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  • IPP Java DevKit Logger

    “I’m using the Java DevKit, and my IDS calls are failing.  How can I troubleshoot?” – we get asked this question very often and the solution is to enable logging in the DevKit! Here is an easy-to-follow, step by step guide to enable logging of the request and response XML in the Java DevKit.  The […]

  • Flex to Excel or Excel to Flex, now that is the question!

    Flex to Excel or Excel to Flex, now that is the question!

    Since my last challenge of getting Flex to create a PDF file using Flash Player 10 went so well, it was decided that I should tackle Excel files. This proved to be a challenge, since the library I decided to use doesn’t play well with itself and I thought I was doing something wrong.

  • How to get Flex to produce a PDF file using Flash Player 10

    Hi. My name is William Lorfing and I a Development Support Engineer for the Intuit Developer Network. I have been with Intuit for over a year now and one of the questions that comes up from time to time is to show an example of how to get a Flex app to produce a PDF […]

  • Welcome Flex 4 (And for IPP Native Developers…Now What?)

    Hello!!  My name is Anjali Kucheria and I’ve recently become a Developer Relations Engineer at the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) team.  I’ve been a Flex Developer for some time now, specifically focused on the user-interface, styling and skinning aspects of development. I’m super enthused about my new role.  I’m also very excited about the launch […]

  • Federated Applications: Generating your x.509 certificate in Java, OpenSSL or .Net

    Are you ready to create a Federated Application on the Intuit Partner Platform? Need help generating your x.509 certificate for testing? Coding in Java or .Net? Here's how… You need to provide Intuit with your public key if you wish to Federate your application, here are the instructions for generating those x.509 certificates. Keep in mind these […]

  • How to manage Relationships between tables in QuickBase for IPP?

    How do we handle QuickBase relationships using the Intuit Partner Platform Flex SDK Plugin? The QuickBase Missing Manual describes the mechanics for creating relationships between tables as well as common use-case relationships. For example, you can think of a one-to-many relation between projects and tasks where each task in the tasks table is linked to […]

  • How is the QuickBaseDTOArrayCollection different from an ArrayCollection?

    Apart from the name, there are some important properties and methods that make it more useful in the context of writing your Flex code. You can leverage the framework and use QuickBaseDTOArrayCollection to keep your data up to date and avoid having to do the low-level programming to acheive the same otherwise. I'll try and […]

  • Setting Up a Co-Development IPP Project in Flex Builder

    Hello IPP developers, my name is Jarred Keneally and I am a developer support engineer for the Intuit Partner Platform. After receiving quite a few inquiries as to the best way to setup a co-development IPP project, I though I would blog about the way to do that. You should know we are working on […]

  • Frustrated by IE6 security warnings in IPP Applications?

    Are you seeing the following security warning when running Flex-based IPP applications in IE6? If so, it is probably due to the fact that IE6 does not like iFrame tags without a SRC attribute. If you're sure that it's not your code that contains the incomplete iFrame tag, chances are pretty good that you inherited the […]