4.5WS to 6 - preferences in ASP?

We are planning the move to version 6 from 4.5WS. For old ASP portlets that have preferences - what changes are needed to work under 6? Are there samples? I have heard we can keep them in ASP for now, which will help our schedule. Also, what Plumtree software needs to be on the remote server where the portlets run?
Thanks,
Howard

I worked on a project converting 4.0 ASP Classic Portlets to run in G6, and there wasnt any modifications to the Preferences to make them work. The CSP is pretty much the same in regards to backwards compatibility.
Dan
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The preference over ASP is clear: ASP runs on IIS which has security, performance and reliability problems (there's a Gartner advisory out, telling enterprises to move from IIS implementations till Microsoft rewrites IIS and giving a %85 probability that MS will begin to do so before the year ends). The performance penalty for ASP is that it is interpreted each time it is invoked. ASP.NET takes the JSP approach and will be compiled when it is deployed.
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Hi Phil and Joseph,
Thanks for your responses! Yes, Christams during summer is a bit wierd. It always sneaks up on me and I dont realize it's christmas until I go to the store and everthing is closed!!!
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(PS sorry Joseph it took me so long to reply, our email address changed and I guess my notifications have stopped!)
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Using the EDK in ASP Pages

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I'm wondering if there is another DLL that is required to go into the GAC? It's clear that the ASP can find the EDK - as I can call some functions from it - but only when I call certain other functions (through direct ASP or through my wrapper) that I hit problems.
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Hi Phil and Joseph,
Thanks for your responses! Yes, Christams during summer is a bit wierd. It always sneaks up on me and I dont realize it's christmas until I go to the store and everthing is closed!!!
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Help with Test Server & Binding Recordset ASP-SQL

Using CS 3.3/DW. Behavior is the same on two different
machines. One is Vista Home Premium SP1 IIS 7 with 6 compatability,
other is XP SP 3 IIS 5.1, both have IE 7 and full SQL 2005 with
SP's.
Haven't gotten very far away from static page yet, because I
can't test. Have scoured forums and even talked to Adobe who
recreated the problem then told me that they hadn't done sufficient
testing to SQL 2005 prior to release, were supposed to call me
back, did once, supposed to call back again and haven't (3 days).
So I'm turning to the community for help, please.
Set up test server in folder 'TServer' under
C:\inetpub\wwwroot. Built a 'Hello World' ASP/VB Script page with
no data attached, tests fine, puts in the appropriate folder and
says "Hello World" in browser like a good little box should! Have
built many DSN's, they tested during the building fine, I've tried
various versions of ODBC and OLE DB, including but not limited to
Native SQL Client, which is my preference and have been quite
successful setting up the DSN's...they add to the ASP page/Site
(it's greyed out unless you have an open ASP page) fine. Test at
that point works fine. As soon as I bind a Recordset (whether I
have dropped data on the page or not...same 'Hello World' page with
Recordset info near the top of the code) and test, I error out.
Any thoughts? I'm sure you'll need more info...I've tried to
put as much as I can for starters. Thanks in advance.
Peter

When you say that you error out, what error are you getting?
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver/ColdFusion
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
"Peter AZ" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:g5qb7n$n30$[email protected]..
> Using CS 3.3/DW. Behavior is the same on two different
machines. One is Vista
> Home Premium SP1 IIS 7 with 6 compatability, other is XP
SP 3 IIS 5.1, both
> have IE 7 and full SQL 2005 with SP's.
>
> Haven't gotten very far away from static page yet,
because I can't test. Have
> scoured forums and even talked to Adobe who recreated
the problem then told me
> that they hadn't done sufficient testing to SQL 2005
prior to release, were
> supposed to call me back, did once, supposed to call
back again and haven't (3
> days). So I'm turning to the community for help, please.
>
> Set up test server in folder 'TServer' under
C:\inetpub\wwwroot. Built a
> 'Hello World' ASP/VB Script page with no data attached,
tests fine, puts in the
> appropriate folder and says "Hello World" in browser
like a good little box
> should! Have built many DSN's, they tested during the
building fine, I've tried
> various versions of ODBC and OLE DB, including but not
limited to Native SQL
> Client, which is my preference and have been quite
successful setting up the
> DSN's...they add to the ASP page/Site (it's greyed out
unless you have an open
> ASP page) fine. Test at that point works fine. As soon
as I bind a Recordset
> (whether I have dropped data on the page or not...same
'Hello World' page with
> Recordset info near the top of the code) and test, I
error out.
>
> Any thoughts? I'm sure you'll need more info...I've
tried to put as much as I
> can for starters. Thanks in advance.
>
> Peter
>
>

Problem with getting Dreamweaver CC to support ASP and ASPX

My company and our developers have been using Dreamweaver for more than 10 years and over that time have used DW to build an ASP and SQL server based system with a code base of over 200 programs and literally thousands of web pages in many, many currently active business websites. We subscribed to Creative Cloud upon upgrading our workstations to Wondows 8 but found to our consternation that DW CC does not support ASP or ASP.NET. We have followed instructions provided in this forum in June and attempted to edit the Extensions file to include ASP and ASPX, but either DW or Windows 8 refuses to allow the change to be saved, even with have Administrator access. What can we do now, apart from cancel our CC subscriptions?

