M3 and Related Technology - Recent questions and answers in ION

Answered: What is the format for a Custom BOD zipfile?

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:20:38 +0000

You have to create a very specific zip file format.

Create a Folder with the noun of the BOD
Create in that Folder a folder called "BOD"
Create another Folder with the noun of the BOD
    In that folder, create two files:
    NounName.xml
    NounName.xsd
The XML contains the metadata for the BOD
The XSD contains the noun schema

Answered: Can I call IDM from a public service?

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:58:46 +0000

I took an hour today to dig into IDM to see if I could setup public anonymous access.

You can’t access IDM without a login, and the API calls to get a token, then to get information about the files, then to actually pull the file cause an issue for something like a website wanting to display images in a catalog. I had pulled the links generated by IDM in an API call hoping to use them to push to publish, but they seemed to expire after a certain period of time as was discovered when I shared the links.

https://mingle-ionapi.inforcloudsuite.com/<InforEnv>/CustomerApi/Images/IDM/items/search?query=@JPEG/[Item_No]=0&offset=0&limit=100

IDM Public.docx (23 kb)

Answered: How do I build an ION CRON Line?

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:31:27 +0000

I've found this website wonderful for building the Advanced Schedule for CRON for ION.

https://www.freeformatter.com/cron-expression-generator-quartz.html

Answered: How do I create a UserArea Property in ION? (XSLT UDF)

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:05:24 +0000

Add the UDF to the Mapper Function. Add the input parameters "name" and "value"

Edit the XSLT by clicking on the tag icon in the bottom left of the function.

Paste in the code at the end of this answer.

Code:

<xsl:element name="Property">
<xsl:element name="NameValue">
<xsl:attribute name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="$name"/>
</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:value-of select="$value"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>