Enhancement requests do seem to be worthwhile in the end...

Having requested the continuous/shuffle music video playback several times in the last 18 months or so, and urged people to do so via...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
...it has finally been implemented and I'm chuffed to bits.
Well done Apple, this is a superb enhancement though why so long to implement ?
Personally I feel this was a huge oversight for AppleTV ever since it was realeased, and seriously hindered both use of AppleTV as a media extender and obviated the point of buying music videos unless you watch them on portable devices which I don't.
I had become increasingly negative about the prospect of ever seeing this feature
appear - this cat doesn't wear a hat so I'll have to eat something else instead!
I am now likely to spend a fair amount on music videos at iTunes Store having vowed not to do so again as having to select each one manually to play was tedious to say the least.
Really baffles me how Apple have missed the opportunity for revenue from music video sales via AppleTV, particularly when iPods had the shuffle feature.
As I commented a few weeks ago I think perhaps priorities since 2.0 update have been to get the store up and running properly before implementing enhancement requests or new features.
Very pleased Apple have finally implemented this extremely useful feature, it may not be pointless in using the link above, it just takes time.
So the next thing we should do is think of things to officially lobby for in future updates.
My top 3 would be:
1 - Allowing connection via USB to rescue data from AppleTV for users who've had hard drive accidents/msihaps and haven't backed up recently - fact of life it happens even if you're careful! Files with DRM are safe from unauthorised use and those without DRM are no less secure than they were before anyway. This could even be done by only allowing AppleTV to dump media to an external USB device instead of allowing an external connection to AppleTV itself, and could be controlled from say a backup menu option. Alternatively full manual bidirectional drag and drop of media via iTunes to/from AppleTV could be implemented with a mode to prevent a new sync library connection wiping existing content.
What's in it for Apple? Huge boost in consumer confidence that Apple allow them to easily recover their personal files in the event of a problem - there should be no need to hack or dismantle AppleTV just to get at your data. Just think of all those people saying thank heaven I had an appleTV as my Macbook died and I'd forgotten to backup those wedding photos etc. We see examples of frustrated users almost daily with this problem.
2 - Additional codec support - it's all very well saying h264 is the best thing since sliced bread and the current Apple/Apple Store standard, but the limited video codec support is probably the biggest hindrance to AppleTV becoming an extremely popular media device. It has the slickest interface of commercial products but many prospective customers have files in long established older formats that are incompatible without prior time consuming and quality degrading transcoding. Locking down AppleTV in this way alienates many potential users. The argument about the source of files in other formats may have some validity, but it is not Apple's job to infer that a user's file is of dubious origin simply for not being in h264 format. I am not condoning filesharing/torrents etc merely saying that most people have older files in older formats they want to use without conversion. Many DVD players allow playback of DivX (never use it myself), and if there's a licensing issue offer playback as a per device plugin option paid for by the user in the same way the QT MPEG2 pluging is offered.
What's in it for Apple? Happy customers who would simply use something else like a PS3 to view their files and not buy AppleTV. New customers who would not have purchased otherwise. Happy customers who no longer need to trasncode files to watch. You'd be happy with being able to use older files, but would also get the benefit of using iTunes Store for new things.
The overhwelming thing would be a sense of 'fair play' gained by the consumer. For me personally since 2.0+ the device's overwhelming iTunes Store based menu design sticks in the craw and has relegated MY content to the bottom of menus. Give us the best of both worlds - an iTunes Store top level section for purchases and separate simple top level sections for combined personal/purchased media as in software 1.0/1.1. In essence declutter the menu system for playback lumping all the purchasing/preview/search options together.
3 - Tricky. Most useful would be an AppleTV SDK and 3rd party plugins/apps via iTunes paid and/or free similar to the iPhone model - I can live without widgets/visualisers/social networking plugins etc but they would be valuable to many users. As far as I know the iPhone Apps have been a huge success - no reason why not on AppleTV too, though commiting to this pathway would probably be very expensive in terms of developing a secure/sandboxed environment for running apps/plugins unless they could port the iPhone software fairly simply.
Anyhow, once again delighted Apple have added the music video feature - I will start buying music videos from iTunes music store again. Bad for my wallet but good for Apple and AppleTV. Perhaps I should be thankful and consider how much I've saved not buying music videos in the last 18 months or so.....
What would you like to see? Some things will be impossible/hardware limited, others quite feasible.
Discuss, but also use the formal feedback link to give enhancements any chance to appear!
Let's all help make AppleTV a success, and hopefully the media extender to beat!
AC
typos - Message was edited by: Alley_Cat

