Inline Figure Numbering: Best Practice

Hi all,
I'm seeking input into what the best practice is for numbering images/figures that are placed inline in a document. I want these figures to have consecutive numbers and to move with the text as the text is edited.
The crucial part is that I want to do this in a way that I can put a new figure into the document, and all the following figures will be renumbered automatically.
I can do this if I use a different "Figures" master page that is applied to pages that contain ONLY figures and no text, but I can't seem to figure out the best way to do it inline throughout the document.
If I anchor objects inline, in the order that I want them to appear, the numbering works just fine, but as soon as I insert and anchor a new figure in the middle with automatic figure numbering, the newest anchored image becomes "Figure 1" and renumbers the entirety of the document.
Thanks!

As long as I have all my figures I want to use, and I insert and anchor those figures in the text in the order that I want them to be in, it works. I am using a paragraph style for figure numbers.
The issue is that as soon as an update to the manual occurrs (a common occurrence in this manual) and I need to add a new figure (with a new figure number) halfway through the document, it numbers the new figure as Figure 1, and completely screws up the number formatting the rest of the way through.
I'm trying to set it up right the first time, so it works correctly for years to come.

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Many thanks for the link you provided. I have implemented your recommendation into my file. I have also read somewhere about sizing anchored frames to an imported graphic using 'esc' + 'm' + 'p'.
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Hello,
It's funny since I got the same question today in a meeting.
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xxx-xxx-xxxx
xxx - xxx - xxxx
(xxx)xxx-xxxx
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xxx-xxxx
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Simon Lessard
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Negating deny-attacker inline best practice

We have recently deployed an inline IPS solution using 5.1(7) E1 software. We would like to deny-attacker-victim-pair-inline for some signatures from one particular subnet on the network but negate the rest.
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Figure Numbering with Inline Figures

Hi all,
I have a document that I'm struggling with as a lack of foresignt on my part. I have both special figure pages as well as inline figures.
The figure pages are numbered, and now I want to add figure numbers to the inline figures. When I generate a static caption, apply a figure number paragraph style, and edit the static text to be a description of the figure, it works, and the numbering is correct.
If, however, I then attempt to anchor either the caption by itself or the figure+caption group in the text, the item becomes Figure 1 and renumbers the rest of the document.
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Best practices for speeding up Mail with large numbers of mail?

I have over 100,000 mails going back about 7 years in multiple accounts in dozens of folders using up nearly 3GB of disk space.
Things are starting to drag - particularly when it comes to opening folders.
I suspect the main problem is having large numbers of mails in those folders that are the slowest - like maybe a few thousand at a time or more.
What are some best practices for dealing with very large amounts of mails?
Are smart mailboxes faster to deal with? I would think they would be slower because the original emails would tend to not get filed as often, leading to even larger mailboxes. And the search time takes a lot, doesn't it?
Are there utilities for auto-filing messages in large mailboxes to, say, divide them up by month to make the mailboxes smaller? Would that speed things up?
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Thanks!
doug

Smart mailboxes obviously cannot be any faster than real mailboxes, and storing large amounts of mail in a single mailbox is calling for trouble. Rather than organizing mail in mailboxes by month, however, what I like to do is organize it by year, with subfolders by topic for each year. You may also want to take a look at the following article:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/08/21/can-mailapp-cope-with-heavy-loads/
That said, it could be that you need to re-create the index, which you can do as follows:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index -- Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
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Think all is in my question
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Think all is in my question
I have an online application with an online folio and I need to update the same folio with a new version.
What is the best practice to organize my work ?
DId I have to continue working in Indesign with the same ID but no update/re publish it in Folio Producer (this option scared me totally... what if mu draft goes online???)
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Thank U

