Logically linking two objects in Illustrator.

Are there any means to logically link two objects in Illustrator like the connector line in CorelDraw? Definitely needed for technical illustrations.

Torsten,
The long answer is no.
Obviously, you may create ordinary lines and work with them in different ways, including ways to ease the pain.

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Linking two ODS objects using a multiprovider

Hello Gurus,
I need to link two ODS objects and both are having 3 common characteristics and the relationship between the two objects are one to many.
My questions would be....
1)When the relationship is one to many can I set it up in the multiprovider to sum it up and show in the report?
2)I have 5 other charaterstics that I need to report(Slice and dice) on, but these are not common ones to both ODS objects. Is it possible for the user to get the report based on these charaterstics also? Or do I need to make sure that these 5 also exist in both DOS objects?
Thank you,
DM

Hi Sh,
Thank you very much for your reply. But I have few concerns.
1)One to many relationship will not have any effect on the data linking since the multiprovider clubs the key figures on common characteristics. I tried this on the system and it worked.
2)The problem would be not having similar characteristics on both infoproviders. So if I want to report on the chars individually it will have a problem( Will come as non assigned values)
But the documentation says the multiprovider supports Homogenous and Heterogeneous cases. Please refer the following link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/52/1ddc37a3f57a07e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
I am not sure what I can do now....whether to get all the characteristics in both infoproviders by enhancing the them. Or is there another way?
And lastly the scenario I am looking at is billing and cost of goods. So I might find records in cost of goods which may not have corresponding records in billing.(There can be goods in stock which need to be billed)The problem would be the way multiprovider link records(union) so it will have all the records from both sides even if they do not correspond to each other.
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
DM

Can we link two business objects in workflow?

Dear All,
Can we link two business objects in workflow?My problem is that I have to take a standard BO for triggering my z workflow .But later in one step I am using BO which is Z as I am calling a standard Sap transaction in one of the method inside Zobject.
Please let me know how to go for it .
Kind Regards,
Anshu Kumar

Hi Anshu,
You can use the standard BO as the BO for your workflow and trigeger the workflow from its event. To pass values from the standard BO to the custom BO used in the activity step, you need to do proper binding between the std and custom BO in the activity step.
Do proper binding between event -> workflow -> task container.
For assistance on binding in workflows refer to the followng links:
http://****************/Tutorials/Workflow/Workflow.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/display/abap/workflow%252bscenario
/people/sapna.modi/blog/2007/02/19/workflows-for-dummies--introductionpart-i
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Saumya

Logical link SLS-ACT-CR points at wrong bus object

Hi,
We have just upgraded our CRM 5.0 system to CRM 2007. We copied business role SALESPRO to build our sales role. In the Direct Link Group Z_CREATE, which is a copy of SLS_CREATE, we want to add a link to create new business activity (BUS2000126), so we have added logical link SLS_ACT_CR, but this link points at activity (BUS2000110), i.e. target ID TBT110TMPC. We cannot find any target ID suitable to create new business activity other that TBT126HCR - Create and email.
Help would be greatfully appreciated.
Many thanks,
Antoinette

Hi,
The logical link SLS_ACT_CR looks good. It does not use "BUS2000110" as you mentioned. The target id TBT110TMPC points to the UI component "BT110M_ACT". But it still gives you a pop-up with the choice of transaction/process types of the business categories "BUS2000126" and "BUS2000125" and you can go ahead and create your business activity.
If your requirement is to directly create only a business activity of a specific category, you have to do some config for that.
I guess there are already SAP delivered UI object types for all the existing process types. If there is anything missing, then may be you need to maintain your own as already suggested.
Thanks,
Sudipta.

How to link two authorizations to an object.

Hello,
In the EWA report I received the following recommendation:
"If you do not want to disable development in your system, you have to exclude OBJTYPE=DEBUG with ACTVT=02 from the profile and allow any other object type for S_DEVELOP. This means that development and debugging with visualization are still possible.
You can do this by linking two authorizations to object S_DEVELOP: One with all object types (except "DEBUG") and all activities and another for object type DEBUG only with all activities (except 02)."
How to achieve this?
Thanks
Galina

> I try not to maintain transactions in SU24.
>...
> We have a small user population.
I can understand that, however it still has a downside when your user base grows, or you move on and someone else needs to take over, or the functional consultants leave the building and when you upgrade or apply support packs and need to make some changes, then you don't know why the authorization was added manually - at least not without having to sieve through a sea of documentation and mails etc.
It is easier to find a transport request and it's documentation IMO, and who knows about it, approved it, tested it, etc.
It is just a little organizational discipline thing, but it does go a long way.
Cheers,
Julius

Using "Objects" like Illustrator in InDesign. Is there a modular way to use instances?