Chenks wrote:
to be honest, adding playlists (or whatever it is) for just music videos is of no use to me.
it is playlists for tv shows that i need. ie the capability of playing episode 1 to 5 of a particular season back to back.
Funny isn't it, how we all do things differently, have different preferences, enhancement wishes etc.
For me it's not really a big chore to watch an episode then to manually start the next assuming I or Mrs AC are still awake!
For episodes of short duration say 5-15 minutes I appreciate this could get annoying, and for longer episodes I suppose we are used to Play All type options on DVDs.
If these are iTunes TV Shows you're stuck at the moment, but if they're say 'home recordings converted for AppleTV' you could theoretically get round it by setting their types to Music Video. Clumsy but it should work.
I'm sure you can see the benefit of playlists/shuffling for music videos that may be 3-4 minutes each on average. I rediscovered dozens of iTunes Store music video purchases last night and thought 'yes, this is one of the big reasons why I bought AppleTV initially' - it did not say anywhere that AppleTV could not do this somewhat logical task - assumptions are dangerous though and invariably you only find out the full capabilities of products when using them.
additional codec support ? i would say there is no chance of this. x264 is pretty standard theses days (if you discount the pirate industry). x264 is even used for HD TV in the UK.
I agree, there's more chance of Tony Blair making a comeback!
Piracy is rife and I do not support it.
My views on fair use of media you personally own are quite different.
It's not the codec/container that's the issue it's how the material was acquired in the first place - it may simply be your home videos, digitised off-air recordings etc that is in a 'legacy' format that you don't want to transcode. We know from the modders that most other SD formats are playable on the current hardware so that's not the issue.
Take say an Elgato EyeTV device - I can record anything off-air, edit and transcode for AppleTV or just transcode unedited automatically. How much more sensible it woudl be if AppleTv simply supported the MPEG-2 transport stream playback rather than wasting time and computing/power resources doing the transcode.
I have some some standard video-CDs I made on a PC in the late 1990's, how nice it would be to be able to play the MPEG-1 content back without fiddling - it's not as though converting to h264 will do anything for the quality!
AC

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if you could copy/paste this whole thing into the submission form (see feedback option under the numbers menu). The more people that request these features, the more likely we are to see them in an update or the next version.
Jason

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* Good explanation of the extension points of JHeadstart; Struts has very well defined and documented extension points; JHeadstart (generated) applications are somewhat less clearly extensible.
* Better documentation on how to change the look&feel of the generated application - the pointers in the Developer's Guide are really quite meagre for this task.
* Extend property persistentAttribute in VO Attributes to override the persistentAttribute property currently generated in Form Bean as always equal to the VO att name (you can override the DataObjectImpl.getAttribute() and allow different patterns to be passed for persistentAttribute, such as manager.department.location to get hold of the name of the department of the manager of the current employee
* Support a diplay type of Image for Attributes (type BLOB or RAW) that contain Images; such images should be displayed as IMG where the src-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
* Support a diplay type of File for Attributes (type CLOB, BLOB or RAW) that contain contents to be downloaded as file; such files should be displayed as download button or link where the href-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
* Support a display type of Hyperlink for Attributes that contain a URL; in display only mode this attribute should be displayed as hyperlink, in insert/update mode the field should be accompanied by a small icon that allows navigation.
* Allow the JAG to generate Resource Bundels for multiple languages at once, rather than rerunning several times for each language
* Generate Breadcrumbs in JSPs
* Generate Regions in JSPs
* Allow static values for query type arguments to be provided - in struts config as action properties (for example for poplist population) - compare example Choosing Custom Query from Poplist in Tutorial where the page needs to provide the queryType bindparameter value; currently the value for the bindparameters used in the queryType need to be set in the session (typically from a form-field in the posted form); however, a queryType that can support for example all Domains in CG_REF_CODES with only the domain name bindparameter making the difference is very useful for populating poplists before displaying pages. It would be very handy if I can just specify the domainName as bindparameter in the getDataObjectSet action along with the queryType instead of forcing the value of the domainName into the Session.
* generate lookup (hyperlink/navigation to (popup with) details for the indicated record (for example: navigate to departments details by clicking on the Departments name in the Employees(Table)Page
* generate navigation buttons - new childtype in Application Structure file along with Regions: Navigation (Button); properties: targetGroup, possible page (table/form/child) and primary key of dataobject in target to be passed
Thanks for implementing any of these suggestions!
"The JHeadstart Team at AMIS!"

