New development forums

I discovered that there's a whole new section I have never seen in the cisco forums that specifically targets developers:
http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/CDN?page=main
Amongst other things, there are separate forums for various APIs and a forum about IP Phone services.
So I'm wondering if anybody working at Cisco would care to comment as to what the idea is with having multiple forums for the same purpose. Are we supposed to migrate to the new developer area and will posts be moved at some date and this forum closed, or what will happen with it?

That is a news to me. Thanks for sharing. I hope Cisco can merge these forums so we have only one place to search.

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Request for iPhone developer forum

There has been a recent influx of new iPhone developers in the developer forums. They often don't identify their problem as being specific to the iPhone. You have to look at what they are talking about and see that it is all iPhone stuff. Apparently the iPhone SDK is significantly different enough that answers to basic questions for MacOS X development are not correct for the iPhone SDK.
If there were an iPhone SDK forum they might be more inclined to put iPhone-specific questions in there.

I completely agree with the previous sentiments for an iPhone developer forum. Why?
I am part of the problem. I have come into the Apple development process "solely" to work on the iPhone. I know nothing about Mac OS X. Because of that I was astounded that the iPhone documentation was not "iPhone" but rather Xcode documentation. Yes I understand that there is a great deal of overlap BUT from my point of view it looks as though Apple was extremely lazy in just dumping all of their code and documentation on the iPhone developer. They need about 5 editors to weed out what is and is not iPhone. Just my two cents.
-Doug Danforth

I am new this forum.

Hi alll,
I am new this forum.
I have a JTree that allows mutliple selections. I need to iterate through each of the selected nodes and do some processing on them. I thought I'd add them to a hashMap. Unfortunatley, I'm having trouble getting at the nodes themselves. looking back at a similar problem I tackled a while ago, I got round it by using tree.getLastSelectedPathComponent().
I can't generalise to get at all the selected Componenets though.
I can get at all the selected paths though. Does this help ? Can I get at the node, from its TreePath ?
Cheers,
Kate

Hi katedamond,
You can get a node from the path using TreePath.getLastPathComponent().
It will returns the node at the end of the path.
I hope this will help you out.
Regards,
Tirumalarao
Developer Technical Support,
Sun Microsystems,
http://www.sun.com/developers/support.

Code Formatting Instructions for Developer Forums

Although this topic only applies to the two Developer forums, the need for some upfront code formatting instructions in those forums is desperate. There may be hundreds of threads which include one or more messages on this subject. In my case alone, I've posted at least a dozen messages each containing these three lines:
Paste your code here.
Of course a quick search of either Dev forum on the keys +code formatting+ will find the above right away, but those who need help the most don't know code requires special formatting so won't be making that search. For the same reason, neither the excellent instructions in the User Tips Library nor the pertinent threads in this forum are likely to be discovered before they're needed. The +Help & Terms of Use+ FAQ might seem to be a good place for the instructions, but this has been proposed so many times before I'm sure it will never happen. The need is confined to the Dev forums afterall.
I think the solution would be a permanent post (similar to +How to Post a new Topic+ in this forum) at the top of both Dev forums. I don't think most developers want to see instructions on any other topic at the top of the forums, but a brief note titled +How to Post Code+ might make everyone's life easier.
Assuming most of the other developers agree, how could we make this happen?

Thanks so much for helping with this, Nubz!
Joerg's instructions are excellent. I refer to them often and I've had them bookmarked since I found Apple Discussions last year. The new Code section is great!! Very clear!
Now we just need to find a way to get users to that page. Our problem has never been with users who are interested enough in Apple Discussions to visit the Tips Library. The unformatted code is coming from first-time users--not necessarily novice coders, but programmers of all skill levels who aren't coming here to learn about the forums or relate to the community. These folks are focused on their current project, may have found no answers anywhere else, and arrive here with tunnel vision. Often there's a language problem as well.
The newly arrived OP will often start the thread with a page of unformatted code. Those of us with eyes used to filling in the missing brackets, indentation etc. can sometimes decypher the mess, but usually we need to give formatting instructions and ask the OP to repost. The frequency of this scenario has been increasing. Lately I've been posting those instructions almost once every day.
Of course that's a good sign! We've been giving good service down there and the number of newcomers seems to be reflecting that. A big percentage have turned into regulars, so I think we have a very healthy forum. It's just the formatting cycle gets old, and the time and bytes add up too.
My suggestion is this:
One yellow moderator announcement that stays in the first position on the topic page for both dev forums. The subject line is:
To format code: Paste your code here
The user doesn't even need to open the message. Only developers will see this. No change to the page header is needed. If the user does open the message, a link will be provided to Joerg's tips.
- Ray

Suggestion - Cross links in the Developer Forums

Hi - this is a suggestion for a trivial modification to the Developer forums.
I regularly read and contribute to the "Developer" and "Software Development 101" forums; looking at the names of the other contributors, I'm not the only one. It would be really helpful if there were a direct cross link from the Developer to the Software Development 101 forum, and another back from SD101 to the Developer forum. This would avoid having to navigate up a level and navigate downwards again.
Alternatively, the SD101 forum could be moved back as a sub-forum of the Developer forum, as was the case when SD101 was first created.
Thanks for considering this.
Bob

Hello Dave,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I personally experienced this problem. We already reported this to our web admin. Thanks for letting us know.