Let me elaborate...
(I see Object Styles but not "Objects" Panel like in illustrator)
What I want to do?
1. Use a Name plate in my document that I can tweak later, and the changes reflect in all pages.
2. I want to be able to change color, effects as well as text.
Example: Name plate that has one Title text box, one Plate number text box, two separate color background boxes, each for the Title and the Plate number
Possible solutions I am aware of?
A. Use Master Page
Add Name plate to master page.
"Pluck out" the name plate on the page (lift-off as some call it)
Move it to new location, change text (plate number in my case), don't change any box colors.
Color changes to boxes in Master, reflects in all pages. Good!
Issue: Text boxes that have not been edited in the page, still do not reflect new updated text, color changes to box is updated.
B. Use Find and Replace
Use this to find the name plate text and replace it with new text.
I have not tried it, but I am only wanting to change text style in one text box. Does this feature help to do this?
C. (please add)
My Questions:
1. Is there any other method to accomplish this?
2. When I have not edited the text, why solution A (plucking out from Master page) does not reflect changes to text? It does show changes to color background!

Thanks Willi Adelberger for this reminder (point1) It helped me to correct one "stuck thinking" I had, and helped to a degree.
I could not locate "Content Tools" but exploring now from Indesign help (content collector... was something else...)
Stuck mindset!
I was stuck thinking I need an exact same feature (like "Objects" of Illustrator or "blocks" of Autocad or Instances in Max... where each is an instance of an archetype - master)
With that, I saw no need to use styles for the NamePlate I was using. Since it was defined in just the master page, while other pages simply moved it to new positions.
But then I went back and redefined those master objects with styles
It helped to a degree
I can except for the textual content can control everything of the NamePlate text.
I still cannot simply change text like "PLATE" to "Plate" if I see such a need later (perhaps using find and replace can do).
I have now done the all but I cannot add a logo graphic (if I see a need later) to these name plates!
This is where I am not able to get an answer, if there is indeed a method to do things like referenced "Objects". Change the Object. All instances change.
PS: I ever tried a hack, by putting the text box inside another box and grouping them. So when I pluck from master (lift off) I just get the Group. I believed that since I am not touching the original "text" object in the process InDesign will keep the link intact and change in text on master will reflect changes to the pages. it did not work.

Copying objects from Illustrator CS3 to FreeHand 11.0.2

Working on a Mac in OSX 10.4.11, I was able to select and copy objects in an open Illustrator CS2 file and paste them into an open FreeHand 11.0.2 file, where they would be fully editable. After migrating to OSX 10.6.2 and upgrading to CS3, this no longer works - the objects selected and copied from Illustrator either do not appear (only corner indicators are visible) or a pale version appears as an uneditable low-rez image with funny colors....
Because there are so many missing features in Illustrator, it's important for me to be able to work back and forth between the two apps. Has anyone been able to achieve this (formerly) simple interactivity?

I got the following post from Danny Haas:
If you go to Edit>Special>Paste Special and then select AI/EPS from the list
it should paste just fine. It works well for me.
Worked for me too, although text was not imported as editable text. To do
that had to special paste the text separately as unformatted text, and then
reformat in FH.
From: Judy_Arndt <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:19:27 -0700
To: PETER AGOOS <[email protected]>
Subject: Copying objects from Illustrator CS3 to FreeHand 11.0.2
I skipped AICS3, but now use AICS4 for some tasks.
The only solution I've found is to save the AI CS4 file as AI 8, open that
in FHMX and copy from there.

Linked Smart Objects

When you send a PS file which has a linked Smart Object to a print vendor, will you need to send the linked Smart Object file as well?

