How to implement a ruler?

Hi, I am trying to figure out to implement a ruler like the online TLF demo has, http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/.
Could you let me know what would be the best way to do this? And also, is it possible to open the source of this demo?
Thanks in advance.
Luke.

We have a SimpleEditor example project, which is useful if you are starting a user interface, but it doesn't include a ruler. Unfortunately the code for the online editor UI is something we can't release at present. I can say that it is possible to do it all in Flex. I think one of the tricky parts is likely to be tracking the tab when it gets dragged.
Sorry!
- robin

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1) entities objects: OperationEntity, OperationItemEntity;
2) association for this entities: OperationItemToOperation;
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4) application module: ApplicationModule;
I add method createCurrentRowClone to OperationByIdImpl class. It just call createClone method for current row:
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Thomas,
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Hi Kathyaini,
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TREX Error while implementing a Rule Modeler in ERMS

Hi Experts,
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How do I "Apply Rules" to a list of messages via Applescript?

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How to implement OSS notes : 207260

Hi All,
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Please let me know how to implement OSS notes since i never done this before.
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Check the below point:
SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
Implementing OSS Notes Using the new Transaction Code SNOTE
In this document we will see how to implement an OSS note using the SNOTE
transaction code.
The transaction code SNOTE is used to implement OSS Notes. With the SNOTE
transaction, it is no longer necessary to register ABAP objects such as report function
modules etc. manually. But data dictionary objects such as screens, tables need to
be modified manually by registering them in OSS system.
In order to use the transaction code SNOTE, the relevant transport which implement
this transaction in the system need to be transported. Please refer to the SNOTE
guide available at http://service.sap.com
Execute the Transaction code SNOTE
One of the first steps to do is to upload the note into your system.
Follow Goto à SAP Note Download
You can also use the SAP Note upload if the note has been saved in your local
machine
SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
In the following box that you get, enter the note number. We will take Note 388732
as an example
and click on the Execute icon. You will get the note number displayed in the list of the
OSS notes
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SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
Select the note and click on Check SAP Note icon. In this case we have selected
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node
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SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
You will get a confirmation box like the following
Click on Yes
Click on the Continue icon
SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
You will be prompted to enter a change request number.
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SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
A change Request number is created for the change that you are making
Click on the continue icon
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Click on the Continue icon
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SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
After a while, select the note and click on the Check SAP Note icon on the application
toolbar
But still the Status of the note is displayed under In Process category.
SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
You can also check the status of the note by checking the meaning of the icon next
to the note number.
To check the legend, follow Utilities à Color Legend
As you can see from the legends box, means Implemented Correctly.
Since the note is implemented, you can change the status of the note from In
Process to Completed manually.
SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
Select the note and click on the Set Processing Status icon
In the Pop up box that you get, select the Completed radio button
And click on the Continue icon
SAP R/3 Document : Using Transaction SNOTE
http://www.sappoint.com
The note number is removed from the list
ü You can also check the logs of the activities performed during the OSS note
implementation by clicking on the Logs icon on the application toolbar. The log
information will contain all the steps that were performed from the point of
downloading the note will its implementation is completed.
ü If there are any pre-requisite notes for the note that is being applied, the
system will prompt you to load those notes too into the system. Depending on
their applicability to your system, the system will prompt you accordingly to
apply the pre-requisite notes.
ü You can register the manually implemented SAP notes by executing the report
SCWN_REGISTER_NOTES.
ü SNOTE cannot change or modify data dictionary objects. If there is a note
which requires changes to be made to a structure or a screen then SNOTE will
not help. Such objects have to be registered and modified manually.
http://www.sappoint.com/basis/snote.pdf
Regards,
Prakash.

What is BI ? How we implement & what is the cost to implement ?

