D-Tools is proud to announce the availability of SI5.5 SP2. The newest release in the SI5.5 series is available for trial download starting today. SP2 will be made available to existing customers via automatic updates …
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Working in Visio may be intimidating for some of you. I was barely aware of Visio prior to starting with D-Tools. I never had to do the flowchart thing in college. Over the last four …
You’ve already got your plan…but it’s only available in paper format. Not to worry, you scan it and use it in your scaled Visio drawing anyway!
Recently, we talked about techniques for using images as backgrounds …
Working in Visio may be intimidating for some of you. I was barely aware of Visio prior to starting with D-Tools. I never had to do the flowchart thing in college. Over the last four …
Introducing MIT (Media Interactive Training)
New Training program provides unlimited access to training for an entire year.
Media Environment Design, Inc., founding D-Tools Certified Partner, has announced a new training program, Media Interactive Training (MIT), designed to …
We’re pleased to announce that D-Tools System Integrator 4.5 (SI 4.5) has been named Best Installation Product as part of The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) 2006 Mark of Excellence Awards. The awards were presented by …
This article is a follow up to last month’s article: Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations. The point of that article was to help you determine what fields are needed …
Plan Blocks in the SI 5 AutoCAD interface do not have the same functionality as Plan Shapes within Visio. Connections between Plan blocks in AutoCAD do not pass data to our Installation Reports. …
Northwest 1st Street East. Ever been in a town where street after street was named like that? It is a bit unconventional for those of us who grew up in suburbs where winding, tree lined …
This article is a follow up to last month’s article: Building Your SI 5 Database Part I – Setting Expectations. The point of that article was to help you determine what fields are needed to …
Importing Images as Backgrounds for Tracing
Many Visio users create detailed elevation drawings of network and audio/visual equipment. The quality of these drawings can impress customers and enable equipment to be more quickly recognized in …
Overview video of the Elevation view in Si5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMChA6MMcaQ
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Overview video of the Visio schematic view in D-Tools SI5
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In part 1 of this series I went over How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM to send targeted mass emails to their leads. In part 2, I will go over …
Last week I wrote this post about the upcoming release of SI5.5. Since then I have been thinking about the process by which we have arrived at this release. While this release …
D-Tools MVP manufacturers realize the importance of bringing you their product information and have chosen to support the D-Tools user community by joining the program and making their product data directly available through D-Tools SI …
One of the most powerful attributes of the D-Tools report designer is the ability to use parameters in your reports. These parameters give you the ability to make choices on how a report should …
Hello D-Tools Newsletter Subscribers and welcome to another edition of HDMI Cable Constriction 101 from Kordz USA !
Last month we went over the five basic methods of contact termination. If you missed this article, you …
In part 1 of this series I went over How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM to send targeted mass emails to their leads. In part 2, I will go over …
D-Tools Partner Leslie Stevens provides us with this informative article about how best to leverage online marketing to help build your integration business.
With today’s economic turmoil, it is more critical than even to focus your …
With SI5.5, server moves are the easiest they have ever been!
STEP 1) The first step is to check in all Projects and log off all users from your current SI5.5 server.
STEP 2) The second step is to back …
This post will show how to change the graphics on an SI5.5 Proposal. Although the software ships with a stock report named “Proposal w/Graphics”, I will be modifying one of the additional reports that you …
