Need a pattern to update a table's contents

The goal here is to update a table's data when new data is imported into my application.
I was looking thru the Swing trail and see that the TabelModelListener is more appropriate for when the data in the table itself changes -- I cannot find a good trail to base my codes off of.
more details:
1. the import is fired off via a button press.
2. On that button defined a listener, in which I call a service that handles the import.
3. The import gathers data from a text file and updates a DB.
It seems to me that after the import, I would want to fire an event, for which the table (or tablemodel) is listening, so it can update itself. I can't find out how to do this. Help is appreciated.

I think I might be on the correct track.
1. I am using Factory pattern to serve out gui elements.
2. In that factory I have created a static Observable object.
3. I have created a subclass that implements observer. In the update method I can reset the tablemodel. In the factory I create and instance of my table class and register it on the Observable.
4. After I import some data, i simply call the appropriate method on observable, and my table should do its update.
I think this solution is pretty clean. If anybody has a better suggestion please let me know. I am always interested in writing the cleanest/most elegant code possible.

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What is the code for updating a table of content?

I'm looking online and not finding a command list or something helpful. I'm also on a government computer so a bunch of sites are blocked for security or something. I am making a script that does a few things and one needs to be updating the TOC but I cant find the command.
I wish this software had something simular to a program called MAYA has. "echo all commands" in the script editor so anything you do shows all code being exicuted.

Theoretically, if you are using Adobe's own ESTK to write your scripts, all commands can be found in the Help menu. Then again, searching in there is needlessly made difficult (i.e., you have to know exactly what you are searching for before you can find it). So (modest cough) ... Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Table of Contents
The command you are looking for is not in the "Table of Content Suite" since that only describes the format of the contents. It is a Document method: Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Document -- look for createTOC (this stupid editor doesn't show it but the link already points to the correct place -- perhaps this editor was written by "We Also Brought You The ESTK").
Searching through the thousands of pages is easier if you download the CHM version and use a good CHM viewer. Check out
http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html

How to update a table of contents when the feature "update table of contents" is unavailable?

Hello folks,
I've been struggling all morning with this issue and am completely desperate.
First, some info:
- I am making a spanish versions of an english documents: everything in the original doc was then edited, including TOCs. What I got at first, was a first spanish document already filled with spanish content.
- I was not the primary creative of the document I'm workin on and am unable to get in touch with whoever that can be.
- My document is a 200 pages text only document, with 12 chapters and, at the beginning of each chapter, a specific TOC for that very chapter.
- Inside each chapter, there are only Sections and Subsections, no other style. Those are the two levels in the TOCs.
- There is also a General TOC at the beginning of the document: that one only shows the Chapter names and the page number where to locate them.
My problem:
- Somewhere along the way, from one doc to another, the TOCs stopped to update the page numbers automatically.
- Now I have sections and subsections that are shown in one page (for instance 204) but they actually are on page 135.
- When I try to update the TOCs, I stand on the TOC itself as I was told in many tutorials, but the "update table of contents" feature is unavailable, even in the main TOC at the very beginning of the doc.
It is like if I wasn't standing in the actual TOC, but there is no actual TOC anywhere that I could refer to.
What can I do? I am changing the wrong page numbers manually but, of course, that is not ideal... and it may become more and more tricky while I keep producing new documents each based on the previous one.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Warm regard from sunny Paris, France!
Sasha

You've just confused me.
My understanding of how this is set up is that either:
This is a book, and there is a master TOC that includes all book documents and a document-specific TOC in each component file, or
This is a single file and there is one master TOC that includes all sections and a section-specific TOC that includes only the individual section.
In the first case, I think you would want two TOC styles set up, one that includes the chapter heads (if I understood how you said this worked) for the for the master, and you would include all docs in the book when you generate it, and a second style for the individual chapters, with the subheadings you want to include.
In the second case, it would be similar, but instead of only one style to cover the section TOCS, I think you would need to create a unique set of pargraph styles for the headings in each section (they can all be the same format, based one section, just with unique names), and then make a TOC style for each section that includes only the styles from that section.
OK, wait a sec. I just reread what you said: "Another thing: when the numbers are "linked" and updating well, they display indide a little box. Not a text box, but a kind of little frame around the numbers. That frame makes it imposible to delete just one number: when the TOC says that Section 6.1 is in page 135, for example, you cannot delete just the 5, it deletes, not just the 3 numbers, but also the doted tab."
I think these are NOT normal TOCs created by using Layout > TOC (but you could replace them with ones that are, if you set up your styles properly and the text you want to include is appearing on the pages). Those little boxes you mention sound like cross-references, which should update automatically without any intervention at all. Unfortunately, cross-refs can be flakey, especially if they point to another document. I'd open the cross-refs panel and see if you need to recreate a bunch of links.

