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Adept Mastery: How to Optimize System Performance

Adept Mastery: How to Optimize System Performance

Learn all the back-end tips for gaining the best value and performance from Adept.

Topics include:

5 ways to improve database performance by controlling the:

--growth of your database

--volume of transaction logs

--amount of your legacy databases

--size of your audit trail

--database repair

5 ways to improve day-to-day user performance by fine-tuning your:

--Data cards

--Libraries

--Metadata Extraction

--Missing Work Areas

--Missing Vaults

5 ways to speed up your system even further by monitoring Adept’s:

--Indexed fields

--Adaptive wait states

--Missing relationship on check-in

--Local data caches

--Work areas on Login

Save your spot. Take advantage of this in-depth learning experience to super charge Adept’s performance and your Admin skills.

MLubow

Link to the recording of our webinar “How to Optimize Adept for Remote Access”

Hello Friends:

On April 7 we hosted a webinar “How to Optimize Adept for Remote Access”. It was truly wonderful to see so many of you online. The time we spend together –even remote-- is truly precious to me. It softens the isolation and sense of lonesomeness.

Here’s a link to the recording of the webinar that you can share with anyone you feel would benefit. I’ve also included the slide deck, which many of you requested during the presentation.

I am working with our product and services teams to create more educational content to share with all of you. We’ve already scheduled our next webinar for May 7 at 2:00 pm EDT. It’s focused on how to maximize performance in Adept. You can register here.

In the meantime, here are some other helpful links:

And here’s a PDF with step-by-step instructions for using Adept from a remote location.

“We can do this together.”

I never tire of reading these five words. It’s a global message of love, kindness and caring that we can lean into during these rough times.

Stay safe. Be well.

Martha

MLubow

Vault

I wonder about having more than 1 vault to segregate the information per department. What are the repercussions?

jlopez

Re: Workflow Steps with Multiple Approvals

Hi - I've added your request as a feature request to PM.

Gene.Sewell

Re: Admin Table Downloads

Hi - so in the desktop, we check for admin changes before any command. My particular approach to this is to select a document, and press F2 (assign document to another user.) (This won't work if the document is OUT or NEW) but it will first check for admin downloads, then bring up the dialog with a list of users to assign the doc to. You can then click cancel (or type escape key) and know that you're up to date.

You don't have to use assign - almost every command will first check - but it's a command that's enabled for most documents most of the time.

Hope this helps!

Gene.Sewell

Posting bugs/defects for admins to see

I feel like I've wasted hours troubleshooting something and then a bit more finally describing and demonstrating it to helpdesk. Then it typically continues that helpdesk will look up some keywords on an internal system and report back (sometimes in minutes) that "Oh, that's already been reported. Shall I add you to that ticket?"

Can we get at least some limited visibility to what has been reported as defects? I'll sign an NDA if necessary to get access to that sort of information if it's easily searchable and filterable by the release.

Anyone else?

jtome

Re: Acquire checkout from different libraries

Hi - here's my take - I can see the need for the feature request.

If you have "unique filenames" set to "enforce system wide" - it would then be easy to select a bunch of duplicate filenames and do the "acquire checkout."

Without being sure about filenames being unique, the UI would be complicated. The reason for the current UI stems from the need to select which one of possibly many libraries for the file.

I can put such a feature request in - do you have unique filenames system wide turned on? Without that I would consider the feature more complicated to implement.

Gene.Sewell

Re: Refresh Current Window (F5) Problems

Hi Folks!

The list of recent known issues gets pulled together, just before each new version is released.

This is included in your download from the Customer Portal.

In the Docs sub folder you'll find the AdeptUpdateNotes.pdf which includes "Known Issues and Differences" section.

I understand this is not a complete list and doesn’t include know issues that get known after the release.

Chris.Fabri

Re: Refresh Current Window (F5) Problems

Hi David - Thank you for posting on the forum

I just checked with my technical team and this defect is expected to be fixed in 2018 Service Pack 2

Patricia Heubach

Desktop tip: Do you know about "Ribbon Command Search?"

This falls into the "Tips" section.

When using the Adept Desktop - we switched from a "menu" system to a "ribbon" system. One frustrating problem that I've had with ribbon systems is it's sometimes hard to find the command you are looking for.

To solve this problem, I wrote a command search tool that folks like, once they discover it. To find it I right click on the blank area of the ribbon top left. You can also find it by clicking on the oval drop down menu at the top right of the UI.

Invoking the tool you are presented with a more or less empty dialog box. If you try typing part of the command name, however, you'll see a list of commands that have part of the text you typed in their name somewhere. For example, if I type "copy" then I see seven commands listed.

Single clicking on one of those commands will cause the ribbon to change to show you the tab the command is on. The label for the panel and button name is in the dialog so you can visually locate the button.

In addition, when you single click - the large button on the dialog is enabled with the text "Execute" and if you click execute (or just double click the command name in the list) the command is immediately executed - no more action required.

One could say you could almost just use this single command search for all the UI for the desktop. No need to ever click through the available tabs.

Gene.Sewell