Thanks Nithya.MV for your earlier response.
We have now found a solution at http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/change-add-recognized-file-extensions.html which applies to Dreamweaver CS6 but can be adapted to DW CC. The solution was:
1. Go to C\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC\en_US\Configuration\Extensions.txt
2. Open the file in say NotePad (visit Preferences first to turn off Read Only if necessary).
3. Add ASP, ASPX, to the front of the list of extensions in the first line.
4. Save the Extensions.txt file (then resent the file to Real Only in Preferences)
5. Close Dreamweaver CC if it's open.
6. (Re)start Dreamweaver CC and open the required .asp or .aspx file.
This worked a treat.
Unfortunately all the other intructions provided on the Support Forum had us looking in the wrong place at:
C\Program files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC\configuration\Extensions.txt

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Ross [email protected]

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Mac version does not display ASP in WYSIWYG

Hi, after losing my patience with Microsoft Vista I decided
to buy my first Mac (an iMac 24"). Yes, it's a beautiful machine,
but I still have a hard time seeing how the Mac makes my life
better. Among other problems, when I open one of my dozens of ASP
pages in the Mac version of DW3 I only get the code view. Display
view is grayed out. Likewise, I can create sites and open files
from my web server (IIS), but I can't put files (that too is grayed
out). What's the deal? I realize that ASP is a Windows technology
but is it really asking too much for the supposedly superior Mac to
display a legitimate web format in Display View? Unfortunately,
this is just one of many Mac issues that are making me question the
decision to invest in a Mac. Sorry, I don't really see the
superiority in my daily work tasks (and what's up with fonts that
require a magnifying glass to view? I've yet to see how I can
increase the font size in most applications, like this message--and
the font control in system preferences only affects the font size
of the desktop, big stinking help that is).
Thanks,
Larry Schankman

Mac or PC both display design view for me on ASP pages.
Have you read this?
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16410
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"lschank" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi, after losing my patience with Microsoft Vista I
decided to buy my
> first Mac
> (an iMac 24"). Yes, it's a beautiful machine, but I
still have a hard time
> seeing how the Mac makes my life better. Among other
problems, when I open
> one
> of my dozens of ASP pages in the Mac version of DW3 I
only get the code
> view.
> Display view is grayed out. Likewise, I can create sites
and open files
> from
> my web server (IIS), but I can't put files (that too is
grayed out).
> What's the
> deal? I realize that ASP is a Windows technology but is
it really asking
> too
> much for the supposedly superior Mac to display a
legitimate web format
> in
> Display View? Unfortunately, this is just one of many
Mac issues that are
> making me question the decision to invest in a Mac.
Sorry, I don't really
> see
> the superiority in my daily work tasks (and what's up
with fonts that
> require
> a magnifying glass to view? I've yet to see how I can
increase the font
> size in
> most applications, like this message--and the font
control in system
> preferences only affects the font size of the desktop,
big stinking help
> that
> is).
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Schankman
>

DW9 (CS3) split view not work with ASP files?

I just installed and ran DW CS3 (ver 9.0 bulid 3481) -- I use
"coder" view for the screen layout. I like the split-view style
since I code inline HTML with my ASP and ASPX code. However, the
new version has the split-screen view button grayed out. How do I
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ASSumption then they need to issue a patch and remove it pronto. I
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back. TIA!

I still can't figure out why the split view or design view is
grayed out and not accessible when editing files with an .asp or
.aspx extension and it is driving me crazy! I called the support
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call the next day. That was over a week ago. I didn't even get a
voicemail, even though I stayed by my phone the whole day. I see
that support for DW under Adobe is no better than it was under
Macromedia...how sad. Microsoft Expression Web is looking better
and better every day....... :(

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I Have a Java Applet on a Web server outside and when I access the
applet in my corporate office which has a ProxyServer I get "UnKnownHost Exception".
I did used the "System.getProperties" methods giving the Proxy information and can pass through the Proxy Server.But that is not what I want,The Applet should get through
the Proxy server and get the response from the ASP without using the "System.getProperties".
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com.ms.lang.RegKey.KEYOPEN_READ);
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Does anyone know how to get the proxy information from the plugin?

