Project load question

I'm interested to know what Encore is processing during project load.
I thought it might be checking links to Premiere Pro, or checking transcode files.
The Pr project linked to loads pretty quickly on my machine.
Any info welcome. Thanks.

What do you see on the screen? Loading transcode presets can take some time.
It may be checking links, but more likely generating cached files. That should only happen once as long as you aren't having permissions problems.
You can try the "Run As Administrator" that improves some problems.

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Project Management Question - timelines for Production system deployment

Hi
I need an expert advice on setting up timelines for establishing an Oracle Apps Production environment. We are implementing Oracle HR & Payroll at an organization.
Our system architecture is a 2-node application tier and 2-node DB tier (RAC). RAC is configured by another party and we only have to prepare the application tier (2 nodes)
We would be installing Oracle Apps R11i (11.5.10) with jserv load balancing on the 2-nodes
Can anyone suggest how much time this should take to install/configure & patching of the application tier (on 2 nodes)?
Regards
Saira

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CP5 pre-loader questions re: video

Forgive the long post..
I published a Cap 5 project in which the first 4 slides contain short videos. The pre-loader is set to 70%. When playing the course from a server or LMS the initial load ranges from 1 minute to 5 minutes depending on location and computer. After the initial load reaches 70% the first video shows its own loading screen for a few additional seconds and begins to play. Subsequent videos will also show a brief loader before they play. The video and project sizes are as follows:
- Course SWF is 12.5mb
Slide one video is 827kb
Slide two video is 1.2mb
Slide three video is 1.9mb
Slide four video is 950kb
- All videos are encoded F4V
- Project is published from CP5 on a Mac
- Latest Flash player is being used for all user machines
The Problems:
- On high performance machines with fast internet connections, the content loads and plays as expected, however on slightly older machines, or slow connections the playback is jerky and unpredictable
- Playback performance from a web server is generally better than from the SumTotal LMS regardless of the machine capabilities
- On several occasions the audio for the next slide plays simultaneous with the video from the current slide. Also bullets that are synched with the slide and video will fall out of synch. After reloading or using the nav bar to back up, the slide generally plays as expected.
My questions for the community:
1 - Will the pre-loader load F4V videos before playback? Can someone explain what the pre-loader will load what it will not?
2 - If the preloader does not load video, is there a downside to setting the preloader to a minimum number (say 10%) to at least reduce the initial load cycle?
3 - How do I ensure that audio from the next slide will not play on the current slide or video synchronized with timeline elements do not fall out of synch?
Thanks
Jeff

Hi there,
Please find the answers for your questions.
1 - Will the pre-loader load F4V videos before playback? Can someone explain what the pre-loader will load what it will not?
<ashwin> No, preloader only loads the main Movie. Once the slide with video is encountered the Video load is initiated and this loads the video. FLV video and Animations (if they are externalised) are not loaded while preloading the movie.
</ashwin>
2 - If the preloader does not load video, is there a downside to setting the preloader to a minimum number (say 10%) to at least reduce the initial load cycle?
<ashwin> Yes you can do this but i am not sure if this reduces the project loading time. I will try to explain you the way preloader works. A 10% preloader percentage indicates to load 10% of the SWF size, For instance if the SWF size is 12 MB then the project starts to play once 1.2 MB of the project is loaded. So if the project has rich content in the first few slides then loading may take time as it has it has to load the first slide fully to show the first slide. So it all depends on how the project is created and how the content is distributed in the project.
</ashwin>
3 - How do I ensure that audio from the next slide will not play on the current slide or video synchronized with timeline elements do not fall out of synch?
<ashwin>Do you have the audio from first slide to n slides continuously, if thats the case then in the published output a single audio file will be created with the published SWF and is stored in the SWF (In this case we say audio is sitched). So if a preloader is set to 10%, even though only 10% of the movie will be preloaded the entire audio should be loaded which might create sync issues as the movie will have started to play while the audio is being loaded.
To overcome this you may choose to increase the slide time of the slides containing audio by around 0.1 second. This activity will split the audio in the published output and hence will have small audio fragments to load while the movie is loading.If around 20 slides have audio continuously then you can increase the slide time for around 6-7 slides and not all.
</ashwin>
Try them and let me know if this information helped.
Thanks
Ashwin Bharghav B
Adobe Captivate team

My video i have successfully worked on for seven days now won't open at all. It says there is no sequence of this type found... But in the very bottom bar I can see the whole project load. But the only option from the error screen is exit out of Premier

My video i have successfully worked on for seven days now won't open at all. It says there is no sequence of this type found... But in the very bottom bar I can see the whole project load. But the only option from the error screen is exit out of Premiere Pro CC. I am on a PC withe Windows 8.1 and apps are up to date. Thanks much for any help!!

