E-recruimtment: Question about landscape standalone with use of MSS view

Hi ,
Has anyone already done an implementation of E-recruitment with the use of MSS view ?
Or have you reliable information about the combination landscape - manager view ?
For security reasons the choice for the landscape standalone is the best.
But in documentation of SAP we have read that the Manager view isn't possible in a standalone landscape:
ERP installation (Recruiting as integral part of the ERP solution)
- Required for MSS Manager Role integration and ESS integration
Kind Regards
Pascale

Hello Pascale,
perhaps we mixed up some things according to the manager involvment. There are 2 different solutions.
There is the "internal" e-recruiting solution for manager involvement. This is delivered in 2 separate roles requester and decision maker but usually joined to one manager or hiring department view / startpage.
There is an bsp application for requesting requisitions. The manager can create them, fill in the data he knows and then he sends it to his hr clerk respondible for his requests who adds all stuff missing, checks if it's ok with budget / headcount and then publishes it in the jobborads. In Addition there is an application which provides the mangager with a list of candidates he has to check and fill a questionaire for e.g. to decide if he wants the candate for an interview.
Both applications are parts of the e-recruiting delivery. They have nothing to do with the MSS. They are accessed via a startpage for the amnager and run on the e-recruiting server.
On the other hand there is nearly the same functionality delivered as part of the MSS. The result is nearly the same just the user interface differs. The requisition request is not done in an bsp application but an Adobe Interactive Form (which requires an ADS Server). The intention of this is to rebuild you old paper requisition request in an interactive form and map the data to the e-recruiting requisition. So you train your managers to use a web version of the old form instad of using e-recruiting. Of course if you already use other mss functions everything will be in the same fancy frontend and you do not need to log in twice if you have no SSO. As far as I heard the ADS license alone costs 50k and then youhave the rollout cost and licence cost for the MSS. You have to decide if it is worth it.
The candidate list for questionairs to fill is also available in the MSS scenario.
The MSS solution requires e-recruiting 600 and an hr core system on ECC6.0 (ERP2005) with the newest enhancement package. The MSS is installed and processed on the hr core server no matter if you use an integrated or a standalone installation for e-recruiting.
Best Regards
Roman Weise

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E-recruimtment: Question about landscape standalone with MSS

Hi Roman,
For security reasons the choice for the landscape standalone is the best.
But in documentation of SAP we have read that the Manager view isn't possible in a standalone landscape.
ERP installation (Recruiting as integral part of the ERP solution)
- Required for MSS Manager Role integration and ESS integration
Did you ever had set up a configuration in standalone with the manager view ? Or have you reliable information about the combination landscape - manager view ?
Kind Regards
Pascale

Hi Roman,
For security reasons the choice for the landscape standalone is the best.
But in documentation of SAP we have read that the Manager view isn't possible in a standalone landscape.
ERP installation (Recruiting as integral part of the ERP solution)
- Required for MSS Manager Role integration and ESS integration
Did you ever had set up a configuration in standalone with the manager view ? Or have you reliable information about the combination landscape - manager view ?
Kind Regards
Pascale

E-recruimtment: Question about landscape standalone with several HR Systems

Hi,
We are going to start with the implementation of E-recruitment , normally version 6.0.
The aim is to install 1 e-recruitment system as a standalone system who shall communicate with several HR systems of several companies (subsidiary company in different coountries Luxembourg, France, Belgium) and probably those HR systems (backend) runs on different versions.
So the aim is that every company shall search for its own candidates in the e-recruitment system and shall do its own hirings.
Up till now it isn't clear for us how this works ?
Thus anybody have already experience of such a landsccape who is willing to share his information ?
Wat are the benefits, the disadvantages, the difficulties, are there things we have to think about , ...
Kind Regards
Pascale

