tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1277556 2012-05-10T17:09:07+01:00 Musings of a DriveWorks Developer TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef016766661025970b 2012-05-10T17:09:07+01:00 2012-05-10T17:09:07+01:00

From the very outset the DriveWorks API was designed with PDM as one of our core scenarios, and we aimed to make it possible for both ourselves and our partners to implement integrations into a wide variety of different systems....

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0168e91074b3970c 2012-03-21T14:10:17+00:00 2012-03-21T14:10:17+00:00

In my last post I talked about the work my team has been doing on the online documentation, and I’m now happy to announce that as of today, the new documentation system is in production at http://docs.driveworkspro.com/ Thanks to everyone...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef016302bcdd3d970d 2012-03-12T13:30:00+00:00 2012-03-12T13:30:00+00:00

At DriveWorks, one of the things that we work really hard on is the openness and breadth of the documentation we produce, if you’re a DriveWorks Solo user you can get access to the documentation online at http://help.driveworksolo.com/ and if...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0148c83c7888970c 2011-02-01T19:49:12+00:00 2011-02-01T19:49:26+00:00

If you’ve been following twitter or the main DriveWorks Blog, you might have noticed that today is a special day. Today marks the 10th birthday of DriveWorks – I can’t actually believe that the past ten years have gone so...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e22a6fb0970b 2011-01-31T20:02:01+00:00 2011-01-31T20:05:12+00:00

Wow. I can say without a shred of reservation that this was easily the best of any of the SolidWorks World’s I’ve been to. SolidWorks put on a great show this year, the offsite event on Tuesday was truly spectacular...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0148c7cdb08a970c 2011-01-20T09:01:02+00:00 2011-01-20T09:01:02+00:00

In hindsight, my plan to get out a few blog posts about DriveWorks 8 before SolidWorks World seems at best flawed, if not downright naïve. The weeks in the run up to SolidWorks World are pretty much the busiest in...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0ec71c2970b 2010-12-23T16:00:00+00:00 2010-12-22T10:59:31+00:00

I’m probably not going to get much of a chance to update my blog over the week or so as the office officially closes for Christmas. In the mean time, for anyone that doesn’t subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed, here’s...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0ec4f39970b 2010-12-22T16:00:00+00:00 2010-12-22T16:00:00+00:00

In Part 1 of the Rules Enhancements series we looked at some of the new functions coming to DriveWorks 8, but we’re not done yet - In this post, we’re going to explore some new customer-driven security and date related...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0bfa2c5970b 2010-12-17T15:00:00+00:00 2010-12-17T15:00:00+00:00

In the previous general enhancements post, I covered the new today screen, in this post I want to talk a little bit about the installation of DriveWorks Pro. Installation isn’t generally something people want to talk about a great deal,...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0be4fa6970b 2010-12-15T22:50:34+00:00 2010-12-15T22:50:34+00:00

So far I’ve covered various form designer and rules enhancements (don’t worry, there are more of those too), but in these posts I just want to zero in on a couple of general enhancements, first up – the new DriveWorks...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0a1fc92970b 2010-12-13T10:10:56+00:00 2010-12-13T22:16:17+00:00

If you’re implementing DriveWorks, there’re a few places where you find yourself spending most of your time, and one of those is actually creating your rules. In DriveWorks 7 we made a lot of improvements to the rules builder, but...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0857f14970b 2010-12-09T16:13:16+00:00 2010-12-13T10:15:52+00:00

So far with forms we’ve covered transparency and the new hyperlink control, today I’d like to talk about a couple of other customer driven changes which we think are going to make working with forms in DriveWorks even better. Form...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e0528517970b 2010-12-02T18:50:13+00:00 2010-12-13T10:16:48+00:00

Don’t worry, we’re not done with form enhancements yet, but I thought I’d take a quick 1-post break from forms stuff to look at some of the new functions coming to DriveWorks Projects in DriveWorks Solo and Pro 8. In...

Philip Stears tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cc40253ef0147e03dd52e970b 2010-11-29T17:56:08+00:00 2010-12-13T10:17:17+00:00

DriveWorks 8 introduces a few new form controls and in this post I’m going to talk a little bit about one that we get asked for a lot: Say hello to the humble hyperlink! There are all sorts of reasons...

Philip Stears