I am a new developer in iOS, need info about iTunes Store

I am a new developer in iOS, I have created an weather app just to show recruiters about my work and to get the work or job from them.
This is not for sale, i know apple provide built in weather app.
Can i add this app to iTunes store.

You can add apps to the store, but you will be better off asking in the developer forums : https://devforums.apple.com/index.jspa

Moderators required for a new Hyperion forum

Hyperion experts/moderators required for a new community forum that hopes to complement Hyperion Developer Network. The role of moderator encompasses: - ensuring the terms of use are adhered to (eg. No defamatory posts to Hyperion or anyone else) - ensuring the spirit of the forum is adhered to (eg. Community board does not degenerate to becoming an advertisements board) - providing technical/product assistance to those that ask for it Interested, community-minded parties, please write to [email protected]

Please excuse the spelling mistakes, I did not properly check the message before sending.

What is required when adding references when building up a new development computer?

I just took over an existing project from another developer. I am using Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Update 4
I am trying to set up a new, clean, development machine but this project has references to ComponentOne Studio for WinForms software for which I cannot find the install programs. I do have access to the actual DLL files that are referenced in project.
Can I simply copy the referenced DLL files from the old development computer to a folder on my new development computer and add a reference to them in my project or am I actually required to install the Studio for Win Forms product to get access to these DLLs
for the reference?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Dave

Hello Dave,
Thank you for your post.
I am afraid that the issue is out of support range of VS General Question forum which mainly discusses the usage of Visual Studio IDE such as
WPF & SL designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System
and Visual Studio Editor.
Because the dll that you want to reference is the dll of
ComponentOne Studio for WinForms software which is third-party, I suggest consulting your issue on ComponentOne forums:
http://our.componentone.com/groups/ for better support.
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MacRumors vs ASC Developer Forums vs DevForums vs StackOverflow

Can anyone list out some of the strengths and weaknesses of these four developer forums?
1. MacRumors
2. The New Apple Support Community Developer Forum (The one we're in now)
3. The Developer Forums at developer.apple.com
4. StackOverflow
I've been getting mixed results at Stack Overflow, and getting sick of having to sort out objective-c hints from all of the other programming languages. And why would apple have two apple-sponsored developer forums, one here and one in the developer program? Is it assumed that here the questions should be more basic?

Site
My Opinion
MacRumors
Not that popular. Not a good source for answers. Poor formatting capabilities. Free.
The New Apple Support Community Developer Forum
Getting more popular. A good source for answers. Excellent formatting capabilities. Free.
The Developer Forums at developer.apple.com
Popular. A good source for answers. Good formatting. $99/year.
StackOverflow
Very popular. A good source for answers. Good formatting. Free.
I think MacRumors is a waste of time. It always shows up on hits, but never has anything valuable.
The paid developer programs are an excellent value in many other ways. There is a lot of content, but I honestly haven't found any answers there - and not from lack of looking.
StackOverflow isn't much of a community. I have gotten solutions there, but also misinformation. It is a good starting point.
In all honesty, I've learned more here than at any of the other places.
You didn't ask about the Apple Mailing Lists. That is probably the highest signal-to-noise ratio of all - but the hardest to use.

Improvement request for the developer forums(s)

Is there any way to tweak the developer forum a little so user's can see the proper way to format code when making a post? There is no mention in the help. The Compose tab only has bold, italic, underline, and spellcheck. Somewhere on the *Post Message: New Topic* screen there needs to be something telling the user to use {code} around their code to format it properly.
I have been trying to inform newer users over there but it gets tiring after a while.
Thanks.

Even better - a button on the compose form that would insert the magic goo for us!
Seriously this is a mess with all of the new iPhone developers coming onto the forms and putting code in their posts and then the responses from the usual suspects that they should use the tags, followed by questions of how do I use the tags,...

New Development and CA

We are in process of developing new eCommerce application on ATG. We also have a business requirement to manage images and products using BCC. Most of the business requirements in phase 1 of the project is to configure and deploy application code along with CA ( BCC / Merchandising). My question is whether it is advisable to do new application development along with CA configuration at the same time. What does ATG best practice say in this regard. My opinion is that we should do new application development (deliver new functionality) first to be followed by CA initiative. I have never directly worked on CA projects but I have been part of large teams with multiple initiatives where CA being one of the initiative and I have seen there are quite a few steps that one need to follow in configuring and deploying CA / BCC e.g. versioning of modules, modifying DB schema to support versioning etc. I don't want to run into issues where our main focus is to deliver new functionality and want to avoid the complexity of doing both new development and CA at the same time.
Edited by: 899085 on Nov 24, 2011 12:01 PM

The best practice recommendation would be to include any BCC/CA implementation as early as possible in your project plan. Understanding the process of how the business users will be using the tools and what impact any customizations to the ATG code your applications make are very important in a successful rollout of a site usign the BCC and Merchandizing. We tend to see that the projects which attempt to implement BCC/CA at the last minute are the ones that encounter the most problems. Projects which include the BCC and CA in the early stages of the applciation design, project planning, and UAT and load testing go through a much smoother test cycle and launch.

