Captivate in the Future
I'm a newbie to the captivate environment in creating
training modules for my employer, and would like to know if
Captivate is going to stay around for a while (have new versions
come out soon).... or is it going to be migrated into another
adobe/macromedia product that is already established on the market?
can anyone shed some light on this topic?
cheers,
mickeyangelo.
Rick's and Rossco's suggestions are great. Also, yesterday
there were new FAQs posted on the links below that address the
future of Captivate and how it relates to other Adobe products now
that the post-Macromedia acquisition landscape is finally taking
shape. While there aren't specific features mentioned, it's
interesting to see how Adobe views the synergy of its products.
Here are the two links:
eLearning Solutions:
http://www.adobe.com/resources/elearning/products/special/crossproduct/faq.html
Technical Comunications Solutions
http://www.adobe.com/products/special/crossproduct/tech_communication/faq.html
Thanx,
john
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Is Captivate 4 the right tool for my purposes?
This posting should not be misunderstood as bad mouthing Captivate 4. For the most part, I really appreciate Adobe products and have invested a significant amount of personal money into many Adobe products over the years.
My current role involves designing a course curriculum using Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Connect Pro. Unfortunately, I am becoming increasingly concerned that I may be using the wrong tool, at least, in regards to developing all parts of a lesson. Perhaps my workflow will improve if I develop the front facing portion of my lessons with Lectora, and use Captivate solely for creating software simulations?
Because I have already spent a lot of time building my first lessons, and I have a subscription to Adobe Connect Pro, I would rather solve the issues I listed, rather than start over.
My question is... are my issues based on my lack of knowledge with Captivate 4, or am I experiencing real issues with this product? If it is my lack of knowledge, please tell me how to solve my issues.
At this point, I would like to give kudos to Rick Stone (known as Captiv8r) for all his help as a hired consultant. I highly recommend his services. Without him, I probably would not have gone as far as I have with Captivate.
Please correct or comment on the followin…
Minor annoyances
- Too easy to accidentally move objects. Double clicking on a small graphic or a text caption can easily cause it to move or change size slightly. No way to lock their position only (e.g. lock text position but still allow editing).
- Text caption boxes mysterious maximize (vertically) from time to time.
- Grouping of objects is not possible.
- Previewing “From this slide – F8” does not take into account (or initialize) persistent graphics (or otherwise) on the first slide or template; this results in missing objects when doing a quick preview.
- Item names/variables are unwieldy. I have a number of graphics which I re-use throughout a lesson. I want to give each of them common names, such as ico_jobaid, img_core_splash, etc. Unfortunately, I cannot use identical names throughout a lesson. Each page requires a unique name for every object. This results in an item name like ico_interactive.png (as it is named in the library), appearing as TImageItem681 and TImageItem680 (copied twice) on a slide.
This is common for every object and makes it difficult to control objects.
Major issues
- Occasionally I insert a graphics that can’t be made visible.
- .cp file size seems to continuously increase in size, despite removing unused resources.
- Text bullet issues (ending bullets occasional show up as a larger size)
- Roll-over slidlets do not work as intended in AS3 mode. I must preview or publish in AS2.
- Recording Software Simulations!
Captivate 4 allows recording of simulations in up to four modes (Demonstration, Training, Assessment, and Custom). Unfortunately, it appears to record these simulations are separate and distinct recordings. This is a problem because call-outs and other edits must be repeated for each simulation. Other simulation tools record once and can be edited once for passive and/or interactive viewing.
- Buttons! Multiple buttons/text captions on a slide.
If I want to place multiple buttons on a slide, I must follow these steps to make these buttons/captions work properly. This is an unreasonable amount of work in order to use buttons on a single slide.
Step 1 - Determine the frame value. Note: It seems that if the frame value is not included, the lesson will move to the next slide, after clicking one button. Another caveat is that adding or removing slides may change the correct frame value.