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Care and Handling:
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iPod:
Large Libraries: In the opening weekend, I got many complaints that you cannot manually manage your music. There is a workaround that has made me change the way I work with all of my iPods: the iPhone specific playlist. Simply create a playlist with all of the music you wish to put on your phone and sync that one playlist. This also helps with sync time - you have a start sync and an end sync, not a constant sync all throughout your music management, slowing your computer down in the process.
TV Shows: I watch a lot of MST3K, which I have organized into iTunes as TV shows, split into seasons, the works. The problem that has arisen, therefore, is the one of selective synchronization - you cannot specifically select the TV show you want to sync to the device, instead getting the choices to sync all, unwatched, or latest shows. This is problematic when each show is 700MB large. Here's the work around - select all of the episodes of a specific show and right click, selecting "Mark as Not New", removing all of the little blue dots from the episodes. Select the one, three, or five episodes, and right click them, selecting "Mark as New", then sync the last one, three, or five unwatched episodes. The shows you selected will sync.
iPhoto:
Many users are complaining that iPhoto opens whenever the phone is connected. This is not a preference of the phone, but rather iPhoto. Remember when you first launched iPhoto and it asked you if you wanted to use iPhoto whenever your camera was attached? iPhoto is detecting that your phone is a camera and launching, just as you told it to do.
Mail:
POP accounts - too many unread messages: When first adding a POP account, all of the messages downloaded to the phone arrive as unread. Tapping a message, tapping back, and then tapping the next message can get tedious. Here's the workaround - tap the small down arrow to the upper right hand side of the screen, watching closely to the number next to Inbox. When that number goes down by one, tap the arrow again. If that number hasn't gone down yet, wait a sec, and do not try to tap tap tap tap tap, you'll flood the input queue and crash Mail.
Syncing Mail accounts - All too often people blame the iPhone when their mail does not work. A perfect test is sync you accounts from Mail. If they work in mail, they'll work on the phone, if they are unreliable in Mail, they will also be unreliable on the phone. The Mail client on the iPhone is just as powerful as any other mail client in terms of how it connects to mail servers, if you are having problems you need to check your settings before blaming the hardware. If you prefer to leave your install of Mail.app alone, create a new user account on your Mac, set up all of the accounts you want there, and use iTunes to sync that data to the phone. Make sure to remove that portion of sync from your actual user account's instance of iTunes, however, or it will all sync back.
This message has not been downloaded from the server: This message has snagged a couple users, but upon investigation, these users have filled their iPhones to the absolute brim with music and video. It hasn't been downloaded from the server because there is no space to download to - this also applies to the Camera application dumping to the Home screen. Because there is no space, it can't add any new data. Make some room, then be patient as the mail client gets to that message in cleanup (often a sync or reboot will clear it up).
Safari:
Safari and iPod: Many users have reported iPod stopping in the middle of browsing, often pouting and pursing their lips crying, "This is terrible, I can't even browse the web and listen to music at the same time?". I then check their phone, and lo and behold they have upwards of eight separate pages open at the same time. This device (like every other computer out there) has a finite amount of memory, each page taking up a significant portion depending on how busy the page is. I've routinely gotten through entire albums while browsing through Safari, but I've got one page open in total, and it's usually mostly text. Keep it to one or two pages open and iPod will run forever if you let it.
Web Apps: "This web app is terrible, it keeps booting me to Home!" When was your last reboot? How many other pages are open? In the same vein as Safari and iPod, Web Apps need a good deal of breathing room - give it to them. Close down other pages, stop iPod, or even reboot. Give the app a clean slate and it will perform, every time. iPhoneRemote users will attest to this.
iCal:
Multiple Calendars - Default Calendar: When adding a new appointment, it adds to the default calendar. Appointments can't be shunted to the correct calendar until after sync anyway, so create an "iPhone" calendar and make that the default. Because it's in that calendar, you'll know enough to move it to the appropriate calendar after sync.
Please feel free to add your own best practices, and ask questions, too.

is there any application you can get for the iphone to enlarge text and phone numbers ?
If included with an email or on a website, yes with no application needed.
If you are referring to the text size for your iPhone's contact list, no.
can you insert a phone number from your contact list into a text message ?
No.
i cant seem to figure it out, does the alarm clock work if you turn off the phone at night,
No - powered off with the iPhone means powered off. Any phone that provides for this is not powered off - it is in deep sleep or deep standby mode, which the iPhone does not support. If you don't want your phone ringing or don't want to receive SMS at night but you want to use the iPhone's alarm feature as a wake-up alarm, you can turn on Airplane Mode before going to bed, which will also conserve the battery if your iPhone is not plugged in at night.
can you send a multi media text message ?
No.

