Conditions - Top 10 - Should return 10 values ?

We have used conditions extensively, however this issue is causing us some grief.
We have a query to calculate Debtor Days. We have two conditions on Debtors, one to show Bottom 10 and one to show Top 10. Bottom 10 works perfectly, however Top 10 returns 7 values when you Activate it.
There are over 80 values in total so it's not a case of it only showing all values.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Gill

Thanks for your reply.
I've cut the query down to only one characteristic and still the same result.
Regards
Gill

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Thanks.

Stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version = "1.0" >
<xsl:output method = "text" />
<xsl:template match = "category" >
<xsl:text >
category[</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select = "position()" />
<xsl:text >]: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select = "." />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
produces output:
category[2]: Alumni
category[4]: Built Environment
category[6]: Business
category[8]: Caboolture
category[10]: Corporate
category[12]: Creative Industries
category[14]: Cultural Precinct
category[16]: Education
category[18]: Engineering
category[20]: Feature
category[22]: Health
category[24]: Humanities & Human Services
category[26]: Information Technology
category[28]: Law
category[30]: Profile
category[32]: Public
category[34]: QUT Carseldine
category[36]: Science
category[38]: What's On
stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version = "1.0" >
<xsl:output method = "text" />
<xsl:template match = "/" >
<xsl:apply-templates select = "//category" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match = "category" >
<xsl:text >
category[</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select = "position()" />
<xsl:text >]: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select = "." />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
produces output:
category[1]: Alumni
category[2]: Built Environment
category[3]: Business
category[4]: Caboolture
category[5]: Corporate
category[6]: Creative Industries
category[7]: Cultural Precinct
category[8]: Education
category[9]: Engineering
category[10]: Feature
category[11]: Health
category[12]: Humanities & Human Services
category[13]: Information Technology
category[14]: Law
category[15]: Profile
category[16]: Public
category[17]: QUT Carseldine
category[18]: Science
category[19]: What's On

Registry calls return wrong values - how to fix?

Here is the code used to open the key (all the variations shown produce the same behaviour)
bool Win32_OpenKey( const HKEY uPlaceInRegistry, HKEY& xKey, const char* const szKeyName, const bool bReadOnly = false )
// SE: make sure key exists
// SE - NOTE: this is deprecated. it worked fine, but suddenly doesnt :(
// so i have replaced it with the following line
//const bool bOpened = RegOpenKey( uPlaceInRegistry, szKeyName, &xKey ) == ERROR_SUCCESS;
const bool bOpened = RegOpenKeyEx( uPlaceInRegistry, szKeyName, 0,
bReadOnly ? KEY_QUERY_VALUE : KEY_ALL_ACCESS, &xKey ) == ERROR_SUCCESS;
bool bCreated = false;
if( !bOpened )
// SE - NOTE: this is deprecated. it worked fine, but suddenly doesnt :(
// the Licensor will create keys except in the case where we upgrade a user from
// an old license... so now using the Ex version in hopes it magically works.
//bCreated = RegCreateKey( uPlaceInRegistry, szKeyName, &xKey ) == ERROR_SUCCESS;
DWORD uDisposition = -1;
bCreated = ( RegCreateKeyEx( uPlaceInRegistry, szKeyName, 0, 0,
REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, bReadOnly ? KEY_QUERY_VALUE : KEY_ALL_ACCESS,
0, &xKey, &uDisposition )
== ERROR_SUCCESS );
return bOpened || bCreated;
Here is where the values are queried.
unsigned int uMagic = 0;
unsigned long uType = 0xFFFFFFFF;
unsigned long uSize = sizeof( unsigned int );
//long err = RegGetValue( xKey, 0, "Magic", RRF_RT_DWORD, &uType, &uActivated, &uSize );
uType = REG_DWORD;
long err = RegQueryValueEx( xKey, "Magic", 0, &uType, reinterpret_cast< LPBYTE >( &uMagic ), &uSize );
if( (err == ERROR_SUCCESS) && ( uType == REG_DWORD ) && ( uSize == sizeof( unsigned int ) ) )
unsigned long long ullReadStartDate = 0;
uSize = sizeof( unsigned long long );
err = RegGetValue( xKey, 0, "Number", RRF_RT_QWORD, &uType, &ullReadStartDate, &uSize );
if( (err == ERROR_SUCCESS) && ( uType == REG_QWORD ) && ( uSize == sizeof( unsigned long long ) ) )
The values that are returned do not match the registry.
In fact the values returned are values that we never would have written either. The zero is fishy because maybe it indicates bad behaviour. The messed up time_t value is even more confusing... it comes from a more than 30 days ago, which is around the time
when I first started working on this code.
To make a guess I am getting back an ancient version of the key values which is somehow preserved and accessible but can not be seen in regedit. I have no idea why this is suddenly happening either - this code (before my commented changes were made) worked
exactly as expected for a few weeks now.
Slightly unrelated but it also seems that a standard user can not write to HKCU in our repeatable tests. This seems slightly crazy as well... should I just not be using the registry? It never seemed like a good idea, but I have done it to try and fit the
platform way of doing things after hitting lots of problems with naive use of files...