Hello Rachael,
you cannot split the so called pool of talents. every applicant has the option to release his profile in the system. if he does so, he agrees to be assigned / checked to any other requisition (=position) you open in your e-recruiting system. When you open a new requisition you can check if you already have suitable candidates in the system to get in contact with instead of finding new ones (you can just put him on the requisition). In the more strategic overall talent management topic one goal is to have a pool filled with critical applicant groups (engineers, sales people, researchers. ... - the short and strategic necessary applicant groups according to your business) to hire fast (and cheap).
This pool is accessable to every recruiter in standard. There is no restriction that if an applicant applied for company A a recruiter from company B cannot take him and get in contact with him.
For the requisition handling. Requisitions are always restricted to its recruiting team. If you create a requisition you assing the people who have to work with it (and the roles they have for the process). Recruiters can only access the requisitions they belong to. So this should not be a problem. By maintaining the company and branch for a requisition you can always find out which requisition belongs to which company and react on this in correspondences for example.
Managers are not really assigned to requisitions. Their task is restricted to request requisitions (of course in this case they become a member of the recruiting team). The candidate handling works by questionairs. The manager gets a list of requisitions and assigned candidates he is supposed to evaluate. The evaluation is done via filling the questionaire. He has no direct access to all candidates in the system.
The 2 ECC systems for one E-Recruiting standalone system are possible - unfortunately with some restrictions.
There are 2 ways of communication. The HR system has to deliver all employees and if you want to integrate OM all org.units, positions and jobs to the e-recruiting system. The employees get internal candidates for internal recruitment and even if you do not plan do use this every recruiter, manager needs a candidate to work with the system. The standard way for this is ALE. If you have a consolidated HR system infrastructure with non overlapping employee IDs and organizational unit IDs you can easily transfere data from both system into the e-recruiting system. If the number ranges overlap you will need special adaptions for mapping Ids for global identification. This might get a very chalanging task exp. if you include OM.
The other way is transfering hirings to the HR systems. This is more tricky. If you really plan to use this function (note that due to the restrictions in the function not all implementations use it anyways) you will need some custome developments. How much effort is needed for that would need more info on the systems and the requirements. I think in the best scenario I could imaging it would take me 5 days but as usual the sky is the limit if it's more complex.
Best Regards
Roman Weise

Could anyone here help me with using WebDynpro as view, and Adweb service

Could anyone here help me with using WebDynpro as view, and Adaptive web service as model, I am getting the following error message:
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Hi,
Could you check if it is the Installed JREs in Preference Page -> Java points to the jdk path and not the JRE.
Regards,
Nidhi

A question about a method with generic bounded type parameter

Hello everybody,
Sorry, if I ask a question which seems basic, but
I'm new to generic types. My problem is about a method
with a bounded type parameter. Consider the following
situation:
abstract class A{     }
class B extends A{     }
abstract class C
     public abstract <T extends A> T someMethod();
public class Test extends C
     public <T extends A> T someMethod()
          return new B();
}What I want to do inside the method someMethod in the class Test, is to
return an instance of the class B.
Normally, I'm supposed to be able to do that, because an instance of
B is also an instance of A (because B extends A).
However I cannot compile this program, and here is the error message:
Test.java:16: incompatible types
found   : B
required: T
                return new B();
                       ^
1 errorany idea?
many thanks,

