PSE5 Organizer changes?

I use PSE3 now (XP Pro). I've got about 6500 images in the organizer. I've noticed it starting to get slower and slower (I did catalog recover and it helped a little). What I really want to know is if there were any changes in version 5 (or 4 for that matter) that improves performance and total images that you can realistically use in the organizer (i.e. new database layout or something). I like some of the new features that version 4 and now 5 have added but they were not enough for me to move up. But the ability to have many more images in the organizer would be.
Also, any other changes that are specific to the organizer? The Adobe web site doesn't really say much about that (one thing I'd love is the ability to specify the top image in a stack at the time the stack is created rather than the multi-step process required now in V3).
Thanks for your input...

My experiences are the same as those of Chris and DPX: I have no problems at all with Scrolling (assuming the Thumbnails have already been built - the first thing that I do after migrating to a new Version, I rebuild all Thumbnails - this is quite lengthy and I walk away from my PC during this 2-3 hours long Rebuild).
And with my 15'000 Photo-Files catalog, a V5 Tag Search typically also takes around 2-3 seconds (with V4 it was around 10 seconds).
What is still not fast: launching PSE. On my PC, with my 15'000 Photo-File Catalog, to start the Organizer (from the 2nd launch onwards after a reboot), it takes around 17 seconds. But I did not make any optimization attempt and do not know if I could shorten this time with reasonable methods. For me, these 17 seconds, even if not ideal, are not a real problem because I do not start the Organizer (or the Editor) again and again and again.

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I currently use the PSE5 organizer with CS3.
I plan on upgrading to CS4.
My question is can I finally ditch the PSE5 organizer for either the new Bridge with CS4 or Lightroom 2.0?
Bridge with CS3 did not nearly provide enough organizing capabilities nor import PSE5 organizer catalogs. And then the prior version of Lightroom would not always properly import catalogs from PSE5 (which I still find hard to believe).
And the prior version of Lightroom also seemed to have problems importing catalogs. I also did not like that it wrote metadata to JPEG's as soon as you OPENED them. I have not confirmed whether Lightroom 2 corrects this or at least gives you that option. Is it an option now and how does it do importing catalogs from PSE5?
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BJBBJB

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Total Transfer & Organizational Change (SEM-BCS)

Dear colleagues!
Got som challenge with processing a merger under consolidation of
investments in SEM release 4.0.
As I understand, the proper method to apply to mergers is a) a
divestiture of the old consolidation unit and b) postings of account
balances from old unit toward the new unit in the source system,
with subsequent data load.
Issue:
In our case a subsidary of the old parent (merged)"follows" the
merger
towards another consolidation group (old parent divested, subsidary
unchanged with new cons group assignment).
Client expects the merger to be physically carried out in period 6,
with a validity (back in time) starting with period 1, without
processing period 1-5 in the monitor. Client also expects the income
statement balances to be reversed from old cons group assignment and
posted under new cons group for the accum. balance from period 1-6.
Question:
Would anybody know (could give us) a brief description on what to
remember when setting the parameteres in preparation of the
organization change (total transfer)!?
Help is greatly appreciated.
Frank

Dan,
What C/I activity are we supposed to use if we want transfer a unit vertically up in the hierarchy?
And also, we are still getting an error with Organization Change scenario when we run our COI. Can we please send you a detailed document of the issue we are facing to your email id?
Thanks
Ramesh

Guidelines to Organizational Changes

Hello all,
Does anybody know of any guidelines to make organizational changes. For example, an organization with 1 company code decided to split them into 2 company codes and plants and storage locations ... etc. Another example would be 2 company codes that merge into a single one.
I am trying not to re-invent the wheel in this case.
Thanks,
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Profit Center Group Organization Change - Effective for Prior Periods

