Return on Closed WO - Best Practice
Hi All,
We have a work order which is closed in Jan 2014. We have closed our accounting periods also. We need to do a reversal on this transaction. What is the best practice in industry? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
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Is this a discrete job? I think it depends on what type of job and what the reason for the return is.
As you have probably realized by now, you are not able to re-open a closed wip job to perform a return transaction whether it is standard and non-standard.
If your job is non-standard, consider creeating a new non-standard to input reversals.
If your job is standard, is yuor item still in on hand, or has it been consumed by another assembly or by an order or project issue? Depending on what the answer to that is, what you do changes.
Different ways of accomplishing what you need, it depends on what type of return / the reason for the return.
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Maybe I'm looking for the wrong thing when wanting to create an extra column with "cleaned" up data. Maybe there's another solution from within my frontend or business layer, but I simply want a textbox on a form where users can type a search-value like
"BAKKER". The result of the search should return names like "DEBACKER", "DE BEKKER", "BACKER", "BAKRE", ...
I used to work in a hospital where they wrote their own SQL-function (on an Interbase database) to do this: They had a column with the original name, and a column with a converted name:
=> DEBACKER => Converted = DEBAKKER
=> DE BEKKER => Converted = DEBEKKER
=> BACKER => Converted = BAKKER
=> BAKRE => Converted = BAKKER
When you searched for "BAKKER", you did a LIKE operation on the converted column ...
What I am looking for is a good function to convert my data as above.
Greetz,
Tim -
IPhone Best Practices - A Work In Progress
Hello all. I've been tasked with introducing my coworkers into the inner workings of the iPhone, and there are a good number of pointers that I find myself saying over and over again. I'd like to share my best practices with everyone, as well as collect more pointers and opinions from the community at large.
Care and Handling:
First - wash your hands, often. Now I know we all do this often anyway, but I'd like to point out that a healthy amount of hand washing will really go a long way to keep your iPhone screen smudge free. The worst offender, unfortunately, is doughnuts. A small layer of sugar will render that area un-tappable, without any real indication that it has done so. If you are frantically tapping the screen on the iPod button and nothing is happening, clean your phone before you do a hard reset.
Second - Pockets. Keeping your phone in your front pocket is natural and what most of us do. In these summer months, however, keeping your phone in a sweaty front pocket can do a good deal to the dirt level of the screen. If you find yourself cleaning your phone constantly, try a belt clip.
Lastly - Battery Life. Your iPhone's battery life is in your hands, literally. Being aware of your power consumption and planning accordingly is going to be infinitely more important that the battery's native charge-holding ability. This goes especially for the day of purchase - as tempting as it may be to open the box and activate, immediately running around the house watching YouTube, it is best to let the phone charge for 12 hours before use. Charging the phone every night is an absolute must, skipping a day will kill the battery life as your ride the bottom edge the following day. Most of us have access to a USB port while we're at work, best idea will be to plug in your phone when you sit down at your desk.
iPod:
Large Libraries: In the opening weekend, I got many complaints that you cannot manually manage your music. There is a workaround that has made me change the way I work with all of my iPods: the iPhone specific playlist. Simply create a playlist with all of the music you wish to put on your phone and sync that one playlist. This also helps with sync time - you have a start sync and an end sync, not a constant sync all throughout your music management, slowing your computer down in the process.
TV Shows: I watch a lot of MST3K, which I have organized into iTunes as TV shows, split into seasons, the works. The problem that has arisen, therefore, is the one of selective synchronization - you cannot specifically select the TV show you want to sync to the device, instead getting the choices to sync all, unwatched, or latest shows. This is problematic when each show is 700MB large. Here's the work around - select all of the episodes of a specific show and right click, selecting "Mark as Not New", removing all of the little blue dots from the episodes. Select the one, three, or five episodes, and right click them, selecting "Mark as New", then sync the last one, three, or five unwatched episodes. The shows you selected will sync.
iPhoto:
Many users are complaining that iPhoto opens whenever the phone is connected. This is not a preference of the phone, but rather iPhoto. Remember when you first launched iPhoto and it asked you if you wanted to use iPhoto whenever your camera was attached? iPhoto is detecting that your phone is a camera and launching, just as you told it to do.