Hello again,
First of all, thank you very much for all the answers. After I posted the comment, I worked on the program
and I understood that in fact, as spoon_ says the only returned value can be null.
I'm agree that I asked you a very strange (and a bit stupid) question. Actually, during recent months,
I have been working with cryptography API Core in Java. I understood that there are classes and
interfaces for defining keys and key factories specification, such as KeySpec (interface) and
KeyFactorySpi (abstract class). I wanted to have some experience with these classes in order to
understand them better. So I created a class implementing the interface KeySpec, following by a
corresponding Key subclass (with some XOR algorithm that I defined myself) and everything was
compiled (JDK 1.6) and worked perfectly. Except that, when I wanted to implement a factory spi
for my classes, I saw for the first time this strange method header:
protected abstract <T extends KeySpec> T engineGetKeySpec
(Key key, Class<T> keySpec) throws InvalidKeySpecExceptionThat's why yesterday, I gave you a similar example with the classes A, B, ...
in order to not to open a complicated security discussion but just to explain the ambiguous
part for me, that is, the use of T generic parameter.
The abstract class KeyFactorySpi was defined by Sun Microsystem, in order to give to security
providers, the possibility to implement cryptography services and algorithms according to a given
RFC (or whatever technical document). The methods in this class are invoked inside the
KeyFactory class (If you have installed the JDK sources provided by Sun, You can
verify this, by looking the source code of the KeyFactory class.) So here the T parameter is a
key specification, that is, a class that implements the interface KeySpec and this class is often
defined by the provider and not Sun.
stefan.schulz wrote:
>
If you define the method to return some bound T that extends A, you cannot
return a B, because T would be declared externally at invocation time.
The definition of T as is does not make sense at all.>
He is absolutely right about that, but the problem is, as I said, here we are
talking about the implementation and not the invocation. The implementation is done
by the provider whereas the invocation is done by Sun in the class KeyFactory.
So there are completely separated.
Therefore I wonder, how a provider can finally impelment this method??
Besides, dannyyates wrote
>
Find whoever wrote the signature and shoot them. Then rewrite their code.
Actually, before you shoot them, ask them what they were trying to achieve that
is different from my first suggestion!
>
As I said, I didn't choose this method header and I'm completely agree
with your suggestion, the following method header will do the job very well
protected abstract KeySpec engineGetKeySpec (Key key, KeySpec key_spec)
throws InvalidKeySpecException and personally I don't see any interest in using a generic bounded parameter T
in this method header definition.
Once agin, thanks a lot for the answers.

Question about Logon ticket with user mapping at BI-JAVA environment

We're implementing BI 7.0 including BI Java and SAP EP for end user
access.
I have two question about SSO method when we're using BI Java.
I know we can simply configure SSO logon ticket with BI-Java(EP
included) and BI-ABAP through BI template installer and we already
succeeded in that case.
But the problem is we want to change it to user mapping SSO method for
some our internal reason.
After we configure user mapping SSO, we've got SSO failed error when we
call BI-Java stuff like BEx Web Application iView.
After many testing implemented, we found SSO Logon ticket with user
mapping (using SAP reference system). It seems working now.
But our question is "Is it no problem when we use SSO logon ticket with
user mapping?" Is there any restriction or issue?
One more question is we can ONLY use user base mapping when reference
system used. How can we assign BI-ABAP users to EP Group?

Using an SAP Reference system is allright. But if the reason u r going for this is because of different usernames in EP and BI, why dont you go for user mapping.
Anyways, on restriction of reference syetms is that you can have ONLY ONE reference system defined in portal. In you case you can only have the BI system defined.
Hope this helps!!

Questions about supporting TLF with Halo components in Flex 4.1

We recently decided to upgrade to the Flex 4.1 SDK after a year or so at 3.2. We have been asked to not use the new SPARK components yet because our products would then have a mistmatch of Halo and Spark components in the UI. We have built support for our Halo components to display html through the ".htmlText" property for the Text components. For example, we can display strings such as "<p>Choose <b>one</b> option:</p>". With the upgrade to Flex 4.1 a couple of questions about supporting bi-directional text have come up. My understanding is that in order to support bi-directional text we need to use the Text Layout Framework. Does anyone have a suggestion on how we can utilize the TLF with the Halo components in Flex 4.1? Can we still use the ".htmlText" property somehow or is there a new property that understands the TextFormat markup? We would love to still be able to use the limited html tags that are supported for the "htmlText" property. Is there an option where that syntax is still understood?
Thanks in advance!
David

