Starlims Fun

So I'm sitting here with my fellow coder, who between the two of us we've probably got 30, maybe 40 of formal coding experience and we're frustrated.  See, Starlims v10 has all these neat, nifty ways to see the designer and its contents.  I mean we've got color coded code.  Nice crisp blue and red for starlims code (SSL) and different hues for Jscript.

Of course, we were trying to simply figure out how it had loaded a link list with data and that took, oh about an hour to figure its code check in and check out maze.  Hmmm, not the most intuitive necessarily or maybe I just haven't had enough coffee?  *shrugs*

We did finally figure it out, of course.  Through old fashioned trial and error.  You, know, click until you break something!  Which we did and found our answer.

So to get an application open, it looks like you:

• Pull up the item in the Applications Explorer Pane
• Which pulls it up in the XFD Design surface and editors pane
• Then you find it in the Workspace Explorer Pane and right click to "check out" the item
• Which puts you back in the XFD Design surface and editors pane with something you can edit

Simple as pi!

And, of course, the Using Starlims v10 IDE.pdf that comes with programs says, and I quote:

"With STARLIMS v10 ENTERPRISE DESIGNER you can do the following very easy and intuitively, with reduced development time and effort..."

Sigh.