Mail:
POP accounts - too many unread messages: When first adding a POP account, all of the messages downloaded to the phone arrive as unread. Tapping a message, tapping back, and then tapping the next message can get tedious. Here's the workaround - tap the small down arrow to the upper right hand side of the screen, watching closely to the number next to Inbox. When that number goes down by one, tap the arrow again. If that number hasn't gone down yet, wait a sec, and do not try to tap tap tap tap tap, you'll flood the input queue and crash Mail.
Syncing Mail accounts - All too often people blame the iPhone when their mail does not work. A perfect test is sync you accounts from Mail. If they work in mail, they'll work on the phone, if they are unreliable in Mail, they will also be unreliable on the phone. The Mail client on the iPhone is just as powerful as any other mail client in terms of how it connects to mail servers, if you are having problems you need to check your settings before blaming the hardware. If you prefer to leave your install of Mail.app alone, create a new user account on your Mac, set up all of the accounts you want there, and use iTunes to sync that data to the phone. Make sure to remove that portion of sync from your actual user account's instance of iTunes, however, or it will all sync back.
This message has not been downloaded from the server: This message has snagged a couple users, but upon investigation, these users have filled their iPhones to the absolute brim with music and video. It hasn't been downloaded from the server because there is no space to download to - this also applies to the Camera application dumping to the Home screen. Because there is no space, it can't add any new data. Make some room, then be patient as the mail client gets to that message in cleanup (often a sync or reboot will clear it up).
Safari:
Safari and iPod: Many users have reported iPod stopping in the middle of browsing, often pouting and pursing their lips crying, "This is terrible, I can't even browse the web and listen to music at the same time?". I then check their phone, and lo and behold they have upwards of eight separate pages open at the same time. This device (like every other computer out there) has a finite amount of memory, each page taking up a significant portion depending on how busy the page is. I've routinely gotten through entire albums while browsing through Safari, but I've got one page open in total, and it's usually mostly text. Keep it to one or two pages open and iPod will run forever if you let it.
Web Apps: "This web app is terrible, it keeps booting me to Home!" When was your last reboot? How many other pages are open? In the same vein as Safari and iPod, Web Apps need a good deal of breathing room - give it to them. Close down other pages, stop iPod, or even reboot. Give the app a clean slate and it will perform, every time. iPhoneRemote users will attest to this.
iCal:
Multiple Calendars - Default Calendar: When adding a new appointment, it adds to the default calendar. Appointments can't be shunted to the correct calendar until after sync anyway, so create an "iPhone" calendar and make that the default. Because it's in that calendar, you'll know enough to move it to the appropriate calendar after sync.
Please feel free to add your own best practices, and ask questions, too.is there any application you can get for the iphone to enlarge text and phone numbers ?
If included with an email or on a website, yes with no application needed.
If you are referring to the text size for your iPhone's contact list, no.
can you insert a phone number from your contact list into a text message ?
No.
i cant seem to figure it out, does the alarm clock work if you turn off the phone at night,
No - powered off with the iPhone means powered off. Any phone that provides for this is not powered off - it is in deep sleep or deep standby mode, which the iPhone does not support. If you don't want your phone ringing or don't want to receive SMS at night but you want to use the iPhone's alarm feature as a wake-up alarm, you can turn on Airplane Mode before going to bed, which will also conserve the battery if your iPhone is not plugged in at night.
can you send a multi media text message ?
No. -
Best Practice question - null or empty object?
Given a collection of objects where each object in the collection is an aggregation, is it better to leave references in the object as null or to instantiate an empty object? Now I'll clarify this a bit more.....
I have an object, MyCollection, that extends Collection and implements Serializable(work requirement). MyCollection is sent as a return from an EJB search method. The search method looks up data in a database and creates MyItem objects for each row in the database. If there are 10 rows, MyCollection would contain 10 MyItem objects (references, of course).
