Questions asked by Reto Weiss

Opening a HtmlDialog in 7.4 blocks my Designer

Reto Weiss — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:26:57 -0400

If I open an HtmlDialog in my 7.4 Designer. The HtmlDialog Editor opens but it blocks endless and only displays the waiting cursor icon. I do have to kill the Designer process and restart it. What can I do?

How can I troubleshoot problems with the user synchronisation from Active Directory or another LDAP server?

Reto Weiss — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:53:11 -0400

How can I troubleshoot problems with the user synchronisation from Active Directory or any other LDAP server?

For example if the synchronisation runs successfully but not all my users gets imported.

How to set additional HTTP Header in SOAP WebService Request

Reto Weiss — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:50:08 -0400

How can I set an additional HTTP header in a SOAP web service request. For example to send a OAuth2 token to the web service?

Regards

Is WADL as description of REST services supported?

Reto Weiss — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:34:40 -0500

I have written a REST service in my ivy project. How can I produce a WADL description of my the REST service? I need the WADL to send it to the consumer of the REST service so that he knows how to consume it.

How can I configure a separate log file for the runtime log?

Reto Weiss — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:28:38 -0400

I would like to have two log files. One for he ivy system messages and one for the runtime log messages. How can I configure that?

I set an application specific theme in the Admin UI but it has no effect, what is wrong?

Reto Weiss — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:19:26 -0500

When I set an application specific theme in the AdminUI (Axon.ivy 6.0.1 or later) it has no effect. The theme still is the default one. What is wrong?

How can I access the attributes of a ivy HTML Dialog component from its logic?

Reto Weiss — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:26:59 -0400

I have the following ivy HTML Dialog component:

<cc:interface componentType="IvyComponent">
  <cc:attribute name="location" type="ivy.Location" required="true"/>        
</cc:interface>

How can I access the attribute location from a logic process of the component?

How can I configure a redirect in IIS

Reto Weiss — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:48:19 -0400

How can I configure IIS so that I'm getting redirected to the ivy engine start page or a process start if I enter just the hostname in my browser? E.g http://example is redirected to http://example/ivy/info/index.jsp

How can I limit the number of characters in a RTextField?

Reto Weiss — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:24:40 -0500

I know I can validate the maximum number of characters by using the ivy validation mechanism.

Put I want to prevent that the user even can input more than the allowed character.

How can I configure a special error page for a certain exception

Reto Weiss — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:33:36 -0500

I want to configure a error page that is shown if a certain exception occurs in Axon.ivy. How can I do that?

Single Sign On with IE11 and IIS does not work?

Reto Weiss — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:41:37 -0500

Since I have upgraded to IE 11 single sign on with IIS and Axon.ivy does no longer work. I have to login on Axon.ivy manually.

How can I fix that?

Permissions needed to call a API method

Reto Weiss — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:58:46 -0400

Where can I find what permissions a user needs to call an Axon.ivy API method?

How can I configure to get DEBUG level log messages of a log category into the Xpert.ivy Server log file.

Reto Weiss — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:51:53 -0400

For debugging I would like to get DEBUG level log messages of a certain log category in the log files of Xpert.ivy Server.

How can I configure this?

How can I disable Permission checks?

Reto Weiss — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0400

I have a process that does some administrative tasks that requires a lot of Axon.ivy permissions. The user that executes the task does not own all of the required permissions.

But I as a process designer know what I do and I want to give the user the possibility to execute the administrative task without the necessary Axon.ivy permissions. I implement the security in the process itself by guarding the process start with a certain role for example.

How can I disable programmatically Axon.ivy Security/Permission checks?

How can I take a thread dump of Xpert.ivy Server?

Reto Weiss — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:15:48 -0400

To analyze deadlocks in my code (and in Xpert.ivy) or endless loops it is useful to get a thread dump.

The thread dump contains information about each thread, the locks it owns, the locks it is waiting for and the whole java callstack of the thread. A thread dumps looks like this:

"http-8081-8" daemon prio=6 tid=0x000000001cd71000 nid=0x1124 in Object.wait() [0x000000001e24f000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
    - waiting on <0x00000004d208fae8> (a org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:485)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.await(JIoEndpoint.java:458)
    - locked <0x00000004d208fae8> (a org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:484)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

"http-8081-7" daemon prio=6 tid=0x000000001cd70800 nid=0x1238 in Object.wait() [0x000000001e1cf000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
    - waiting on <0x00000004d2097900> (a org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:485)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.await(JIoEndpoint.java:458)
    - locked <0x00000004d2097900> (a org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:484)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

How can I take a thread dump of Xpert.ivy Server?

How to grant permssions to a user or role in Designer?

Reto Weiss — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:46:22 -0400

How can I grant additional permissions to a user or role in Designer? There seems to be no editor to configure that.

How can I prevent to import deactived users from Microsoft Active Directory ?

Reto Weiss — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:13:56 -0500

If I use active directory to synchronize AD users with Xpert.ivy Server also deactivated users are imported. How can I prevent that?

Xpert.ivy Rich Dialog client certificate (Soreco AG) is expired?

Reto Weiss — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:48:52 -0500

The current Rich Dialog client certificate from Soreco AG expires at the 29th of November 2013 17:50 CET. After that dates customers starting a Rich Dialog will get the following warning from java web start: How can I avoid this warning?

Use VisualVM with Xpert.ivy Server running as Windows Service?

Reto Weiss — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:40:54 -0400

How can I connect from VisualVM to Xpert.ivy Server running as Windows Service? It is not displayed in the list of running local java applications in VisualVM.