Hi Bryan,
My video i have successfully worked on for seven days now won't open at all. It says there is no sequence of this type found... But in the very bottom bar I can see the whole project load. But the only option from the error screen is exit out of Premiere Pro CC. I am on a PC withe Windows 8.1 and apps are up to date. Thanks much for any help!!
Sounds like an activation issue. Quite Premiere Pro. Sign out of Creative Cloud. Restart Premiere Pro. Sign back in: http://bit.ly/CC-sign-out
Hope that works for you.
Kevin

Final cut pro x - lion - mbp 2011 2.0 15 - not responding at all since latest update. Can't open or edit projects, loading window that pops us when you click the app (as it loads) does not go away, says loading compressor support. Have tried reinstalling

final cut pro x - lion - mbp 2011 2.0 15 - not responding at all since latest update. Can't open or edit projects, loading window that pops us when you click the app (as it loads) does not go away, says loading compressor support, paralyzed. Have tried reinstalling, default settings etc
Appreciate suggestion, working on deadline. Thanks.

Here is the start of the crash report:
Process:         Final Cut Pro [20568]
Path:            /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier:      com.apple.FinalCut
Version:         10.0.1 (185673)
Build Info:      ProEditor-185670300~1
App Item ID:     424389933
App External ID: 4138831
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [102]
Date/Time:       2011-11-11 20:41:32.201 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          192058 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           14
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 157161 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   14
Anonymous UUID:                      DD542B2F-58A0-482E-AAFA-ECADEC76F562
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000280000003
VM Regions Near 0x280000003:
    CG shared images       00000001cbf62000-00000001cc182000 [ 2176K] r--/r-- SM=SHM
-->
    STACK GUARD            00007fff5bc00000-00007fff5f400000 [ 56.0M] ---/rwx SM=NUL stack guard for thread 0
Application Specific Information:
objc[20568]: garbage collection is OFF

Project Billing Question

Hi All,
I have couple of Project billing questions. Hope you can help
1)A wrong customer was attached to project billing agreement, funding and base line also completed for the customer.
Now we realized that its wrong customer and want to change it to correct customer.
What are the options we have here?
Can we delete or end date the billing agreement?
will the funding be release from the wrong customner after deleting or end dating the billing agreement?
2) Wrong customer attached to a project..agreements,funding,baselining are NOT done.
How can we delete this customer and add the correct customer?
The option to change the customer is grayed out.
Appreciate if you can help.
Thanks

Hi
On your first question you said the agreement was created for wrong customer. Since you already baselined the funding, I assume you have that customer linked to the project.
You can go the Agreement form and enter a negative funding line allocated to the same project. The total allocated amount will be zero. The agreement is now not allocated and free to be allocated to another project. If it is a wrong agreement you may update the agreement amount to zero. Now create a new agreement for the right customer.
The open issue is with the project. You have a wrong customer associated with that project. However, system will not allow you to remove the customer - project record. Solution depends on the way the project was setup. Did you enable customer at top task? if so, end date the top task and create an alternative top task with the right customer.
If the project has been set with a single customer you better close the project and start a new one.
However, if you need an alternative solution, I can suggest a custom method. Go to Help > ..> Examine and change the existing customer of the project to zero contribution.
Now you will be able to add the right customer to the project and have 100% contribution on it.
Dina

Content disappearing from MUSD on project load...

I have a student working in MUSE on a class project. She loads her project file, and the content is visible in thumbnail view. As the project loads, however, all content (including embedded images) disappear completely. So far, searches have not yielded any useful information. Any thoughts from the community?