1. Click Insert from the top menu,
2. Select Standard Objects,
3. Select Text Caption,
4. Click the Insert Variable button,
5. Select System from the Variable Type pull-down menu,
6. Select rdinfoCurrentFrame from the Variables pull-down menu.
7. Position the text caption appropriately on the screen. You may need an appropriate pause inserted in order to see the value.
8. Click Preview and select Project from the pull-down menu (or Click F4),
9. Step through slide show to the slide where rdinfoCurrentFrame text variable was inserted and record the displayed value.
Step 2 – Insert Button control
1. Click Insert from the top menu,
2. Select Standard Objects,
3. Select Button,
4. Choose appropriate button and button options (skipping steps),
5. Click Ok,
6. Position button appropriately.
Step 3 – Setting up advanced actions.
1. Click Project from top menu,
2. Select Actions,
3. Click the Advanced Actions tab,
4. Click the Edit / Create Action Pull down menu and select Create a New Action…,
5. In the new action name: text box, type action name (i.e. but_core_console),
6. Double click twice on Add Statement (sometimes it doesn’t behave as it should),
– this feature seems error prone.
7. Double click twice on Statement (in red),
8. Select Standard Action from pull-down list,
9. Select Show from pull-down list,
10. Select object name (text caption) you wish to show,
11. Repeat (if necessary),
12. Select hide and the element name you wish to hide and repeat as necessary,
13. Double click twice on Add Statement (sometimes it doesn’t behave as it should)
– this feature seems error prone.
14. Double click twice on Statement (in red),
15. As the last step, select Assignment from pull down list,
16. Select rdcmndGotoFrame from pull down list,
17. Select Value from pull-down list,
18. Enter the frame value (as determined Step 1),
19. Click Save.
For the next buttons,
1. Click the Duplicate button,
2. Edit the New action name: name appropriately,
3. Edit the information in the Advanced actions for the this action. (skipping steps)
4. Click Save.
Repeat as necessary!
Configuring buttons
1. Double click on first button,
2. In the section, “If the user clicks on the button”,
click on “On success” pull-down menu and select, “Execute advanced action”.
3. Click the Action pull-down menu and select the appropriate named action.
Repeat as necessary.
- Building buttons for several slides will create a large number of advance actions. Even though these advanced actions are only applicable to a single slide, they are viewable from any slide in a lesson. The number of actions (or advanced actions) quickly adds up in a complex lesson.
- Cannot find a way to edit the default look (object positioning/object sizes) of a quiz. The only attribute that seems changeable is the font size.
Lock ups and crashes
- Double clicking on a .cp file will often result in Captivate freezing at the start up screen.
- Captivate crashes and sometimes predictably, especially where animations are inserted.
I am using both a Windows 7 64 bit and a Windows Vista 32 bit OS. I have tried the following options with seemingly no difference: RUN AS Admin, XP Compatibility mode
Examples from Windows Applications log:
The program AdobeCaptivate.exe version 4.0.1.1658 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel. Process ID: 16f0 Start Time: 01ca623e805d8f30 Termination Time: 81
The program AdobeCaptivate.exe version 4.0.1.1658 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel. Process ID: 1654 Start Time: 01ca622b67764380 Termination Time: 70The only one that can answer that question is yourself ;o)
I wrote my comments and suggestions with red text here. My company uses Captivate to develop courses and so far we have been very happy with Captivate. Earlier we used Flash to develop courses, but the development time was very long so Captivate has allowed us to speed up the development process with 2-300%. We still use Flash quite a lot to build interactions etc. and import these into Captivate to add extra features.
We did look at a variety of tools when we wanted to find an alternative to Flash but at that time (we started with Captivate 2) we found that the best option was indeed Captivate. I regularly check up on competing products and there are some interesting alternatives available now but they are not as advanced as Captivate imho.