Programmatically changing user preferences when creating an InfoView user in code

Post Author: rickp101
CA Forum: .NET
I am very new to BO (using Business Objects 11.5) so bear with me if I am not clear or seem to have no idea what I'm talking about.
As a .NET Developer I have been asked to work on a project that involves creating new BO users and logging them in from an ASP.NET application (in order to mimic a single sign in system from another piece of software). I have found most of the information I require for this in the .NET SDK. However there is one function the client would like that I have not been able to find a solution for, and that is to change the users document viewing preferences.
Within InfoView, if you go into user preferences, under the General tab there is the following option:
For each document, show me ...
descriptionownerdateinstance countactions and description (if selected) initially not hidden
I think by default all of the boxes are checked however the client only wants the description showing for each user when they are set up. Is this something that can be modified within the code when the user is created or is each user going to have to change this themselves manually once logged in?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Richard

Post Author: Ted Ueda
CA Forum: .NET
The InfoView settings aren't documented, unfortunately, but with sufficient trial-and-error, you'd be able to determine the correct values.
The settings are stored in the SI_DATA property 'desktopsettings' for a User object - you can have a look by logging onto 'Query Builder', accessible from the admin launchpad, and entering a query of the form: "Select SI_ID, SI_NAME, SI_DATA From CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS Where SI_KIND='User' And SI_NAME='<username here>'".
You'd see that, if you've specified the properties manually in InfoView (the property is not there by default) that it consists of '&'-separated key=value entries.
You'd retrieve the value via Enterprise .NET SDK call User.GetProfileString("desktopsettings"), and set new values via User.SetProfileString("desktopsettings", <new string value here>).
The specific values you're interested in are booleans dv0=1, dv1=1, dv2=1, dv3=1, and dv4=1.
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda

Z22 Unable to change date in Preferences

My Z22 works fine except that I am unable to set the date in the Preference screen. When I do correct the date and press "Done" it goes back to 01/02/2005. I am able to HotSync OK and have tried a reset with no luck.
Post relates to: Palm Z22

Hi.. Welcome to the Palm forums. If I am understanding this correctly you can change the time but as soon as you leave the screen, save the changes, it referts back to /1/02/2005. Now you state you did a reset, I'm assuming you mean you pressed the reset button on the back. That is whats called a soft reset, like rebooting your computer. What I would recommend is to do a hard reset. Be sure you have synced your data as this will delete all data on your device. Then before you sync data back to your device test the data and see if it holds. If so sync data back and test again to insure its not some software that has been installed when you resynced causing the problem. If you need instructions on how to do a hard reset go to http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/nua/launchKB.asp?c=887

Document type in Code Coloring preference

Edit, preference in Dreamweaver MX 2004, under code coloring
category, I can't see the various document type in Machine A but I
can see ASP JavaScript, PHP, Cold Fusion etc in Machine B, do
anybody know why????Configuration problem???
How do I get it back????Pls help

It sounds like you may have some missing or corrupted
Configuration
files in the CodeColoring and DocumentType sub-folders.
Start by disabling any extensions that you have installed.
After that,
the easiest solution is probably to uninstall/reinstall.
HTH,
Randy
> Edit, preference in Dreamweaver MX 2004, under code
coloring category, I can't
> see the various document type in Machine A but I can see
ASP JavaScript, PHP,
> Cold Fusion etc in Machine B, do anybody know
why????Configuration problem???

