A must read best practices when starting out in Designer

Hi,
Here is a link to a blog by Vishal Gupta on best practices when developing XFA Forms.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/best-practices-xfa-forms.html
Please go read it now; it is excellent :-)
Niall

I followed below two links. I think it should be the same even though the links are 2008 R2 migration steps.
http://kpytko.pl/active-directory-domain-services/adding-first-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller-within-windows-2003-network/
http://blog.zwiegnet.com/windows-server/migrate-server-2003-to-2008r2-active-directory-and-fsmo-roles/
Hope this help!

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I would like to know if someone can share his best practices when performing carry forward for audit adjustments.
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The accounting team needs to pass audit adjustments around April-May for last year.
So from January to April / May, the opening balance must be based on December closing of prior year.
Then from May / June to December, the opening balance must be based on Audit closing of prior year.
We originally planned to create two members for December period, XXXX.DEC and XXXX.AUD
Once the accountants would know their audit closing balance, they would have to input it on the XXXX.AUD period and a business rule could compute the difference between the closing of AUD and DEC periods and store the result on an opening flow.
The opening flow hierarchy would be as follow:
F_OPETOT (Opening balance Total)
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Now, assume that we are in October, but for any reason, the accountant run a carry forward for February, he is going to impact the opening balance because at this time (October), we have the audit adjustments.
How to avoid such a thing? What are the best practices in this case?
I guess it is something that you may have encounter if you did a consolidation project.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Cookman and I have been arguing about this since the paleozoic era. Here's my logic for capturing everything.
Less wear and tear on the tape and the deck.
You've got everything on the system. Can't tell you how many times a client has said "I know that there was a better take." The only way to disabuse them of this notion is to look at every take. if it's not on the system, you've got to spend more time finding the tape, and adding "wear and tear on the tape and the deck." And then there's the moment where you need to replace the audio for one word from another take. You can quickly check all the other takes (particularly if you've done a thorough job logging the material - see below)_.
Once it's on the system, you still need to log and learn the material. You can scan thru material much faster once it's captured. Jumping around the material is much easier.
There's no question that logging the material before you capture makes you learn the material in a more thorough way, but with enough selfdiscipline, you can learn the material as thoroughly once it's been captured.

Best practice for checking out a file

Hello,
What is the SAP best practice to check out a file? (DTR -> EDit or DTR -> Edit Exclusive?)
What are pros and cons of checking out a file exclusively?
Thanks
MLS

Thanks Pascal.
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Best practice when modifying SAP Standard Development Component

Hello Experts,
What is best practice when modifying SAP Standard Development Component (Java Web Dynpro)? Iu2019m looking for the best method to do modifications to SAP Standard DC so that my changes will be kept (or need low maintenance) after a new service package (or EHP) is applied.
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Hi,
'How to use Busiess Packages in Enterprise Portal 6.0' is available in this link.
http://help.sap.com/bp_epv260/EP_EN/documentation/How-to_Guides/misc/Using_Business_Packages.pdf
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Hi,
You're going to have an OOB access via VPN?
This is pretty secure (if talking about IPsec)
An 1841 should work fine.
You can check the design recommendations here:
www.cisco.com/go/srnd
Chose the security section...
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Federico.

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Data in the cache survives the removal of the EJB, but somewhere later down the line it appear to vanish. I'm not aware of any expiry settings for the cache that would explain this (to the best of my understanding the default is "no expiry"), so GC came to mind. Would this be the explanation?
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/Per

Hi Gene,
I found the configuration file embedded in coherence.jar. Am I supposed to replace it and re-package coherence.jar?
If I put it elsewhere (in the "classpath") - is there a way I can be sure that it has been found by Coherence (like a message in the standard output stream)? My experience with Websphere is that "classpath" is a rather ...vague concept, we use the J2CA adapter which most probably has a different class loader than the EAR that contains the EJB, and I would rather avoid to do a lot of trial/error corrections to a file just to find that it's not actually been used.
Anyway, at this stage my tests are still focused on distributed transactions/2PC/commit/rollback/recovery, and we're nowhere near 10,000 objects. As a matter of fact, we haven't had more than 1024 objects in these app servers. In the typical scenario where I've seen objects "fade away", there has been only one or two objects in the test data. And they both disappear...
Still confused,
/Per

Best practices when making service requests

Best practices when making service requests
We've been working on moving our old services that were built with an different service request tool into RequestCenter and were wondering if anyone had any thoughts about best standards or practices for the new forms that they would be willing to share. For example, one such standard might be that the customer - initiator information will always be displayed at the top of the request.
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Thanks for the comments and the book suggestion.
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Books / links on best practices when writing on-line Help