What is BI ? How we implement & what is the cost to implement ?
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Hi Sumit,
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2.     Data Analysis
3.     Situation Awareness
4.     Risk Assessment
5.     Decision Support
Data sourcing
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Data analysis
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u2022     artificial intelligence - e.g. neural networks and fuzzy logic.
Situation awareness
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Risk assessment
Business Intelligence is about discovering what plausible actions might be taken, or decisions made, at different times. It is about helping you weigh up the current and future risk, cost or benefit of taking one action over another, or making one decision versus another. It is about inferring and summarising your best options or choices.
Decision support
Business Intelligence is about using information wisely. It aims to provide warning you of important events, such as takeovers, market changes, and poor staff performance, so that you can take preventative steps. It seeks to help you analyse and make better business decisions, to improve sales or customer satisfaction or staff morale. It presents the information you need, when you need it.
This section describes how we are using extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) processes and a data warehouse architecture to build our enterprise-wide data warehouse in incremental project steps. Before an enterprise-wide data warehouse could be delivered, an integrated architecture and a companion implementation methodology needed to be adopted. A productive and flexible tool set was also required to support ETL processes and the data warehouse architecture in a production service environment. The resulting data warehouse architecture has the following four principal components:
u2022 Data Sources
u2022 Data Warehouses
u2022 Data Marts
u2022 Publication Services
ETL processing occurs between data sources and the data warehouse, between the data warehouse and data marts and may also be used within the data warehouse and data marts.
Data Sources
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The physical inventory was comprised of a review of DBMS cataloged tables as well as data sets used by business processes. These data sets had been identified through developing the enterprise-wide information needs model.
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The logical inventory was constructed from u201Cbrain-stormingu201D sessions which focused on common key business terms which must be referenced when articulating the institutionu2019s vision and mission (strategic direction, goals, strategies, objectives and activities). Once the primary terms were identified, they were organized into directories such as u201CProjectu201D, u201CLocationu201D, u201CAcademic Entityu201D, u201CUniversity Personu201D, u201CBudget Envelopeu201D etc. Relationships were identified by recognizing u201Cnatural linkagesu201D within and among directories, and the u201Cdrill-downsu201D and u201Croll-upsu201D that were required to support u201Creport byu201D and u201Creport onu201D information hierarchies. This exercise allowed the directories to be sub-divided into hierarchies of business terms which were useful for presentation and validation purposes.
We called this important deliverable the u201CConceptual Data Modelu201D (CDM) and it was used as the consolidated conceptual (paper) view of all of the Universityu2019s diverse data sources. The CDM was then subjected to a university-wide consultative process to solicit feedback and communicate to the university community that this model would be adopted by the Business Intelligence (BI) project as a governance model in managing the incremental development of its enterprise-wide data warehousing project.
Data Warehouse
This component of our data warehouse architecture (DWA) is used to supply quality data to the many different data marts in a flexible, consistent and cohesive manner. It is a u2018landing zoneu2019 for inbound data sources and an organizational and re-structuring area for implementing data, information and statistical modeling. This is where business rules which measure and enforce data quality standards for data collection in the source systems are tested and evaluated against appropriate data quality business rules/standards which are required to perform the data, information and statistical modeling described previously.
Inbound data that does not meet data warehouse data quality business rules is not loaded into the data warehouse (for example, if a hierarchy is incomplete). While it is desirable for rejected and corrected records to occur in the operational system, if this is not possible then start dates for when the data can begin to be collected into the data warehouse may need to be adjusted in order to accommodate necessary source systems data entry u201Cre-worku201D. Existing systems and procedures may need modification in order to permanently accommodate required data warehouse data quality measures. Severe situations may occur in which new data entry collection transactions or entire systems will need to be either built or acquired.
We have found that a powerful and flexible extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process is to use Structured Query Language (SQL) views on host database management systems (DBMS) in conjunction with a good ETL tool such as SAS® ETL Studio. This tool enables you to perform the following tasks:
u2022 The extraction of data from operational data stores
u2022 The transformation of this data
u2022 The loading of the extracted data into your data warehouse or data mart
When the data source is a u201Cnon-DBMSu201D data set it may be advantageous to pre-convert this into a SAS® data set to standardize data warehouse metadata definitions. Then it may be captured by SAS® ETL Studio and included in the data warehouse along with any DBMS source tables using consistent metadata terms. SAS® data sets, non-SAS® data sets, and any DBMS table will provide the SAS® ETL tool with all of the necessary metadata required to facilitate productive extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) work.