Userinfo.asp and getting the info back

Hi All,
I'm probably being really stupid here but I need some help.
We have modified userinfo.asp to pick up settings from our SSO LDAP source. As far as I can tell this seem to have worked in that there are no errors. Running request server.variables (ALL_HTTP) I can see that it has picked up the user email addresses.
Now the problem is trying to pull this setting into a gadget. We are still running 4.5WS SP2 so all help is from the gadget book for this version.
I've tried following the examples and made a simple gadget which is
<%Dim objSettings, dictUserInfoSet objSettings = Server.CreateObject("GSServices.Settings")Set dictUserInfo = objSettings.GetUserInfoSettingsDim cUserMailcUserMail = dictUSerInfo("mail")%>Your email address is: <%=cUserMail%>
the call for 'mail' is set in userinfo.asp
vRequestedAttributes(0) = "cn" vRequestedAttributes(1) = "givenname" vRequestedAttributes(2) = "sn" vRequestedAttributes(3) = "mail"
Thing is that this displays nothing apart from the test. I've made sure these variables are added to the user information in the gadget wizard but still no luck. Could somebody please point out the obvious error.
Thanks Adam
If you are interested the full userinfo.asp code is
Sub PassUserInfo(ptSession, objSSOInfo) Dim lAuthSourceID Dim pUserInfo Dim strUserNameForBind Dim strUserPasswordForBind Dim vRequestedAttributes(4) Dim strObjectForQuery Dim objLDAPQueryTool
Err.Clear On Error Resume Next
Const strQueryFilter = "(objectclass=*)" Const strDelimiter = ";" If Instr(1, ptSession.CurrentAuthUniqueName, "o=Wiley") Then lAuthSourceID = Application("JWAUTHSOURCE")
Set pUserInfo = ptSession.UserInfo
strUserNameForBind = ptSession.CurrentAuthUniqueName strUserPasswordForBind = objSSOInfo.BasicAuthPassword
vRequestedAttributes(0) = "cn" vRequestedAttributes(1) = "givenname" vRequestedAttributes(2) = "sn" vRequestedAttributes(3) = "mail"
strObjectForQuery = ptSession.CurrentAuthUniqueName If (Application("bLDAPQueryToolProviderInitialized") = False) Then Application.Lock() If (Application("bLDAPQueryToolProviderInitialized") = False) Then Set Application("objLDAPQueryToolProvider") = ptSession.AuthSources.Open(lAuthSourceID).AuthSourceProvider Application("bLDAPQueryToolProviderInitialized") = True End If Application.UnLock() End If
Set objLDAPQueryTool = Application("objLDAPQueryToolProvider").Interfaces("IPTLDAPQueryTool") Call objLDAPQueryTool.Search(strObjectForQuery, strQueryFilter, vRequestedAttributes, strUserNameForBind, strUserPasswordForBind, pUserInfo, strDelimiter)
If (err.Number <> 0) Then Response.End Response.Write("<BR><B>There was an error while connecting to the LDAP repository</B><BR>") Response.Write("Please contact your system administrator") End If End IfEnd Sub

The problem you're experiencing with objSSOInfo.BasicAuthPassword in the userinfo.asp page could be due to checking "remember my password" on the login screen. When that happens, the users password is encrypted and written to the Plumtree cookie. This frustrated us for a little while, because autologin still applies all our user info settings, but was not picking up password. It was blank, as you stated.
This is what we did to fix the problem:
In the newutility.asp page under PortalPages\Common we pick up the password used for autologin, and add it to a session variable. This page is called before userinfo.asp in the autologin process. Here's a code example:(from the AutoConnect subprocedure in newutility.asp)
strDP = ptCryptographer.Decrypt(Request.Cookies("PTLogin")("Password")) Session("tmpPassword") = strDP
Then, in the userinfo.asp page we have conditional logic to see if the session variable is blank, if it is not = "" then we know to pick up password from the session variable. If it is = "" then we pick up the password from objSSOInfo.BasicAuthPassword. Here's more code example (from userinfo.asp):
--------Dim sPasswordDim sPasswordEncryptedDim objCryptographerSet objCryptographer = Server.CreateObject("PTGRemote.PTRCryptographer")objCryptographer.Initialize("blahblah")if Session("tmpPassword") = "" then sPassword = objSSOInfo.BasicAuthPasswordelse sPassword = Session("tmpPassword")end ifsPasswordEncrypted = objCryptographer.Encrypt(sPassword)
Call PopulateUserInfo("ECPassword", sPasswordEncrypted, pUserInfo)Call PopulateUserInfo("UEPassword", sPassword, pUserInfo)--------
Sub PopulateUserInfo(inName, inValue, pUserInfo) Call pUserInfo.AddUserInfoSetting(inName, inValue)End Sub
This works 100%, just be sure to not clear out the tmpPassword session variable, or you'll lose the password.
More things to note. The E2K portlet suite expects the users password (when using user info settings) to be passed plain text, unencrypted. That's pretty bad (in my opinion), but that's the way it works. We've had a myriad of problems with this portlet suite (version 3.0.2). I'd love to talk with some other customers using user info settings for these portlets to compare notes, and see if you're running into some of the same issues we are.
Jason OdomCox Enterprises

DW 9 crashes in classic ASP when ASP inside select tag.

I'm updating a site written in classic ASP with Dreamweaver CS3, 9.0. Dreamweaver is crashing to the desktop whenever I encounter a page that has ASP code within the Option tags of a Select list, like the example below. Rather then recoding all of the pages, is there a way to get Dreamweaver to work with these pages, maybe shutting of a feature in the preferences that is causing the crash? Has anyone else encountered this?
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<select name="MailList" class="Input" Style="Font-Size:11px; Width:98%">
<option Value="">Any</Option>
<option Value=""HolidayCard"" <%If Request.QueryString("MailList") = "HolidayCard" Then Response.Write " Selected" End If%>>Holiday Card</Option>
<option Value=""MetroMatters"" <%If Request.QueryString("MailList") = "MetroMatters" Then Response.Write " Selected" End If%>>Metro Matters</Option>
</select></body>
</html>

I have just looked in another post and turning back the clock
on my pc seems to work for now.

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