If you’ve attempted to create Geographic Areas in Arena, you know it’s a difficult process. Fortunately there’s an easier way. Using Microsoft MapPoint, you can draw freeform shapes on a map, and then use a new utility to import those shapes into Arena as areas. Below is a video that shows how to do this. [...]
If you’ve configured Arena to email you every exception that occurs in Arena, you may get tired of seeing the exceptions that occur when a search bot crawls your site. I certainly do. Fortunately, you can configure Arena so that it ignores exceptions based on the value of the HTTP_USER_AGENT http header.
When an exception occurs, [...]
Jon suggested I create a quick video that demonstrates how easy it is to create, register, and use a custom module in Arena. Caleb Tucker did a similar presentation at last month’s Developer Roundtable, but if you missed that, then here’s a video that walks you through the process and shows some of the Arena [...]
Here’s an example of using the “HTML From Stored Procedure” module to display our “Next Step” information at the top of the person detail page.
As you can imagine, the HTML displayed varies depending on the person you look at. This is possible because when Arena renders an “HTML From Stored Procedure” or a [...]
