Item Naming Conventions

Hi,
I've been using APEX for a while now, however a new user recently asked me a question: Instead of prefixing a new item with the "PX_" why not label it to some unique value?
Ex: Instead of "P20_START_DATE" (where P20 is referencing some products) use "PRODUCT_START_DATE" as the item name. That way if you copy the page you won't need to change the references in your source code etc.
He does make a valid point about removing the prefix so that you can use the variable throughout the application.
I agree with this in very small applications, however in larger applications i can see a lot of issues arising.
Comments/Thoughts?

Martin,
Even though the item is defined at the page-level, the scope is across the entire application. So for copying items within the same application, this wouldn't work - you can only define one item names PRODUCT_START_DATE in an application.
Also, there are times where you may need to modify the attributes of a particular item. Having something named P20_START_DATE immediately clues me into where I defined this item. Having named it PRODUCT_START_DATE gives me no clue, and now I need to use the Item Finder to figure out where it's defined in my application.
Joel

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Portal items - naming conventions

Hi,
I'm curious to hear of the naming convention that you folks use for your Portal.
When creating a remote portlet for example, I'll need to create a webservice and a portlet, so I might name them like this (assume this is a small calendar portlet):
My Calendar - Web service <-- for the web service
My Calendar - Portlet <-- for the portlet
But then I wonder if I even need the "Web service" and "Portlet" text as these are usually clear from the context.
As someone with very little experience with ALUI I'm keen to hear what others have done and how its worked out.
Thanks,
James.

Hello James...
Here are a few examples of some of the naming conventions we employ:
1. We add " Web Service" to the end of the name of each web service. When the web service is only used to instantiate one portlet, we name the web service <Portlet Name> Web Service. When it can be used to instantiate many portlets (e.g. has an accompanying template), we name the web service <Descriptive Name> Web Service.
2. We give portlets a concise and descriptive name. The name of the portlet shows up in its title bar when it is displayed on a page (unless you hide the title bar), so using a convention like <Descriptive Name> - Portlet would add extranneous information to that title, decreasing usability.
3. We add "Job" to the end of the name of each job operation - mainly to increase effectiveness of Admin Object Search when configuring the Automation service
4. We name admin folders that contain crawlers and jobs <Descriptive name> Crawlers and Jobs - again, to increase effectiveness of Admin Object Search when configuring the Automation service
Naming conventions are important, but they become more important with more distributed portal deployments. If you allow community managers to access administration and let them create their own admin objects, you'll want to have some governance in place that explains the rules (without making them so complicated they become an annoyance).
My two cents... Hope it helps...
Danya
Portal Administrator
Lear Corporation
Edited by: Danya D. Smith on Sep 16, 2008 9:03 AM

AppleScript To Save Messages As PDFs With Specific Naming Convention

I am looking for an Applescript that:
1: Prompts and allows the user to select one or more Apple Mail email messages from within Mail (10.4, 10.5, 10.6).
2: Prompts and allows the user to select a save-to folder.
3: For each message, saves it as a PDF file in the save-to folder, using the following naming convention for the PDF file:
"YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS Email From FIRSTNAME LASTNAME - SUBJECT",
"YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS Email To FIRSTNAME LASTNAME - SUBJECT",
where in the email date-sent stamp (if I am the sender) or date-received stamp (if I am the recipient):
YYYY = the year
MM = the two-digit month
DD = the two-digit day
HH = the two-digit hour (in 24-hour time)
MM = the two-digit minute
SS = the two-digit second
FIRSTNAME is the email sender's first name for email that I receive (or is the email recipient's first name for email that I send)
LASTNAME is the email sender's last name for email that I receive (or is the email recipient's first name for email that I send)
SUBJECT = the email's subject line
For example: 2010-04-10 16.32.48 Email From Kris Ryan - Status Of Payroll Updates.pdf
For example: 2010-04-10 16.33.55 Email To Sue Anderson - RE Status Of Payroll Updates.pdf (Colon omitted after "RE".)
4: For each attachment to the message, saves it as a PDF file in the same directory using the naming convention:
"YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS Email From FIRSTNAME LASTNAME Z Attachment - NUMBER - FILENAME",
where:
YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS Email From FIRSTNAME LASTNAME = as above
NUMBER = an integer representing the attachment number (1, 2, ...) sorted according to filename alphabetical order
FILENAME = the name of the file attached to the email, including its extension (.docx, .xlsx, etc.)
The letter "Z" sorts the attachment PDFs after its respective parent email in the directory.
For example: 2010-04-10 16.32.48 Email From Kris Ryan Z Attachment - 1 - List Of Suggestions To Moore.doc.pdf
For example: 2010-04-10 16.32.48 Email From Kris Ryan Z Attachment - 2 - Proposed Salary Adjustments.xls.pdf
For example: 2010-04-10 16.32.48 Email From Kris Ryan Z Attachment - 3 - Salary History.pps.pdf
Note: The email attachment may consist of a PDF or MS Office file (Word, Excel, Power Point); however, a smart implementation will be able to handle any attachment kind. If the attachment is a PDF file, then save it "as is" using the stipulated naming convention, without passing it through Distiller.
Thank you.
Kurt Todoroff

