​ Changing standard translations in reports is one of the most common requests we get from customers. I even got some development requests where customers need to use different translated texts in different layout. Luckily IFS report designer provides string functions which we can use to fulfil such requirements. In this post we will see... Continue Reading →
How I Built a Chatbot for IFS with Free and Open Source Tooling…
Love them or hate them, chatbots will be a big part of tomorrow's technology. Chatbots have become extraordinarily popular in recent years and applications in this area is getting wider each day. With the increase of integration capabilities of messaging platforms, rise of AI and the low code chatbot platforms, building a chatbot has been... Continue Reading →
Scheduling a Custom PLSQL Script in IFS
One of the common question we get around IFS tech stuff is How to schedule something in IFS? Well, if the process you need to schedule can be trigger by calling already existing PLSQL procedure, then you are in luck. You can define a new Database Task and schedule the execution of that task. But... Continue Reading →
IFS Authentication flow with OAuth and OpenID Connect
Use of OAuth in IFS and guide to setup Postman to obtain OAuth tokens from IFS Identity Provider
Working with Java Transformers in IFS
A short guide about IFS transformers and how to build a java transformer
Capturing IFS Aurena requests using Postman
How to use Postman to work with IFS Aurena
Clickatell SMS Integration with IFS
This post is a reply to the IFS forum discussion which questioned about SMS integration with IFS. I did a simple POC for this and surprisingly it worked so I thought it will be a good post to return to my blog after some time. Clickatell is world leading SMS platform and supported in many... Continue Reading →
Build a RESTful API for IFS with WSO2 and knak.it connector
I have tried several different integration tools like Mulesoft, Azure Service Bus and and some native coding with IFS but nothing worked as good (and free) as WSO2 Enterprise Integrator so far. It's a complete Integration tool kit with tons of features so you can basically integrate IFS with anything with right combination of configuration... Continue Reading →
Taming the ESB Beast – Part 1
Connecting IFS database to WSO2 Enterprise Integrator I tried many options to connect IFS with other systems but the standard IFS functionalities are very limited to expose the business objects to outside and connect 'any' type of other system to IFS. On the other hand Enterprise Service Bus, ESB is there to fill the communication gap between two... Continue Reading →
Java date issue with Daylight saving
One of our UK clients complained that some of the timestamp settings in IFS are incorrect. This issue was noticed in Tasks where the received timestamp is one hour behind of the actual time. After some debugging the function call to save the task, we identified that the received time is set from the application server and seems... Continue Reading →