Best practice for GSS design

Please advice as to what records needs to go in Public DNS server in a scenario where i have url say x.y.com which is listed in the Domain List of the GSS-P, sot that GSS-P or GSS-S can handout the respective external VIP to the clients requesting the url in case one of the GSS/site (GSS_P and GSS-S) goes unavailable
Please also specify the communication path of a client accessing x.y.com.
Advice the best practice
Thanks in advance
~EM

Hi,
I am new to GSS. I would appreciate if some can help me with the deisgn. I want to know if I need to put the GSS inline after the inernet facing firewall and befor the ACE module. OR use it as one arm mode. Trying to figure out the best fit in the design.
FWSM1 >>> GSS >>> ACE
or
just put the GSS as one arm mode between the FWSM1 >>> ACE
|
GSS
Thanks in advance,
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Hello-
I'm currently using RoboHelp to create an HTML-based internal user guide for a software product. This guide has many images and figures in it and each will need an accompanying caption. Each caption must appear centered directly beneath the accompanying image.
I need some guidance on two issues, please:
1. What is the best practice for inserting a caption along with an image? I currently cannot find any tool or which enables a RoboHelp user to insert an image into a document and designate a caption to be displayed with that image.
2. Each image will be uniquely numbered (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). It may be necessary, as the document is drafted and redrafted, to remove images from and insert other images into the document. How can the numbering of images be set up so that the removal or addition of an image will automatically reset the numbering of all affected images accordingly? I would very much like to avoid resetting dozens of image number-designations manually.
Thank you-
Michael

Hi there
As far as the captions go, I would normally include the caption as part of the image itself. If you feel you must keep the text separate, I'm guessing you will need to resort to tables. One column and two rows.
As for the numbering, that one will be pretty tough. Keep in mind that in the world of HTML, people don't typically consume content in a linear fashion as they once did when all we had was print.
Someone may pop in here with some solution I've been unaware of. But presently, I'm unaware of a way to force that type of numbering.
Cheers... Rick

Slow starup of Java application - best practices for fine tuning JVM?

We are having problems with a java application, which takes a long time to startup.
In order to understand our question we better start with some background info. You will find the question(s) after that.
Background:
The setup is as follows:
In a client-server solution we have a win xp, fat client running java 1.6.0.18.
(Sun JRE). The fat client containt a lot of GUI, and connects to a server for DB access. Client machines are typical 1 to 3 years old (there are problems even on brand new machines). They have the client version of JRE - standard edition installed (Java SE 6 update 10 or better) Pretty much usual stuff so far.
We have done a lot of profiling on the client code, and yes we have found parts of our own Java code that needs improving. we are all over this. Server side seems ok with good response times. So far, we havent found anything about shaky net connections or endless loops in the java client code or similiar.
Still, things are not good. Starting the application takes a long time. too long.
There are many complicating factors, but here is what we think we have observed:
There is a problem with cold vs. varm starts of the application. Apparently, after a reboot of the client PC - things are really, really bad - and it takes (sometimes) up to 30-40 secs to start the application (until we arrive at the start GUI in our app).
If we run our application, close it down, and then restart
without rebooting, things are a lot better. It then usually takes
something like 15 - 20 sec. which is "acceptable". Not good, but acceptable,
Any ideas why?
I have googled it, and some links seems to suggest that the reason could be disk cache. Where vital jar are already in disk cache on th warm start? Does that make any sense? Virus scanners presumable runs in both cases.
People still think that 15 - 20 sec in start up on the warm start is an awful long time, even though there is a lot, a lot, of functionality in the application.
We got a suggestion to use IBMs JRE - as it can do some tricks (not sure what) our SUN JRE cant do concerning the warm and cold start problem. But thats is not an option for us. And noone has come up with any really good suggestions with the SUN JRE so far?
On the Java Quick Starter (JQS) -
improves initial startup time for most java applets and applications.
Which might be helpful? People on the internet seem more interested
in uninstalling the thing than actually installing it though?
And it seems very proprietary, where we cant give our Jar files to it?
We could obviously try to "hide" the problem in some way and make it "seem" quicker. Where perceived performance can be just as good as actual performance. But it does seem a bad solution. So for the cold start we will probably try reading the jar files and thereby have them in disk cache before startup of our application. And see if that helps us.
Still, ok the cold start is the real killer, but warm start isn't exactly wonderfull either.
People have suggested that we read more on the JVM and performance.
java.sun.com.javase/technologies/performance.jsp
java.sun.com.docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html
the use of JVM flags "-Xms" "-Xmx" etc etc.
And here comes the question .. da da ...
Concerning various suggested reading material.
it is very much appreciated - but we will like to ask people here - if it is possibe to get more specific pointers. to where the gold might be buried.
I.e. in a an ideal world we would have time to read and understand all of these documents in depth. However, in this less than ideal world we are also doing a lot of very timeconsuming profiling in our own java code.
E.g. java garbage collection is is a huge subject - and JVm settings also. Sure, in the end we will probably have to do this all very thoroughly. But for now we are hoping for some heuristics on what other people are doing when facing a problem like ours..?
Young generation, large memory pages, garbage collection threads ect. all sounds interesting - but what would you start with?
If you don't have info to decide - what kind of profiling would you be running and then adjust what JVM setting in your trials?
In this pressed for time scenario. Ignorance is not bliss. But makes it hard to pinpoint the or those JVM parameters to adjust. So some good pointers from experienced JVM "configurators" will be much appreciated!
Actually, If we can establish that finetuning of these parameters is a good idea, it will certainly also be much easier to allocate the time for doing so. - reading, experimenting etc. in our project.
So, All in all , what kinds of performance improvements can we hope for? 5 out of 20 secs on the warm start? Or is it 10 % nitpicking? Whats the ball park figure for what we can hope to achieve here given our setup? What do you think based on above?
Maybe someone out there have done some finetuning of JVM parameters in a similiar PC environments like, with similiar fat clients...? Finetuning so and so - gave 5 secs. So start your work with these one-two parameters?
Something like that - some best practices? Thats what we are hoping for.
best wishes
-Simon