Well, that's quite a spec sheet.
Here's a start, you can easily edit the script to get what you need:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #E6E6EE;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
Set a Mail Rule to Save Message and Attachment to Desktop.
To save attachments to another another folder on the desktop (i.e. Attachments) create the folder and then
change tell application "Finder" to set pathToAttachments to (path to desktop folder as string) & "Attachments:"
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages
tell application "Finder" to set ptd to (path to desktop folder) as string
tell application "Finder" to set pathToAttachments to (path to desktop folder) as string
tell application "Mail"
repeat with theMessage in theMessages
set d_recd to date received of theMessage as string
set d_recd to ReplaceText(d_recd, ":", " ") of me
set d_recd to ReplaceText(d_recd, ",", " ") of me
set theText to content of theMessage
if theMessage's mail attachments is not {} then
repeat with theAttachment in theMessage's mail attachments
set theFileName to pathToAttachments & (theMessage's subject) & " (Attachment From " & (theMessage's sender) & " Sent " & d_recd & ")" & space & theAttachment's name
try
save theAttachment in theFileName
on error errnum
end try
end repeat
end if
set theFile to ptd & (theMessage's subject) & " (From " & (theMessage's sender) & " Sent " & d_recd & ")" & ".txt"
set theFileID to open for access file theFile with write permission
write theText to theFileID
close access theFileID
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
on ReplaceText(theString, fString, rString)
set current_Delimiters to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to fString
set sList to every text item of theString
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to rString
set newString to sList as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to current_Delimiters
return newString
end ReplaceText</pre>

Export-Import and Naming convention question

All,
Newbie here. Have a question related to the naming convention for SAP R/3 system and XI manual export/import process. We are currently in the development environment where our R/3 systems are named as D55CLNT400, D56CLNT300 etc (first 3 characters are the system id, and last 3 are the client number.) This is per the XI best practices convention.
The question i have is - if we name the technical system as above - and export the configuration objects from the Dev to Test environment - where the R/3 systems are named as T55CLNT400, T56CLNT300 (similar naming structure). Does it mean that we need to manually change almost all of the items in the Test environment on the configuration side (like business sytem name, interface determination, receiver determination etc)
Is this the correct way or are we missing something??? I would have preferred a way - where we needed to only update the communication channel parameters.
Thanks.
Message was edited by:
thezone

In the SLD, create three Business System Groups: DEV, QAS and PRD.
In each of these groups, you must have the relevant application servers (in your case, R/3s) and one integration server (XI).
Then, for each Business System in Group DEV, define a transport target in QAS group.
In your case, the transport landscape should be like this:
D55CLNT400 -> T55CLNT400
D56CLNT300 -> T56CLNT300
XI_DEV -> XI_QAS
Do the same for the QAS group (defining transport targets in PRD group). Observe that you need to have the same number of Business Systems in each group for this to work properly.
Now, when you transport your configuration objects from XI_DEV to XI_QAS, all the Business Systems in DEV landscape will be replaced for the equivalent ones in QAS landscape.
More info: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ef/a21e3e0987760be10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Regards,
Henrique.

Hard to find ripping naming conventions

?In Mediasource Player 3.3, I had a really hard time finding the naming convention settingsdialog. It is in the media folder format settings option. I ended up with a bunch of ripped tracksthat had the track name twice and couldn't find the option. Hopefully this thread will help someoneso they don't have to struggle as much as I did. In the Settings pop-up the PC Music Library tab,and the Properties button under the first item which is the name of your current PC Music libraryname. I had failed to change the last box on the bottom right from track name to none. Ta paj692

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Create packages for functional groups, otherwise you'll end up with loads of unnecessary public declarations because your helper classes are splattered all over the place and can't just rely on in-package visibility.
And by the way, using polymorphism properly like you don't seem to do, you'll screw yourself, because you'll in future have to do things like:
Event ev = new com.mystuff.special.implementation.Event();Because you can't import both the interface/superclass and the implementation. Congratulations.