That's what I was afraid of. As a print vendor AND a designer I'm concerned that word has not gotten out that linked objects will need to accompany the file and we will end up dead in the water when we need to open up a photoshop file with a linked smart object. This is a relatively new problem for Photoshop, although InDesign and even many Illustrator users know that links need to be sent. In fact, we're seeing the opposite trend in InDesign, where artists are embedding artwork in their InDesign file rather than linking, which has both pluses and minuses.
Thanks!

Linked Smart Objects from Photoshop CC

Hi
I have a Photoshop file which makes use of the new Linked Smart Objects (introduced in the last major CC update). If I create a Reflow Project out of this .PSD the Linked Smart Objects are not being converted.
Am I doing something wrong or is it simply not implemented yet?
Cheers

If that's the case then keep the main grid container at 100% and then just add two boxes inside it. The outer one also stretch to 100% and have the inner one stop on column on either side and set the max-width on that. You could also just have the inner one strech to 100% with a max-width and have the underneath one show on the side only when it get really wide. I know it feels a little akward to use the grid like that, but we only have one container that the grid is on right now so this is what we can do. Here's an example using yellow for the outer container and red for the inner.
Hope that helps and thanks again for using Reflow!
Chris

"Placing" linked PDF File in Illustrator for Markup Edits?

When I highlight text in a PDF file that is linked to an Illustrator file (PDF is "Placed" in the Illustrator file as a linked object), text highlights in the PDF file do not show up in Illustrator when I update the link. Does anybody know why, or is there some setting or workaround to force the PDF markups to show up in Illustrator?
Reason for Question
I often use Illustrator as a PDF editor because it is much more flexible than Acrobat's clunky editing tools. There are some significant problems however. If you open a PDF page in Illustrator, you lose some stuff like paragraph formatting, which Illustrator wants to left justify (same problem when opening an AutoCAD file in Illustrator). You can also have trouble with missing fonts like Helvetica, which isn't a default system font because it is licensed and expensive. Illustrator will swap the missing font out with a substitute so it can edit the text. (Acrobat will do the same thing if you try to edit a font that isn't loaded in your system).
A workaround to maintain exact registration if I just want to mark up a PDF file (rather than changing the text) is to "Place" the PDF file in Illustrator. When Placed, the file behaves like an object the isn't editable in Illustrator (you can edit a Placed object from Illustrator, but Illustrator will use the authoring application to do the edits, in this case, Acrobat). I you are interested doing the same thing,... when I use Illustrator to mark up another file like PSD, JPG or PDF, I initially open the file in Illustrator to capture the dimensions, and then delete everything, and then "Place" the file back into Illustrator. You can optionally link or embed the Placed object. After Placing, I use the transform tool to move the Placed Object's upper left corner to 0,0 (XY Coordinates) to acquire registration, lock the layer, and do my markups on separate layers.
This procedure is a bit clunky and requires multiple construction files but Illustrator's vector tools are much better than the most of the markup tools (but not all) in Photoshop or Acrobat. A Photoshop file will link to Illustrator, and you can export it back to Photoshop, but the Illustrator construction file will not be "linked" into Photoshop, so if you need to make changes with Illustrator you have a couple of options. You can open the Illustrator smart object from Photoshop (Photoshop will launch Illustrator to do the edits), or you can delete the smart object and work on the Illustrator construction file directly and re-import.
Since you can't select the text of a Placed PDF file object in Illustrator to highlight text, I'd like to do some of the text highlighting in the linked Acrobat file upstream of Illustrator. I should be able to bounce back and forth with both files open, the Illustrator construction file and the linked PDF file. Problem is that when I add a highlight to the PDF file, it does not show up in the Illustrator placed object that is linked to the PDF file.
So back to my original question. Does anybody know why PDF text highlights do not show up in Illustrator when the PDF file is placed as an object in Illustrator? Is there a workaround to force the PDF text highlights to display in Illustrator?
FYI, I working on a business presentation and need to mark up a few pages of IRS publication 463, which is a 58 page PDF document with a bunch of "destination" links (10 to 20 links per page). I can extract a page, do my markup edits, and then "replace" the page back into the original Acrobat file and all the links and bookmarks will still work, but registration is critical.
I'm using CS6
Thanks in advance for your insight.

