The following Tech Notes are designed to help you with some of the more common technical problems you might face while developing your Omnis application. They are sorted by category or topic area, while the most recent notes or updated ones are marked as New or Updated.
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| Setting up Omnis on Debian Linux New | TNLI0004 | |
| Finding out the Web Client installation path New | TNWE0021 | |
| Using the style() function in Tree Lists New | TNGI0025 | |
| Translating and/or Replacing Built-in Omnis Menus New | TNGI0024 | |
| Using $gridcolumn and $gridsection in Complex Grids New | TNGI0023 | |
| Using the RemoteLaunch web component New | TNWE0020 | |
| Using Oracle Instant Client with Mac OSX Updated | TNSQ0010 | |
| Connecting to an Oracle 64-bit Server New | TNSQ0020 | |
| Mapping Extended Characters with PostgreSQLNew | TNSQ0019 | |
| Using multiple SQL backends with Omnis New | TNSQ0018 | |
| Using the Omnis Server with Apache on Mac OS X 10.5 New | TNWE0019 | |
| Omnis
Data Files |
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| Checking Data Files. | TNDF0001 | |
| Segment Issues with Omnis data files. |
TNDF0002 | |
| Locks in Omnis datafiles. | TNDF0003 | |
| Accessing Omnis datafiles on Windows 2000. | TNDF0004 | |
| Omnis Data Bridge Client-Server Compatibility. | TNDF0005 | |
| Object
Orientation and Inheritance |
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| Objects and Object References | TNOO0001 | |
| Polymorphism in Omnis | TNOO0002 | |
| Using References | TNOO0003 | |
| Beginners guide to Abstraction and Inheritance | TNOO0004 | |
| Omnis
Libraries |
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| Multiple Libraries and Task Variables | TNLB0001 | |
| Extending
Omnis |
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| Using .Net objects in Omnis Studio | TNEX0001 | |
| The Omnis Remote Studio Applet (rStudio) | TNEX0002 | |
| Using the .NET Objects component | TNEX0003 | |
| Omnis
Conversion |
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| Converting Omnis 7 applications to Omnis Studio. | TNCN0001 | |
| Preparation of Omnis 7 code prior to conversion. | TNCN0002 | |
| Omnis
Web Client and Ultra-thin Omnis |
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| Omnis Web Client and Personal Web Server. | TNWE0001 | |
| Omnis Web Client automatic install. | TNWE0002 | |
| HTML page redirection depending on browser and platform. | TNWE0003 | |
| Using Web client with Linux and Apache web server. | TNWE0005 | |
| The size of web forms and what is sent from the server to the Client. | TNWE0006 | |
| Detecting browser HTML using Apache Web Server. | TNWE0007 | |
| Opening the Browser at a specific item using a URL. | TNWE0008 | |
| Setting Secure mode for the Omnis Web Client plugin. | TNWE0009 | |
| Configuring the Apache Web Server module on Mac OS X. | TNWE0010 | |
| Deploying the Omnis Server on Linux Appliances. | TNWE0011 | |
| Cancelling a long server process from a remote form. | TNWE0012 | |
| Displaying Pictures in a Web Datagrid | TNWE0013 | |
| Asynchronous Programming in Omnis | TNWE0014 | |
| Dynamically Resizing Web Client Windows | TNWE0015 | |
| Direct HTTP access in Omnis | TNWE0016 | |
| FormFile operation parameters | TNWE0017 | |
| Using Omnis HTTP Commands | TNWE0018 | |
| Using the Omnis Server with Apache on Mac OS X 10.5 New | TNWE0019 | |
| Using the RemoteLaunch web component New | TNWE0020 | |
| Finding out the Web Client installation path New | TNWE0021 | |
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| Using Complex Data Structures. | TNDM0001 | |
| Data Corruption Problems. (Updated Nov 06) | TNDM0002 | |
| String Tables in Omnis Studio. | TNDM0003 | |
| NULLs in Expressions and Omnis | TNDM0004 | |
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Synchronizing a Schema and a corresponding Table in a datafile | TNDM0005 |
| Integrated
Design Environment |
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| Transfering your customised Component Store between versions of Studio. | TNID0001 | |
| Naming conventions used in Studio. | TNID0002 | |
| Documenting your Omnis code | TNID0003 | |
| Creating your own Component Store Objects | TNID0004 | |
| Adding version info to your application | TNID0005 | |
| GUI
and Application design |
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| Cascaded Menu Instances. |
TNGI0001 | |
| Embedding Styles Within Lists. | TNGI0002 | |
| Omnis Tree Control. | TNGI0003 | |
| Prompt for Search Class. | TNGI0006 | |