[svn:fx-3.x] 12371: The main AccImpl was updated to handle accessible naming conventions differently than before .

Revision: 12371
Revision: 12371
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-02 08:51:12 -0800 (Wed, 02 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
The main AccImpl was updated to handle accessible naming conventions differently than before. This change was made to make the 3.x branch consistent with the trunk changes. The updated methods allows the accessibilityName property to overwrite the logic that was previously used to build the accessible name for components that were inside of forms. This method also provides a method to allow developers to specificy that no form heading or form item label should be included in the accessibilityName for the form field by using a space.
QE notes: none
Doc notes: none
Bugs: n/a
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/branches/3.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/accessibility/AccImpl.as

Revision: 12371
Revision: 12371
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-02 08:51:12 -0800 (Wed, 02 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
The main AccImpl was updated to handle accessible naming conventions differently than before. This change was made to make the 3.x branch consistent with the trunk changes. The updated methods allows the accessibilityName property to overwrite the logic that was previously used to build the accessible name for components that were inside of forms. This method also provides a method to allow developers to specificy that no form heading or form item label should be included in the accessibilityName for the form field by using a space.
QE notes: none
Doc notes: none
Bugs: n/a
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/branches/3.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/accessibility/AccImpl.as

Naming Conventions - programmer refuses to stick to them... what to do?

A fellow programmer on my team, though good, often refuses to abide by naming conventions, or seem even to be aware that many have existed and use that knowledge accordingly.
Today, for example, he created a class (not an interface) called Createable. I pointed out to him that convention over the years has been that classes ending in '-able' were usually interfaces, or might be suspected to BE interfaces by other programmers looking at his code.
He said he didn't care.
I then later noticed he had an interface defined in another package called 'Createable'. So he had made two classes of the same name in different packages, one an interface and one not.
Our boss doesn't seem to mind this kind of thing (he just wants us to get the work done and isn't interested in quibbling over things like naming convensions). Perhaps I'm a bit stern about these kinds of things, but it really gets my goat when this happens.
What's your opinion, Java Community?
- Tim
Edited by: user2052552 on Feb 3, 2011 12:41 PM

user2052552 wrote:
A fellow programmer on my team, though good, often refuses to abide by naming conventions, or seem even to be aware that many have existed and use that knowledge accordingly.
Many conventions? As in your team doesn't have a convention but you want them to follow one which is unspecified?
Today, for example, he created a class (not an interface) called Createable. I pointed out to him that convention over the years has been that classes ending in '-able' were usually interfaces, or might be suspected to BE interfaces by other programmers looking at his code.
English is a limited language.
Is 'Manager' suitable for the name of a class or an interface?
If only the latter then what do I call a class that represents something that "manages"?
He said he didn't care.
I then later noticed he had an interface defined in another package called 'Createable'. So he had made two classes of the same name in different packages, one an interface and one not.
Our boss doesn't seem to mind this kind of thing (he just wants us to get the work done and isn't interested in quibbling over things like naming convensions). Perhaps I'm a bit stern about these kinds of things, but it really gets my goat when this happens.
What's your opinion, Java Community?First it is a management problem.
Second there are proven techniques for producing better code. Coding conventions are not one of those.
Third if an organization is such that it is using other proven techniques, then coding conventions might have some measurable impact on quality, but lacking other techniques (or lacking all techniques) there can be no measurable impact as it would be less than the noise level caused by other correctable items.
Fourth as a point about what measurable techniques are the classes that the developer is creating actually Objects (Object Oriented Objects)? Versus random collections of functionality for example? The latter would be a far more serious problem than naming. And does that developer, and all of the other developers, use inheritence appropriately? Again misuse there would be a far more serious problem.

Report naming conventions?

what are these report naming conventions that show/get prefixed to items etc. by default in the object navigator.
1) Q_      is Query
2) G_     is Group
3) M_     is ?
4) R_     is ?
5) F_     is ?
6) B_     is ?

what are these report naming conventions that show/get prefixed to items etc. by default in the object navigator.
1) Q_ is Query
2) G_ is Group
3) M_ is ?
4) R_ is ?
5) F_ is ?
6) B_ is ?
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BPEL naming convention

Hi Folks,
I am looking for Oracle BPEL naming convention and coding standards. Tried to search at oracle site as well as on internet but didnt find anything.
Could you please help me with some document/link for naming convention and coding standards.
Thanks
Amit