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Loading the TOC style gave me the fonts I wanted, but not the dots & the page numbers that were in the doc from which I loaded the styles. My TOC has no page numbers now, but I do like the font.
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Need to delete or change default table of contents

The default table of contents created when I imported a
FrameMaker book is empty. I reimported the book (using a different
option) and created a new TOC. I want to use this one in my
project. Some questions:
1. Can I change the default TOC to be the new (non-empty)
one? If so, how? (Can you refer me to a topic in the RoboHelp
Documentation?)
2. Can I delete the default TOC? If so, how? (Can you refer
me to a topic in the RoboHelp Documentation?)
3. If the answers to the above questions is "no," can I just
ignore the default (empty) one & use the new (nonempty) one
when I generate? If so, how? (Can you refer me to a topic in the
RoboHelp Documentation?)

However, I thought that the blank TOC was created before I
learned the "correct" way to import FrameMaker documents: by
reference. So I can't say what would have happened if I had
imported the book by reference initially. Nonetheless, I have the
same result - a blank default TOC that I can't remove (as Peter
points out).

Need MIGO BAdi to update custom table

Hi Experts,
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Which BADI will be suitable to this. Or is there any other way to do this?
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This is an old, legacy document. Today, I needed to remove two pages, so of course, I need to update my table of contents and index. I had no problems with the index - it regenerated just fine. The TOC is another matter. I clicked Layout > Update Table of Contents. I got the message stating that the contents was updated. However, what actually happened was the TOC text vanished! And, it actually is gone because I can see two empty paragraph markers where the TOC used to be. I've tried regenerating it instead of doing the update. Same result - it's gone.
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Need a help on Update statement

Hi All,
I Need a help in updating a table column. PFB my requirement.
Table1
ItemID OrgId       Date
1       82     12/sep/2012
2       82     25/oct/2012
3       82     17/Nov/2012
4     82     22/Jan/2013
5     82     26/sep/2012
Table2
Itemid     orgid       Date1
1      82     23/sep/2012
2      82     25/Dec/2012
3      82     17/Sep/2012
4      82     22/Feb/2013
5      82     26/Oct/2012
Table3
Itemid     orgid       Date3
1      82     10/sep/2012
7      82     30/Dec/2012
3      82     12/Sep/2012
10      82     27/Feb/2013
5      82     29/Oct/2012
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If
Item and org combination is present in table3 and date column of table1 is less than Date3 of table3
Else
I need to Update with date2 of table2.Can we acheive this in a single update statement, can any one help me on this.
Thanks and regards,
Rakesh
Edited by: Venkat Rakesh on Sep 27, 2012 11:04 PM