The halo components use TextField, and the spark components use TLF. Both sets have support for some html markup to import and export text. To use bidi text, you have to use TLF; TextField won't work properly.
It is possible to use TLF to build your own components, and this can work well particularly for applications with specialized needs. But if you need bidi support for advanced components like DataGrid and List, then you should use the spark components.
Thanks!
- robin

Questions about PDF exporting with InDe CS5.5

Hey all,
A couple questions about exporting to PDF from the latest version of InDe.
First, I have noticed that it seems to take a lot longer to get to a PDF. Any suggestions for how to speed up the process? It took 8 minutes or so to generate a low-res PDF (for print) of a 24pp document with a few placed images and vector graphics. Wow, that's a long time to wait, especially for a proof.
Second, the background task... if I get it going on making that 8-minute PDF and then work some more on the document, what exactly is in the PDF? Usually I save before making a PDF or printing. So, is the last version saved what will be in the PDF?
(As an aside, this ability to work on the doc while generating a PDF seems kind of weird. Generally one makes a PDF for proofing, or even for printing, when all the changes have been made and everything is "final". So, I see no benefit to being able to work on my document while it's making a PDF, as I'm probably finished making revisions for the time being. I have to say that I kind of like the progress bar you get when you make an interactive PDF, as you know you can't work on the document when that's on the screen... )
Thanks as always.

First, I have noticed that it seems to take a lot longer to get to a PDF. Any suggestions for how to speed up the process? It took 8 minutes or so to generate a low-res PDF (for print) of a 24pp document with a few placed images and vector graphics. Wow, that's a long time to wait, especially for a proof.
Yes, this is abnormally long (and too long), something is wrong. What's the full version of InDesign you are running, as reported by holding down Cmd or Control and selecting About InDesign?
Second, the background task... if I get it going on making that 8-minute PDF and then work some more on the document, what exactly is in the PDF? Usually I save before making a PDF or printing. So, is the last version saved what will be in the PDF?
Saving is not related. InDesign makes a database snapshot of your document the moment you begin the PDF export, and makes the export relative to that snapshot, regardless of edits you continue to make during the export process, and regardless of saving. Of course saving first is a good idea, for several reasons, not the least of which it sounds like something's fairly seriously wrong with your document or your InDesign installation.
We recommend you trash your preferences and export your document to IDML and see if either of those things changes this 8-minute behavior...err, assuming you're running 7.5.2.318.
(As an aside, this ability to work on the doc while generating a PDF seems kind of weird. Generally one makes a PDF for proofing, or even for printing, when all the changes have been made and everything is "final". So, I see no benefit to being able to work on my document while it's making a PDF, as I'm probably finished making revisions for the time being. I have to say that I kind of like the progress bar you get when you make an interactive PDF, as you know you can't work on the document when that's on the screen... )
Yeah, I think the primary benefit is if you are likely to work on 2 or more files in parallel, so you can finish A and export A and then switch to B. If you'd like a dialog box to pop up when export is done, check out my exportPop script from this post: ANN: automatic dialog after background export (exportPop.jsx.

Question about 360 movieclip with cursor action

Hello Flash Forum
We have a question about a 360 flash / movieclip which comes
to a halt or jumps to whereever the cursor is moved horizontally
while any vertical movements is ignored. We are having difficulties
to implement this and would like to ask whether someone can point
us into the right direction in Flash 8 - read somewhere that this
is extremely easy in Flash 8 but we cannot find out how!?
An example would be:
http://www.kswiss.com/cgi-bin/kswiss/store/product_detail.html?mv_arg=x&pid=01190:177
and then chosing 'Go 360'
Thank you for any assistance and/or direction.
Alex

Alex, took a look at your sample - looks to me like
start_drag and stop_drag on mouse_over. Hope this helps. ash

Question about same emails with others

Good afternoon, the other day I walked into
yahoo.com, because I wondered if
I had done earlier account there.
So, when I tried to log in, I chose
that I can not remember my identity
and asked me to write the security email
I would have put in during my
recording time. Me, I put
my mainly EMAIL, which is: [email protected]
After some time I realized that
some unknown had used my email
as security email to his account
on yahoo. Later I checked the
recent activity in my email in hotmail
and indicate places where I have not been
in any of the times I entered my
account. Finally, there are some messages
about verifying my identity to an account
of Apple, which does not come from
me. My question is whether it is possible
to have the same email with
these girls, who have the same name and
the same first letter on their surname
as me?? Thank you in advance!

