Best way to ask user for duration ??

I am wondering what the best way to set up a dialog to ask the user for a duration is ?
I need to query the user for the following duration example 1 month 3 days 5 hours 15 mins
I have tried messing around with JSpinners with date formats but they really only work with fixed calendar dates not calendar durations...
Any ideas on a neat approach..
Currently i have an individual number spinner for each of the items which looks ugly and is hard to manage as you have to take care of up to 23 hours but 24 is one day so one day etc etc..
Thanks in advance
-Alan

You continue along the same lines; keep the DTO in the session as an attribute. When you display your JSP, read the appropriate values for choices from the DTO and set your checkboxes/ radio buttons to 'selected' if they should be.
When the page is submitted, read the parameters from the form submit and update your session attribute ( DTO ) to reflect any changes the user might have made like selecting a new option or deselecting a previously selected one.
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Best way to save user's choices

Hello everybody
I am working on a Website built on JSP and Servlets . One of the features of the site is to give user the chance to subscribe to different newsletters under different categories.
There are 6, 7 available categories. So for example, user1 surfs to the page which displays category sport and under that some options (check boxes) and he can choose zero or more newsletters, and he clicks to add the next catetory options , for example entertainement. He may choose to go to final summary page without seeing all the categories.
From the summary page , something like this is displayed to user if he has choices from 3 categoires of Sport , Social, Home ; but he did not choose anything from Movies and other categories:
Sport : edit (hyperlink) , remove (hyperlink)
Social : edit (hyperlink) , remove (hyperlink)
Home edit (hyperlink) , remove (hyperlink)
The user should have a choice to go back to each category page and edit it (he will see the page of that category with his previous choices in check boxes) .Another option is just by clicking the remove link in the final summary page, to remove that category and all the values chosen for that category.
I am new at Java and I'd be grateful if you help me with my questions:
1. What is the best way to keep user's choices as he surfs and adds options under each category ? I thought of using session vars , in form of 2 dimentional arrays, but I wonder if there is a better more efficient way ?
2. At the last page, user is shown the category names with two links beside them , edit and remove ... could you also advise what is the best way to implement this as well? For example if I use array session vars, I am not sure how to display that particular page again with his previous choices shown .....
The categories and options under each are read from database. User's choices are not commited to DB until he reviews the summary and clicks confirm button at the last stage.
Thank you in advance
Vajra

You continue along the same lines; keep the DTO in the session as an attribute. When you display your JSP, read the appropriate values for choices from the DTO and set your checkboxes/ radio buttons to 'selected' if they should be.
When the page is submitted, read the parameters from the form submit and update your session attribute ( DTO ) to reflect any changes the user might have made like selecting a new option or deselecting a previously selected one.
People on the forum help others voluntarily, it's not their job.
Help them help you.
Learn how to ask questions first: http://faq.javaranch.com/java/HowToAskQuestionsOnJavaRanch
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Whats the best way to create USER variable in BI Apps?

I have just installled BI Apps and am trying to integrate EBS R12 with OBIEE 11g
We have USER variable already defined in the BI Apps rpd.
In EBS Security context init block i need to define USER variable, but when i define it... it says *'USER' has already been defined in the variable "Authentication"."USER"*
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2. David Pogue's method (as described in the Missing Manual) only entails moving individual, selected home folders to another drive (and no soft links needed)?
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4. So, if I use Pogue's method, all that is needed are the steps listed in my original post above, and nothing else?
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We've just developed our first app for Palm and would really like to get some feedback from Palm users (our app allows users to take photos and send them as real printed postcards. We'd be very happy to give users free postcards in exchange for feedback).
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Welcome to the Palm Forums. Thank You for the offer. I highly suggest offering it up
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What is the best way to organize pictures for huge library?

Hello.
I have lost 3 evenings of work the last week after the corruption of the iPhoto database. I lose my temper now . it was not the first time. but I’m ready to take long term action to improve the situation.
I have now around 15.000 pics & something like 15 Go of data. That means I have to use an external drive to store them all. Each team the connection between the external HD & my iBook is lost, not often but can happen, the database is bugged. Of course I gonna have more and more pictures in the future, I took 5.000 Go of pictures back from Australia.
My question is very general, what is the best way to handle this kind of database size?
Okay, now I know that I should bake-up the Library6.iPhoto file. What else?
Could I archive my rolls on CDs (well I should do it anyway) & delete the rolls from the database afterwards? What about the photo album? Is it possible to restore the pictures from the CDs to the hard drive?
I have read that I should create several libraries. That could be a solution. Is it possible to split the current one? I could import the pictures in a new library, but in this case I will lose the comments field.
I would really appreciate if you could send me your feedback about handling this size of library. Thanks in advance.