Having the ability to utilize standard structured query language (SQL) views on host DBMS systems and within SAS® is a great advantage for ETL processing. The views can serve as data quality filters without having to write any procedural code. The option exists to u201Cmaterializeu201D these views on the host systems or leave them u201Cun-materializedu201D on the hosts and u201Cmaterializeu201D them on the target data structure defined in the SAS® ETL process. These choices may be applied differentially depending upon whether you are working with u201Ccurrent onlyu201D or u201Ctime seriesu201D data. Different deployment configurations may be chosen based upon performance issues or cost considerations. The flexibility of choosing different deployment options based upon these factors is a considerable advantage.
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Data Marts
This component of the data warehouse architecture may manifest as the following:
u2022 Customer u201Cvisibleu201D relational tables
u2022 OLAP cubes
u2022 Pre-determined parameterized and non-parameterized reports
u2022 Ad-hoc reports
u2022 Spreadsheet applications with pre-populated work sheets and pivot tables
u2022 Data visualization graphics
u2022 Dashboard/scorecards for performance indicator applications
Typically a business intelligence (BI) project may be scoped to deliver an agreed upon set of data marts in a project. Once these have been well specified, the conceptual data model (CDM) is used to determine what parts need to be built or used as a reference to conform the inbound data from any new project. After the detailed data mart specifications (DDMS) have been verified and the conceptual data model (CDM) components determined, a source and target logical data model (LDM) can be designed to integrate the detailed data mart specification (DDMS) and conceptual data model (CMD). An extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process can then be set up and scheduled to populate the logical data models (LDM) from the required data sources and assist with any time series and data audit change control requirements.
Over time as more and more data marts and logical data models (LDMu2019s) are built the conceptual data model (CDM) becomes more complete. One very important advantage to this implementation methodology is that the order of the data marts and logical data models can be entirely driven by project priority, project budget allocation and time-to-completion constraints/requirements. This data warehouse architecture implementation methodology does not need to dictate project priorities or project scope as long as the conceptual data model (CDM) exercise has been successfully completed before the first project request is initiated.
McMasteru2019s Data Warehouse design
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Publication Services
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Using the portalu2019s personalization features we have customized it for a McMaster u201Clook and feelu201D. Information is organized using pages and portlets and our stakeholders will have access to public pages along with private portlets based on role authorization rules. Stakeholders will also be able to access SAS® data sets from within Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel using the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office. This tool will enable our stakeholders to execute stored processes (a SAS® program which is hosted on a server) and embed the results in their documents and spreadsheets. Within Excel, the SAS® Add-In can:
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u2022 Analyze SAS® or Excel data using analytic tasks
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Publication is also channeled according to audience with appropriate security and privacy rules.
SECURITY u2013 AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION
The business value derived from using the SAS® Value Chain Analytics includes an authoritative and secure environment for data management and reporting. A data warehouse may be categorized as a u201Ccollection of integrated databases designed to support managerial decision making and problem solving functionsu201D and u201Ccontains both highly detailed and summarized historical data relating to various categories, subjects, or areasu201D. Implementation of the research funding data mart at McMaster has meant that our stakeholders now have electronic access to data which previously was not widely disseminated. Stakeholders are now able to gain timely access to this data in the form that best matches their current information needs. Security requirements are being addressed taking into consideration the following:
u2022 Data identification
u2022 Data classification
u2022 Value of the data
u2022 Identifying any data security vulnerabilities
u2022 Identifying data protection measures and associated costs
u2022 Selection of cost-effective security measures
u2022 Evaluation of effectiveness of security measures
At McMaster access to data involves both authentication and authorization. Authentication may be defined as the process of verifying the identity of a person or process within the guidelines of a specific
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security policy (who you are). Authorization is the process of determining which permissions the user has for which resources (permissions). Authentication is also a prerequisite for authorization. At McMaster business intelligence (BI) services that are not public require a sign on with a single university-wide login identifier which is currently authenticated using the Microsoft Active Directory. After a successful authentication the SAS® university login identifier can be used by the SAS® Meta data server. No passwords are ever stored in SAS®. Future plans at the university call for this authentication to be done using Kerberos.
At McMaster aggregate information will be open to all. Granular security is being implemented as required through a combination of SAS® Information Maps and stored processes. SAS® Information Maps consist of metadata that describe a data warehouse in business terms. Through using SAS® Information Map Studio which is an application used to create, edit and manage SAS® Information Maps, we will determine what data our stakeholders will be accessing through either SAS® Web Report Studio (ability to create reports) or SAS® Information Delivery Portal (ability to view only). Previously access to data residing in DB-2 tables was granted by creating views using structured query language (SQL). Information maps are much more powerful as they capture metadata about allowable usage and query generation rules. They also describe what can be done, are database independent and can cross databases and they hide the physical structure of the data from the business user. Since query code is generated in the background, the business user does not need to know structured query language (SQL). As well as using Information Maps, we will also be using SAS® stored processes to implement role based granular security.