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C- project certification question and material

Hi Gurus,
I want to know is there any cretification for SAP C- Projects could you please let me if any one has SAP done c-project certification questions, or any relevant sites wherein I can get the same.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Thanks
Ashish

Hi Ashish,
cProjects being a part of the PLM package, you would need to undergo SAP PLM certification. As per my knowledge, there is no separate cProjects suite certification available.
However, there are training programs conducted by SAP for cProjects and xRPM. You may get the details regarding these from the marketplace. Please refer https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/partnerportal/apj/home
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Vivek Pandey

PrE 4 Opens, Then Crashes When Project Loads

I realize that Premiere Elements 4 is old, but I still like and use it for all my projects. Here's my problem: I've been running PrE 4 for months on my new 64-bit Win 7 HP laptop, but only today it started going bonkers. It opens just fine, but when I open a project, it minimizes the PrE window as soon as it loads. Even though I've tried re-opening the window, it refuses to return to full screen.
I've tried compatibility to Vista and even XP, running under administrator priveleges, but to no avail. Is this a result of a newly-installed program or a virus? I'd love to get back to editing...

Thank you for the info.
There is one thing that I need clarification on - do you mean that you can no longer Open a New Project, one that is empty? If so, then you can ignore the test below, though we might come back to that, if we can get PrE to Open a New Project.
When you say "raw AVI files," are these DV-AVI's, a particular form of AVI? This ARTICLE will give you more background on file formats.
You mention WMA Audio files. Like an AVI file, those can contain a lot of different stuff, but more on that in a moment.
With Win7-64, 4GB RAM is about what Win7 needs to run, and that does not leave a lot of excess for programs.
Now, Projects can become corrupted, or unstable, due to many things. Assets in a Project can become problematic. One way to test a Project for "bad" Assets is to make sure that PrE is closed, and then "hide" the Assets from PrE. As the Project file, the PREL, does not contain any of the Assets, but only follows absolute Paths to those Assets, this is farily simple. How one has structured their Assets folders can greatly simplify this task, or can cause a bit of work. It sounds as though your Project is pretty simple so far, and should not be difficult to follow these steps for testing:
With PrE closed, go to the folder(s), where the Assets are located, and Move the folder(s) elsewhere. Remember, the PREL uses absolute Paths,so that original Path will no longer apply. At this point, I would also separate Assets by type, say with Video files in a "Video" folder, Still Images in a "Stills" folder and Audio files in an "Audio" folder. You will see why in a moment.
Launch PrE, and Open the problem Project.
One will be confronted with a message dialog box, asking "Where is file ______?" Since we moved those Assets, we need to help PrE find them. Just navigate to the Moved folder, where that first Asset is located. The dialog screen offers a Finder, but since you Moved things, you should have that info handy. Locate the first file, that PrE is asking for.
Once you find it, PrE will do two things: establish the new link, and then look in that folder for any other Assets, used in that Project, and link to them also - pretty neat, eh?
Since we separated our Assets by type, if the first type, say Video, loads fine, we can rule those out. If the Project crashes here, we have found at least one problem.
When PrE comes to the next Asset, that dialog screen will reappear, and we will do the same thing - locate the file, that PrE is asking for, and again, PrE will re-establish the link to it, and search that folder for any more Assets. If all goes well, we can probably rule out those Assets as an issue.
This will repeat, until either the Project loads, or until the Project crashes, or hangs. If that happens, we have narrowed things down to one Asset type. This is why we separated them - it makes troubleshooting Assets much easier. Note: Titles are written in XML code, in the PREL, so nothing tangible exists for them, at this point.
Whatever you do, do NOT choose Save, and especially if you decide to Skip Media, or Cancel. Only do a Save_As,so as to NOT overwrite your original PREL. Never overwrite an original PREL, if you are having issues.
Please report on this test. Does the Project fail with a particular Asset type? If so, what is that Asset type?
If you have quite a few Assets of that particular type, you can redo the test, by moving, say half of those Assets again, and running the test again. If the Project crashes with either the first half, or the second, you are getting closer.
Good luck,
Hunt

How to change project loading theme

Hi There,
Can somebody please suggest me how to change project loading theme in captivate 6.
Please refer below image, I want this loading screen.
Looking forward for help.
Thanks,
Srikanth

RodWard,
Thank you very much.
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Srikanth.

How to reduce project load time?