Thanks for helpful answer from both you and kajbj.
The app doesn't use shared network drives.
What are you doing between main starts to get executed and the UI is
displayed?
Basicly, Calculating what to show in the UI. Accessing server - not so much, there are some reads from a cache, but the profiling doesnt indicate that it should be a problem. Sure, I could shift the startup time to some other slot, but sofar I havent found a place where the end-user wouldnt be annoyed.> Caching of something would seem most obvious. Normal VM stuff >seems unlikely. With profiling i basicly find that ''everything'' takes a lot longer in the cold start scenario. Some of our local java methods are going to be rewritten following our review. But what else can be tuned?You guys dont think the Java Quick Start approach, with more jars in disk cache will give something? And how should that be done/ what does people do?I.e. For the class loader I read something about
1.Bootstrap class loader
2.Extensions class loader
3.System class loader
and is wondering if this has something to do with the cold start problem?
The extensions class loader loads the code in the extensions directories (<JAVA_HOME>/lib/ext
So, we should move app classes to ext? Put them in one jar file? (We have many). Best practice about that?
Otherwise it seems to me that it must be about finetuning the JVM?
I imagine that it is a question about:
1. the right heap size
2. the right garbage collection scheme
Googling heap size for XP
CHE22 writes:
You are right; -Xms1600M works well, but -Xms1700M bombs
Thats one best practice or what?
On garbage collection, there are numerous posts, and much "masters of Java black art" IMHO, And according to profiling GC is not really that much of a problem anyway? Still,
Based on my description I was hoping for a short reply like "try setting these two parameters on your xp box, it worked for me" ...or something like that. With no takers on that one, I fear people are saying that there is nothing to be gained there?
we read:
[ -Xmx3800m -Xms3800m
Configures a large Java heap to take advantage of the large memory system.
-Xmn2g
Configures a large heap for the young generation (which can be collected in parallel), again taking advantage of the large memory system. It helps prevent short lived objects from being prematurely promoted to the old generation, where garbage collection is more expensive.
Unless you have problems with pauses, try granting as much memory as possible to the virtual machine. The default size (64MB) is often too small.
Setting -Xms and -Xmx to the same value increases predictability by removing the most important sizing decision from the virtual machine. On the other hand, the virtual machine can't compensate if you make a poor choice.
The -XX:+AggressiveHeap+ option inspects the machine resources (size of memory and number of processors) and attempts to set various parameters to be optimal for long-running, memory allocation-intensive jobs]
So is Setting -Xms and -Xmx and -XX:AggressiveHeap
best practice? What kind of performance improvement should we expect?
Concerning JIT:
I read this one
[the impact of the JIT compiler is obvious on the graph: at startup the time taken is around 500us for the first few values, then quickly drops to 130us, before falling again to 70us, where it stays for 30 minutes,
for this specific issue, I greatly improved my performances by configuring another VM argument: I set -XX:CompileThreshold=50]
The size of the cache can be changed with
-Xmaxjitcodesize
This sounds like you should do something with JIT args, but reading
// We disable the JIT during toolkit initialization. This
// tends to touch lots of classes that aren't needed again
// later and therefore JITing is counter-productiive.
java.lang.Compiler.disable();
However, finding
the sweet spots for compilation thresholds has been tricky, so we're
still experimenting with the recompilation policy. Work on it
continues.
sounds like there is no such straigth forward path, it all depends...
Ok, its good, when
[Small methods that can be more easily analyzed, optimized, and inlined where necessary (and not inlined where not necessary). Clearly delineated uses of data so that usage patterns and lifetimes are apparent. ]
but when I read this:
[The virtual machine is responsible for byte code execution, storage allocation, thread synchronization, etc. Running with the virtual machine are native code libraries that handle input and output through the operating system, especially graphics operations through the window system. Programs that spend significant portions of their time in those native code libraries will not see their performance on HotSpot improved as much as programs that spend most of their time executing byte codes.]
I have the feeling that we might not able to improve performance that way?
Any comments?
otherwise i was wondering about
-XX:CompileThreshold=50 -Xmaxjitcodesize (large, how large?)
Somehow, we still feel that someone out there should have experienced similiar problems? But obviously there is no guarantee that the someone should surf by here!
In c++ we used to just write everything ourselves. Here it does seem to be a question about the right use of other peoples stuff?
Where you are kind of hoping for a shortcut, so you dont have to read endless number of documents, but can find a short document that actually addresses your problem ... well.
-Simon
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Edited by: simoncpm on Mar 15, 2010 3:53 PM

