Looking for BR*Tools for the 6.40 Kernel
Dear Experts,
I am now playing with my old NetWeaver 2004 test systems... I was considering to create a small test system,
based on Oracle 10 and Linux. I easily found all the 6.40 Kernels in the Support Packages and Patches archive,
though the DBATL* files are for oracle 9 !!
As I didn't find a separate entry for BR*Tools in the "Browse our download catalog" menu, I decided to go for the
full text search, specifying: DBATOOLS PACKAGE FOR ORACLE 10.
Unfortunately, for the KERNEL 6.40, I only found packages for TRU64, not for Linux:
DBATL700O10_44-20000202.SAR DBATOOLS Package for Oracle 10g
Support Package SAP KERNEL 6.40 64-BIT TRU64 64bit ORACLE
DBATL700O10_52-20000956.SAR DBATOOLS Package for Oracle 10g
Support Package SAP KERNEL 7.00 32-BIT Linux on IA32 32bit ORACLE
DBATL710O10_42-10004181.SAR DBATOOLS Package for Oracle 10g
Support Package SAP KERNEL 7.10 64-BIT UNICODE AIX 64bit ORACLE
Based on the listed search results. I can assume the following:
SAP offers DBATL700* for KERNEL 6.40 on Linux.. The second hit result I am showing, suggests DBATL700* as well for KERNEL 7.00.
And starting from KERNEL 7.10, the file is then named DBATL710*
Does that mean, that for the KERNEL 6.40 for Oracle 10, I can download a DBATL700* file for Linux ?
Thanks a lot !!
Here is what the SAP note says:
The BR*Tools 7.20 and 7.40 packages are available on SAP Service Marketplace as an SAPCAR archive.
Separate versions of BR*Tools are not delivered for SAP Kernel Release 7.21, 7.38, and 7.41. Use the relevant Basis Versions 7.20 or 7.40.
The BR*Tools 7.20 package can be used with all SAP releases that are based on Oracle database 10g or 11g.
The BR*Tools 7.40 package can be used with all SAP releases that are based on Oracle database 11g.
BR*Tools 7.20 and 7.40 can also be used for SAP systems with non-ABAP stack without functional restrictions (for example, J2EE-only systems, portals, MDM, requisite, and so on). In non-ABAP stack systems, some control tables may not exist. Therefore, in addition, refer to SAP Notes 320457 and 892294.
The BR*Tools documentation is available as described under point [6]. In particular, the documentation contains recommendations on the type and frequency of regular upcoming database administration activities such as backups, updating statistics, and so on.
Regards
RB
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byte[] buffer = apdu.getBuffer();
byte p1 = (byte) (buffer[OFFSET_P1] & 0xff);
byte p2 = (byte) (buffer[OFFSET_P2] & 0xff);
short lc = (short) (buffer[ISO7816.OFFSET_LC] & 0xFF);
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if (lc != TACHO_CERT_LENGTH) {
ISOException.throwIt(SW_WRONG_LENGTH);
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ISOException.throwIt(ISO7816.SW_WRONG_LENGTH);
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Util.arrayCopyNonAtomic(buffer, OFFSET_CDATA, cert, (short) 0, lc);
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ISOException.throwIt(SW_TAMAM);
if (Util.arrayCompare(keyStore.selected_KID, (short) 0, keyStore.ERCA_KID, (short) 0, KID_LENGTH) == 0) {
keyStore.VUCA_Cert.verifyCert(cert, keyStore.selectedPublicKey, keyStore.selected_KID);
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keyStore.VU_Cert.verifyCert(cert, keyStore.selectedPublicKey, keyStore.selected_KID);
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ISOException.throwIt(SW_CERT_VERIFICATION_FAILED); // Selected keyId, with MSE, is neither ERCA_KID nor VUCA_KID
} else {
ISOException.throwIt(SW_CERT_VERIFICATION_FAILED);
return;
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byte[] buffer = apdu.getBuffer();
byte p1 = (byte) (buffer[OFFSET_P1] & 0xff);
byte p2 = (byte) (buffer[OFFSET_P2] & 0xff);
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ISOException.throwIt(SW_WRONG_P1P2);
random.generateData(Rnd3, (short) 0, (short) 8);
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ISOException.throwIt(SW_WRONG_LENGTH);
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Hi All,
Can some body help me out finding the WPC tool for SAP Netweaver 7.1 CE version? All i can find in SAP portal is for WPC tool for SAP WAS 7.0 (2004s) version.