When that is said. Captivate is (and has always been) full of weird bugs and things that aren't working properly. This is extremely annoying but we have learned to work our way around most of them. It also seems that the stability of Captivate varies greatly from installation to installation. We are 8 people in my department all working with Captivate. Our computers are all the same and the OS is a corporate standard. Despite this some people here have some weird problems with Captivate that I never experience. I can't explain why it happens (and neither can they) but it could be the installation or it could be the way people work. An example is "missing/corrupt" Captivate files. We have always been working directly on a network drive. This is something that is often recommended against doing because it can cause corrupt Captivate files. The interesting thing is that I have never once experienced a corrupt Captivate file even though i have opened, worked on and saved many thousands of them from/to our network drive. One of my colleagues had around 20 occurences of corrupt Captivate files in the same timespan and from the same network drive.
The biggest problem in Captivate is the quiz module in my opinion. The quiz module is probably the most important when we talk about E-learning development tools and that is where Captivate is the weakest. You can't really customize your quizzes, there isn't enough different question types and interaction types, you can't use video but worst of all - it is unstable and buggy. Users can get stuck in a quiz without being able to move forward or backwars, the review quiz is buggy etc.
One thing I often see with Captivate developers is that they try and do everything in Captivate. While most things are possible to do in Captivate then it might no be the best solution. Some things can be created in Flash and imported into Captivate saving you tons of time and grief and in the end give you a much better end-product. I know that everyone doesn't have access to a Flash programmer, but then you can buy your way out of the problem.
If you are looking for a tool where you can have full control of everything in your courses then the only real solution is Adobe Flash. This will allow you to build the courses exactly as you please but it comes at a big price. It gets way more complex to create courses, which results in longer development times and updating your existing course becomes much more difficult and time consuming.
Minor annoyances
- Too easy to accidentally move objects. Double clicking on a small graphic or a text caption can easily cause it to move or change size slightly. No way to lock their position only (e.g. lock text position but still allow editing).
Doesn't really bother me but I guess it's different from person to person. You could just click on the object in the timeline instead to avoid moving the object.
- Text caption boxes mysterious maximize (vertically) from time to time.
I never experienced that.
- Grouping of objects is not possible.
I agree that this could be handy on slides with many objects.
- Previewing “From this slide – F8” does not take into account (or initialize) persistent graphics (or otherwise) on the first slide or template; this results in missing objects when doing a quick preview.
Yes but if Captivate was to take into account everything that happened earlier than previewing from this slide you might as well click preview project (F4).
- Item names/variables are unwieldy. I have a number of graphics which I re-use throughout a lesson. I want to give each of them common names, such as ico_jobaid, img_core_splash, etc. Unfortunately, I cannot use identical names throughout a lesson. Each page requires a unique name for every object. This results in an item name like ico_interactive.png (as it is named in the library), appearing as TImageItem681 and TImageItem680 (copied twice) on a slide.
I think this is the same in any application.. The whole idea of naming objects is that they have a unique name to be identified and manipulate later. I do however agree that the default naming in Captivate sucks. If the resource is named ico_interactive.png in the library, then Captivate should name it slide1_ico_interactive.png as the object name. It would make it easier and quicker to identify the correct resources.
Major issues
- Occasionally I insert a graphics that can’t be made visible.
I never experienced that with properly configured graphics. Sure you can have problems if you insert a CMYK image or a 300 dpi image, but if you use RGB 72dpi images then it works fine. (at least it always have for me).
- .cp file size seems to continuously increase in size, despite removing unused resources.
True but I never really experienced this as a problem. In Captivate 3 it could really get out of hand, but in CP4 it's much better. Alternatively create a blank Captivate file with the same dimensions and copy/paste your slides into that. (Don't know how it will behave with all your advanced actions though).
- Text bullet issues (ending bullets occasional show up as a larger size)
It is because you have a different font size on the last line of the caption. Just do a CTRL-A to select all the text and select the proper font size. Alternatively adjust the default font and size to what you want in Captivate to avoid this in the future.
- Roll-over slidlets do not work as intended in AS3 mode. I must preview or publish in AS2.
