I am new to Mac. How do you make an app available to all users so you only have to go through set up once?

I am new to Mac. How do you share an app with all users so you only have to install once?

You only have to install applications once, after which are available to all users on your Mac. But each user account will have its own individual preferences to set and may have some initialization to do the first time the application runs in each account.
Also, most applications that require entry of a license code accept the code once and apply it to all user accounts on your Mac. But there are some exceptions, some applications, that don't seem to do this (or don't do it well) and you may have to enter your license code in each user account the first time you run those applications in each account. For example, iTunes will ask you to accept the license the first time you run it in each user account.

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Hi,
I've created IR and saved it to several tabs based on search conditions.
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Does version 4.0 support this option ?
Thank you!

Hi
At present this feature is not included, although I believe it may be in 4.0. Many people have provided workarounds for this. None of which I have tried. I cannot find the original thread but here is a solution from a chap called Ruud
>
One way to share your saved reports with others is to 'Publish' your report settings to a few intermediate tables in your application and have other users 'Import' your settings from there. The reason for using intermediate tables is so that not all your saved reports need to be 'visible' to other users (only those that you've chosen to publish).
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CREATE TABLE user_report_conditions AS SELECT * FROM flows_030100.apex_application_page_ir_cond;
( NB. I deleted any contents that may have come across to make sure we start with a clean slate. )
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CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW v_report_settings AS
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p.page_name
FROM flows_030100.apex_application_page_ir_rpt r,
flows_030100.apex_application_pages p
WHERE UPPER ( r.application_name ) = <Your App Name>
AND r.application_user 'APXWS_DEFAULT'
AND r.session_id IS NULL
AND p.application_id = r.application_id
AND p.page_id = r.page_id;
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW v_report_conditions AS
SELECT r.*
p.page_name
FROM flows_030100.apex_application_page_ir_cond r,
flows_030100.apex_application_pages p
WHERE UPPER ( r.application_name ) = <Your App Name>
AND r.application_user 'APXWS_DEFAULT'
AND p.application_id = r.application_id
AND p.page_id = r.page_id;
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s.report_name
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m.label,
s.report_name,
s.application_user
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menu m
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AND s.application_user :APP_USER
AND ( s.page_id = :P28_REPORT OR :P28_REPORT = 0 )
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s.report_name,
s.application_user
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parameter and to 'reverse' any DECODEs that the view has.
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SELECT page_name,
report_name
FROM v_report_settings
WHERE application_user = :APP_USER
AND ( page_id = :P28_REPORT OR :P28_REPORT = 0 )
ORDER BY page_name,
report_name
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A few proviso's:-
a) I'm sure there's a better way to do all this but this works for me :-)
b) This does not work for Computations! I have not found an API call to create computations.
They will simply not come across into the repository.
c) If you import the same settings twice I've made it so that the name is suffixed with (2), (3) etc.
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d) Make sure you refer to your saved reports by name, not ID, when matching APEX stored reports and the
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Ruud
>
To me this is a bit too much of a hack and I personally wouldn't implement it - it's just an example to show it can be done.
Also if you look here in the help in APEX Home > Adding Application Components > Creating Reports > Editing Interactive Reports
...and go to the last paragraph, you can embed predicates in the URL.
Cheers
Ben
http://www.munkyben.wordpress.com
Don't forget to mark replies helpful or correct ;)
Edited by: Munky on Jul 30, 2009 8:03 AM

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