Thanks,
KishoreHi,
No you would find that business package also for 7.1. I doubt if SAP has released any business package for 7.1. CE 7.1 was especially meant for building and deploying composite applications. For all other usage types you would have to go for NW 2004s Portal aka EP 7.0
Thanks,
GLM -
Hello,
I am searching for a tool for SCCM.
I have some IT responsible persons (who are not realy it technicans) in diffrent locations.
I want to give them a possibility to deploy Software to their clients with GUI without using ConfigMgr Console.
Does anyone knows such tools?Is there a reason you don't want them to have the console? You should be able to setup permissions that will only allow them to admin their area if that is the worry.
Also are you wanting them to push the install or would they be able to go to the machine, and do the install. If they would be able to go to machine to do the install then the solution below should work for you, I have it in place in my environment.
AD group that has the supporting team members in it
then created a User Collection in SCCM, and based its membership on the AD group I created
then created deployments for each of the applications that I want the support team members to have access to.
The support team member can go to the Application Catalog on the web, and install the application from there. This allows for you to control who all has access to installs by their AD group.
Also to make the online application catalog easier to get to I made a redirect site in IIS on the application catalog server.
Without the redirect you have to tell your support team to go to http://ServerName/CMApplicationCatalog"
With the redirect you can name it whatever you want like http://ServerName/apps"
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Thank you,
You should be able to find a third party auditing tool for this. But if you are looking for free one, you may need to update the logic, combine multiple scripts etc to achieve this.
1. Get the ACL of the folder using a tool
2. Translate the SID to an object in AD
3. If it is a group. Get the group members
3a. if it a nested group, get all members from all nested groups.
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Is Captivate 4 the right tool for my purposes?
This posting should not be misunderstood as bad mouthing Captivate 4. For the most part, I really appreciate Adobe products and have invested a significant amount of personal money into many Adobe products over the years.
My current role involves designing a course curriculum using Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Connect Pro. Unfortunately, I am becoming increasingly concerned that I may be using the wrong tool, at least, in regards to developing all parts of a lesson. Perhaps my workflow will improve if I develop the front facing portion of my lessons with Lectora, and use Captivate solely for creating software simulations?
Because I have already spent a lot of time building my first lessons, and I have a subscription to Adobe Connect Pro, I would rather solve the issues I listed, rather than start over.
My question is... are my issues based on my lack of knowledge with Captivate 4, or am I experiencing real issues with this product? If it is my lack of knowledge, please tell me how to solve my issues.
At this point, I would like to give kudos to Rick Stone (known as Captiv8r) for all his help as a hired consultant. I highly recommend his services. Without him, I probably would not have gone as far as I have with Captivate.
Please correct or comment on the followin…
Minor annoyances
- Too easy to accidentally move objects. Double clicking on a small graphic or a text caption can easily cause it to move or change size slightly. No way to lock their position only (e.g. lock text position but still allow editing).
- Text caption boxes mysterious maximize (vertically) from time to time.
- Grouping of objects is not possible.
- Previewing “From this slide – F8” does not take into account (or initialize) persistent graphics (or otherwise) on the first slide or template; this results in missing objects when doing a quick preview.
- Item names/variables are unwieldy. I have a number of graphics which I re-use throughout a lesson. I want to give each of them common names, such as ico_jobaid, img_core_splash, etc. Unfortunately, I cannot use identical names throughout a lesson. Each page requires a unique name for every object. This results in an item name like ico_interactive.png (as it is named in the library), appearing as TImageItem681 and TImageItem680 (copied twice) on a slide.
