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16 Nov 2020
For the past week, Zalaris has been publishing its usual series of articles to cover the upcoming SuccessFactors release. The updates are already in preview systems and are set for release into production systems over the weekend of 20 November 2020.
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15 Nov 2020
As 2020 closes out, SAP brings a final instalment of SuccessFactors updates, and Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC) carries with it, numerous tweaks and more than a few new features. In this article, I will guide you through changes for service agents, administrators, and employees, as well as a few additional areas of interest.
I will also highlight a few things we can expect to see in 2021 and perhaps even suggest a few things I would like to see next year.
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08 Nov 2020
It’s really rewarding when people get some benefit from the things that I’ve shared. It is even better when they choose to share that on through their own channels. I’ve noticed over the past month or so that my ThoughtAsylum Action Suite for Drafts has been garnering a bit of coverage recently on some podcasts which was a nice surprise when you happen to be listening along and hear something you created given a positive mention and review.
I’ve collated the episodes and rough timings for anyone interested in listening to them.
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31 Oct 2020
I’ve been a long time Evernote user and while the application and services have certainly seen a lot of issues arising in the last decade, I still rely on it for some of my workflows. One of these is my daily journal, and this is a topic I have written about several times before. I recently had a bit of a change to this, and it is time for another quick write-up.
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27 Sep 2020
Back in July of this year (2020), I released the first version of the TADpoLe library for Mac app Drafts, and with it the ThoughtAsylum action group. It was the culmination of very slowly taking two years of action creation and bundling it up for others to make use of. Only two months later and things have had to undergo what has been a pretty significant change.
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16 Aug 2020
XYplorer is one of my favourite Windows apps and it has been a little while since I’ve shared anything about how I’m using it. So, when I added a new script this week that uses 7-Zip I thought I’d draft a quick post about it along with a related script also using 7-Zip.
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14 Aug 2020
SuccessFactors may be on bi-annual releases, but SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) continues apace on its quarterly-release cycle. Since Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC), the SuccessFactors solution for running an HR service desk uses this system as its service back-end system. It means that ECSC users continue to receive updates every quarter. In this release, SAP is releasing several home page-related updates, which may be an indicator of things to come given how under-utilised this area of C4C has been in the past. Along with this, there are ticket processing updates, some features to please the administrators, and of course, some additions around reporting and analytics.
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25 Jul 2020
When developing JavaScript for drafts, logging to the console or using well-placed alerts and other visual indicators can be useful for what is going on, but a more advanced logging solution can make things much easier. The latest update to the ThoughtAsylum Drafts Library includes a new class that provides functionality to help Drafts action creators with their testing.
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18 Jul 2020
I’ve recently been working on a new project (more on that soon I hope), where I have been titling content. My use of consistent styling for titling of various blog posts and the like has probably been less than consistent, so I figure that this was a good opportunity to have a got at turning that around. The Chicago Manual of Style choice of titling rules seemed pretty good and so I’ve gone with that, but consistency is key and ease of use is required, so here’s a little Mac automation using Keyboard Maestro that sorts it all out for me.
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16 Jul 2020
When I’m creating Drafts actions and testing them out, I quite often need test data to work with. Rather than creating test data each time, I figured I should sort out some standard test data. While I could certainly have used a tool like TextExpander, which Drafts notably supports natively on i*OS, I decided instead to roll it into some actions, and in this post I’m going to explain a little bit about that and how you can make use of them too.
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