Mylenium, Thank you for your on-point explanation of why the markups don't import into Illustrator. Based on your input, I did some digging and discovered:
I can export the Acrobat "Comments" (text highlights, but not markups?) to a FDF file
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS40A4853E-0D48-46a6-8AB6-6B9A27A22D83.html
and then optionally re-import them to another PDF, including a blank document (with the same dimensions to maintain registration) or the final output file. I can then open the PDF (that contains the comments only) using Photoshop and save as a PSD file. Photoshop captures the text highlight color graphic without the white background or text so I am able to achieve transparency. I can then "Place" the Photoshop file as an object on its own layer in the Illustrator construction file as either an embed object or a linked object, but I tend to link for a number of workflow reasons.
Quite clunky, but it seems to maintain exact registration (although for some reason, whenever I place an object in either Illustrator or Photoshop I need to move (transform) the object corner to 0,0 because it is typically off by a pixel or 2). Not sure if there is a way to also export PDF "Markups", but my objective was to use Acrobat's highlighting tools combined with Illustrator's vector graphic tools for markups, so even if I can only export the Acrobat text highlights and not the "Markups", I can still achieve my objective.
From a work flow perspective, I may optionally choose to use the text highlights only as a reference in the Illustrator construction file and turn them off when saving back to PDF. I would then import the text highlights (FDF file) into the final PDF so they are actual Acrobat highlights rather than raster objects, but I do have the option.
I have also noted that I can print an Acrobat file to PDF to capture the text highlights, but that method introduces problems with registration and transparency (the white paper background). I'll often print my final output to PDF rather than saving to achieve a small flat file that will render consistently on different computers, but in this case registration is important so it is better to save to PDF and live with the larger files size.
Why all the fuss? Acrobat is good at highlighting text and Illustrator is good at drawing stuff like curvy paths with variable strokes. Illustrator also has layers and stacking order control. (Acrobat has clunky wannabe layers that are good for limited stuff like multiple versions, but not much help with graphic composition or stacking order). I need workflows that can merge tools from multiple programs (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Autocad, and Solidworks). I could do my vector markups in Illustrator, then save to PDF and do the highlights in the final Acrobat file, but if I need to change the vector graphics later I would lose the highlights. Doing the highlights in a separate PDF file and then exporting to a FDF file lets me make changes in Illustrator without having to recreate the highlights from scratch.
Thank you for your assistance. If you have any additional suggestions I am always striving to improve my workflows. btw, I've experimented with some of the 3rd party PDF editor's, but not the expensive ones (less than a few hundred dollars). Most of them do a few things better than Acrobat, but they all have their shortcomings and I'm leery of investing my time in applications that might be obsolete in few years. Perhaps this discussion is better suited to the Acrobat Forum, but I do a lot of PDF editing with Illustrator despite its limitations.

Two objects claim ownership of UID: U3615 Class: Text Frame

Hi guys,
since i updated today i can't save my project file anymore. Getting an error when i try to save saying:
Two objects claim ownership of UID: U3615 Class: Text Frame
Is there a way to fix it or did i lose all my progress from today? That would be devastating.
Greetings,
Joern

Please send us a copy of your .muse file at [email protected] and include a link to this thread. If it's too big for e-mail (>20 mb) you could use a service like Dropbox, Adobe SendNow, WeTransfer, etc. We'll repair and return.

Concatination of 2 linked list objects of characters

Pleas help me to solve the following problem by using Java.
Problem: Write a program that concatenates two linked list objects of characters. The program should include method concatenate, which takes references to both list objects as arguments and concatenates the second list to the first list.
Thanking u,
Ripon

This assumes that your class is 'ListConcatenate' and that you have set up your two link-lists.
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Link two reports using parameters

Hi,
We are using business object XI.
I am trying to link two reports using parameters. I cannot use subreport option becuase inside the subreport I should link another report too. So,
Report 1(High level summary)
Report 2(Middle level summary)
Report 3(Detail level)
I tried to use hyperlink option and used following string.
http://<server_name>/<Virtual Directory>/object.rpt?prompt0={?param1}&prompt1={?param2}
Here is my question.
1. Server name: Does it include port number??
2. Virtual Directory: I am absolutely lost. I tried the "frsinput" directory the actual rpt file is storing. It is not working.
Do you have general path??
3. Parameters: I have 5 parameters to pass. 3 of them are Strings and the rest are DateTime.
Basically, I need any tutorial about this kinds of things. The tutorial I have got only discribe link like "www.yahoo.com"
BTW, is this even possible solution??

