LassoSoft Technical Article Library
These Articles give practical use advice as well as exploring the fundamentals behind Lasso code and how this interrelates with other system, databases and applications.
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The article describes how to communicate between an HTML page on a client browser and Lasso 9 on the server using jQuery AJAX. The scenario used is a select form element with grocery item categories,...
Updated: Aug 05, 2011 @ 14:16 PM
This article discusses the various methods of accessing FileMaker Server Advanced 11 (FMSA) for online web applications, and compares the resulting performance under various database calls. The FileM...
Updated: Aug 02, 2011 @ 18:39 PM
Upgrading ImageMagick on CentOS Lasso Professional 8.6 and Lasso 9 Server for CentOS 5 includes native support for ImageMagick 6.2.8, the latest official package. However, this package does not reflec...
Updated: Jul 30, 2011 @ 21:35 PM
Lasso Server 9 can communicate with FileMaker Server 11 Advanced or FileMaker Pro 11 through ODBC*. *Please see http://www.filemaker.com/support/technologies/odbc.html for an overview ...
Updated: Jul 30, 2011 @ 20:47 PM
Large PDF Documents with Lasso PDF Tags Note this article is relevant for LP8x, although improvements in 8.6 can be observed the CentOS version. This article explains how to address a problem with ...
Updated: Jul 28, 2011 @ 10:07 AM
Problem Users can experience Lasso 8.6 crashes when using the [Loop_Continue] tag within an [Inline] container that is nested in an [Iterate] or [Loop] tag. For example: iterate( array( 1, 2, 3...
Updated: Jun 13, 2011 @ 14:47 PM
FileMaker Server Data Sources Lasso Server communicates with FileMaker Server 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 Advanced or FileMaker Server 11 through its built-in XML interface. Other products in the FileMake...
Updated: Jun 10, 2011 @ 14:32 PM
Taken from the tip of the week for June 22, 2007 this article discusses character encoding in Lasso and recommends best practices for a complete Unicode workflow. Introduction When Lasso processes a...
Updated: Jun 09, 2011 @ 15:46 PM
Note: As of Lasso Professional 8.6.3, this fix is no longer necessary. Problem Lasso Professional 8.6 does not start automatically when booting into CentOS 5. Answer The root user defaults to req...
Updated: May 19, 2011 @ 17:54 PM
Instead of reinventing the wheel, it is sometimes preferable to leverage scripts from other languages such as php, perl, python or ruby. This article describes how to execute scripts from these common...
Updated: May 03, 2011 @ 12:06 PM
