Sorting objects in Designer

Hi,
We have created so many objects in the designer.
We want to sort these objects in alphabetical order.Is it possible in BO XI R2.
Thanks,
Indu.

Indu,
The short answer to your question is no, you cannot sort objects, and this is intentional on the part of the creator of the Designer tool.
Working in Designer is a science and an art. The science portion is understanding the underlying model of the database and bringing in all applicable tables and connections properly. The art portion is in the presentation to the users as you bring a human touch (the semantic layer) from the database to the user. Most implementations for presentation of objects is to organize the objects by context (class, sub-class, etc), and to order the objects within its context by "most frequent" or "compelling". In order to achieve all of this, the person working within Designer must understand the data and the business in order to best serve the user.
I know that this is a long-winded explanation to a simple question, however, sometimes it is best to understand the philosophy behind a software tool's limitation in order to understand how to best use it. There are some excellent works published independently from Business Objects that address the concepts of semantic layer presentation and overall management of the Business Objects software suite, one such title that comes to mind is Cindi Howson's "BusinessObjects The Complete Reference" (available from fine booksellers).
Thanks,
John

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Indu,
The short answer to your question is no, you cannot sort objects, and this is intentional on the part of the creator of the Designer tool.
Working in Designer is a science and an art. The science portion is understanding the underlying model of the database and bringing in all applicable tables and connections properly. The art portion is in the presentation to the users as you bring a human touch (the semantic layer) from the database to the user. Most implementations for presentation of objects is to organize the objects by context (class, sub-class, etc), and to order the objects within its context by "most frequent" or "compelling". In order to achieve all of this, the person working within Designer must understand the data and the business in order to best serve the user.
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Thanks,
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Help needed for storing and sorting objects.

Hello
I have an assignment and it is to create a guessing game, here is the question,
In this assignment you are to write a game where a user or the computer is to guess a random
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guess. After each game has been played, the program is to ask the user for a name and insert this
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each score also
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Please help clarify this.

Implode wrote:
We had the arrayList/collections lecture today.
I asked the teacher about sorting objects and he started explaining hashmaps and then he mentioned another thing which we will only be learning next term, I'm sure we must only use what we have learned.
How exactly can this be done. I have asked a few questions in the post already.
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Contrast this with items that are sorted. Any List can be sorted because its elements are ordered. An ArrayList is ordered, generally, by the order you inserted the elements. However, any List can be given its own ordering via Comparable or Comparator. You can't do this with an ordinary Map. The purpose of a Map is speedy access to the name-value pairs, not sorting. The List likewise has different purposes, advantages, disadvantages, etc. List can be sorted.
A Map is generally similar to a Set. A Set is a vanilla collection that guarnatees uniqueness of each element (note, not name-value pairs, but simple elements). There is one concrete class of Map that can be sorted, TreeMap, but I doubt your professor was referring to that. The values or the keys can be returned from the Map and sorted separately, but again, I doubt he was referring to that.
Take a look at the Collections tutorial here on this site or Google one. It is fairly straightforward. Just keep in mind that things (generally) break down into Set, Map and List. There are combinations of these and different flavors (e.g., Queue, LinkedHashMap, etc.) But if you can learn how those three differ, you will go a long way towards understanding collections.
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Hi Evebody,
Im postgraduate in Object Oriented Analysis and Programming.
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Ive already bought these books to help me.
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Hello everyone!
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Some help will be appreciated! Thank you!
Movie.java
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Movie
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 public String director;
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 title = "";
 director = "";
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JBStonehenge, Melanie_Green, paulcw thank u so much for ur support!!!!
I did many changes in my code, and I think in a simple way... I can sort the strings, but I'm having problems to sort the integers from the array I created..
I read a lot of sorting and this was the best I could do, please can you change my code to sort the integers?
Thank u people!
Here it is my code:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
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 System.out.println("You must enter an integer!");
 continue;
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 array[numberOfMovies] = new Movie(title, year, director);
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 boolean swapped = true;
 int i = 0;
 String tempTitle, tempDirector;
 int tempYear;
 while (swapped) {
 swapped = false;
 i++;
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 tempTitle = array[j].getTitle();
 tempYear = array[j].getYear();
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 array[j].setYear(array[j + 1].getYear());
 array[j].setDirector(array[j + 1].getDirector());
 array[j + 1].setTitle(tempTitle);
 array[j + 1].setYear(tempYear);
 array[j + 1].setDirector(tempDirector);
 swapped = true;
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 int i = 0;
 String tempTitle, tempDirector;
 int tempYear;
 while (swapped) {
 swapped = false;
 i++;
 for (int j = 0; j < numberOfMovies - i; j++) {
 if ( array[j].getYear().compareToIgnoreCase(array[j + 1].getYear()) > 0) {
 tempTitle = array[j].getTitle();
 tempYear = array[j].getYear();
 tempDirector = array[j].getDirector();
 array[j].setTitle(array[j + 1].getTitle());
 array[j].setYear(array[j + 1].getYear());
 array[j].setDirector(array[j + 1].getDirector());
 array[j + 1].setTitle(tempTitle);
 array[j + 1].setYear(tempYear);
 array[j + 1].setDirector(tempDirector);
 swapped = true;
 System.out.println("The movies are sorted by year.");
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 boolean swapped = true;
 int i = 0;
 String tempTitle, tempDirector;
 int tempYear;
 while (swapped) {
 swapped = false;
 i++;
 for (int j = 0; j < numberOfMovies - i; j++) {
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 tempTitle = array[j].getTitle();
 tempYear = array[j].getYear();
 tempDirector = array[j].getDirector();
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 array[j].setYear(array[j + 1].getYear());
 array[j].setDirector(array[j + 1].getDirector());
 array[j + 1].setTitle(tempTitle);
 array[j + 1].setYear(tempYear);
 array[j + 1].setDirector(tempDirector);
 swapped = true;
 System.out.println("The movies are sorted by director.");
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class Movie {
 private String title;
 private int year;
 private String director;
 public Movie(String title, int year, String director) {
 setTitle(title);
 setYear(year);
 setDirector(director);
 public String getTitle() {
 return title;
 public void setTitle(String title) {
 this.title = title;
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 return year;
 public void setYear(int year) {
 this.year = year;
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 this.director = director;
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}In my application, i would like to have a good OO Model.
So, my idea is to use the Design Pattern "State" and/or "Strategy" for such a attribute.
So that i would have class/interface such as
- IncidentStatus (interface)
- IncidentOpened (impl)
- IncidentResolved (impl)
and so on ...
This involve a class for each case but, isn't it more OO oriented ?
any comment ?
Regards,
Sebastien Degardin

