panther Online HelpDesk
•	Panther Documentation
•	Panther Videos:
•	Panther in the Cloud Webinar
•	Building Restful Web Services
•	CSS Support for Panther Web Grids
•	Panther Enterprise Gateway
•	More...
•	Update: Prolifics Acquires e-testing Consultancy Limited

This quarters’ JAM/Panther update announces the following topics:

•	Modernization: Replace, Rewrite or Reuse
•	Copying Excel Cells into Panther
•	Released Bug Fixes in Q4 2017
•	Free Download

To all our Clients, Partners & Friends,

Hope your 2018 is off to a good start. We have many exciting things going on here at Prolifics. This year, we’ll be focusing on helping customers modernize their JAM, Prolifics, and Panther applications. One of our senior JAM/Panther architects has just released a White Paper and video to share information with you about modernization. If you’ve been wondering how you could modernize your applications, be sure to check out the link below.

From your Panther Product Support Team

Modernization: Replace, Rewrite or Reuse

After a number of years, an application will become outdated...

This is a fact; technology moves on, new devices and hardware become available. User expectations and ways of using applications have changed. Cloud, Internet of Things etc. are there to use and interact with.

As for the organization, new people with new skill sets join the team, and the existing ones gradually disappear taking their skill sets with them. Eventually the application looks ‘old and tired’ and now we don’t know what to do with it.

So, along comes the first management decision. “Is the application functionality still relevant for the business?” In many cases it is; we have built our business around the application and it does everything our business needs, but we would like it to do more.

Next comes the question; What shall we do with it? Do we leave it as is or do we modernize it?

READ THE WHITEPAPER WATCH THE VIDEO

Copying Excel Cells into Panther

Viewing and manipulating data in a tabular arrangement is very powerful. It's no surprise that spreadsheet programs are a standard feature of office productivity suites. Furthermore, many users
expect to be able to copy and paste ranges of fields from one program to another, for example, from a spreadsheet program into a grid on a web page.

However, when one copies a range of cells on a spreadsheet program and then attempts to paste the data into a web page the results are, by default, not what one might expect. Support for copying one field at a time is provided by all web browsers but support for copying ranges of fields is not a given.

READ MORE

Released Bug Fixes in Q4 2017

38735	Grid can cause crash for 64 bit Panther , when screen is resized to 1280x1024
38737	Labels lose their bg colors when printed to PDF format
38642	Allow user to replace calls to alert () in generated JavaScript validation method
38743	When sorting columns in grid, bg colors of rows do not stay
38744	Landscape mode for PDF driver shouldn't rotate the document
38745	Cannot use system decimal in data, when it matches 000 separator numeric format
38746	Turning protection off in a protected array does not work
38747	Data is lost after POST for individually protected array occurrences
38748	Mouse click can place cursor too far left in a right justified field
38751	Inconsistent highlighting when selecting grid field when select on entry is turned on
38756	Crash when opening LDB screen originally created by dd5to6
38769	Programmatic resizing of grid widget column widths to fill available space
38761	f2asc crashes for lengthy SQL statements in detail node of report structure

Please contact crm@prolifics.com to download the patch

Free Download

Download our latest Eclipse plugin for JPL from GitHub
https://github.com/Prolifics-Panther/JPLEPlugins

What would you like to see in the next Quarterly Update?

We welcome your feedback at support@prolifics.com

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