Didn't know that - you should probably report it as a bug if you haven't done so already.
- Recording Software Simulations!
Captivate 4 allows recording of simulations in up to four modes (Demonstration, Training, Assessment, and Custom). Unfortunately, it appears to record these simulations are separate and distinct recordings. This is a problem because call-outs and other edits must be repeated for each simulation. Other simulation tools record once and can be edited once for passive and/or interactive viewing.
Agree - this is rather annoying.
- Buttons! Multiple buttons/text captions on a slide.
From what I understand you have a whole bunch of buttons on a slide and then when the user clicks on one it shows some text / image? If that is the case then yes it will be a tedious process to build all this. I don't know if it would be easy in any other applications though (surely most of the other Rapid E-learning tools won't even be able to do it). Perhaps it would be better to rethink the way you build the course. Can't you use rollover captions / images instead?
Another alternative is to build these "interactions" in Flash and then import them into Captivate. Basically you would need to build a couple of different templates where you would be able to reuse the Flash framework and only change images/text in Flash and then importo it into Captivate.
- Cannot find a way to edit the default look (object positioning/object sizes) of a quiz. The only attribute that seems changeable is the font size.
This is a major handicap in Captivate and one of the reasons why we don't use Captivate quizzes in our courses. We build all our course in Captivate (and add Flash and other interactions) but we always use a Flash Quiz. The Captivate quiz is simply too ugly and unstable. We deploy courses to 35.000 people worldwide so stability is our number one priority and sadly Captivate quizzes don't offer that at this point.
Lock ups and crashes
- Double clicking on a .cp file will often result in Captivate freezing at the start up screen.
I never had that problem. I use Win XP, Vista 64-bit and Win7 64-bit.
- Captivate crashes and sometimes predictably, especially where animations are inserted.
I am using both a Windows 7 64 bit and a Windows Vista 32 bit OS. I have tried the following options with seemingly no difference: RUN AS Admin, XP Compatibility mode
My regular development PC runs Windows XP Pro. I never have any problems here. On Vista 64-bit I have a ton of problems, but Captivate didn't crash or lock up - it simply didn't perform the actions I wanted it to do. So far on Windows 7 I haven't encountered any crashes or problems. However there is no doubt that Captivate 4 was designed with Win XP in mind and Vista and Win7 are not native platforms for it.
/Michael
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Is anyone doing any research on running Captivate movies on the iPad?
Thanks,
ErikaHi there
While I do not dispute the fact that mobile devices are the future, I have to really pause and ponder just how effective eLearning really could be on something like a tiny telephone. I mean, really. You might have enough space for a button and a few words. People are constantly fighting the issue with Captivate that what they have to present to the end user must be captured at a size that really isn't suitable. Then they struggle with how to shrink it to fit the smaller area they have.
So I'm genuinely curious here. What type of applications would you foresee that would translate so well to a format such as iPhone? For the sake of argument, lets rule out that iPad is even a remote possiblity. Or even if it were, lets say that HTML 5 is suddenly the norm. How does the fact one can play a movie without Flash enter into the mix? How does one answer questions or interact in a simulation in any way? To my knowledge it simply provides an easy mechanism to present video. I've heard nothing about the interactivity that is also a constituent part of Flash related technology.
So do your best to try and sell me on the idea that tiny devices such as cellular telephones are the way to fly with eLearning.
Anxiously awaiting any replies... Rick
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My events on the iPad iCal app aren't shown in the year view if they are more than two years in the future even though I can see them on the month, week and day view. Any suggestions on how to fix it? I've tried it all. I called the apple support and they checked on their iPads. They all did the same and they couldn't help me. They suggested trying this way. I'd like to be able to plan a few years ahead and the year view would make thing so easy!
Is this a bug?Go to the Home screen and double click the Home button. That will reveal the row of recently used apps at the bottom of the screen. Tap and hold on the app in question until it wiggles and displays a minus sign. Tap the minus sign to actually quit the app. Then tap anywhere on the screen above that bottom row to return the screen to normal. Then restart the app and see if it works normally.