WLS loads classes from weblogic.class.path property
Refer this document
http://www.weblogic.com/docs51/admindocs/classpath.html
Kumar
Paul Shen wrote:
At first, thanks Jesse for the help. Sorry for my mistake that making
question 3 out of context.
WinNT 4.0 SP6, Weblogic 5.10, SQLServer 7.0
I wanna create a connection pool for SQLServer. At beginning, I
mis-add the JDBC Driver class path to weblogic.class.path. As a result
the pool creating failed. After I add the JDBC Driver class path to
weblogic.class.path and CLASSPATH (by wlconfig), the pool created
succefully.
For testing purpose, I changed weblogic.class.path back, then
restarted NT, started Weblogic Server, to my surprise, the pool was
created as well! How do you think about this?
Paul
On 22 Aug 2000 12:27:28 -0800, [email protected] (Jesse E Tilly)
wrote:
Comments inline...
[email protected] (Paul Shen) wrote in <wS2iOZDX8dSgABq4nblptb+wg7Uz@
4ax.com>:
3. For testing purpose, I changed weblogic.class.path back, then
restarted NT, started Weblogic Server, to my surprise, the pool was
created as well! How do you think about this?This question seems out of context. I do not know what pool you are
referring to, nor the actions prior to changing the classpath.
Jesse

Question about file size when using "Export for Web"

Hi!
I created a .mov file and worked to get a great balance between file size and quality so that I could deliver it via the web and make it easier for end users to see the video on a slower connection.
My question: When I use "Export for Web," my .mov file is converted into a very large .m4v file--more than double the size of the original file. I know that this export option is to optimize the file for a wide variety of users/internet speeds. Am I correct in guessing that the end size is not an issue? I would post the .mov file instead, but I really like the option of embedding into a html page along with the "click to play" option.
Bottom line--is it better to post the smaller .mov file that i originally started with or to go ahead and link to the bigger .m4v file that was created with the "Export for Web" option?

"Export for Web" is a feature of QuickTime Pro and it makes 4 files and the html page code for easy copy/paste Web page editing.
The very first file is called a "reference movie" and it links to the other 3 files (56kbps, 900kbps and 1.5Mbps). It, and the page code, "read" the connection speed of the viewing hardware and "serve up" the correct file based on that connection speed.
In nearly all cases the "Desktop" version would still be smaller in file size than the original source. The times the file would "increase" in file size would be when an already compressed was used as the source file. You can find out more about your source file by opening it in QuickTime Player and viewing the Movie Inspector window information.
There are dozens of other html "tricks" that could be used if your source file is already compressed but you want a different display size:
Page code to show "aspect" or scale="tofit". This code allows values "outside" of those found in the actual QuickTime file be used for the Web page display. A 320X240 QuickTime .mov file looks pretty good at double size (640X480) but the file size would still be that of the source file.
"Poster Movie" is another html trick that loads the Web based file directly in the QuickTime Player application (bypassing Web page layout restrictions). These files are also known as "Presentation Movies".
Another method is the QuickTime Media Link file (.qtl). These are simple text based files that are used as a "direct link". These use simple XML (Extensible Markup Language) and are easily created in any text editing application. The simple syntax has amazing control over a simple QuickTime .mov file. You can launch (and quit) the QuickTime Player, display at other dimensions and even embed "links" inside the display.
Some of my files as examples:
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/Lemon_Trees/ a "Poster Movie" style.
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/.Public/RedneckTexasChristmas.qtl
A QuickTime Media Link file. A tiny file should download to the viewing machine, launch QuickTime Player, present the movie and it even includes a "link" to my Web page.
Edit: It appears you must now double click the .qtl download to launch QuickTime.