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There's is a way you can have your library on your boot drive and keep the "source" files on the external. It's using iPhoto in it's alias mode. There are pluses and minuses to this system. The pluses are that you can have a very large library. I have 18,000+ photos in my alias library. The iPhoto Library folder on my boot drive is only 1.7MB while the source files on my external HD take up 27G.
The minuses are 1: if the external HD is not mounted then you can only view the thumbnail files and any full sized files that have been edited (the edited version is saved to the iPhoto Library folder). Any operation that requires moving a thumbnail or using the full sized version can't be run. 2: if you delete a photo from your library the "source" file does not get deleted. You'll have to do that via the Finder. 3: When you add new files it's best if you put them in their own folder with the other source folders and then import. If you try to put them in another folder it you'll have to import them manually instead of just dragging the entire new folder into iPhoto to create a new roll.
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I've written an Automator workflow application, iPhoto dB file backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
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What is the best way to store data for this project?

hey everyone,
I have been subscribed to this for a while, not sure if I have ever actually asked anything though.
I have a project on the go for myself/portfolio
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I want to be able to store mainly strings and ints,
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Best way to provision users in LDAP on a schedule?

Hi,
I am trying to work out the best way to automatically create users in an LDAP resource. the sceanrio is as follows:
I have an authorititive directory from which I wish to pull users into IDM which is under my control. I have another directory which I want to provision users to. It does not have a changelog - I'm not sure that active synch will work? This directory is not under my control so I can't simply add one.
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You stated, "This directory is not under my control so I can't simply add one", can you expand on this? Do you not have an account to connect to this directory? Do you not have a resource adaptor for this directory? If you do not have a resource adaptor you will have difficulties connecting via sim, it is not impossible. You can connect to and ldap directory using the jndi api in java.
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I'm a public speaking coach in Sydeny Australia. I've started a blog and want to include videos to my newsletter subscribers. I do not want to use YouTube, because I want to only share these videos to people on my list.
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http://www.changingtools.com

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As far as the Web page goes that has your video, give the pages an HTML name like; vid0096hvc.html and use the Robots No Follow tag:
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Best way to light photos for printing

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I previously posted on the forum on what to do if my prints are too dark. After getting helpful feedback from other forum users and confirming with the pringint company, I made sure that my monitor is calibrated to 90 lumens. Now am wondering the best way to lighten the photos for export (as I can't see the impact of gamma like in the print dialog.)
Backgound:
I setup my macbook pro to get the correct color calibration to print correctly. (I am exporting to sRGB colorspace to send to the online printing company). After calibrating my laptop lcd, it is apparent (by sending a few test photos) that the prints still come out a little too dark. As I am working on a laptop, I am limited to how much the screen vs exported photos can be adjusted. Therefore, I am looking on the best way to retouch the photos for exporting. Also note that I am using apple aperture.
Which is the best way to lighten up the photos (or a group of images that are taken under different lighting situations exposures, that would also keep my workflow streamlined?
1. Adjust the images on export using a gamma adjustment. (easiest to implement but since aperture only shows gamma adjustments on printing and not exporting, setting this correctly will be a guess.)
2. Use a curves adjustment to lighten the photo. (Might be the easiest to implement and see the results but need to create separate version for viewing on screen vs printing which isn't hard but adds a layer complexity).
3. Use some of the exposure/brightness/showdow recovery sliders. (Unsure of the best sliders to use and each photo needs separate adjustments. In addition, like 2 above, separate versions would be need to display on screen vs printing).
4. (Other ideas?).
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Hi,
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Since iPhoto's 'Enhance' tools seems to do a lot of helpful things like sharpen, adjust the levels, etc it also seems to notch the contrast up and this would prove destructive for the lighter and darker tones not captured by the camera's dynamic range.
So as I've been advised it's best to use Apple's own tools before sending the iPhoto Book away, so I'm going to download the trial of Aperture.
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