Hi everyone
Not sure were to place this topic...
I have not posted in here for ages...
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What is the best practice when any of Src/Tgt DB is re-started in streams

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Need advise for best practice when using Toplink with external transaction

Hello;
Our project is trying to switch from Toplink control transaction to using External transaction so we can make database operation and JMS operation within a single transaction.
Some of our team try out the Toplink support for external transaction and come up with the following initial recommendation.
Since we are not familar with using external transaction, I would like member of this forum and experts, to help comment on whether these recommendation are indeed valid or in line with the best practice. And for folks that have done this in their project, what did you do ?
Any help will be most appreciated.
Data Access Objects must be enhanced to support reading from a TOPLink unit of work when using an external transaction controller. Developers must consider what impact a global transaction will have on the methods in their data access objects (DAOs).
The following findSomeObject method is representative of a finder in the current implementation of our DAOs. It is not especially designed to execute in the context of a global transaction, nor read from a unit of work.
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try
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obj = (SomeObject)clientSession.executeQuery(readObjectQuery);
catch (DatabaseException dbe)
// throw an appropriate exception
finally
clientSession.release();
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However, after making the following changes (in blue) the findSomeObject method will now read from a unit of work while executing in the context of a global transaction.
public findSomeObject(ILoginUser aUser, Expression queryExpression)
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SomeObject obj = null;
try
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readObjectQuery.setSelectionCriteria(queryExpression);
if (TransactionController.getInstance().useExternalTransactionControl())
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obj = (SomeObject)session.executeQuery(readObjectQuery);
catch (DatabaseException dbe)
// throw an appropriate exception
finally
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if (obj == null)
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When getting the TOPLink client session and reading from the unit of work in the context of a global transaction, new objects need to be cached.
public getUnitOfWork(ILoginUser aUser)
throws DataAccessException
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     UnitOfWork uow = null;
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          uow = clientSession.getActiveUnitOfWork();
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As it generally is with this sort of question there is no exact answer.
The only required update when working with an External Transaction is that getActiveUnitOfWork() is called instead of acquireUnitOfWork() other than that the semantics of the calls and when you use a UnitOfWork is still dependant on the requirements of your application. For instance I noticed that originally the findSomeObject method did not perform a transactional read (no UnitOfWork). Has the requirements for this method changed? If they have not then there is still no need to perform a transactional read, and the method would not need to change.
As for the requirement that new object be cached this is only required if you are not conforming the transactional queries and adds a slight performance boost for find by primary key queries. In order to use this however, objects must be assigned primary keys by the application before they are registered in the UnitOfWork.
--Gordon

What do you find to be best practice when it comes to writing AS code to manage a big app ?

Right now I am considering 3 options:
1) I write all the code in a root component that extends group for example like this:
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</s:Application>
So in it I will write the code to manage the list. Ok but Imagine now I have 10 views inside that AppGroup each having a list which needs to be managed. So here comes my option 2.
2) I write code in the AppGroup component to manage what's on it's level and for new level (view for example) I create another component like ViewGroup1, ViewGroup2 etc which extends group or something else and I write code in it to manage what's inside of it. This looks like this:
<s:Application>
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3) of course sometimes mixed architecture if for example the ViewGroup1 is very simple and doesn't have list but a label or something like that the code could be written in the AppGroup.
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Thank you all for the thoughts. Could we please stick to flex only for now...
Currently I have a project where I see this structure:
<Application creationComplete="init();">
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</Application>
In the creation complete of the Application which is in MainApp.as, dataProviders are set and a controller class is initiated to which the Application is passed as Object and everything is manipulated from that controller. As you mentioned I guess you can always create additional controllers and pass them the Application or some other components from which they could start controlling so to speak.
I am not sure if this structure is good or not, I started comparing it with mine and I ended up here...
What I see at this point compared to mine is that:
- in the included MainApp.as in Application I have question marks when i type something like "stage" in a function, I needs me to type "this.stage", which I don't like. To me it looks like including is bad and maybe everything should have started with creationComplete in the Application mxml with importing and initiating the controller with passing him the Application right away. Is that correct?
- in the example given above, after MainApp initiates the controller by passing him the Application, the controller looses all of the nice code hints since now the Application is an object... maybe it's wrong for it to be object ? Should it be something else?
Compared to my approach when I separate my logic into AS Group which is then extended as MXML Group. All I have to do is declare the instances in AS which I have as IDs in MXML and voila... I can control them and write their logic with all the nice code hints present.
So basicly at this point you say instead of extending Group in AS every time I want to separate logic, write a controller right ?
Here is what I summarized for now:
1) Create a RootController class
2) Initiate it in the creation complete of the Application passing the Application (as what type - object or something else?)
3) manage all logic in that controller
4) if parts of the application are too complex they can be separated into additional controllers.
5) the RootController can initiate SubControllers which can initiate SubSubControllers
6) to all controllers a component must be passed as a starting point for the logic
Is this correct? If yes, what about the code hinting compared to my approach?
Would be very nice if someone of you could make a very very very simple app with the model you are talking about, or if you have an article you took it from share the link! Thanks!