I am currently working on a large project (25+ Mb, thousands of vis) with something on the order of 100 classes. Opening the project is painfully slow. It usually takes 7-8 minutes. I'd like to figure out a way to reduce the load time.
What is LV's behavior regarding loading project file vis and libraries (lvlib, lvclass, etc.)?
Are all items in the project automatically loaded when the project is opened?
Are items not in the project but used as sub-vis automatically loaded?
Are dynamically linked items not included in the project automatically opened? (I imagine not.)
Are dynamically linked items that are included in the project automatically opened?
Thanks,
Dave

Hello,
I have talked to multiple people about your issue and we honestly believe that you you are experiencing is expected behavior based on the size of the project and number of VIs used. Creating a new project will sometimes help when a project file has a corruption within it. Since you are experiencing the same behavior on multiple computers, any difference in load time will be a function of the speed, RAM, etc. of that particular computer as compared to your machine. In saying that the files are technically loaded, I am saying that their locations are known so that when they are called, they can be loaded into memory as needed. It does not have to load any portion of the VI other than the location on disk. I would not expect either of those methods to reduce your project load time. Switching to dynamic linking only changes the order in which LabVIEW searches for the files. As I stated before, files added to the project are defined by the name and location on the disk. You can think of the project file as an XML file with different pieces of information about the files. If the file cannot be found, it will try to dynamically link the files by searching for them on the disk. When this happens, it goes through a seris of locations where the files might be located. When the project is loaded, it looks for the files that are listed in the project file first. I hope this helps.
-Zach
Certified LabVIEW Developer

Abnormally Long HDV Project Load Time with CS3

I have a relatively small HDV project, about 30 clips captured with HDVSplit. I find that after the CS3 splash screen goes by and while the project loading progress panel is displayed it takes about 2.5 minutes for the project work space to appear. Everything seems to work fine once the work space is displayed re: CS3 editing functionality.
Has anyone else run into this slow loading problem? Any suggestions as to what may be causing this? The clips are relatively short and the entire sequence on the timeline is less than 15 min.

For Pete's Sake man!
I am new here and there seems to be a few guys that have their heads so far up Adobe's *** that you do not see what you are saying.
I understand Howards frustration.
You people think that everyone must go out and buy All of Adobe's Products. To assume any person must be forced to buy a program they do not want or cannot afford is plain rude and obnoxious.
We are not all professionals like some of you, some of do actually shoot weddings, like myself. Why the heck must I buy more programs than I need (although I won After Effects Already)!!?? If you are all so professional why are you on these forums instead of making features in Hollywood? Dammit I get so upset by some people.
You leave people hating Adobe and their products. I have been reading this forum for about a day now and there is a common pattern. A guy will have a problem, 2 people will complain that he posts on the forums, 3 people will tell him to get rid of his camera, 4 will say buy After Effects or go buy this plugin. It is ridiculous! You are people are insane.
Final Cut Studio is by far a better option, you buy it and it works straight out of the box, no plugins no go buy another application. I am not an Apple supporter is hater, it seems that everyday I struggle with Adobe is one day I consider moving my business to Apple and Final Cut.
Premiere Elements is for kids. I wanted a professional editng program that was able to do it all in one, Adobe seemed to offer this.
Let us think about for a minute lads. It is either PC or Mac, Mac has good points but the initial investment is quite large so let us put it aside for now. PC. What editing software is there for PC. Sony Vegas, Premiere, AVID, Edius, Avid Liquid/Pinnacle, Ulead, Movie Maker, Power Director/Producer, and various others. So what do you chose....
Vegas, just does not have it all you know
Avid Liquid, again it's a bit for beginners
Avid, wow too bg for the guy starting out,
Premiere, the best pick of the bunch,
the rest are for kids and real amateurs.
Buw wait Premiere cannot function on it's own, it needs a plugin to this and a plugin to do that, it forever needs plugins. The only thing it is good for is just SD. I want to edit HD or HDV in Premiere I must go buy Cineform, what a load of crap. I want to do basic little effects,go buy After Effects, I want to colour Grade, go buy this or that plugin.
The cost of Premiere is fairly good, but before you can use it you need to buy After Effects (for effects simple and advanced), Photoshop (for titles), Cineform (well to edit anything actually and to support formats and proper 1920 x 1080 HD 4:4:4 uncompressed), and add that all up and it costs a shitload.
So that leads us back to Final Cut Pro where it all makes sense. You buy one G5, and one Final Cut Studio and it gets the job done all in one wonder. NOBODY OUT THERE CAN ARGUE WITH THE BENEFIT OF THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Now this entire post was pointless since I know everyone out there could not wait to get to the end just they could quote me and argue. You reading this did not even bother to see it from an objective point of view, I know for a fact. Whilst reading you were not listening. So this post was pointless, because nobody will STILL get it.
Disgruntled Adobe End user. I am returning CS3 back to Adobe for a refund.