thanks for the tips. will probably come in handy in the future. :)
it turned out to be permissions and bad documentation in my case. the virtual store thing was not writing to where the docs say it should, and so something was lingering somewhere i couldn't find in the right place under any of the top level registry keys.
maybe there is some other place where it has gone in the registry that i am just not finding the documentation for...
my ultimate fix was to use a file in ProgramData :)
I figured I'd try and do it 'the MS way' and use the registry. what a terrible idea that turned out to be, since I guess its no longer the MS way given how riddled with backwards compatibility hacks it seems to be...

[UIX] How To: Return multiple values from a LOV

Hi gang
I've been receiving a number of queries via email on how to return multiple items from a LOV using UIX thanks to earlier posts of mine on OTN. I'm unfortunately aware my previous posts on this are not that clear thanks to the nature of the forums Q&A type approach. So I thought I'd write one clear post, and then direct any queries to it from now on to save me time.
Following is my solution to this problem. Please note it's just one method of many in skinning a cat. It's my understanding via chatting to Oracle employees that LOVs are to be changed in a future release of JDeveloper to be more like Oracle Forms LOVs, so my skinning skills may be rather bloody & crude very soon (already?).
I'll base my example on the hr schema supplied with the standard RDBMS install.
Say we have an UIX input-form screen to modify an employees record. The employees record has a department_id field and a fk to the departments table. Our requirement is to build a LOV for the department_id field such that we can link the employees record to any department_id in the database. In turn we want the department_name shown on the employees input form, so this must be returned via the LOV too.
To meet this requirement follow these steps:
1) In your ADF BC model project, create 2 EOs for employees and departments.
2) Also in your model, create 2 VOs for the same EOs.
3) Open your employees VO and create a new attribute DepartmentName. Check selected in query. In expressions type (SELECT dept.department_name FROM departments dept WHERE dept.department_id = employees.department_id). Check Updateable always.
4) Create a new empty UIX page in your ViewController project called editEmployees.uix.
5) From the data control palette, drag and drop EmployeesView1 as an input-form. Notice that the new field DepartmentName is also included in the input-form.
6) As the DepartmentName will be populated either from querying existing employees records, or via the LOV, disable the field as the user should not have the ability to edit it.
7) Select the DepartmentId field and delete it. In the UI Model window delete the DepartmentId binding.
8) From the data controls palette, drag and drop the DepartmentId field as a messageLovInput onto your page. Note in your application navigator a new UIX page lovWindow0.uix (or similar) has been created for you.
9) While the lovWindow0.uix is still in italics (before you save it), rename the file to departmentsLov.uix.
10) Back in your editEmployees.uix page, your messageLovInput source will look like the following:
<messageLovInput
    model="${bindings.DepartmentId}"
    id="${bindings.DepartmentId.path}"
    destination="lovWindow0.uix"/>Change it to be:
<messageLovInput
    model="${bindings.DepartmentId}"
    id="DepartmentId"
    destination="departmentsLov.uix"
    partialRenderMode="multiple"
    partialTargets="_uixState DepartmentName"/>11) Also change your DepartmentName source to look like the following:
<messageTextInput
    id=DepartmentName
    model="${bindings.DepartmentName}"
    columns="10"
    disabled="true"/>12) Open your departmentsLov.uix page.
13) In the data control palette, drag and drop the DepartmentId field of the DepartmentView1 as a LovTable into the Results area on your page.
14) Notice in the UI Model window that the 3 binding controls have been created for you, an iterator, a range and a binding for DepartmentId.
15) Right click on the DepartmentsLovUIModel node in the UI Model window, then create binding, display, and finally attribute. The attribute binding editor will pop up. In the select-an-iterator drop down select the DepartmentsView1Iterator. Now select DepartmentName in the attribute list and then the ok button.
16) Note in the UI Model you now have a new binding called DCDefaultControl. Select this, and in the property palette change the Id to DepartmentName.
17) View the LOV pages source, and change the lovUpdate event as follows:
<event name="lovSelect">
    <compound>
        <set value="${bindings.DepartmentId.inputValue}" target="${sessionScope}" property="MyAppDepartmentId" />
        <set value="${bindings.DepartmentName.inputValue}" target="${sessionScope}" property="MyAppDepartmentName" />
    </compound>
</event>18) Return to editEmployees.uix source, and modify the lovUpdate event to look as follows:
<event name="lovUpdate">
    <compound>
        <set value="${sessionScope.MyAppDepartmentId}" target="${bindings.DepartmentId}" property="inputValue"/>
        <set value="${sessionScope.MyAppDepartmentName}" target="${bindings.DepartmentName}" property="inputValue"/>
    </compound>
</event>Thats it. Now when you select a value in your LOV, it will return 2 (multiple!) values.
A couple things to note:
1) In the messageLovInput id field we dont use the .path notation. This is mechanism for returning 1 value from the LOV and is useless for us.
2) Again in the messageLovInput we supply _uixState as an entry in the partialTargets.
3) We are relying on partial-page-refresh functionality to update multiple items on the screen.
Im not going to take the time out to explain these 3 points, but its worthwhile you learning more about them, especially the last 2, as a separate exercise.
One other useful thing to do is, in your messageLovInput, include as a last entry in the partialTargets list MessageBox. In turn locate the messageBox control on your page (if any), and supply an id=MessageBox. This will allow the LOV to place any errors raised in the MessageBox and show them to the user.
I hope this works for you :)
Cheers,
CM.

