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August 11, 2014

Mark Schroeder, Senior CA 2E Consultant Do you ever get tired of having to create a workaround so you can avoid showing the ‘blank’ condition description for your status fields?  By default, you have to enter code to retrieve conditions for display on a screen and then, if it is a blank condition, you must

August 11, 2014

Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect Be lazy; reduce the number of characters typed into the AD Editor.  You can use Synonyms and Default Instructions to reduce your effort. Choose ‘General Options’ from the File Menu and switch to the ‘Action Diagram’ tab. Tick the ‘Use Defaults’ and ‘Use Synonyms’ boxes. Press ‘Edit Synonyms’

August 11, 2014

Modernizing application in France?  CM First is excited to announce that Belharra will now be the center of competency for CA Plex and CM WebClient customers.  “Belharra has a desirable customer base, speaks the customer’s language and has a positive reputation with its customers,” said Bruno LeConte, Managing Director, CM First France.   Belharra specializes

August 11, 2014

John Rhodes, CTO, has been taking the modernization story on the road.  As a modernization partner with IBM, CM First was represented at the IBM Modernization Forum held May 13-14, 2014 at the IBM Client Center Paris, Bois-Colombes. On June 10-11, the CM First team led the first CA Plex Games in Austin, a training

August 11, 2014

CM First offers an online CM WebClient workshop with hands-on exercises to get you going on web and mobile app enablement fast. The workshop will walk you through the process of creating a mobile and web application with CM WebClient and CA Plex. Then, you’ll package it so that it can be deployed to a

June 4, 2014

Because of the positive response to the initial CA Plex and CA 2E Support Service Plan, CM First announced additional 3rd party application support for customers covered under the plan. Worldwide, all CM First solutions such as CM Web Client and MatchPoint are now eligible, as well. The Retained Service plan reduces overall costs and

June 3, 2014

Improving Your CA 2E Development Experience with Some Useful ‘Rules of Thumb’   I’m going to show you some rules of thumb that, if used consistently, will improve your development experience. The parameters screen can be very useful if you take care with it. When I first learned to use Synon, I would have a