Project Load: Error Alerts Suppression Feature

I don't believe there is, but does anyone know of a way to suppress error alerts when loading a project that's missing plugins, can't load a mov file, etc...?
I've already filed a feature request for this and would love if others would too. This has been a big annoyance for me on a large project. Having to click Ok on 20+ alert popups is unnecessary and mind numbing to say the least when you are trying to get in and out of a file quickly. After Effects should simply log all of the errors and create an Error log text file and after the last error just before project is ready to open show one simple alert stating that there were errors and to check out the log for details, or even a small summary of the errors in ONE alert popup. If there is an error, I get it, no need to announce every single one and force me to Ok it. Just give me a list of the problems. Faster, more organized, and just simply a better user experience.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
This is what I filed:
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature:
    Error log text file for project load errors.
How would you like the feature to work?
    When opening a project that has errors with files, missing plugins, etc... errors of any kind. It would be extremely valuable to consolidate those alert warnings into one single txt log file for easy review and only have ONE alert that either gives a summary of the errors or states that an error log was created in the parent folder of said project file.
Why is this feature important to you?
     Getting a single alert popup for every single error is extremely annoying and in most cases takes way too much valuable time to babysit and click "Ok" for every alert. This annoyance is amplified by not having a printed summary to review afterwards if there are lots of errors or missing plugins.

This is the primary one that I have been dealing with a lot. It's Avid media conversion files that are hit and miss on mac it seems. I have lots of composition timelines that were built via AAF through Auto Duck and these timelines need to stay present in my project. So I have to deal with 10 - 30 of these alert popups each time I open a AEP file, due to the number of mov's in the AEP file. Stuff like that is what makes no sense. Consolidate all errors into one notification, preferrably something tangable like a simple text document so it can be easily reviewed and delt with if need be in addition to the alert popup.
Also after opening another AEP that had missing plugins, I now see the new consolidated alert for missing plugins. Many thanks, that really helps.

2 project settings questions

Hello again
Still experimenting with PrE8 trial version. This is my first experience with a video editor so learning all from scratch. I have a couple of questions regarding the project setting you need to chose when you create a new project. I understand these settings define the "working" enviroment for the editing process - in other words the resolution and all the other characteristics (format, frame rate, etc) that the project will use
1) I have a camera that´s 1920x1080 30p (progressive) , the GoPro HD. When I look in the new project presets, all 1920 x 1080 presets available seem to be specifically designed for interlaced video. This is indicated by the names of the presets, and by their descriptions as well. There is only 1 progressive preset, of a lower resolution (720p)
Nevertheless, I tried using the HD 1080i preset, loaded some 1920x1080 progressive mp4 files, and apparently it works perfectly well. In fact when I go to edit>project settings>general window, the project attributes indicate progressive video !!!
Is there really any difference (or specific requirement) in a project preset for interlaced vs progressive video? ( I am beginning to suspect that there is really no difference, and that the coding ( i vs p) does not really form part of the project settings, and that the project will take both forms of input media)
any thoughts on this?
2) The GoPro has a non-standard resolution mode, HD with 4:3 aspect ratio : 1280x960 30p
There is no project setting preset that will match this, how can I create one myself ?
The PrE help says this is possible, but I can't find how. ( Edit>project settings will not let me change the resolution)
from the help
If your source footage requires a custom project preset, you can create one. The procedure for creating a preset differs if you’re changing settings for an open project versus establishing settings for a new project. Presets you create can be applied to new projects, and if you want to back up or distribute preset files, you can find them in the Settings subfolder of the Adobe Premiere Elements folder on your hard disk.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremiereElements/8.0/Win/Using/WS09e4b3c48f3a79fc19b622510385d 4355c-7fde.html
Again thanks so much for your time and your help , much appreciated.
Gonza

Unfortunately you will not be able to use the video from those "sports" camcorders directly in Premiere Elements. It's just not compatible with the program.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317?tstart=0
As you can see from this FAQ, there are three options for converting the video:
1) Convert it a DV-AVI using MPEG Streamclip. It's a free program, but the DV-AVI it outputs will not be hi-def. It will be standard video, but it will be editable in Premiere Elements.
2) Convert it to a standard def DV-AVI using Quicktime Pro, a $29 download from Apple.com,and edit in Premiere Elements.
3) Use Quicktime Pro to do your editing. The video will remain a high-def MP4.
The best solution, of course, is if the camcorder itself comes with its own editing software. That's software you KNOW will work with the camcorder's footage.
But, short of that, you'll need to use one of the hybrid solutions above. But you will not be able to edit the footage directly in Premiere Elements. Sorry.