Lucas,
Thanks you very much for the useful feedback.
The good news is that many of your enhancement requests are already on our radar screen.
Your comments on the documentation are well taken. There is always room to improve the doc. If you have any specific topics/customizations that should be documented first, that would help us setting priorities on improving the doc.
Here are more detailed comments on some of your suggestions:
* Support for distinct display properties in VO Attributes for find/table/form-page
Not sure about this one. You can already get this by using resource bundles, we generate sperate keys for table and form items
* Generate Struts submodules
We will generate forwardPattern="$P" in the next patch.
* Support a diplay type of Image for Attributes (type BLOB or RAW) that contain Images; such images should be displayed as IMG where the src-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
The runtime support for this is done. We hope to include generation of images in the patch release schduled for November.
* Support a diplay type of File for Attributes (type CLOB, BLOB or RAW) that contain contents to be downloaded as file; such files should be displayed as download button or link where the href-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
Same status as images.
* Support a display type of Hyperlink for Attributes that contain a URL; in display only mode this attribute should be displayed as hyperlink, in insert/update mode the field should be accompanied by a small icon that allows navigation.
Good idea, easy to do in read only mode.
* Allow the JAG to generate Resource Bundels for multiple languages at once, rather than rerunning several times for each language
Nice to have, not a top priority in our view.
* Generate Breadcrumbs in JSPs
Yes, not easy to do, but is already on our list for next major release.
* Generate Regions in JSPs
Same status as breadcrumbs.
* Allow static values for query type arguments to be provided - in struts config as action properties (for example for poplist population) - compare example Choosing Custom Query from Poplist in Tutorial where the page needs to provide the queryType bindparameter value; currently the value for the bindparameters used in the queryType need to be set in the session (typically from a form-field in the posted form); however, a queryType that can support for example all Domains in CG_REF_CODES with only the domain name bindparameter making the difference is very useful for populating poplists before displaying pages. It would be very handy if I can just specify the domainName as bindparameter in the getDataObjectSet action along with the queryType instead of forcing the value of the domainName into the Session.
Understand the value, we could do this by using single quotes to indicate constants within the attributeNames property.
* generate lookup (hyperlink/navigation to (popup with) details for the indicated record (for example: navigate to departments details by clicking on the Departments name in the Employees(Table)Page
We have designed a simple but powerful way to link groups, which effectively provides you the ability of unlimited nesting of groups. Design is ready, implementation has to start, but we very much would like to include this in the patch release. No promises though...
* generate navigation buttons - new childtype in Application Structure file along with Regions: Navigation (Button); properties: targetGroup, possible page (table/form/child) and primary key of dataobject in target to be passed
This is included in the design as mentioned in the previous item.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team

Enhancement request for VAT Report of Customer and Vendor.

Hello SAP Gurus,
Have enhancement request for adding new fields in existing VAT report of Customer and Vendor like user id, GL account etc.
As I am fresher, can you please help me that how I need to approach. Thanks for your support.
Regards,
Saleem

Hello Saleem,
Almost all fields required for VAT reporting are available in standard tax report
S_ALR_87012357 .
You have to configure the layout from the selection screen as below
regards
pb

Enhancement Request: Viewlink based on an Association

Hi,
one highly repetitive task is creating associations and then creating a view link which in 99% of cases is an exact representation of the association. An enhancement that I would find useful is a create Viewlink from association context menu. Ie. right click on an Association and select "New View Link from Association". All of the relations from the association would then populate the view link properties.
I know that these can be generated from PK/FK relations but the business components from tables doesn't allow you to specify Association, View Link names or their location, resulting in a big bucket of ADF objects all in one level (this is is probably another enhancement request).
regards,
Brenden

does anyone else feel this would be of benefit?
After months and months spent solidly developing in JDeveloper this is the single most repetitive (and trivial) task i have had to do.

Enhancement request: Remote interface java file generation

Problem:
In release 9.0.3, If you want to write a method that is suppossed to be exposed in the remote interface, you have to first right click on the ejb-jar.xml's appropriate EJB name node and then add the method, specify the argument types (say about 25 in number in a small width textbox), return type, etc and check the check box 'Expose in remote interface'. Then only remote interface's java source gets updated and only after doing all this can you actually sit down to write the business logic in that method. If you first code the method and then try to add the same, it gives an error saying "duplicate method exists"
Suggestion:
The similiar feature in release 9.0.2 was much better and flexible as it allowed the generation of remote interface source after coding the actual method in the EJB source. You can first write the method and then expose it in the interface by just choosing it from a method browser and opting for exposing it in the remote interface. You donot have to write the name and number of arguments like we have to currently do in the 9.0.3 release.
(1) Actually, all public methods in the EJB source should by default be exposed in the remote interface because EJB are supposed to be used by other EJBs and JSPs only and all methods that are public but not exposed in the remote interface should actually be private or protected.
(2) Leave it up to the developer to edit the remote interface
(3) When the EJB source file is changed (public methods changed) compiled the remote interface should also be updated automatically. Why? already you have provision to change the remote interface source, so just dump all the public methods in the remote interface source when the EJB source is compiled.
(4) Ditto for EJB Homes
(5) Actually whenever the developer changes and compiles the EJB source, the remote and home source should automatically be updated AND COMPILED. (Refer: Pramati Studio 3.0 SP3 :- URL: www.pramati.com )
I was very happy with the earlier option. If anybody other then the JDeveloper Team finds this interesting, please respond. A suite like developer should be more User-friendly.
And yes expect more like this from me in the future

Hi Raghu,
Thanks for the quick response. This flexiblity in Remote interface generation and choice of methods in it at any given point in the development cycle is very much desired feature.
The other thing I would like to suggest is you look at another enhancement request in my name regarding batch updates of the "web.xml" file. You will find the thread updated today i.e. on 15th September with a reply
I will shortly post one more for lack of modularity in EJB components descriptors.
My Company Four Soft Pvt. Ltd. (www.four-soft.com) is Oracle's development partner and we use and support Oracle products. They are good but naturally we would like them to be better and more User-friendly.
Thanks once again.
Amit

Enhancement requests do seem to be worthwhile in the end...

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