MyItem has three attributes:
public class MyItem implements Serializable {
String name;
String description;
MyItemDetail detail;
}When creating MyItem, let's say that this item didn't have any details so there is no reason to create MyitemDetail. Is it better to leave detail as a null reference or should a MyItemdetail object be created? I know this sounds like a specific app requirement, but I'm looking for a best practice - what most people do in this case. There are reasons for both approaches. Obviously, a bunch of empty objects going over RMI is a strain on resources whereas a bunch of null references is not. But on the receiving end, you have to account for the MyItemDetail reference to be null or not - is this a hassle or not?
I looked for this at [url http://www.javapractices.com]Java Practices but found nothing.I know this sounds like a specific apprequirement,
, but I'm looking for a best practice - what most
people do in this case. It depends but in general I use null.Stupid.Thanks for that insightful comment.
>
I do a lot of database work though. And for that
null means something specific.Sure, return null if you have a context where null
means something. Like for example that you got no
result at all. But as I said before its's best to
keep the nulls at the perimeter of your design. Don't
let nulls slip through.As I said, I do a lot of database work. And it does mean something specific. Thus (in conclusion) that means that, in "general", I use null most of the time.
Exactly what part of that didn't you follow?
And exactly what sort of value do you use for a Date when it is undefined? What non-null value do you use such that your users do not have to write exactly the same code that they would to check for null anyways? -
[SOLVED]xpra + winswitch - best practice due to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*
Running xpra causes some headaches.
The application builds fine and installs just perfectly, the troubles comes from the default Xorg configuration is no longer stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it's now stored and read from numerous files under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ where just so happen to be my 5-nvidia.conf.
Starting xpra via:
xpra start :100
Causes:
X.Org X Server 1.14.3
Release Date: 2013-09-12
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.11.0-1-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux archie 3.11.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 27 07:35:36 CEST 2013 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 rw initrd=../initramfs-linux.img BOOT_IMAGE=../vmlinuz-linux
Build Date: 13 September 2013 01:28:59PM
Current version of pixman: 0.30.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(++) Log file: "/home/torxed/.xpra/Xorg.:100.log", Time: Thu Oct 3 19:56:30 2013
(++) Using config file: "/etc/xpra/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
setversion 1.4 failed
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/torxed/.xpra/Xorg.:100.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
2013-10-03 19:56:30,893
2013-10-03 19:56:30,893 Xvfb command has terminated! xpra cannot continue
2013-10-03 19:56:30,894
2013-10-03 19:56:30,895 removing socket /home/torxed/.xpra/archie-100
tl;dr: 5-nvidia.conf is trying to get loaded after xf86-video-dummy is loaded (which is the default for xpra).
Now to the question: What's the best practice because there's no information about this issue, and i can't be the only one who's run in to this since the xorg.conf was removed. At the moment I move all my nvidia configs out of the way, start xpra and move them back in. This works for the better part as long as i execute xpra with my own scripts.
But is there a better way (which doesn't perhaps include recreating xorg.conf since that appears to be something you should walk away from)?
Last edited by Torxed (2013-10-04 10:29:35)Good thinking! (xpra is basically just screen but for x, or a X11 tunnel via SSH).
After a really quick poking around and remembering that xpra really just uses xorg-server-xvfb and at the very bottom of /etc/xpra/xpra.conf there's a line that says:
xvfb=xpra_Xdummy -dpi 96 -noreset -nolisten tcp +extension GLX +extension RANDR +extension RENDER -logfile ${HOME}/.xpra/Xorg.${DISPLAY}.log -config /etc/xpra/xorg.conf
Appending -configdir appears to be working.
Here are the full steps:
[torxed@archie ~]$ sudo cp -r /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d /etc/xpra/
[torxed@archie ~]$ sudo rm /etc/xpra/xorg.conf.d/*nvidia*
[torxed@archie ~]$ sudo sed -i '$s/$/ -configdir \/etc\/xpra\/xpra.conf.d/' /etc/xpra/xpra.conf
*nvidia* would have to match your graphic-driver-config that would cause xorg-server-xvbf to crash.
I'll update the wiki and put a mention on the package about it because this either has to be standard or well known from the start because it really just breaks the package all together.
Last edited by Torxed (2013-10-04 10:29:09)
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