Home Movie Cataloging - BEST PRACTICES

I have about 200 hours of old home movies on VHS which I am in the process of adding to my iMac. I am wondering about 'best practices' on how much video can be stored inside of iMovie '08, when how much video becomes too much inside of the program, etc.
In a perfect world, I'd like to simply import all of my home videos into iMovie, leave them in the 'library' section, and make 2-5 minute long clips in the 'projects' section for sharing with family members, but never deleting anything from the 'library'. Is this a good way to store original data? Would it be smarter to export all of the original video content to .DV files or something like that for space saving, etc?
Can I use iMovie to store and catalog all of my old home movies in the same way I use iPhoto to store ALL of my photos, and iTunes to store ALL of my music/hollywood-movies, etc?

We-ell, since no-one else has replied:
1 hour of DV (digital video in the file system which iMovie uses) needs 13GB of hard disc space.
You have 200 hours of video. 200 x 13 = 2,600 gigabytes. Two point six terabytes. If you put all that on one-and-a-bit 2TB hard discs, and a hard disc fails - oops! - where's your backup? ..Ah, on another one-and-a-bit 2TB hard discs ..or, preferably, spread over several hard discs, so that if one fails you haven't lost everything!
iMovie - the program - can handle video stored on external discs. But are you willing to pay the price for those discs? If so; fine! Digitise all your VHS and store it on computer discs (prices come down month by month).
Yes, you can "mix'n'match" clips between different projects, making all sorts of "mash-ups" or new videos from all the assorted video clips. But you'll need more hard disc space for the editing, too. You could use your iMac's internal hard disc for that ..or use one of the external discs for doing the editing on. That's how professionals edit: all the video "assets" on external discs, and edit onto another disc. That's what I do with my big floorstander PowerMac, or whatever those big cheesegraters were called..
So the idea's fine, as long as you have all the external storage you'd need, plus the backup in case one of those discs fails, and all the time and patience to digitise 200 hours of VHS.
Note that importing from VHS will import material as one long, continuous take - there'll be no automatic scene breaks between different shots - so you'll have to spend many hours chopping up the material into different clips after importing it.
Best way to index that? Dunno; there have been several programs which supposedly do the job for you (..I can't remember their names; I've tried a few: find them by Googling..) but they've been more trouble - and taken up more disc space - than I've been prepared to bother with. I'd jot down the different clips as you create them, either by jotting in TextEdit (simplest) or in a database or spreadsheet program such as Excel or Numbers or similar ..or even in a notebook.
Jot down the type of footage (e.g; 16th Birthday party), name of clip (e.g; 016 party), duration (e.g; 06:20 mins and seconds) and anything else you might need to identify each clip.
Best of luck!

