Admin and development tools what do you use?
Like many of us I'm having to be more productive with less resource than I might have been used to. I'm using a variety of tools to help me do that including: The excellent Noteman which I use daily to compare documents, fix field values and occaisionally look at design information in the database.
I use Teamstudio tools: Ciao, Configurator, Delta and Analyzer. Typically I use configurator and Ciao daily
All of those tools have their place but I could probably do with tools to help me make our old apps more attractive and usable. I've started looking at Ytria's tool suite again viewEZ, actionBarEZ and possibly designPropEZ. Actually all of their tools are potentially huge time savers. I'm looking at upgrading the designs of lots of databases and want introduce standard fonts, and action bar design and positioning.
I'm in a famliar chicken and egg trap. Too busy to evaluate a new set of tools which could potentially save me hours, and there's the budget too of course!
I see that Ytria have released version 9 of their products, have you used them yet & what do you think? Do you have any other recommendations for the busy jack of all trades developer come administrator?
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It moves ACLs, gets docs by UNID/NoteID, runs agents on the server - all stuff you can code together in a few seconds, but rather than do that over and over again, I just made a database for it.
Naturally, it took longer to code so t they are flexible, but in the long run it's saved me a lot of time. I build a bit on this that deleted docs from one Db and then reloaded from another. You know, when you have to run stuff on fresh data. I used it half a dozen times the day I coded it in.
Cheers,
Brian
Posted by Brian Moore At 14:06:26 On 06/11/2009 | - Website - |
ActionBarEZ and ViewEZ will save you ttromendous time changing colors and making fonts uniform across DBs. That alone will save you enough time to pay for the tools!!!
Also, take 10-15 minutes to compare ScanEZ to NoteMan. When I first saw ScanEZ, the PO to buy NoteMan was already on my boss' desk. After looking at ScanEZ though, I chose the Ytria tool. Can't say anything about NoteMan, especially since I didn't follow it's evolution, but the fact that ScanEZ is external to Notes was a big thing for me, as it is used as a separate program.
You can ask Ytria for a fully working evaluation for something like 30 days I think. I really encourage you to do so, or take our words and get the tools. Jake Howlett, Stephen Whissel, and a few other known bloggers are using the tools and blogged about them. Go read what they had to say!
Ben
Posted by Benoit Dubuc At 14:52:16 On 06/11/2009 | - Website - |
@Benoit - that's a resounding endorsement. I use Noteman daily and like it a lot. It's major +'s are relevance to day to day jobs like comparing documents side by side and changing field values in one or more documents. I'm looking forward to comparing the two and will let you know how I get on.
Jason
Posted by Jason At 17:01:51 On 09/11/2009 | - Website - |