Newbie Questions About Installing Windows with Boot Camp

The only reason I want to use Windows is to be able to download games from the internet that are not made for Mac only for PC and I have a few questions:
1. Doing all this installation will anything made for PC work?
2. I only have Windows XP will that work? And then do all the SP updates after it's installed?
3. If I have to use Windows XP SP2 is this one a good one to buy?
http://www.cdsfu.com/index.php?categoryID=87
4. After everything is installed do I have to use an anti-virus?
I want to thank you for your help as you can see I really am a newbie.
Karen

Hi Karen and welcome to Discussions,
The only reason I want to use Windows is to be able to download games from the internet that are not made for Mac only for PC and I have a few questions:
1. Doing all this installation will anything made for PC work?
Nearly anything. There are some Windows programs using hardware dongles that don't run.
2. I only have Windows XP will that work? And then do all the SP updates after it's installed?
You need a Windows XP CD with at least Service Pack 2 (SP2) incorporated.
3. If I have to use Windows XP SP2 is this one a good one to buy?
http://www.cdsfu.com/index.php?categoryID=87
another user round here had already asked about that website.
Three things about this offer are, at least to me, very suspicious:
"Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition With SP2, Full Version on CDR"
Microsoft never has used CD-R disc (CD-Recordable) for Windows
"software that does NOT include any COA label or a sticker from the manufacturer"
There always has to be a sticker, that one puts on the computer on which the Windows license is installed and a COA label as well.
"VOLUME LICENSE INCLUDED"
A volume license, from my understanding, was only sold to companys, who install Windows on a larger scale (hundreds of computers) and for that purpose are given only one license-key for all installations.
Usually this is known as a'corporate license'.
All in all, I would personally stay away from this offer. It simply doesn't sound legal to me.
4. After everything is installed do I have to use an anti-virus?
When running Windows a decent Anti-Virus software is a must.
I want to thank you for your help as you can see I really am a newbie.
You're welcome anytime. Hope it helps.
Karen
Regards
Stefan

General question about storage, networking, and using large amounts of data

I have been using a powermac tower G5 up until now. I bought my daughter a macbook pro 15" i7, talk about a zippy little machine. What a screamer. I can't believe how fast it is with final cut express, Aperture, and Photoshop. I tend to use higher end stuff, video, photos, etc. Hence I need not only a good fast processor, but the storage....need lots of hard disk space.
oh, did I mention I bought this for my daughter who's about to go off to college? Heh, when I'm home, she loses the machine to me.... *evil grin*
Anyways, I haven't considered using a laptop before for me personally as I just don't care for the small screen size, no mouse, and things like that.
Seems I've changed my opinion, esp seeing as the new mouse track pad is a game changer. I still am not crazy about the small screen size, but I can get over it.
The one thing I can't get around is the small disk storage. I have 4 TB on my big machine. Between my video, photography, and music, I am nearing a full TB of just raw stuff. If I count all the things I've stored, especially finished videos I make of photography projects, well you can image the chomping that occurs on disk storage.
So what is a man to do about storage?
I'm really getting hooked on this zippy little machine. The idea of dragging it around is compelling. Having my work not tied to a desk is fun.
but the lack of storage is sucky, terribly so.
I have one possible option, taking the G5 and making it a server. I can use it for backup and high speed transfer, working on the transfer part today.
I thought I'd poll the collective wisdom of the community and see what do you peeps think is the best overall way to handle such a situation?
What is the absolute fastest best way to use external drives? Firewire 800 is ok, but when working with 400gb aperture database files....
I'm hoping there is some way to start posturing myself to really use a laptop for my full computing experience.
Or am I trying to make a small portable machine act like a tower? Is this not a reasonable hope at this point in time?
I'm open to suggestions. I'm going to purchase something when my daughter takes this laptop with her to college. Either a new mac pro tower or laptop. I love the portability but need speed and massive storage.
Thanks for opining.