Hi Experts,
A client wants to perform a horizontal organization change (profit centers) and see the effects retroactively to the prior periods. To achieve this, they plan to re-execute the consolidation tasks going back two to three years once the org change is made, so that they have comparative financial statements that take into account the change. The requirement is to re-post the group level postings to the updated profit center group after the change. For example, Italy related postings would occur under the group Central Europe instead of Western Europe as before. All the group level postings previously booked to Western Europe would now need to recorded under Central Europe going back prior periods.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how to meet the requirement without re-consolidating?
One option was the restatement feature but based on the SAP help description of the monitor required, it does not take into account consolidated postings, only uploaded PL00-10 data and translation.
Another option is to copy the version but then the results is in another version rather than the original 'actual' "100" version.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Eyal Feiler

Eyal,
I know of no other way to accomplish this than to re-execute the consolidation for the prior periods after the hierarchy has been changed.
I have used the restatement feature and like you have found it very limited.
The copy to another version would only work if you copied the existing data to the new version before re-executing the consolidation. The the version 100 can be re-consolidated for the previous periods and the existing reports do not have to be changed for a new version.
However, with the copy, it is important to set the cons group and cons unit hierarchies to be version dependent so the changes are only good for the version that is to be re-consolidated for previous periods. This allows you to report on the data before the change where the logic will read the old, unchanged version of the hierarchy.
Dan

How to Organizational Changes

Hi Team,
We are planning to use the Functionality Organizational Changes for Total Transfer and Partial Transfers of Consolidation units from one consolidaion group to other groups,
We have Configured the following
1.Enabled organisation change in the Consolidation area,
2.Created Organizational Change Number for Sending and Receiving Consolidation groups
3 Created Document types with posting level 02, 12, 22
4.Created a tasks.
5.Assigned Fs item in COI settings.
Do we need to do anything else in Consolidation of Investment for this?
What is Activity for Organizational Change logic and how to configure this.
Thanks in advance
Kind Regards
Sreedhar

HI
It will be good if you can send some scenarios as OC logic will need to be inserted in the MAster Data for Consolidation Units within a consoliodation Group indicating transfer is with OC logic and inserting that number & in few cases inputtign the end date as 06/2009 e.g in the sender & receiver group same data as starting
It again depends how is the move is it vertical move horizontal move or same level
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How to uninstall PSE7 and revert back to PSE5 organizer prior to PSE8 install

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You can find the PSE7 catalog file at the following location in Vista:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\
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Best Practices for Organizational Change Management

