Noodle Help Site

Javascript change favicon.ico

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:52:36 +0000

function myico(){
var link = top.document.createElement("link");
link.type = "image/x-icon";
link.rel = "shortcut icon";
link.href = "/ShowItemData.po?handle=975527&download=favicon.ico";
top.document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(link);
}
myico();

Noodle redirects

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:39:48 +0000

Noodle verifies redirects it sends to your browser.
If you are accessing Noodle through one IP/domain this will not effect you.
If you use multiple IP/domains via NAT etc you will need one of 3 solutions:

Add the IP/domains to the hosts file
Add the IP/domains to your DNS (as A/CNAME and PTR) pointing to the Noodle server
Add the following to intranet.conf: URLOverride = “https://noodle.domain.tld”

Be sure to update the “URL for Noodle” in the settings so that links in emails will resolve properly.
If you use multiple IPs without a domain name links in emails can not be expected to work reliably.
If you use multiple IPs on the same server you must bind to one of them.

Safari instant features disabled

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:13 +0000

Safari (GET/POST) requests sometimes block other requests.

In order to keep Noodle responsive we have disabled the instant features of Noodle on Safari.

We don’t recommend using Safari; we do recommend IE, FF, and GC.

MSSQL Troubleshooting

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:18:05 +0000

If the Noodle log contains something like this:

2012.01.24 13:48:51: .intranet,ALERT: ConnectionAllocator: failed to allocate a new connection
2012.01.24 13:48:51: .intranet,ALERT+ The connection pool is empty!
2012.01.24 13:48:51: .intranet,ALERT+ due tocom.inet.tds.ab: Msg 4064, Level 11, State 1, Line 1, Sqlstate 01000
2012.01.24 13:48:51: .intranet,ALERT+ [WIN-5A73M1LPPMU]Cannot open user default database. Login failed.Error code: 4064
2012.01.24 13:48:51: .intranet,ALERT+ SQLState: 01000

Some SQL to list all 8938 Error codes:

SELECT * FROM sysmessages where msglangid='1033' order by error;

Error code: 18456 (can be caused by a firewall)

State comment
01 ambiguous, the only answer 2000 gives
02 Invalid userid
03 ?
04 ?
05 Invalid userid
06 Attempt to use a Windows login name with SQL Authentication
07 Login disabled and password mismatch
08 Password mismatch or password policy clash
09 Invalid password
10 ?
11 Valid login but server access failure
12 Valid login but server access failure
13 SQL Server service paused
14 ?
15 ?
16 user does not have permissions to log into the target database
17 ?
18 Change password required
19 ?
20 ?

21 ?

22 ?

23 ?

24 ?

25 ?

26 ?

27 could not determine the initial database for the session.

pop quiz

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:07:23 +0000

All answers should be quite short (1-10 lines)

In IE with JavaScript get an xml object (as sent from the server) from an iframe
Dynamically call a java method from within java
List the values of a column that have a 2nd column who’s value is not in any other row with SQL
From a POISX CLI individually compress all iso files in a DIR with no loops

Hiding corporate wisdom

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:29:06 +0000

This code can be added to a re-writer to hide corporate wisdom from profile pages.

if(url.indexOf("UserView.po")>-1){
  doc.getElementById("pie").parentNode.style.display="none";
  doc.getElementById("StatisticsContent").previousSibling.style.display="none";
  doc.getElementById("StatisticsContent").style.display="none";
}

Bind

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:45:36 +0000

If your server has more than one (non lo) IP you will need to bind Noodle to one of them for the license key to work.
In the multiserver.conf look for lines like this:

Connection.CM_?.Port = ?

and add a line like this after each one:

Connection.CM_?.BindAddress = ?

example:

Connection.CM_0.Port = 80
Connection.CM_0.BindAddress = 192.168.1.100

DNS cache

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:38:21 +0000

Clearing the DNS cache on your computer:
windows:

ipconfig /flushdns

OS X:

dscacheutil -flushcache

linux:

/etc/init.d/nscd restart

You can’t clear the cache on your ISPs DNS servers but you can use different servers (opendns, googledns, etc)

PostgreSQL requirements

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:22:50 +0000

Noodle works with PostgreSQL 7 to 9 and uses the contributions which are included in the windows installer but installed separately with package management systems like apt and yum.

before PGSQL-v9 will need:

CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql;

All versions need a user, database and rights and the following to load the lo-manage triggers(the windows Noodle installer will do this for you):

ALTER USER noodleuser WITH SUPERUSER;

You will need these SQLs if you are upgrading from an old version.

Noodle Files

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:12:57 +0000

Noodle uses 4 things on the server

The Noodle folder (older versions are named IntraNet)
The database folders (can be on a different server)
The Java Folder
The 7z folder (optional)

On windows these are in %PROGRAMFILES% by default.

On Linux the Noodle folder is in /opt/ by default.

The Noodle folder may contain the flowing things:

log files in the ./log folder
configuration files in the ./cfg folder
scripts (intranet.bat, /etc/init.d/noodle, multiserver) used for starting Noodle
some old windows only helpers in the tools folder
JARs in the ./lib folder