ThoughtAsylum

My Elgato Stream Deck is a great little piece of hardware that I can have dynamically offer up differing controls depending upon the application I’m working with, and the type of work I’m doing.

Last year I finally made my big web site move from Squarespace to Github Pages.

While SAP SuccessFactors has now moved from quarterly to bi-annual releases, SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) remains on a quarterly release schedule.

I’ve been a Google Chrome user for many years, but with my regular use of i*OS and spending more time using my Macbook Pro out and about, battery life management and sharing of bookmarked sites across device has become more important for my everyday use.

Working with shell scripting is in essence very similar to programming in a more traditional compile-to-run language.

The Elgato Stream Deck is a versatile piece of hardware that allows you to have dynamic buttons to trigger processes on your computer via the Stream Deck software.

This week saw the public release of the i*OS app, LaunchCuts.

Last year, Keyboard Maestro 9 launched with official support for a piece of hardware known as the Elgato Stream Deck.

Keyboard Maestro is an awesome application for anyomne who wants to automate their Mac.

Last year, Keyboard Maestro 9 was released, and with it, official support for a piece of hardware called a Stream Deck.

The Workflow app was an amazing gateway app for automation on iOS when it first appeared, and I’ve been using it since its very first release.

In the final release of 2019, SAP are bringing quite a few useful updates to their SuccessFactors HR helpdesk solution.

If you have visited thoughtasylum.com much in the past, you may have noticed a change recently.

The i*OS Shortcuts application has a surprising amount of numerical functions tucked away within its calculation actions.

Recently there was a query on the Automators podcast forum, where someone wanted to know how to retrieve a mobile phone number from a contact using Shortcuts.

The weekend prior to 9 September 2019.

After a packed second-quarter release of features and improvements for Employee Central Service Centre, quarter three eases off a little and to my mind focuses on maturing some of the existing aspects of the solution.

Once again, we’re experiencing a very quiet quarter for SuccessFactors Learning, with the administrator user interface refresh being such a large piece of redevelopment work and consuming the development team’s time.

SuccessFactors mobile holds a special place in our quarterly reviews as unlike other areas; it isn’t exactly matched to the quarterly release cycle.

Shortcuts is a versatile automation tool on iOS, but it does have limitations.

I recently got a new Mac laptop, my previous one being the best part of a decade old, and I found myself copying new (non-app store) applications from the Downloads folder to the Applications folder far more often than I was comfortable with.

If you are a Drafts user, you may be familiar with the concept of workspaces, but there’s also a (related) folder concept too that’s been around since much earlier versions of Drafts.

It’s already drawing to a close on the first quarter of the year and spring is upon us in the UK.

The quarter sees a wide range of updates across Cloud for Customer, Ask HR, and SuccessFactors Mobile, that will affect customers utilising Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC).

In my day job I work with a lot of raw data, and I make judicious use of Microsoft Excel to help me in the builds and transforms I need to accomplish.

I was working on a slide deck for work recently where I wanted to transition from one slide to another after a specified period of time.

We’re now well into the second quarter of 2019, and that means that it’s almost time for the Q2 release of SAP SuccessFactors to be released to customers.

Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC) is the integrated HR ticketing solution for SuccessFactors.

Early last month, a student teacher was posting on the Automators forum about using Drafts to make dealing with templates such as lesson plans easier.

Last year I posted a small piece on text editing to the Automators forum.

The latest iteration of the iOS app Launch Center Pro comes with an option to use a Shortcuts shortcut to add launchers for shortcuts to Launch Center Pro.

Did you know there’s a way to speed up Shortcuts shortcuts on iOS?

A few days ago over on the Automators podcast forum I answered a query about making use of the iOS app Launch Center Pro, which had recently been updated.

Shortcuts on iOS is a wonderfully versatile tool and I use it for a wide variety of things.

We’re fast approaching the end of the year and so it’s time for SAP to roll-out the last of their SAP SuccessFactors HCM product suite quarterly updates for the period.

As 2018 draws to a close, SAP is set to release a good range of feature updates to Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC) users.

With the move from Workflow to Shortcuts, I’ve come a little unstuck with a new issue around sharing them on iOS.

I occasionally get mentions on my favourite podcasts, and it was a lovely surprise to hear my name mentioned on Episode 7 of the relatively new Automators podcast.

Back in the Workflow days, the iOS app allowed for the triggering of IFTTT actions via a special Workflow recipe action trigger.

It’s that time again.

The Q3 2018 release certainly brings one of the more unusual updates around reporting and analytics in SuccessFactors.

We’re over halfway through 2018 and in this release, we see SAP pull back a little and work on stability and tweaks rather than lots of new features.

Whereas many of the specific modules in this release are receiving low volumes, small updates, or a combination of the two, the underlying platform functionality for SuccessFactors is receiving a wide array of updates including many significant ones.

Drafts is an iOS app that’s been around for quite some time.

Occasionally, I have a need to know the precise version of the OS of the Mac I’m using.

A lot of my work revolves around documentation and in business, Microsoft Word documents still rule.

My colleagues and I at Zalaris have been hard at work once again analysing the information from SAP in relation to the SAP SuccessFactors update that dropped into production environments this last weekend (3 June 2018).

With the second release of 2018, SAP SuccessFactors is releasing a handful of notable updates for Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC).

The BBC Micro:Bit (or MicroBit) is a great, cheap piece of kit for budding coders.

Do you use SAP SuccessFactors?