This is common for every object and makes it difficult to control objects.
Major issues
- Occasionally I insert a graphics that can’t be made visible.
- .cp file size seems to continuously increase in size, despite removing unused resources.
- Text bullet issues (ending bullets occasional show up as a larger size)
- Roll-over slidlets do not work as intended in AS3 mode. I must preview or publish in AS2.
- Recording Software Simulations!
Captivate 4 allows recording of simulations in up to four modes (Demonstration, Training, Assessment, and Custom). Unfortunately, it appears to record these simulations are separate and distinct recordings. This is a problem because call-outs and other edits must be repeated for each simulation. Other simulation tools record once and can be edited once for passive and/or interactive viewing.
- Buttons! Multiple buttons/text captions on a slide.
If I want to place multiple buttons on a slide, I must follow these steps to make these buttons/captions work properly. This is an unreasonable amount of work in order to use buttons on a single slide.
Step 1 - Determine the frame value. Note: It seems that if the frame value is not included, the lesson will move to the next slide, after clicking one button. Another caveat is that adding or removing slides may change the correct frame value.
1. Click Insert from the top menu,
2. Select Standard Objects,
3. Select Text Caption,
4. Click the Insert Variable button,
5. Select System from the Variable Type pull-down menu,
6. Select rdinfoCurrentFrame from the Variables pull-down menu.
7. Position the text caption appropriately on the screen. You may need an appropriate pause inserted in order to see the value.
8. Click Preview and select Project from the pull-down menu (or Click F4),
9. Step through slide show to the slide where rdinfoCurrentFrame text variable was inserted and record the displayed value.
Step 2 – Insert Button control
1. Click Insert from the top menu,
2. Select Standard Objects,
3. Select Button,
4. Choose appropriate button and button options (skipping steps),
5. Click Ok,
6. Position button appropriately.
Step 3 – Setting up advanced actions.
1. Click Project from top menu,
2. Select Actions,
3. Click the Advanced Actions tab,
4. Click the Edit / Create Action Pull down menu and select Create a New Action…,
5. In the new action name: text box, type action name (i.e. but_core_console),
6. Double click twice on Add Statement (sometimes it doesn’t behave as it should),
– this feature seems error prone.
7. Double click twice on Statement (in red),
8. Select Standard Action from pull-down list,
9. Select Show from pull-down list,
10. Select object name (text caption) you wish to show,
11. Repeat (if necessary),
12. Select hide and the element name you wish to hide and repeat as necessary,
13. Double click twice on Add Statement (sometimes it doesn’t behave as it should)
– this feature seems error prone.
14. Double click twice on Statement (in red),
15. As the last step, select Assignment from pull down list,
16. Select rdcmndGotoFrame from pull down list,
17. Select Value from pull-down list,
18. Enter the frame value (as determined Step 1),
19. Click Save.
For the next buttons,
1. Click the Duplicate button,
2. Edit the New action name: name appropriately,
3. Edit the information in the Advanced actions for the this action. (skipping steps)
4. Click Save.
Repeat as necessary!
Configuring buttons
1. Double click on first button,
2. In the section, “If the user clicks on the button”,
click on “On success” pull-down menu and select, “Execute advanced action”.
3. Click the Action pull-down menu and select the appropriate named action.
Repeat as necessary.
- Building buttons for several slides will create a large number of advance actions. Even though these advanced actions are only applicable to a single slide, they are viewable from any slide in a lesson. The number of actions (or advanced actions) quickly adds up in a complex lesson.
- Cannot find a way to edit the default look (object positioning/object sizes) of a quiz. The only attribute that seems changeable is the font size.
Lock ups and crashes
- Double clicking on a .cp file will often result in Captivate freezing at the start up screen.
- Captivate crashes and sometimes predictably, especially where animations are inserted.