but do these IncidentStatus objects do anything other than represent the status? if not, I'd be inclined to agree with the other poster about enumerated types. if adding new ones dynamically is your bag, you could opt for having a single IncidentStatus class, and have instances which represent different statuses, described by (for instance) a String
another question to ask yourself is "how likely is it that I'll need to add a new IncidentStatus?". probably not very often. in any case, if the purpose of the IncidentStatus is merely to indicate status, I'd be looking to have just one class to represent them, and a config file which describes the individual statuses. adding a new one wouldn't even need to involve a programmer

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I have 2 application dump that i should import in designer 10g. I had imported the first dump with the help of import option present in Restore menu option these contains 11 applications with its own sharing . Then i restored the second dump in the same manner.The second dump has 16 applicaitons .In the first dump i have two applications let us call it A and B .These A and B 's objects are referenced by applications C AND D in second dump and by some of the applications in the first dump itself .Now the issue is these A and B exists in both the dump, while restoring ,i was compelled to change the name of the application so that i can avoid duplication .In this way iam able to import. Hence , i would like to know if there is any methodology to avoid these duplication.

yes, and no ....
If you have versioning enabled, then the import will allow you to bring in the second copy of A and B as "new versions of existing elements". But that would imply that you have defined and implemented your version control processes and decided how were using version control / SCM in this repository. Not a simple thing, so .....
If you have a non-versioned repository, then sorry NO not during import.
This is because of the way the export was created. When you export you include a complete consistent set of applications that you want to import somewhere. Designer makes sure that you have ALL the elements you need. Thus you have A and B in both those exports.
The real answer is to export A, B, C, D, and their friends as a single export file -- if what you really want to do is import them all and preserve the sharing.
One avenue is to check with the odtug.com group / mailing lists. Someone over there may have written current scripts to do a "replace" of all pointers to A' elements with pointers to A elements (((this was part of Designer 6.0 Echo, but not 6i/9i/10g - sorry)))

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Hi,
I am having 4 Folders(classes) in my Universe, how to set incompatible objects.
Ex:
Folder1:
Folder2:
Folder3:
Folder4:
Compatible folders(combination):
1-->Folder1 & Folder2
2-->Folder1 & Folder3
3-->Folder1 & Folder4
If i selected one object from Folder2 & another object from Folder3, then it will show incompatible objects
If i selected one object from Folder3 & another object from Folder4, then it will show incompatible objects
If i selected one object from Folder2 & another object from Folder4, then it will show incompatible objects
Please give me solution.
Thanks,
N Praveen

Hi,
Cause
This error is caused by any of the following problems in the definition of the universe:
There are incompatible objects in the universe and the universe designer did not set the option that allows multiple SQL statements for each context.
There are no contexts in the universe and the query has created a loop.
The query objects exclude all possible SQL choices for an aggregate aware function.
The universe contains an object which references more than one table on separate contexts.
Action
The universe designer needs to make appropriate modifications to the universe with Designer.
Detect For Loops Or Aliases in your Universe .
Check The structure for Folder 2 & Folder 3 Objects (same for other).
Please Check The Links Below.
http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?t=93487
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