Thanks Chris,
It took me some time to find the information I needed, how to use return multiple values from a LOV popup window, then I found your post and all problems were solved. Its working perfectly, well, almost perfectly.
Im always fighting with ADF-UIX, it never does the thing that I expect it to do, I guess its because I have a hard time letting go of the total control you have as a developer and let the framework take care of a few things.
Anyway, I'm using your example to fill 5 fields at once, one of the fields being a messageChoice (a list with countries) with a LOV to a lookup table (id , country).
I return the countryId from the popup LOV window, that works great, but it doesn't set the correct value in my messageChoice . I think its because its using the CountryId for the listbox index.
So how can I select the correct value inside my messageChoice? Come to think of it, I dont realy think its LOV related...
Can someone help me out out here?
Kind regards
Ido

How do I return two values from a stored procedure into an "Execute SQL Task" within SQL Server 2008 R2

Hi,
How do I return two values from a
stored procedure into an "Execute SQL Task" please? Each of these two values need to be populated into an SSIS variable for later processing, e.g. StartDate and EndDate.
Thinking about stored procedure output parameters for example. Is there anything special I need to bear in mind to ensure that the SSIS variables are populated with the updated stored procedure output parameter values?
Something like ?
CREATE PROCEDURE [etl].[ConvertPeriodToStartAndEndDate]
@intPeriod INT,
@strPeriod_Length NVARCHAR(1),
@dtStart NVARCHAR(8) OUTPUT,
@dtEnd NVARCHAR(8) OUTPUT
AS
then within the SSIS component; -
Kind Regards,
Kieran.
Kieran Patrick Wood http://www.innovativebusinessintelligence.com http://uk.linkedin.com/in/kieranpatrickwood http://kieranwood.wordpress.com/

Below execute statement should work along the parameter mapping which you have provided. Also try specifying the parameter size property as default.
Exec [etl].[ConvertPeriodToStartAndEndDate] ?,?,? output, ? output
Add a script task to check ssis variables values using,
Msgbox(Dts.Variables("User::strExtractStartDate").Value)
Do not forget to add the property "readOnlyVariables" as strExtractStartDate variable to check for only one variable.
Regards, RSingh

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