Hooray! Finally an opportunity to take this forum back to its proper direction of Organizational Change Management topics as we begin to engage with some subject matter experts in OCM.
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Hai,
Organizational Structure
Use
In order for the workflow system to establish the relationship between the requester and their superior, you must create an organizational plan in the system.
For this tutorial, of course, this organizational plan does not have to be complete and valid across the enterprise. To keep the test as simple as possible initially, define an organizational plan that only contains one administrator and one head of department.
Assign both items to yourself. As a result, all work items will appear in your own Business Workplace. Later you will modify the organizational plan such that you will have to work through the scenario with two users.
Procedure
The organizational plan required for this tutorial consists, when complete, of one organizational unit (= "department"), which contains two positions: a head of department and an administrator.
Each position is described by one job and each position is assigned one user as holder. The head of department position is also designated as chief position of the organizational unit.
Of course, a "real" organizational plan is created by arranging several organizational units with their positions in a hierarchy. Usually several positions are described by one job.
For further information, refer to the documentation Organizational Plan.
The procedure in this unit is divided into four parts:
1. You create an organizational unit.
2. Enter necessary jobs as required.
3. You create a position for the head of department in the new organizational unit.
You define a position in three steps:
i. You create a position that is assigned your organizational unit.
ii. You assign a holder to the position.
iii. You assign a job to the position.
3. You create a position for the administrator in the organizational unit.
Creating an organizational unit
1. Choose Tools  SAP Business Workflow  Development Definition tools  Organizational Management  Organizational plan  Create.
2. Confirm the validity period proposed in the dialog box Creating a Root Organizational Unit.
This takes you to the Create Organization and Staffing (Workflow) screen. This user interface is divided into four screen areas:
3. On the Basic Data tab in the details area, enter an abbreviation and a name in the Organizational unit input fields.
Abbreviation: <ini_sales>
Name: <OrgUnit: Sales (ini)>
4. Choose .
You can now create the position for a head of department and one administrator.
Create jobs
When enhancing an organizational unit, the necessary jobs are usually already available. For this tutorial however, you create the necessary jobs for head of department and administrator yourself.
1. Choose Edit  Create jobs.
You go to the dialog box Create jobs. The lower area contains a list of existing jobs and the upper area contains an input table in which you can create new jobs by entering abbreviations and names.
2. In the input table, enter an abbreviation and a name for each of the new jobs.
Job - head of department:
Object abbreviation: < ini_dhead_C >
Name: < job: head of department (ini) >
Job administrator:
Object abbreviation: < ini_admi_C >
Name: < job: administrator (ini) >
3. Choose .
Creating Position for Head of Department
1. Change to the overview area in the staff assignments of the organizational unit, in order to assign positions, jobs and holders. Choose the arrow on the right next to the and then the staff assignments (list).
2. Choose .
A new position is then created in the staff assignments and is displayed in a new line in the table. The position is vacant and no job is assigned to it.
3. Open the details view for the new position in the details area by double-clicking on the entry in the table.
4. On the Basic Data tab, enter a code and a description in the Position input fields. Overwrite the previous contents.
Abbreviation: < ini_dhead_S >
Description: < position: head of department ( ini ) >
Assigning a holder to the position
You now assign R/3 users to the positions. The staff assignments for your organizational unit are displayed and you see the vacant position in the table.
5. Select User in the search area and enter the search criteria in order to find your user names.
All of the user names that match your search criterion are listed in the selection screen.
6. Select your user name in the selection area and drag it to the Person/User column of the position in the overview area.
Confirm the message that the relationship period of the validity has been changed.
7. Set the Head of own organizational unit indicator in the details area.
Assigning a job to the position
Assign the job of the head of department you created earlier to the position.
8. Select Job in the search area and enter the search criteria in order to find the job of the head of department.
All jobs that match your search criterion are listed in the selection screen.
9. Select job: head of department ( ini) in the selection area and drag it to the Job column of the position in the overview area.
10. Choose .
The job is assigned the position. Check this by switching to the staff assignments of the organizational unit. Select the organizational unit in the overview area, choose the arrow on the right next to the and then the staff assignments (list). The newly created job is displayed in the job column.
Create position for administrator and assign holder and job
You are now in the staff assignments of the organizational unit.
1. Choose .
A new position is then created in the staff assignments and is displayed in a new line in the table. The position is vacant and no job is assigned to it.
2. On the Basic Data tab in the details area, enter an abbreviation and a name in the Position input fields. Overwrite the previous contents.
ID: <ini admiS >
Description: < position: administrator ( ini ) >
3. Choose .
4. Select User in the search area and enter the search criteria in order to find your user names.
5. Select your user name in the selection area and drag it to the Person/User column of the position in the overview area.
Confirm the message that the relationship period of the validity has been changed.
6. Select Job in the search area and enter the search criteria in order to find the job of the administrator.
7. Select job: administrator ( ini) in the selection area and drag it to the Job column of the position in the overview area.
8. Choose .
Result
Display your entire staffing schedule again and make sure that all the information listed is correct.
You can display a detailed view of jobs, users, and positions. Choose the relevant cell in the table by double-clicking it.
In the details view of a position or job, all of the assigned tasks are displayed on the Tasks tab.
You have now completed the first unit (defining the organizational plan). You can now start on the next unit. To exit processing of the organizational structure, choose Back.

How can I customize Workflow for Organizational Change (WS01000014)

Hi ti all!
Let me know please, How can I customize Workflow for Organizational Change (WS01000014)?
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Thank!