Then reboot your iPad. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously ignoring the red slider until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the iPad restart. See if that fixes your problem. -
When I downloaded the new iTunes, it changed the tags on some of my tracks. As a result, I had to fix them manually. When I downloaded another upgrade this week, my tags changed again. How can I prevent this from happening in the future?
The cricual thing is to have a complete backup of your library that you could restore if needed.
What changes are you noticing? There appear to be some new as yet not well documented features designed to sync data across multiple libraries/devices which may have unwanted side effects.
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How to Send an Email at a Specific Time in the Future Using Mozilla Thunderbird.
Hi guys,
I downloaded Thunderbird for my Mac for one single purpose, simpy to be able to send an email by executing the time and date i wish my email to be send, automatically. The extension saves the message to draft and monitors the messages in the draft folder, when the chosen time arrives it moves the message to unsent and sends unsent messages. So i can send messages in the future.
I dont know how to manage this, and i would appreciate help and tutorials from you guys!Why not read Thunderbirds tutorials and post in their forum area?
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Hello,
It was hard enough for me to fathom out what was going on in favor of the N900 before I heard about the Microsoft announcement.
It seems Nokia have got bigger concerns for the future of themselves than to be concerned about a past product?
As a layman it seems the N900 is good phone but will be ultimately be limited by it's processor. I assume like computers this will increase unless there are limitations.
BUT, it does seem that all these names I've heard of since owning a N900 - Maemo, Meego, Moblin, Intel, Qt, Ovi Beta do not represent a part of the future in the grand scheme of things for Nokia. I can understand that if Microsoft is necessary for survival.
I have no experience of Ipod / HTC Andriod but it does seem these have stolen the march whilst Nokia have been floundering. I really don't know if I move away from the Nokia N900 if I would be pleasantly surprised or wish for it back.
In the meantime if the N900 has a future interesting or otherwise it would be good to know as upgrade is round the corner and unless the competition are not to be missed, I am happy to stick with the N900 as it does the business for me.
The thing is I shouldn't need to be thinking like this but it is not obvious to me where the Nokia successor to it is.
I am very open to responses to my thoughts, which may need correcting. I might not even be on the right track, but it's funny how I am the only person in my group of friends with a Nokia, never mind a N900.
I would also like to mention that cpitchford has helped me in the past and I consider him to be the man in the know by far. I was gutted to read a recent post how he felt let down.
I favor quality brand loyalty but this seems to questionable these days.hi,
i do agree with you!!
even after losing my 1st nokia n900, i cud not digest any other phone as similar and doing-business for me.
hence to asnwer all easy options i bought again my 2nd n900.
Certainly there is no match to its convinence, leave apart its processor.
I am also amongst those who r eagerly waiting for new version, but the possibility seems to b diminishing .
hope nokia will revive this exclusive-not-for masses-smartphone!!! -
I'm totally new to iphone/ipod. I need help with the following:
1) How do I get rid of a folder of photos that showed up on my daughter's ipod touch when she received some songs from her aunt's itunes? After she got some songs from that itunes a folder of pictures showed up with no delete option. Does she need to reconnect to that itunes/computer and if so what do we need to do to remove this folder of pics from her ipod?
2) Also, my daughter uses same itunes as myself, how do I make sure any pics I have on my iphone & icloud (itunes) don't show up on her ipod? I shut off my photostream so perhaps this is the solution. But I noticed that a message I sent from her ipod to my sister (an iphone user) later showed up on my iphone (as if I had sent it from my iphone)! That was really odd. I'd like to keep our itunes account together simply so I can monitor her downloads, etc so I don't want to open up her own itunes to avoid automatic syncing.
I only want to share music between our devices. I don't want her pics nor my pics to go to icloud/itunes.