CUA Project Propsal Questions

Hi Experts,
I am doing research on CUA and have been asked to provide answers to the following questions. If you have been though a CUA Config/implementation recently, I would appreciate your feedback. We are a company of 10,000+ SAP Users (approx. 1500 dev/QA users we would be using for CUA)
Will Security save time by making Central Changes to user masters?
Cost savings? Other benefits?
How much time to configure each system?
How much Basis involvement?
Any other resources required?
Will users benefit from Single Sign On with CUA?
Will Basis have more work after system refreshes?
What is Virsa's role/how does it integrate with CUA?
Are there any known showstopper functionality deficits with CUA that would prevent us from using it
We will use ourSolution Manager server for this project and for eventual production usage. Any suggestions or feedback regarding this?
Hours the project would take?
1.BASIS
2.Security
3.Change Management
Will a Refresh schedule be changed because CUA is implemented?
Have you come across any issues with refreshes?
There are alot of questions and I will be more than happy even if only one question is answered. As always, thank you for your expertise and advise.
Teresa Wilson

Hi Teresa
> Will Security save time by making Central Changes to user masters?
Yes if you have a broad landscape - i.e. lots of clients and systems
> Cost savings? Other benefits?
User admin will be easier, CUA landscape monitoring will take additional overhead. Personally I would use say you could save 25% of time when administering users if your landscape is conducive to using CUA.
> How much time to configure each system?
Once you have done one, it should take no longer than an hour for each system (less once you get the hang of it)
> How much Basis involvement?
Not much - maybe get them to set up the RFC destinations (specific CUA ones are good, but watch out for people trying to use them for remote CATT execution etc). Basis may want to schedule the job which processes the userclone idocs in the target system. It depends how you do things in your place.
> Any other resources required?
No
> Will users benefit from Single Sign On with CUA?
I will defer to the far more knowledgable Mr Alsop on this one as I haven't a clue
> Will Basis have more work after system refreshes?
Usually limited to removing, re-adding in the CUA system. It may save them time as the users can be pushed out of the master again if required (though will need to reprocess loads of failed idocs when they get locked)
> What is Virsa's role/how does it integrate with CUA?
What do you mean by Virsa? company doesn't exist any more. If you use compliance calibrator then has no impact at all. If you use Access Enforcer then there might be, but without knowing what you are doing, it's hard to say.
> Are there any known showstopper functionality deficits with CUA that would prevent us from using it
It can be a bit flakey, though has improved over the years. It is not a magic pill which will solve all your problems. You will get frustrated with it. You have to do change reporting out of the CUA master otherwise you will only get change logs by the idoc processing batch user ID. You need to keep on top of the idocs and log monitoring. If you have a simple setup with few clients then might not be worth it.
> We will use ourSolution Manager server for this project and for eventual production usage. Any suggestions or feedback regarding this?
I would recommend 3 separate CUA's - one for dev, one for test, one for prod. Do not have one covering all because if the CUA master goes down for whatever reason then you have extra work. Assuming R/3 is your main system (with lets say a BW and an APO) then I generally prefer to set the R/3 system as the master as there are usually fewer problems when doing role admin for that client. That is only a personal preference though & lots of different parties recommend different things.
> Hours the project would take?
>   1.BASIS
>   2.Security
>   3.Change Management
Impossible to say without knowing all details of your landscape. Basically, you should be able to set up and test a reasonably complex CUA in less than a day.
> Will a Refresh schedule be changed because CUA is implemented?
I don't think so, though CUA should be taken into account as part of the activities
> Have you come across any issues with refreshes?
Yes, BASIS people messing up the CUA config or not doing the post refresh steps they were supposed to do.
Good luck. It can be very useful and very frustrating at times. There are loads of installation guides out there. As I have said earlier, it will not be the answer to all of your problems and does require extra monitoring. In a project rampup situation where you have lots of users setup/changing in different clients then it can really help take a bit of the manual processing burden.
Hope that helps
Cheers
Alex

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