I am using both a Windows 7 64 bit and a Windows Vista 32 bit OS. I have tried the following options with seemingly no difference: RUN AS Admin, XP Compatibility mode
Examples from Windows Applications log:
The program AdobeCaptivate.exe version 4.0.1.1658 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel. Process ID: 16f0 Start Time: 01ca623e805d8f30 Termination Time: 81
The program AdobeCaptivate.exe version 4.0.1.1658 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel. Process ID: 1654 Start Time: 01ca622b67764380 Termination Time: 70The only one that can answer that question is yourself ;o)
I wrote my comments and suggestions with red text here. My company uses Captivate to develop courses and so far we have been very happy with Captivate. Earlier we used Flash to develop courses, but the development time was very long so Captivate has allowed us to speed up the development process with 2-300%. We still use Flash quite a lot to build interactions etc. and import these into Captivate to add extra features.
We did look at a variety of tools when we wanted to find an alternative to Flash but at that time (we started with Captivate 2) we found that the best option was indeed Captivate. I regularly check up on competing products and there are some interesting alternatives available now but they are not as advanced as Captivate imho.
When that is said. Captivate is (and has always been) full of weird bugs and things that aren't working properly. This is extremely annoying but we have learned to work our way around most of them. It also seems that the stability of Captivate varies greatly from installation to installation. We are 8 people in my department all working with Captivate. Our computers are all the same and the OS is a corporate standard. Despite this some people here have some weird problems with Captivate that I never experience. I can't explain why it happens (and neither can they) but it could be the installation or it could be the way people work. An example is "missing/corrupt" Captivate files. We have always been working directly on a network drive. This is something that is often recommended against doing because it can cause corrupt Captivate files. The interesting thing is that I have never once experienced a corrupt Captivate file even though i have opened, worked on and saved many thousands of them from/to our network drive. One of my colleagues had around 20 occurences of corrupt Captivate files in the same timespan and from the same network drive.
The biggest problem in Captivate is the quiz module in my opinion. The quiz module is probably the most important when we talk about E-learning development tools and that is where Captivate is the weakest. You can't really customize your quizzes, there isn't enough different question types and interaction types, you can't use video but worst of all - it is unstable and buggy. Users can get stuck in a quiz without being able to move forward or backwars, the review quiz is buggy etc.
One thing I often see with Captivate developers is that they try and do everything in Captivate. While most things are possible to do in Captivate then it might no be the best solution. Some things can be created in Flash and imported into Captivate saving you tons of time and grief and in the end give you a much better end-product. I know that everyone doesn't have access to a Flash programmer, but then you can buy your way out of the problem.
If you are looking for a tool where you can have full control of everything in your courses then the only real solution is Adobe Flash. This will allow you to build the courses exactly as you please but it comes at a big price. It gets way more complex to create courses, which results in longer development times and updating your existing course becomes much more difficult and time consuming.
Minor annoyances
- Too easy to accidentally move objects. Double clicking on a small graphic or a text caption can easily cause it to move or change size slightly. No way to lock their position only (e.g. lock text position but still allow editing).
Doesn't really bother me but I guess it's different from person to person. You could just click on the object in the timeline instead to avoid moving the object.
- Text caption boxes mysterious maximize (vertically) from time to time.
I never experienced that.
- Grouping of objects is not possible.
I agree that this could be handy on slides with many objects.
- Previewing “From this slide – F8” does not take into account (or initialize) persistent graphics (or otherwise) on the first slide or template; this results in missing objects when doing a quick preview.
Yes but if Captivate was to take into account everything that happened earlier than previewing from this slide you might as well click preview project (F4).
- Item names/variables are unwieldy. I have a number of graphics which I re-use throughout a lesson. I want to give each of them common names, such as ico_jobaid, img_core_splash, etc. Unfortunately, I cannot use identical names throughout a lesson. Each page requires a unique name for every object. This results in an item name like ico_interactive.png (as it is named in the library), appearing as TImageItem681 and TImageItem680 (copied twice) on a slide.