Need best practice when accessing an ucm content after being transferred.

Hi All,
I have a business requirement where I need to auto-transfer the content to another UCM when this content expires in the source UCM.
This content needs to be deleted after it spends a certain duration in the target UCM.
Can anybody advise me the best practice to do this in the Oracle UCM?
I have set up an expiration date and trying to auto Replicate the content to the target UCM once the content reaches the expiration date.
I am not aware of the best practice to access the content when it is in the target UCM?
Any help in this case would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ashwin

SR,
Unfortunately temp tables are the way to go. In Apex we call them collections (not the same as PL/SQL collections) and there's an API for working with them. In other words, the majority of the leg work has already been done for you. You don't have to create the tables or worry about tying data to different sessions. Start you learning here:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14373_01/appdev.32/e11838/advnc.htm#BABFFJJJ
Regards,
Dan
http://danielmcghan.us
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapigen
http://sourceforge.net/projects/plrecur
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Migration Best Practice When Using an Auth Source

Hi,
I'm looking for some advice on migration best practices or more specifically, how to choose whether to import/export groups and users or to let the auth source do a sync to bring users and groups into each environment.
One of our customers is using an LDAP auth source to synchronize users and groups. I'm trying to help them do a migration from a development environment to a test environment. I'd like to export/import security on each object as I migrate it, but does this mean I have to export/import the groups on each object's ACLs before I export/import each object? What about users? I'd like to leave users and groups out of the PTE files and just export/import the auth source and let it run in each environment. But I'm afraid the UUIDs for the newly created groups will be different and they won't match up with object ACLs any more, causing all the objects to lose their security settings.
If anyone has done this before, any suggestions about best practices and gotchas when using the migration wizard in conjunction with an auth source would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris Bucchere
Bucchere Development Group
[email protected]
http://www.bucchere.com

The best practice here would be to migrate only the auth source through the migration wizard, and then do an LDAP sync on the new system to pull in the users and groups. The migration wizard will then just "do the right thing" in matching up the users and groups on the ACLs of objects between the two systems.
Users and groups are actually a special case during migration -- they are resolved first by UUID, but if that is not found, then a user with the same auth source UUID and unique auth name is also treated as a match. Since you are importing from the same LDAP auth source, the unique auth name for the user/group should be the same on both systems. The auth source's UUID will also match on the two systems, since you just migrated that over using the migration wizard.

Best practice when doing large cascading updates

Hello all
I am looking for some help with tackling a fairly large cascading update.
I have an object tree that needs to be merged using JPA and Toplink.
Each update consists of 5-10000 objects with a decent depth as well.
Can anyone give me some pointers/hints towards a Best practice for doing this? Looping though each object with JPA's merge takes minutes to complete, so i would rather not do that.
I have never actually used TopLinks own API before, so i am especially interested if TopLink has an effective way of handling this, preferably with a link to some related reading material?
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Not certain what you think you can't do. Take a long clip and open it in the Viewer. Set In and Out points. Drop that into the Timeline. Now you can move along in the Viewer clip and set new Ins and Outs and drop that into the Timeline. Clips in the Timeline are created from the Ins and Outs you set in the Viewer.
Is that what you want to do? If it is, I don't where making copies of the clip would work for you
Later, if you want to match up a clip in the Timeline to that master clip, just use Match Clip (find) in the timeline to find where it correaltes to your main clip
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Best practice when upstream does not provide version number

I'm currently preparing a package for the game Dreamfall Chapters, unfortunately the Developer does not (yet) provide a Version number.
What is the best practice for this? Just count the releases and set epoch when they finally provide one themselves?
thanks in advance!

If you are missing a version number, you could use the date. Prefix it with "r" in case you want to avoid epoch when upstream decides to start versioning.
pkgver=r20140122
If you have another release on the same day, increment another subversion
pkgver=r20140122.1
Counting the releases by hand is poor practice (you could miss one). Do it only if upstream provides the count.
Edit: To tie the version stronger to the release, you can also add a part of the archive hash, e.g. +m###### with the first 6 characters of the md5sum.
pkgver=r20140122+m23df1e
Edit: r as prefix is better, thanks rumpelsepp.
Last edited by progandy (2014-10-22 09:32:56)

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