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Interesting. One of my cars I just have a portable Motoroal speaker which I don't have any option to answer from the speaker. My other car has the internal blue tooth which works this way - with all my other phones if a call came in it would be ringing directly from the speakers and I would press the phone button on my dash and it would answer. With the iPhone it does not as much as even ring through the speakers so I just assumed I had to answer through the phone itself. I did end up calling Apple support and after it got escalted to a few people they came back to me this morning and told me that is the way the iPhone is - you have to answer the call through your and then route it to your speaker. If so then they would be wrong because it apparently works for you? For the life of me I can't see how this phone could possibly force you to manually answer calls on the phone in your car and then press a couple buttons to route it. II would love to hear from more people, but apparently not many looking at this post use blue tooth in their car.
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Keyword questions from the newbie

Would anyone mind helping me figure out if there are conventions for entering Keywords into pdf Metadata? I have been having a conversation on another forum about Keywords for images and there is some question in my mind as to whether I should use quotes around a term such as "plate of shrimp" or if I should just use Plate Shrimp. One poster said they were avoiding using spaces for some reason and that they use PlateShrimp.
Anyway, am I correct in assuming that all this goes back to how google searches Metadata in pdf's and/or images??
Does anyone know where to find some of the conventions or standards associated with this? For instance, doesn't google search the /content/ of the pdf and if so wouldn't a keyword have to be /different/ from one in the METADATA? Or ostensibly google would rank a keyword /higher/ and the other Maetadata in a pdf would be associated with Contact and/or Copyright info?
I am a total newbie with this so I am trying to winnow things down here with a little help if possible. I've been able to find info on IPTC Metadata but my assumption is that this only relates to images.
Thanks.

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Newbie: loading a symbol from the library

Hey
Environment:
Flash Lite 2.0
ActionScript 2.0
Would like some tips about how to use ActionScript to load
symbol from the Library and place the symbol on a specific frame in
the main timeline... I also want to specify (using ActionScript)
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I've read about LoadMovie, but it seems like it's for loading
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Audun

Thanks for your reply, I works great now.....
BTW I've got another question now:
The movie which is being attached using attachMovie get
displayed at upper left corner of the screen. But don't wan it to
be displayed at that position. There must be a way I can specify
it's coordinates!
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appreaciated!

Serial number to benefit from the Creative Cloud introduction price

Hi, I would like to benefit from the special price for the one year contract of Creative Cloud, but i don't own a professional Adobe product at home. I am actually doing a career development program at work and I intent to study in graphic arts. If the company allow me to use their Adobe license number in order to benefit from the special price, can I use it?

I would contact our sales department to discuss your options. It may not be possible with what you described.
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Newbie from the Treo world - and I can set up to sync

Ok I know this is a pretty elementary question but I can't get my BB set up to sync. Says device cannot be found. My laptop is only a year or two old and i have everything connected. I used the same USB ports to sync my treo etc... but my Desktop Manager isn't connecting.
HELP!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

My fault I wasn't specific!
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Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running google maps app on the phone. Siri cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Thanks.

Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running Google Maps app on the phone. SIRI cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Also can anyone tell me the hierarchy of use between the Apple Maps, SIRI, and Google maps when the app is on the phone? How do you choose one over the other as the default map usage? Or better still how do you suppress SIRI from using the Apple maps app when requesting a "go to"?
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How does the iPhone select between one app or the other (Apple Maps or Gppgle Maps) as it relates to SIRI finding and showing a map route?
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Is there a known bug in the CONTACTS list that demands the USPS quadrant ID be spelled out, as opposed to abreviated, to permit SIRI to do its routing?
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siri will only use apple maps, this cannot be changed. you could try google voice in the google app.

I have 1 iMac, two users (myself and my wife), 2 different Apple ID's, and I want to buy Pages from the App Store so we both can use. Is this possible without having to buy it twice?

I am wanting to purchase the Pages app from the App Store. I do not want to purchase it 2 times, once for me, and again for my wife. We both share the same iMac, and we both use seperate Apple ID's. Is there a way to purchase it under my user, and have it download to her user as well? I have searched all over the forums for a cut and dry answer to this, to no avail. Any help in the matter would be appreciated, as I am a newbie on the Mac.

No. You need to buy it for your Apple ID and for the other. You will have problems with updates

Need how to get the data from the external file in eCatt

Hi ,
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check these link,
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1b/e81c3b84e65e7be10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
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I was a newbie like 4 months ago. i have some skills
of OOP in C++ like 2 years back but since then i
did'nt took any of programming language courses. I
have experience in MSaccess and MYsql. i did my
internship Last summer with Tennessee Education
Lottery as a Database Analyst. At that time i
realized what a Corporate Enviorment looks like.
Trust me it was a formal interview and i passed it
and they placed me in the IT department to write some
scripts for the GUI terminal and at the same time
create a Company Security Database.Wow they really must like to gamble if they put you in charge of a security database - no offense meant, but that isn't the sort of thing you would want a brand new person working on, unless of course they were giving really high odds ;-)