| Picture Conversion in Omnis 7. | TNGI0007 | |
| Storing JPEGs in a Server Database. | TNGI0008 | |
| Scatter Graphs using the $seriesgroupswap property. | TNGI0009 | |
| The Deployment Process and FAQ. | TNGI0010 | |
| Handling the conversion of a Mac text file to an ANSI (PC) text file. | TNGI0011 | |
| How to drop down a droplist automatically when entering the dropdown list. | TNGI0012 | |
| Studio Event Management. | TNGI0013 | |
| Transparent Window Objects | TNGI0014 | |
| Dynamic Positioning of Objects | TNGI0015 | |
| Programming without the Enter Data command | TNGI0016 | |
| Creating your own Omnis desktop | TNGI0017 | |
| Using $dataname in Subwindow fields | TNGI0018 | |
| Adding colors and icons to lists | TNGI0019 | |
| Manually changing the sort order of list lines | TNGI0020 | |
| How to display PDF files directly in Omnis Studio | TNGI0021 | |
| Re-usable Context Menus | TNGI0022 | |
| Using $gridcolumn and $gridsection in Complex Grids New | TNGI0023 | |
| Translating and/or Replacing Built-in Omnis Menus New | TNGI0024 | |
| Using the style() function in Tree Lists New | TNGI0025 | |
| Notation |
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| Test for valid calculation. |
TNNO0001 | |
| Expanding And Collapsing A Tree. | TNNO0002 | |
| Grid Field Exceptions. | TNNO0003 | |
| OLE Automation Notation. | TNNO0004 | |
| The ODBC Driver for Datafile Access and $publicdata. | TNNO0005 | |
| Using Register DLL and Call DLL. | TNNO0006 | |
| Removing duplicate rows from a list. | TNNO0007 | |
| Using $filter on a list. | TNNO0008 | |
| Proportional sizing of columns in a headed list. | TNNO0009 | |
| Tree lists - displaying nodes with a common parent. | TNNO0010 | |
| Creating default values in new rows in an extendable data grid. | TNNO0011 | |
| Moving objects on a specific tab of a pane. | TNNO0012 | |
| The Notational approach to using FileOps | TNNO0013 | |
| $tag and $drawinactive Properties of a Tree list | TNNO0014 | |
| Defining a list with up to 400 columns | TNNO0015 | |
| Avoiding calculations with NULL | TNNO0016 | |
| Functions |
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| How to use the strpbrk() and strspn() functions. |
TNFN0001 | |
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| LaserWriter8 (MAC OS) |
TNPR0001 | |
| The job setup dialog | TNPR0002 | |
| Printing ranges of pages | TNPR0003 | |
| Report Class Prints Itself | TNPR0004 | |
| The Page Setup when printing in Omnis | TNPR0005 | |
| Horizontal Sliding | TNPR0006 | |
| Demonstrating the use of $print in reports | TNPR0007 | |
| Save a report as PDF | TNPR0008 | |
| Storing Report Job Setup Parameters | TNPR0009 | |
| Windows |
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| Windows Vista User Access Control (UAC) | TNWI0001 | |
| Linux |
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| How to install Omnis Studio 3.x under Linux (Updated Jan 04) | TNLI0001 | |
| The Integration of Open Office in Omnis Studio under Linux | TNLI0002 | |
| How to run and use Omnis Studio on Linux platforms (updated Jan 04) | TNLI0003 | |
| Setting up Omnis on Debian Linux New | TNLI0004 | |
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| The DEFAULTDATE keyword for Oracle |
TNDA0001 | |
| Accessing Oracle 9i in Omnis |
TNDA0002 | |
| Using Bind Variables With SQL Classes |
TNSQ0001 | |
| Inserting Dates into a Server from Omnis Studio | TNSQ0002 | |
| Omnis ODBC Access Masks | TNSQ0003 | |
| Omnis Studio Examples - SQL | TNSQ0004 | |
| Altering Datatypes for the columns in your Omnis SQL table | TNSQ0005 | |
| Non-Visual DB2 DAM and Record Locking | TNSQ0006 | |
| Using Outer Joins with OmnisSQL and the Omnis ODBC Driver | TNSQ0007 | |
| Connecting to Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 9 (ASA) | TNSQ0008 | |
| Connecting to Sybase from Mac OSX | TNSQ0009 | |
| Using Oracle Instant Client with Mac OSX Updated | TNSQ0010 | |
| Using Mac OSX DAMORA8 and DAMSYBSE DAMs with Studio 4.2 | TNSQ0011 | |
| Creating your own SQL session for MySQL | TNSQ0012 | |
| Mapping Character Sets | TNSQ0013 | |
| Configuring Oracle DAM(s) on Linux | TNSQ0014 | |
| ODBC Administration with Omnis Studio | TNSQ0015 | |
| Connecting to Sybase SQL Anywhere 10 from a Mac-Intel Client | TNSQ0016 | |
| SQL Error Handler | TNSQ0017 | |
| Using multiple SQL backends with Omnis New | TNSQ0018 | |
| Mapping Extended Characters with PostgreSQL New | TNSQ0019 | |
| Connecting to an Oracle 64-bit Server New | TNSQ0020 | |
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