Hi,
I am trying to link two reports in the crystal report designer->deploy to the server->show in the DHTML viewer.
When I create a URL from report A, it looks like "&" disapears. For example, I created a hyper link from report A using formula,
http://server:port/........openDocument.jsp?sDocName=reportB&sType=rpt&paramName1="Trim(ToText({?param1},"#####"))"&paramName2="+Trim(ToText ({?param2},"#######"))
But when I see the actual URL, all the "&" disappears so it looks like
http://server:port/........openDocument.jsp?sDocName=reportBsType=rptparamName1="Trim(ToText({?param1},"#####"))"paramName2="+Trim(ToText ({?param2},"#######"))
No wonder it is not working.
I guess I need special protection for "&" sign. Do you know any?

Query for Linking Two Tables without Reference

Hi Folks,
Good Day!
I have this dilemma on how to link two tables without a reference. In the Business Partner Master Data, there is a field for the Territory which is from the table OTER. This OTER focuses on its description. Once you have added the particular Territory for that Business Partner, it is being stored in the Territory field of the BP right? Our client wants to have an automated way of searching for the Business Partner's Profit Center in creating a Sales Order wherein it is the same as the Business Partner's Territory. The Profit Center is from the table OPRC.
When I create a Sales Order, after I have entered the Business Partner/Customer Code, the Profit Center should have the value of the Profit Center Code wherein it is the Business Partner's Territory. My query will go like this:
Enter the BP/Customer Code automatically the Profit Center code where Profit Name = BP's Territory.
OTER and OCRD don't have connections. How can it be?
I'm thinking of retrieving the Territory first before the Profit Center but can you suggest of any other way?
Thank you much!
Regards,
Fringe

Hi Fringe,
Okay, I already understood your case here. I presume your configuration as follows:
OTER (Territory)
territryID - descript
1 - Philippine
2 - Indonesia
3 - Germany
OPRC (Cost Centre)
PrcCode - PrcName
25 - Philippine
33 - Indonesia
47 - Germany
Was above illustration correct? Then, you could use this formatted search in Cost Centre / Dimension field in Sales Order rows
SELECT PrcCode FROM OPRC WHERE PrcName=(
SELECT TOP 1 descript FROM OTER T0
INNER JOIN OCRD T1 ON T0.territryID=T1.Territory
WHERE T1.CardCode=$[OCRD.CardCode.0])
However, I suggest you use a little bit different approach here. Since you can't define Territory Code / Territory ID (you could only type the Territory name, Philippine etc.), why don't you standardize Territory name with Cost Centre code? Let say, you define Philippine as PHI, Indonesia as INA, Germany as DEU and so on. Therefore, user can read the Cost Centre or more precisely Distribution Rules in Sales Order form in more familiar way.
OTER (Territory)
territryID - descript
1 - PHI
2 - INA
3 - DEU
OPRC (Cost Centre)
PrcCode - PrcName
PHI - Philippine
INA - Indonesia
DEU - Germany
When FMS worked in Sales Order document, your user will read PHI instead of 25, should be more familiar to them. With that being said, you could use simpler FMS
SELECT descript FROM OTER T0
INNER JOIN OCRD T1 ON T0.territryID=T1.Territory
WHERE T1.CardCode=$[OCRD.CardCode.0]
You only need to maintain consistency between Territory Name and Cost Centre code. Just my two cents. Hope this help.
Best Regards,
Hendry Wijaya

Can you extract higher resolutions from Smart Objects or Linked Smart Objects?

When I am designing at 1x resolution, can I extract assets from smart objects or linked smart objects for 2x or more? If so, how do they scale up?

Yes with caveats.
PSD and Illustrator smart objects are also re-rendered and smoothly scaled to the requested resolution.
Other smart objects (including those with filters) are only scaled up from the resolution they are at within the Photoshop file. If you want them to re-render, you can paste them at 100% resolution into a linked smart object and get the smooth scaling.

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