I think this is the same in any application.. The whole idea of naming objects is that they have a unique name to be identified and manipulate later. I do however agree that the default naming in Captivate sucks. If the resource is named ico_interactive.png in the library, then Captivate should name it slide1_ico_interactive.png as the object name. It would make it easier and quicker to identify the correct resources.
Major issues
- Occasionally I insert a graphics that can’t be made visible.
I never experienced that with properly configured graphics. Sure you can have problems if you insert a CMYK image or a 300 dpi image, but if you use RGB 72dpi images then it works fine. (at least it always have for me).
- .cp file size seems to continuously increase in size, despite removing unused resources.
True but I never really experienced this as a problem. In Captivate 3 it could really get out of hand, but in CP4 it's much better. Alternatively create a blank Captivate file with the same dimensions and copy/paste your slides into that. (Don't know how it will behave with all your advanced actions though).
- Text bullet issues (ending bullets occasional show up as a larger size)
It is because you have a different font size on the last line of the caption. Just do a CTRL-A to select all the text and select the proper font size. Alternatively adjust the default font and size to what you want in Captivate to avoid this in the future.
- Roll-over slidlets do not work as intended in AS3 mode. I must preview or publish in AS2.
Didn't know that - you should probably report it as a bug if you haven't done so already.
- Recording Software Simulations!
Captivate 4 allows recording of simulations in up to four modes (Demonstration, Training, Assessment, and Custom). Unfortunately, it appears to record these simulations are separate and distinct recordings. This is a problem because call-outs and other edits must be repeated for each simulation. Other simulation tools record once and can be edited once for passive and/or interactive viewing.
Agree - this is rather annoying.
- Buttons! Multiple buttons/text captions on a slide.
From what I understand you have a whole bunch of buttons on a slide and then when the user clicks on one it shows some text / image? If that is the case then yes it will be a tedious process to build all this. I don't know if it would be easy in any other applications though (surely most of the other Rapid E-learning tools won't even be able to do it). Perhaps it would be better to rethink the way you build the course. Can't you use rollover captions / images instead?
Another alternative is to build these "interactions" in Flash and then import them into Captivate. Basically you would need to build a couple of different templates where you would be able to reuse the Flash framework and only change images/text in Flash and then importo it into Captivate.
- Cannot find a way to edit the default look (object positioning/object sizes) of a quiz. The only attribute that seems changeable is the font size.
This is a major handicap in Captivate and one of the reasons why we don't use Captivate quizzes in our courses. We build all our course in Captivate (and add Flash and other interactions) but we always use a Flash Quiz. The Captivate quiz is simply too ugly and unstable. We deploy courses to 35.000 people worldwide so stability is our number one priority and sadly Captivate quizzes don't offer that at this point.
Lock ups and crashes
- Double clicking on a .cp file will often result in Captivate freezing at the start up screen.
I never had that problem. I use Win XP, Vista 64-bit and Win7 64-bit.
- Captivate crashes and sometimes predictably, especially where animations are inserted.
I am using both a Windows 7 64 bit and a Windows Vista 32 bit OS. I have tried the following options with seemingly no difference: RUN AS Admin, XP Compatibility mode
My regular development PC runs Windows XP Pro. I never have any problems here. On Vista 64-bit I have a ton of problems, but Captivate didn't crash or lock up - it simply didn't perform the actions I wanted it to do. So far on Windows 7 I haven't encountered any crashes or problems. However there is no doubt that Captivate 4 was designed with Win XP in mind and Vista and Win7 are not native platforms for it.
/Michael
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Welcome to the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) forum!
Welcome to the VSTA forum!
Use this forum to ask questions and comment about VSTA integration with your product and building VSTA applications.
The latest version of VSTA can be found through the links below:
VSTA 2013
VSTA 2013 SDK
If you can't find what you are looking for or have any suggestions, by all means please let us know; we are here to help.
Thank you!