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Nonrecoverable System Fault          oracle.tip.mediator.infra.exception.MediatorException: ORAMED-01303:[Payload default schema validation error]XSD schema validation fails with error Invalid text 'A' in element: 'TermCode'Possible Fix:Fix payload and resubmit.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<faultPolicies xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy">
<faultPolicy version="2.0.1"
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xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Conditions>
<faultName xmlns:medns="http://schemas.oracle.com/mediator/faults" name="medns:1303">
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<faultName xmlns:rjm="http://schemas.oracle.com/sca/rejectedmessages" name="rjm:GetNewStudentRegistrationFile">
<condition>
<action ref="java-fault-handler"/>
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</faultName>
<faultName xmlns:medns="http://schemas.oracle.com/mediator/faults" name="medns:TYPE_ALL">
<condition>
<action ref="java-fault-handler"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
<faultName xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension" name="bpelx:mediatorException">
<condition>
<action ref="java-fault-handler"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
<faultName xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension" name="bpelx:bindingFault">
<condition>
<action ref="java-fault-handler"/>
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</faultName>
<faultName xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension" name="bpelx:remoteFault">
<condition>
<action ref="java-fault-handler"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
</Conditions>
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<Action id="java-fault-handler">
<javaAction className="edu.villanova.soa.handlers.FaultNotificationHandler"
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<returnValue value="OK" ref="ora-human-intervention"/>
</javaAction>
</Action>

<Action id="ora-human-intervention">
<humanIntervention/>
</Action>

<Action id="ora-terminate">
<abort/>
</Action>
</Actions>

<Properties>

<propertySet name="faultNotificationProps">
<property name="from">[email protected]</property>
<property name="to">[email protected]</property>
<property name="subject">Reporting a SOA fault</property>
</propertySet>
</Properties>
</faultPolicy>
<faultPolicy version="2.0.1"
     id="MediatorFaults"
xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Conditions>
<faultName xmlns:medns="http://schemas.oracle.com/mediator/faults" name="medns:1303">
<condition>
<action ref="java-fault-handler"/>
</condition>
</faultName>
</Conditions>
<Actions>
<Action id="java-fault-handler">
<javaAction className="edu.villanova.soa.handlers.FaultNotificationHandler"
defaultAction="ora-human-intervention" propertySet="faultNotificationProps">
<returnValue value="OK" ref="ora-human-intervention"/>
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</Action>

<Action id="ora-human-intervention">
<humanIntervention/>
</Action>

<Action id="ora-terminate">
<abort/>
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<Properties>

<propertySet name="faultNotificationProps">
<property name="from">[email protected]</property>
<property name="to">[email protected]</property>
<property name="subject">Reporting a SOA rejected msg. fault</property>
</propertySet>
</Properties>
</faultPolicy>
</faultPolicies>
My fault-bindings.xml file is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<faultPolicyBindings version="2.0.1"
xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<composite faultPolicy="NewStudentRegistrationFaults"/>
<component faultPolicy="MediatorFaults">
<name>NewStudentRegistrationMediator</name>
</component>
<service faultPolicy="NewStudentRegistrationFaults">
<name>GetNewStudentRegistrationFile</name>
</service>
</faultPolicyBindings>
You'll notice that I've tried a number of ways (and various other combinations) to try to steer the error above into my Java fault handler but nothing has meet with success. The mplan is as follows:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>

<Mediator name="NewStudentRegistationMediator" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/sca/1.0/mediator"
wsdlTargetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/ftp/Experiments/NewStudentRegistration/GetNewStudentRegistrationFile%2F">
<operation name="Get" deliveryPolicy="AllOrNothing" priority="4"
validateSchema="true">
<switch>
<case executionType="queued" name="RegToBanner.insert_2">
<action>
<transform>
<part name="$out.NewstudentregistrationCollection"
function="xslt(xsl/NewStudentRegistration_To_NewstudentregistrationCollection.xsl, $in.body)"/>
</transform>
<invoke reference="RegToBanner" operation="insert"/>
</action>
</case>
</switch>
</operation>
</Mediator>
I'm a newbie to Oracle SOA. So perhaps I am missing the obvious. But I haven't read much in the documentation specifically about using the XSD validation option on the mediator and have seen nothing specifically about catching this sort of exception in the fault policy (apart from the faults I already have in my policy). Can anyone suggest what I am doing incorrectly here or perhaps whether what I am attempting to do is not possible? Thanks.
- Cris

Has anyone got it working yet?
In my case, I have the following sequence:
FileAdapter -> Mediator1 -> Mediator2->DB Adapter
I am deliberately introducing validation error in File. Isn't it correct to assume Fault framework would get triggered at Mediator1 level since we are invoking FileAdapter service?
I am getting a strange behaviour. If I enable XSD validation at Mediator1 level, process is Faulted with no re-try option. However, if I enable XSD validation ONLY at Mediator2 level, I get Recoverable fault. There seems to be some disconnect between documentation and reality. I am using JDeveloper 11.1.1.3.0 version and SOA Suite 11g.
Thanks,
Amjad.

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I have been working on a project on the trial version of final cut pro x. I bought the full version even though my trial wasn't up yet. When I opened the paid version my projects from the trial are not in there. I also closed the trial and opening the paid version and my projects were still not there. How do I get my projects to show in the paid version?

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No Windoze experience? You may think you do, but really, you don't know how lucky you are. My Vaxen ran 4.1 BSD though 4.3 BSD. I've played with a lot of flavors of unix. My favorite flavor in recent years has been FreeBSD, so I began paying close attention to the Mac since OS X.
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