At the university some business intelligence (BI) services are targeted for particular roles such as researchers. The primary investigator role of a research project needs access to current and past research funding data at both the summary and detail levels for their research project. A SAS® stored process (a SAS® program which is hosted on a server) is used to determine the employee number of the login by checking a common university directory and then filtering the research data mart to selectively provide only the data that is relevant for the researcher who has signed onto the decision support portal.
Other business intelligence (BI) services are targeted for particular roles such as Vice-Presidents, Deans, Chairs, Directors, Managers and their Staff. SAS® stored processes are used as described above with the exception that they filter data on the basis of positions and organizational affiliations. When individuals change jobs or new appointments occur the authorized business intelligence (BI) data will always be correctly presented.
As the SAS® stored process can be executed from many environments (for example, SAS® Web Report Studio, SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS® Enterprise Guide) authorization rules are consistently applied across all environments on a timely basis. There is also potential in the future to automatically customize web portals and event notifications based upon the particular role of the person who has signed onto the SAS® Information Delivery Portal.
ARCHITECTURE (PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT)
We are currently in the planning stages for building a scalable, sustainable infrastructure which will support a scaled deployment of the SAS® Value Chain Analytics. We are considering implementing the following three-tier platform which will allow us to scale horizontally in the future:
Our development environment consists of a server with 2 x Intel Xeon 2.8GHz Processors, 2GB of RAM and is running Windows 2000 u2013 Service Pack 4.
We are considering the following for the scaled roll-out of our production environment.
A. Hardware
1. Server 1 - SAS® Data Server
- 4 way 64 bit 1.5Ghz Itanium2 server
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- 16 Gb RAM
- 2 73 Gb Drives (RAID 1) for the OS
- 1 10/100/1Gb Cu Ethernet card
- 1 Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition for Itanium
2 Mid-Tier (Web) Server
- 2 way 32 bit 3Ghz Xeon Server
- 4 Gb RAM
- 1 10/100/1Gb Cu Ethernet card
- 1 Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition for x86
3. SAN Drive Array (modular and can grow with the warehouse)
- 6 u2013 72GB Drives (RAID 5) total 360GB for SAS® and Data
B. Software
1. Server 1 - SAS® Data Server
- SAS® 9.1.3
- SAS® Metadata Server
- SAS® WorkSpace Server
- SAS® Stored Process Server
- Platform JobScheduler
2. Mid -Tier Server
- SAS® Web Report Studio
- SAS® Information Delivery Portal
- BEA Web Logic for future SAS® SPM Platform
- Xythos Web File System (WFS)
3. Client u2013Tier Server
- SAS® Enterprise Guide
- SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office
REPORTING
We have created a number of parameterized stored processes using SAS® Enterprise Guide, which our stakeholders will access as both static (HTML as well as PDF documents) and interactive reports (drill-down) through SAS® Web Report Studio and the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office. All canned reports along with SAS® Web Report Studio will be accessed through the SAS® Information Delivery Portal.
NEXT STEPS
Next steps of the project include development of a financial data mart along with appropriate data quality standards, monthly frozen snapshots and implementation of university-wide financial reporting standards. This will facilitate electronic access to integrated financial information necessary for the development and maintenance of an integrated, multi-year financial planning framework. Canned reports to include monthly web-based financial statements, with drill-down capability along with budget templates automatically populated with data values and saved in different workbooks for different subgroups (for example by Department). The later will be accomplished using Microsoft Direct Data Exchange (DDE).
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As well, we will begin the implementation of SAS® Strategic Performance Management Software to support the performance measurement and monitoring initiative that is a fundamental component of McMasteru2019s strategic plan. This tool will assist in critically assessing and identifying meaningful and statistically relevant measures and indicators. This software can perform causal analyses among various measures within and across areas providing useful information on inter-relationships between factors and measures. As well as demonstrating how decisions in one area affect other areas, these cause-and-effect analyses can reveal both good performance drivers and also possible detractors and enable u2018evidenced-basedu2019 decision-making. Finally, the tool provides a balanced scorecard reporting format, designed to identify statistically significant trends and results that can be tailored to the specific goals, objectives and measures of the various operational areas of the University.
LESSONS LEARNED
Lessons learned include the importance of taking a consultative approach not only in assessing information needs, but also in building data hierarchies, understanding subject matter, and in prioritizing tasks to best support decision making and inform senior management. We found that a combination of training and mentoring (knowledge transfer) helped us accelerate learning the new tools. It was very important to ensure that time and resources were committed to complete the necessary planning and data quality initiatives prior to initiating the first project. When developing a project plan, it is important to

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