Thank you!1) You asked "Does she need to reconnect to that itunes/computer and if so what do we need to do to remove this folder of pics from her ipod?" Yes, you have to connect the iPod to that computer and go to the Photos pane for the iPod in iTunes and uncheck sync photos and the click on synce/apply. In the future do not check sync photos.
iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes
2)
Create a NEW account for using these instructions. Make sure you follow the instructions. Many do not and if you do not you will not get the None option. You must use an email address that you have not used with Apple before.
Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card
Then on the iPod go to
- Settings>Messages>Send and receive and sign out your ID and sign into hers. Make sure that only her ID email address is listed.
- Settings>FaceTime sign out of your ID and sign into hers. Make sure that under You can be reached at only her ID email address is listed
- Settings>iCloud and sign out and sign in with hers
Contnue to use the commpn ID/account for Settings>iTunes and App stores. -
I have all these songs that I want to store on my iPod but not on my computer, and I know that by choosing to manually manage my music I can still hang on to these songs when I add new songs to my iPod. However, what if I want to delete songs off of my iPod in the future? Will I lose all of the extra music that is on my iPod but not my computer, due to the fact that the only way to delete songs seems to be by syncing?
The answer to the question in the title of the thread is yes, but it is not necessarily a good idea. At some point you are likely to find you need to restore your iPod for one reason or another, or it could be lost, stolen or damaged. If your songs aren't on your computer, and backed up too, then you will be less than happy.
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The future of Snapshot, and similar tools.
My apologies for posting this twice. I posted it first as a follow up
to an old thread in ...
novell.support.zenworks.desktop-management.6x.install-setup
I am quoting some comments made in that forum.
Then after surfing the forums for awhile, I thought the issue might get
more attention, if I posted it here. I am looking for ideas and advice
on the future of snap shot, and any tools that Novell might provide to
replace it.
If I could address some of these comments, in hopes of better
understanding ...
RE: >>>
> Most companies invest in packaging tools such the full version of
> AdminStudio to create deployment packages. They then use their desktop
> management suites to deploy those packages.
Admin Studio is not cheap. After a client has spend thousands of
dollars to implement ZENWorks, now I have to tell them to drop another
couple thousand down for an application packager. I also don't fully
understand Novell's relationship with the product, they don't seem to be
partnering well together, I'd appreciate anyone else's read on this
relationship.
RE: >>
> Novell has for over 5 years now been trying to steer people from
> Snapshot
I've heard that statement made verbally by many engineers, but I don't
always see the practice following that.
Has Novell ever gone on record to state they will no longer support snap
shot???
RE: >> > If your snapshots are failing with the latest versions of
snapshot, then
> most likely your software package falls outside the scope of what
> snapshot should be trying to handle.
Maybe I've just gotten lucky? I've have not had many issues with using
snapshot, and I have been involved in a wide variety of applications.
I have seen the statement made on the forum that ZEN Works is not really
a "Packaging" suite. While that may be a true statement, because
Snapshot has been packaged with the product for so long, the mind set of
customers is that it is expected to work, and be supported.
I look forward to additional comments on this matter.Tom,
I'm not sure what exactly are you searching for? ZdM is already providing
you with snapshot replacement - AdminStudio ZfD edition, included in ZfD
price.
AdminStudio part for preparing snapshot MSI is identical in ZfD and
Professional edition.
All comments you qouted (including this one) are personal opinions - I
suggest you to try AdminStudio ZfD edition and make your own.
Denis
"tom" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> My apologies for posting this twice. I posted it first as a follow up to
> an old thread in ...
>
> novell.support.zenworks.desktop-management.6x.install-setup
>
> I am quoting some comments made in that forum.
>
> Then after surfing the forums for awhile, I thought the issue might get
> more attention, if I posted it here. I am looking for ideas and advice on
> the future of snap shot, and any tools that Novell might provide to
> replace it.
>
>
> If I could address some of these comments, in hopes of better
> understanding ...
>
> RE: >>>
> > Most companies invest in packaging tools such the full version of
> > AdminStudio to create deployment packages. They then use their desktop
> > management suites to deploy those packages.