Hi Amit,
Was able to pull this info from my inrenal repo..thanks to the people who made this :)
Naming Convention: ActivityDescription_suffix_
* ActivityDescription should use camel casing.
copyLeadInfo_asgn
Process Activities
     Services
     ESB Services
Item      suffix      Item      suffix      Item      suffix
Assign      asgn      AQ Adapter      aq      Routing Service      rs
Compensate      cmpnst      Database Adapter      db      SOAP Service      ss
Decide      dcd      Decision Service      dsvc      Custom Adapter      ca
Email      eml      EJB Web Service      ews
Empty      ept      File Adapter      fl
Fax      fax      Java Web Service      jws
Flow      flw      JMS Adapter      jms
FlowN      flwn      MQ Adapter      mq
Human Task      hmntsk      Oracle Applications      oraapps
Invoke      invk      Partner Link      pl
Java Embedding      jvEmbd      FTP Adapter      ftp
Pager      pgr
Pick      pck
Receive      rcv
Reply      rply
Scope      scp
Sequence      sqn
SMS      sms
Switch      swth
Terminate      trmnt
Throw      thrw
Transform      xfrm
Voice      vc
Wait      wt
While      whl
Sensor Actions      snrctn
Sensor Activity      snsrcvt
Sensor Variable      snsrvrbl
Fault Sensor      snsrflt
Also, you can refer : http://my.oracle.com/portal/page/myo/emea/Communities/Technology/EMEA_SOA_Integration/KA
Hope it helps!
Regards
Anirudh Pucha

Storage Location Naming Convention without WM!

Dear all
We are facing serious problem in our Storage Location for Raw Material.
We have 4 types of Raw Material Seating (S), Panel (P), Metal (M), Wood (W). And they are all stored under Storage Location: RWSL.
Requirement:
Although we have visual guideline as to which industrial rack will store the type of Material, it is insufficient. We need a more refined storage location down to which BIN of the rack we will put the Raw Material.
Due to limited time and resource, we cannot have WM implemented right now. Thus, we have come out with 2 alternative to overcome this problem:
Alternative 01:
We will use the Fixed Bin field in Storage Data 02 by putting the Bin number assigned to each Rack.
E.g. For Seating material code:SEAT01, we will maintain the Fixed Bin as R12A01/A02, it means this Seating material SEAT01 will be stored at Rack 12, fixed bin A01 or A02.
Question to Alternative 01: Will it cause problem in GR, GR, Transfer Posting and Stock Count?
Alternative 02:
Instead of going into details to put Fixed Bin field in Storage Data 2, we will abandan the existing Storage Location RMSL by introducing new format for Storage Location
Here is the example of Alternative 02:
For raw materials, we will use 4 digits location numbers, consistent with other Storage locations, the 4 digits storage location will start with u201CR _ _ _u201D to represent each location
And,
R _ _ _ is:
R = Raw materials
2nd digit = Division (S= Seating, P =Panel, W=Wood, M=Metal and W=Wood)
3rd digit = Rack Number (A, B, C, Du2026 and etc.)
4th digit = Rack Zone - each rack will broken down into zone, each rack can possibility have 2 to 3 zone. 1 Zone can be 1 colume of the Rack
An example of a possible location and its meaning will be
RSA1 = Raw materials warehouse, Seating division, Rack A, Zone 1
RPB3 = Raw materials warehouse, Panel Division, Rack B, Zone 3
The challenge of this is that instead of having 1 Raw Material Storage Location like RMSL, we will have a lot more storage locations each for division of Raw material due to the Rack Number we have as well as the Rack Zone.
Question to Alternative 02:
If we use this alternative, will it impact our future implementation of WM? From design wise, is it feasible?
Please advise what is the best approach and the feasible design on it.
Many thanks in advance.
Edited by: Daimos on May 13, 2009 10:15 AM