Xiaoying is a program manager in Microsoft Visual Studio Office Developer Tools team | This post is provided "as-is"We want to provide customization of our applications (C++ and .Net C# both). Evaluating VSTA, it looks like a good fit, but really not good enough examples and documentation.
I have few questions or concerns -
1. What are the differences/similarities with VSTA 2.0, Can we try or use VSTA 2.0 examples to understand VSTA 2012?
2. Can we have some detail example for VSTA 2012 like the ones provided with VSTA 2.0 (e.g. - shapeApp samples which by the way no longer available for downloading!!! ).
3. The given documentation ("VSTA Sample Host Integration.docx") and example only illustrates the part which loads Visual Studio, creates, saves, compiles and runs a template project on C#.
4. No documentation available on how to work with VB projects/scripts in VSTA 2012.
5. Document tells nothing about how to provide host application's APIs for customization or overwrite any host object by scripting. In VSTA 2.0 I think there was a concept of Proxy classes, do we have similar concept
here too?
6. Debugging part is also not complete in the documentation. Starting the external process and running the Addin is not clear.
Please provide more elaborate documentation if possible. Thanks!
Hi Xiaoying,
Could you answer on questions above? -
How can I use some of the image i am working on to paint with? like if I wanted to give someone an extra eye in the forehead, ow could i then paint their own i in the forehead? I know there is a paint tool for that, i just can't find it ... :/
It sounds like you are talking about the cloning tool?
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Afternoon all,
Following on from a separate forum thread I've got here in iPhoto https://discussions.apple.com/message/20902055?ac_cid=op123456#20902055?ac_cid=o p123456, I wondered whether the Aperture thread could also help me out.
I'm looking to have a single product to use as a central catalogue and referencing tool for the 000s of photos I've already got but also the 000s yet to be taken. I'm intending to have these photos stored on a NAS with appropriate backup measures, but accessing them through this as yet unknown product through wi-fi. I'm likely to do minimal photo manipulation other than the basics and enjoy the features of iPhoto so the main benefit is the ability to reference the images from a networked location. TD has kindly advised that iPhoto isnt the right product due to various limits due to networking.
My question is simple: Is Aperture the tool for me?
I look forward to hearing from you.
TimIf you read TD's answer carefully, it says
It cannot have the Library on a networked location, such as a NAS. iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
The main problem is the formatting of the drive - for Aperture holds the same: The library needs to be on a disk formatted MacOS X Extended. Otherwise you are risking inconsistencies in your Aperture library and open a can of worms, see:
Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
If you absolutey want to store your Photolibrary on a NAS, you can create a writable diskimage formatted MacOS X extended on your NAS and store the library on this disk image. You will have to take care to automount the diskimage before you access Aperture. This will be tedious and slow.
The question, if you can put your Aperture library on a network volume is open to a debate, but I would not do it.
For a good performance the access to the Aperture library needs to be very fast - I'd put the library on the fastest drive you have, with a very fast port, Thunderbolt, for example. My library sits on a second internal drive.
Your network needs to be very stable, if you want reliable database transactions for your Aperture library.
2. While you can run iPhoto in Referenced mode, with the Masters on a NAS and the library on a local disk, this is inherently unreliable. Here has more:
This is better in Aperture. Other than iPhoto Aperture has built-in tools to deal with referenced original files. So you can move the bulk of your image files to an external volume and keep only the Aperture library on your internal volume.
Regards
Léonie
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After installing Windows XP on my Mac, I switched back over to OS X and tried to access my external hard drive which greeted me with the message: "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer." I assume that the Boot Camp process must've af
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I am trying to wirelessly connect a smart tv to my laptop
te smart tv isasking for WAP2 passphrase the only one i know is he WAP where do i find the WAP2 passphrase
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Hi all I have a radio button and 2 other fields field1 and field2 besides it. Field1 and field2 are both LOV's. Based on the radio button value my cursor goes either to field1 or field2. I then bring up the lov and everything works fine. I'm having p