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Organizational Change

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In order to execute an - Organizational Change
([http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem60ep1/helpdata/en/02/657540ac43731de10000000a1550b0/content.htm])
Apart from the necessary
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PSE5 (Organizer) keine Rückmeldung unter Vista

Wenn ich PSE5 Organizer unter Vista starten will, hängt sich das Programm auf. Der erste Start nach der Installation klappt, ein weiterer Start ist nicht möglich. Meinen Katalogordner habe ich auf einer anderen Partition, sehe ich dann die Rechte an, sind diese auch verschwunden.
Auch der Patch 5.0.2 brachte nix, kann meinen Katalog nicht starten, auch einen neuen anlegen klappt nicht, Programm hängt sich immer auf!!

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PSE5 Organizer - Tagging

Hello,
I want to do the following in PSE5 Organizer:
I want to tags Pictures with a keyboard shortcut instead of moving the Mouse for each Picture to tag it.
I'm a beginner on PSE5 Organizer. Does anybody know how I can do it.
Thx very much

Hi Colin
May be, I'm just one of the old keyboard-freaks .) hrhr
No, I often have the case, that there are 10-20 Pics with only little differences. When I scroll this pics in Original Size it's easy to "t"ag them with a key and sort 80-90% out. After that I set my view to "only untagged Pics" and there are only the good ones remaining.
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Hi,
We have a scenario where we are doing total transfer of an equity consolidated unit (100% owned) from one company(old parent) to another (new parent)
The new parent is one level above the old parent in the hierarchy.
We've used organizational change logic and have set the divestiture dates/flag in the sender consolidation group and accordingly first consolidation dates/flag/OC number in the receiver consolidation group.
The investment AFD is submitted with "total transfer" with OC number.
There are multiple scopes of reported data for equity method in our configuration.
Each scope(equity pickup) is inturn created by reclassifying several equity accounts to a single BCS only item(the scope item)
When we run COI, the system posts one total divestiture document at the old conso group (where old parent is situtated) and posts a first consolidation, total divestiture, total transfer documents at the new conso group level (which is one level above the sender conso group)
The total divestiture document at upper level is reversing the divestiture document posted at old parent.
The first consolidation document jas only statistical items posted in it.
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Issues faced:
Q1. Consolidation group change tasks (at PL02, 12, 22) are not posting any documents. Is there an issue? Since I am using these tasks for the first time and dont know if this is possible.
Q2. The total transfer document is reading the equity holdings data as double the expected value( for each of the scopes of equity method). What could be the possible reason? How to fix this?
Q3. I would appreciate if someone can clarify what kind of postings the system makes as part of divestiture/transfer in case of equity consolidated unit transfer.
Please help!
Thanks,
AJ

Thanks Dan.
Appreciate if you can help on the below points as well.
1. As part of divestiture/transfer postings: The system is reversing some Previous Year(PY) equity accounts into themselves. How can we get the system to eliminate them by posting to COI Clearing account. Basically, we dont want the PY accounts to be touched?
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These PY accounts are part of some scopes for equitization.
Is there any link between the "balance carry forward" - list of items table and the divestiture postings?
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The same activity number is there for Total Divestiture, total transfer documents posted at new parent level and total divestiture document posted at old parent level.
Does the system follow bottom up approach? Thereby creating total divestiture document at old parent level.
Followed by documents at upper level (new parent level)
Also , at the upper level(new parent level), does it post documents in the way they are shown in the log? (We havent changed the default sequence maintained in UCWB - COI settings). so it will post first consolidation doc, followed by total divestiture, followed by total transfer docs at the new parent level?
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Will studying the statistical items (corresponding to eliminated equity holding items) be relevant here to understand why at upper level there is double the value being posted by system?
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PSE5 organizer-like timeline display/search option in Bridge?

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Message was edited by: curt y
This is for CS3, do not know if there were any changes in search capabilities for CS4.

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