>
> Admin Studio is not cheap. After a client has spend thousands of dollars
> to implement ZENWorks, now I have to tell them to drop another couple
> thousand down for an application packager. I also don't fully understand
> Novell's relationship with the product, they don't seem to be partnering
> well together, I'd appreciate anyone else's read on this relationship.
>
> RE: >>
> > Novell has for over 5 years now been trying to steer people from
> > Snapshot
>
> I've heard that statement made verbally by many engineers, but I don't
> always see the practice following that.
>
> Has Novell ever gone on record to state they will no longer support snap
> shot???
>
>
> RE: >> > If your snapshots are failing with the latest versions of
> snapshot, then
> > most likely your software package falls outside the scope of what
> > snapshot should be trying to handle.
>
> Maybe I've just gotten lucky? I've have not had many issues with using
> snapshot, and I have been involved in a wide variety of applications.
>
> I have seen the statement made on the forum that ZEN Works is not really a
> "Packaging" suite. While that may be a true statement, because Snapshot
> has been packaged with the product for so long, the mind set of customers
> is that it is expected to work, and be supported.
>
> I look forward to additional comments on this matter. -
FPBW: Extract Open Items with a posting date in the future
Dear all,
I'm are currently searching for possibilities to extract Open Items with a posting date in the future from SAP IS-U 4.72 into SAP BW 3.5.
Currently I'm using the Business Content extractor 0FC_OP_01 together with the mass transaction FPBW in IS-U.
The problem I'm facing is within the mass transaction FPBW. I've have set the key date at 01.11.2007, but this job already runs for 52.000 seconds on the same database select-statement.
Does anybody know a possible solution to improve the performance of the statement below? (I pasted it from the process overview)
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SELECT
/*+
INDEX("DFKKOP" "DFKKOP~1" "DFKKOP^1" "DFKKOP____1" "DFKKOP____1__X" "DFKKOP_1")
"BETRH" , "BETRW" , "BUDAT" , "BUKRS" , "FAEDN" , "GPART" , "GSBER" , "INKPS" , "SPART" , "VKONT" ,
"WAERS" , "MAHNV" , "ABWBL" , "APPLK" , "AUGBD" , "AUGBL" , "AUGBT" , "AUGDT" , "AUGRD" , "AUGST" ,
"AUGWA" , "BLART" , "BLDAT" , "EMGPA" , "GRKEY" , "HVORG" , "MANSP" , "MWSKZ" , "OPBEL" , "OPSTA" ,
"OPUPK" , "PERSL" , "PYMET" , "QSSHB" , "SBETW" , "SPZAH" , "STUDT" , "TVORG" , "VTREF" , "XBLNR" ,
"XMANL" , "HKONT" , "OPUPZ" , "OPUPW" , "STAKZ" , "WHGRP" , "AUGBS" , "XANZA" , "XRAGL" , "ABWTP" ,
"ASTKZ"
FROM
"DFKKOP"
WHERE
"MANDT" = :A0 AND "AUGST" = :A1 AND "GPART" BETWEEN :A2 AND :A3 AND ( "AUGDT" = :A4 OR "AUGDT" > :A5
AND ( "BUDAT" <= :A6 OR "AUGBD" <= :A7 ) OR "WHGRP" <> :A8 AND "OPUPW" = :A9 )
ORDER BY
"AUGST" , "GPART"#
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I have already tried to create an index on the following fields (in the same order):
- MANDT Client
- AUGST Clearing status
- GPART Business Partner Number
- AUGDT Clearing date
- BUDAT Posting Date in the Document
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Steven GrootHi Marcos,
When you have created the Restricted keyfigures for Open Items, You have to add the date characteristic on which you are looking open item and add the variable there.Here you have to use a variable of type Interval and select the operator "<" the date of the Variable.If you go through, there are standard variable for keydate, which you can use directly.
Hope you got the idea
Regards
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