Hi, here is the Pro and Co of both approaches:
Method 01: Use existing SLOC and add the Storage Bin info
e.g. SLOC: STM1
         Storage Bin: RSC3, where RS = Rack Seating, C3 = column 3
Pro 01:
It will cause less effort as we only need to use LSMW for material master to add in the Storage Bin data for all material of SCM.
Pro 02:
I have tested out that in TCode MIGO, apart from SLOC, the pertaining Storage Bin data also appear. Based on my discuss with Xian Chen, sometimes they use MB1C(GR), MB1A(GI) rather than MIGO due to speed issue, I will need to check the field status if can have Storage Bin field APPEAR, if can, it will solve the problem
Con 01:
The Storage Bin information will only appear in MMBE (Stock Overview) but will not appear in the standard SAP Inventory Report (e.g. MB52 Warehouse Stock). To view it from SAP Inventory Report, we may need to customize the standard report to show the new field Storage Bin. It needs Abap effort.
Con 02:
We must have a very good naming convention for Storage Bin. And again, in the above example, if a material is put in SLOC STM1 at Storage Bin RA A1 or C4, it will set a very rigid rule in the future if we need to change it, as I fear that one the Storage Bin has been used up. It will not allow us to change (need to do testing to find out)
Con 03:
Do we have the time to define all the Storage Bin for each SLOC? Operation wise, the store personnel needs to design it
Method 02: Use the new SLOC
Pro 01:
RSA1 = Raw materials warehouse, Seating division, Rack A, Zone 1. More organized. Easy to tell the material is at which Rack and which Zone of the Rack.
Assumption:
01. we must not have too many rack for one Seating division and also not too many Zone for each
      Division, else it will cause confusion
02. 1 material should stick to 1 Rack 1 zone as much as possible, else later the PP consultant will
     have hard to to perform GI due to too many SLOC assigned to a material.
Pro 02:
In report wise, we are able to show the SLOC in inventory report. No need to enhance the existing inventory report as we do not use Storage Bin.
Con 01:
If there are too many SLOC creation due to it. It may cause problem for PP perform GI as too many selection available for a material. This can be avoided if stick to the General Rule that one material is tied with one SLOC.
Edited by: Daimos on May 16, 2009 5:07 AM

When copying folder to external drive, "An older item named.." appears even when the dates are the same

When I am manually backing up folders from Macbook Pro Mountain Lion to an external drive, the dates for folders are being misread? It will say "An older item named.." every time. I checked the dates and times and they are the same on Mountain Lion and the External drive for the files and the folders. It should send me back a message saying "An item named “” already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the one you’re moving?"
When I try to move an individual file to the external drive and the dates are the same, I get the correct message - "an item named "" already exists..." so the issue is only with the folders.
I have only had this issue since the update to OS 10.8. Any Suggestions? thanks

The modification date of a file is stored internally in seconds. The Finder rounds off to the nearest minute. If the age of two files differs by less than 30 seconds, they'll seem to have the same modification date in the Finder.

I have been backing up my photos to an external hard drive. I usually choose the photos, copy and paste them to the EHD. It has started saying "an item named "unnamed.jpg" already exists in this location. I don't know what to do.

I have the MacBook OS X 10.5.8, 2.4 GHz, 2 GB. I have been backing up my photos to an external hard drive since I purchased it. I usually choose the photos, copy and paste them to the EHD. It has started saying "an item named "unnamed.jpg" already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the one you're moving? Don't replace/Stop/Replace". I don't know what to do.

Thanks Jim, I kind of thought that was the answer, but was hoping against hope that I was just missing something. Like I said, it's not a big problem. One work around I've found is to name a folder on the external hard drive the same as the name I give the folder to import to and then choose this folder to back up to. I still get a subfolder inside that folder named Imported on...... but at least it's in the folder with my chosen name.
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Jack

File name naming convention in File Adapter configuration in ID

Hi All ,
I have a query related to xml filename created in IDOC-XI-FILE scenario based on value of one of IDOC field .
The scenario is like this :
I have to send one xml file per store for material master . In this case how can I define my file name with store name in File adapter configuration in ID .
Naming convention should be
<b><storename>_date_masterdataname.xml</b>where store name is one of field of IDOC .
Plz help me .
Thanks in Advance
Regards
Prabhat Ranjan

Hi Prabhat,
take a look at this weblog:
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you have to specify variable substitution
(in the file adapter)
and give the path to the store name (in the variable sustitution table)
you <b>file name schema</b> (from the file communication channel can look like this)
%storename%_date_masterdataname.xml
Regards,
michal
Message was edited by: Michal Krawczyk

Is it possible to control the naming convention used by Aperture when importing photos? If so, how

When I import photos from my camera, I have them placed into projects based on the date the photos were taken. However, I do not like the naming convention used by Aperture as it causes the projects to sort into a non-chronologial order. The convention is MMM-DD-YYYY and I want to change it to YYYY-MM-DD. Is it possible in Aperture 3.2.4 to do this?

In the Import panel you can edit the preset for the file name format to "Image year - image month - image day - index" for example; the preset for folder names seems to be gone in Aperture 3,3 - at least I cannot find it any longer. You only seem to be able to enter the folder name manually in the Import panel.

Best practice for naming convention in BI 7.0

Hi All,
Is there a Best Parctice document for naming convention in BI 7.0?
Thanks,
S.B

hi,
chk this links...
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ba/83343ea7ff6a38e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/da/0318025d64a84b94542641ed77ee74/frameset.htm
hope this helps,
partha

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