New Development system copy from Production

Hi All,
Hope you can help me out here with some ideas.
We are currently planning to implement a new SAP BW Development system, and for this we would like to make it a 1:1 copy of our current production system. Meaning all from customizing, ABAP, workbench objects etc.
But what we do not want is all the transaction and master data in infoobject, cubes etc., we are only interested in the structure and objects. Therefore we can rule out "System copy".
My question is then, is there any other ways to do this when system copy is a no go? I know we can do client copy but then we will not get all the workbench / ABAP programs which we need.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Thx. in Advance

Hi Rasmus,
But what we do not want is all the transaction and master data in infoobject, cubes etc., we are only interested in the structure and objects. Therefore we can rule out "System copy".
Options 1: As BI objects are cross client , copying client will not solve your purpose 100%.
You can perform system copy and then clean up data in DEV
Option 2: You can create a new Development and then create TRs for required configuration objects and move to new development system.
Option 3: Use SLO tools to perform container copy without any data.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

New Development - Leave Application (HR)

I am working on a project where my client need a new development on leave where both some attendance types and absence types should be request from same screen.
so please help me in this issue.

Hi,
you need to work on Infotype 2001 & 2002.
That is tables PA2001 & PA2002.
Regards,
Amit

New Development - No Infrastructure!

We have moved into a new development and did have an engineer visit scheduled for yesterday to install our new line. The appointment was between 1-6pm, I called at 3pm and was told he was coming, I then call again at 5.15pm and was told the engineer wouldn't be coming. The reason was that additional work needed to be done at the exchange.
I then went with the building site manager and we inspected the BT ducting that surrounds my property. To my surprise there was absolutely no BT infrastructure at all in any of the ducts...no wonder the engineer couldn't install our line!
Today I have spent over 2 hours trying to speak to someone, 6 calls, 2 supervisors and got absolutely nowhere! All the call agents were hard to understand due to their very strong Indian accent. I've now had to open a complaint both over the phone and just now online.
I've believe that the 'New Building Site Development Team' needed to visit the site to install the core infrastructure. I've tried to make contact with them and failed, I've tried to escalate the issue and failed, I've tried to speak to someone senior enough to understand my problem....once again I've failed.
I'm literally lost for words at the customer service, not to mention angry for wasting a days holiday and even more upset that we will now have to spend over £400 a month on child care as we can't work from home.
If anyone can help me I'd be really grateful.

Just to clarify, this is not the builders responsibility.
The house itself has been cabled with the normal house points and cabling with a terminating "white" cable poking out the front of the house, all ready for the engineer to connect to. The onsite ducting and BT Manholes have all been installed, either by a contractor of Openreach or Bovis (if they are an approved installer). The only people who are allowed to install cabling within a BT duct is BT or a part of BT like Openreach, unless you seek Wayleave permission. I know this as I project manage 'dark fibre' installations across private estates.
Bovis themselves completed their work and gave BT permission to install infrastructure over 2 months ago. I confirmed this with both the site manager and Bovis headoffice.
After all my calls yesterday, I decided to phone BT Business as I know they are UK based, the person I spoke to was more useful and did give me the number for the 'New Estates Team' (0800 616866) - however when I called them I was told they can't deal with end users and I need to speak to my ISP...which is interesting as that's BT who I've so far spent 5 hours trying to communicate with.
I then tried to call Openreach but once again they won't speak to end users...
So the current position is;
1) I have no phone line
2) The estate has no BT infrastrucutre
3) I have complained via Twitter (36hrs response time) and the normal complaint channel (72hrs reponse time)
4) 5 Hours worth of calls (at a cost to me)
5) 1 days holiday taken for no reason
6) The additional cost of childcare (approx £150 a week)
7) Having to work in the office until midnight most evenings
8) I had to spend another 45mins talking to the accounts team, as they'd tried to take directdebit for the service!
The average time to actually get to speak to an 'agent' is 12mins, then 4-5mins to verify details, then 3mins for them to read the screen, then 3mins of them mumbling in an extrememly hard to hear accent. Eventually you explain the situation again, they pause, carry on with their script, you ask to speak to a supervisor...they also can't help.
There is without a doubt a problem in the process for getting a new estate setup, I really hope that somehow, via some method I manage to speak to someone who can help!

Can not change vendor when creating a new Development Component in NWDS

Dear friends,
Im trying to create a new Development Component in NWDS. Our NWDS is connected to NWDI and we are using CM Services option of NWDI.
Before I could create a DC and change the vendor but now I cant change it anymore. Now, the vendor is by default sap.com and we cant change it and it seems that we also have to put our project in a separate directory. home/ directory or other directories in the list.
See below screen shots...
If I make a new DC than we see it like this: home/bpm_test [sap.com].
If I make a new DC in my LocalDevelopment I can change the vendor and I dont have to choose a home directory.
Do you have any idea how to change that?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,

HI,
it seems that the vendor is defined in the NWDI track. That's why you can't change it.
regards,
Vasils

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