Storage:
1. Replace the drive with a larger one. Up to 1 TB is now available for notebook drives.
2. Get a portable external drive for additional storage needs. See the options at OWC as an example.
Drive speed:
1. FW 800 should be fast enough for your work. If the computer has an ExpressCard slot then consider a card supporting full speed eSATA. You may then achieve speeds closer to the internal bus.
A laptop is not a tower so stop thinking of or comparing to your tower. Besides the laptop's speed compared to your G5 is more like comparing a Ford Focus to a Ferrari F150.
As for "polling" opinions here: polling is forbidden by the forums' Terms of Use.

A zillion questions about setting up and using external hard drive

Hello. I recently purchased a Cavalry 440GB CACE USB/FW800 7200 RPM 3.5 in Mac Formatted hard drive. My Mac is a Power PC G4 using OS X 10.2.8.
After much back and forth with the Cavalry support desk, I was able to connect it to my Mac. (The USB cable included was not compatible--fortunately, my printer cable was.)
Through Disk Utility I see that my Mac is detecting the hard drive, but there's no icon on my desktop. My questions are as follows:
1. How do I get the icon on my desktop?
2. It was suggested on this board to partition the hard drive. What exactly is partitioning, and is it necessary?
3. If I do partition the hard drive, into how many partitions should I make it?
4. Once the number of partitions is set, can that number be changed? In other words, can it be repartioned without erasing anything?
5. My main purpose for getting the external hard drive is to move all my movies off my Mac. I'm sure I will want to back up other files as well. Should I create one partition for all the movies, and one for photos, one for files, etc.?
6. Once I get the icon on my desktop, is transferring files as simple as dragging the files onto the icon?
7. Once I move files to the hard drive, is it simple to move them back to the Mac if I need to use them again?
OK, that's all for now. I appreciate your patience in dealing with all my questions! Thanks.

Hello,
I'll try my best on the first seven. The remaining zillion minus seven questions will have to wait!
1. If the drive really is Mac-formatted it should just appear. Firstly check that hard disks are set to appear on the desktop. In the Finder go to Finder > Preferences... >General tab and ensure that the box to show hard disks on the desktop is checked. If that doesn't work go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities >Disk Utility. Select the drive in the left hand pane and then click on the "Erase" tab. Erase the disk and ensure the format is "Mac OS Extended (with Journalling)".
2. Partitioning is splitting the physically drive into two or more volumes. This will allow you to compartmentalise your data. You will have two or more icons appear on the desktop if you do partition. Although they are on the same physical disk you will be limited on each of the volumes to the size you set at the time of partitioning. If you do partition the drive be sure to use the "Apple Partition Map" not "GUID Partition Map". The latter is for Intel Macs.
3. Whatever you want. My experience is that too many partitions and you loose flexibility in your storage space. Personally on my external drive I have a partition that is exactly the same size as my internal hard drive. I then use that to do a regular clone backup. I then have a second partition for general use. This means I can put files on the external but still guarantee I have enough spare to backup fully.
4. No. Not without third party tools.
5. As I said above, in my opinion the best use is to create a partition for backup and a partition for all other use.
6. Yes absolutely. However if you plan on moving libraries like iTunes or iPhoto then you'll need to show the applications where the libraries are again.
7. Yes.
Some extra pointers:
A. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup your internal drive to the external. Clones are fantastic backups as even if the internal drive bursts into flames you will have an identical copy of all user data and settings: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html (scroll to the very bottom for the version suitable for 10.2.8).
B. Don't use USB to connect the hard drive it's not very fast. Firewire 400 is significantly faster and will allow the iMac to be booted from the external drive in an emergency (USB will not boot a G4 Mac).
Hope that helps a little.
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