Best practice for multiple instances of the same BEX query

Hi there,
I'm wondering what's the best way to use multiple instances of the same BEX query. Let me explain what I mean:
I have a dashboard with different queries feeding different period of time such as: week to date, month to date and so on. One query for each since it is based on a user exit.
For each query I want to show different data in different sections of my dashboard. Per example: sales per directors or sales per customer group, sales per day, sales per week and the like.I tried to connect a simple bar chart via a direct connection but with no success due to the multiple lines generated by the addition of the sales director, customer group, week number and so on.
My question is about the way to connect the different queries efficiently in order to show the different data while avoiding multiple useless lines.
The image above shows the query browser where, per example, for a Month to date query there will be mutiple line for each week as well as one line for each director. If, for two different components, I want to show data per week and data per director or other representation what is the best practice:
Add another instance of the same query and only put the week information and another one will only the director info?
Should I bind those to the excel file and use formulas to make final calculations?
Will there be a performance issues for adding different instances of the same query
I have 6 different queries (read 6 user exit that filters time via user exit).
Depending on the best practices there might be 4 instances for each for a total of 24 instances in the query browser.
I hope my question is clear enough, if not please do not hesitate I'll clarify as much as possible.
Regards,
Steve

Hi Steve,
Might be trying for solution for a long time, If i understood your question clear let me clarify you few points.
You are trying to access the bex query which is designed with the exit's in the background based on the logic and trying to call the entire dimensions and key-figures in a single connection. Then you are trying to map those data in the charts.
Steve, try to make more connections based upon the logic and split them. use the same query but split them by sales per customer group, sales per day, sales per week by making three different connections and try. You can merge the prompts from all connections.
Hope this Helps!!!
Sorry if i misunderstood your question.
--SumanT

Best Practice on using and refreshing the Data Provider

I have a �users� page, that lists all the users in a table - lets call it master page. One can click on the first column to of the master page and it takes them to the �detail� page, where one can view and update the user detail.
Master and detail use two different data providers based on two different CachedRowSets.
Master CachedRowSet (Session scope): SELECT * FROM UsersDetail CachedRowSet (Session scope): SELECT * FROM Users WHERE User_ID=?I want the master to be updated whenever the detail page is updated. There are various options to choose from:
1. I could call masterDataProvider.refresh() after I call the detailDataProvider.commitChanges() - which is called on the save button on the detail page. The problem with this approach is that the master page will not be refreshed across all user sessions, but only for the one saving the detail page.
2. I could call masterDataProvider.refresh() on the preRender() event of the master page. The problem with this approach is that the refresh() will be called every single time someone views the master page. Further more, if someone goes to next page (using the built in pagination on the table on master page) and clicks on a user to view its detail and then close the detail page, it does not keep track of the pagination (what page the user was when he/she clicked on a record to view its detail).
I can find some work around to resolve this problem, but I think this should be a fairly common usage (two page CRUD with master-detail). If we can discuss and document some best practices of doing this, it will help all the developers.
Discussion:
1.     What is the best practice on setting the scope of the Data Providers and CahcedRowSet. I noticed that in the tutorial examples, they used page/request scope for Data Provider but session scope for the associated CachedRowSet.
2.     What is the best practice to refresh the master data provider when a record/row is updated in the detail page?
3.     How to keep track of pagination, (what page the user was when he/she clicked on the first column in the master page table), so that upon updating the detail page, we cab provide user with a �Close� button, to take them back to whaterver page number he/she was.
Thanks
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Sabir

Thanks. I think this is a useful information for all. Do we even need two data providers and associated row sets? Can't we just use TableRowDataProvider, like this:
TableRowDataProvider rowData=(TableRowDataProvider)getBean("currentRow");If so, I am trying to figure out how to pass this from master to detail page. Essentially the detail page uses a a row from master data provider. Then I need user to be able to change the detail (row) and save changes (in table). This is a fairly common issue in most data driven web apps. I need to design it right, vs just coding.
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Creating Billing Unit in CRM V1.2007 Best Practices C05

Hi,
in C05 (Org Model with HR Integration) for Best Practices V1.2007 I have to create a Billing Unit.
That means, I have to create a Corporate Account.
For Creation of the Corporate Account i need a Number Range and a Grouping.
My Question:
Maintaining Number Range and Grouping for Business Partners is described in C03.
In the Solution Builder C03 comes after C05.
So I have first to finish C03 manually via SPRO or at least I have to maintain a Number Range and a Grouping so that I´m able to create the Billing Unit as an Corporate Account and then proceed with C05?
Regards
Andreas

Hi Padma,
We are facing the same issue while installing Baseline Best practices.
"Transport numbers not fullfill the requirement"
We are trying to activate full solution.
I have already created a new work bench and customize request ,but stills its gvg "Transport numbers not fullfill the requirement".
Iam not able to find a solution for this on service market place.
Thanks & Regards,

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