You can probably also use MERGE:
--DROP TABLE table1;
--DROP TABLE table2;
--DROP TABLE table3;
ALTER SESSION SET nls_language = 'AMERICAN';
CREATE TABLE table1
   itemid    CHAR (1),
   orgid     CHAR (2),
   thedate   DATE
INSERT INTO table1   SELECT '1', '82', TO_DATE ('10/sep/2011', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table1   SELECT '2', '82', TO_DATE ('10/oct/2011', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table1   SELECT '3', '82', TO_DATE ('10/nov/2011', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table1   SELECT '4', '82', TO_DATE ('10/jan/2011', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table1   SELECT '5', '82', TO_DATE ('10/sep/2011', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;-- won't be updated
CREATE TABLE table2
   itemid    CHAR (1),
   orgid     CHAR (2),
   thedate   DATE
INSERT INTO table2   SELECT '1', '82', TO_DATE ('01/sep/2012', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table2   SELECT '2', '82', TO_DATE ('01/dec/2012', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table2   SELECT '3', '82', TO_DATE ('01/sep/2012', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
INSERT INTO table2   SELECT '4', '82', TO_DATE ('01/feb/2012', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL;
CREATE TABLE table3
   itemid    CHAR (1),
   orgid     CHAR (2),
   thedate   DATE
INSERT INTO table3   SELECT '2', '82', TO_DATE ('30/dec/2009', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL; -- date less than table1, so picks from table2
INSERT INTO table3   SELECT '4', '82', TO_DATE ('30/mar/2013', 'dd/mon/yyyy') FROM DUAL; -- larger than table1 , so pick this date
-- table1 original data
SELECT * FROM table1;
-- merge new data
MERGE INTO table1
     USING (SELECT NVL (t1.itemid, t2.itemid) itemid,
                   NVL (t1.orgid, t2.orgid) orgid,
                   t2.thedate prefdate ,
                   t1.thedate nextdate
              FROM    table2 t1
                   FULL OUTER JOIN
                      table3 t2
                   ON t1.itemid = t2.itemid AND t1.orgid = t2.orgid) dat
        ON (dat.itemid = table1.itemid AND dat.orgid = table1.orgid)
WHEN MATCHED
THEN
   UPDATE SET table1.thedate = (case when prefdate > table1.thedate then prefdate else nextdate end) ;
--table1 updated data
SELECT * FROM table1;OUTPUT:
Session altered.
Table created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
Table created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
Table created.
1 row created.
1 row created.
ITEMID ORGID THEDATE
1      82    10.09.2011
2      82    10.10.2011
3      82    10.11.2011
4      82    10.01.2011
5      82    10.09.2011
5 rows selected.
4 rows merged.
ITEMID ORGID THEDATE
1      82    01.09.2012
2      82    01.12.2012
3      82    01.09.2012
4      82    30.03.2013
5      82    10.09.2011
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Need a Query to update....below are requirements

Hi,
I need a query to update table xx_cc_audit. below are requirements.
In xx_cc_audit I have more than 1000 rows. In this table Column - contract_number is inserted as null for some rows.
I need a query to update this xx_cc_audit table which will replace null contract numbers with correct ones.
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With this instance_id i can get the contract_number from other table okc_k_headers_b .
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where XS.contract_number is null
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AND XS.ACTIVITY_TYPE = 'TROUBLESHOOTING';
Note : The above query can give duplicate instance_id.
Say, above query results in 100rows.
I will copy any 1 instance_id in a paper and then pass it to below query.
SELECT contract_number
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AND jtot_object1_code = 'OKX_CUSTPROD'
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where contract_number is null
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this will update my table.
I have more than 1000rows, so i need a query which will update 1000rows in 1 shot.
Please help me.
Thanks!...
Edited by: Kiran Sanga on Jul 20, 2009 2:15 AM

OK, so that means a maximum of 10 distinct IDs in okc_k_headers_b can be matched with xx_cc_audit xca.
That's a data issue for yourself that you'll need to work out, i.e, are you being too restrictive in any of the subqueries, particularly this one:
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AND jtot_object1_code = 'OKX_CUSTPROD'
AND object1_id2 = '#'
AND chr_id IS NOT NULL)Edited by: SeánMacGC on Jul 20, 2009 3:37 AM
And here is a slight different version of the update that should perform a little better:
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SELECT contract_number
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AND jtot_object1_code = 'OKX_CUSTPROD'
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ID CS5: How to include additional text into a table of contents and how to hide text from it?

I have the following problem:
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Best Regards,
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pd,
Unfortunately for you, according to the Pages '09 User Guide, Chapter 3 Using Table Of Contents says the following:
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Sorry.

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I am writing my master thesis right now and the structure is as follows: two cover pages, acknowledgments, abstracts and then i would like to put a table of contents. previous pages are done with the appropriate style (heading 1) but when i insert the TOC, it's empty. Is there a way it can include the previous headings? I hope this is clear enough! Thank you very much!
Rumen

and 8 lines under you will read:
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Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
To update the TOC after editing a document, click any entry in the table of contents, or click Update Now in the TOC pane of the Document inspector. If you don’t update the table of contents after changing a document, it updates automatically when you close the document.
You are hitting the result of the use of common resources for the Help and for the User Guide.
In the Help, the part which you reproduced is really page different of the referenced one.
It seems that the draft of the User Guide was made from the Help with a piece of code replacing the links between Help 'pages' by references to paper pages.
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