SOUND ADVICE REQUIRED!

Hi Folks,
I've got an iMac G5 20" (have had it around 6 months). Just did a Software Update, and downloaded some widgets, and now the sound on all my games won't work. iMovie, iTunes, system noises etc all working fine but just no sound at all in the games, which were previously working fine.
Can anyone help? Tried the settings in the game menus etc and that didn't help...

There is a little-known but rather crucial sound configuration application called "Audio MIDI Setup" located in "Applications/Utilities".
In here you can set things like sample rates etc, and can also set your system volume independently for each speaker. Some buggy apps mess with the balance between the left and right speaker, and the place to fix this is in Audio MIDI Setup. (The only app I've personally noticed with this bug is a C64 emulator, but theres bound to be more.)
Hope this helps!

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Advice required fo new SSD/HDD setup and OS/App re-install

Hi,
Over the last few weeks my HDD has been failing verification (4 times in the last fortnight ). I have used both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior to repair the drive and each time the outcome has been successful, only to have Verify Disk report errors a few days later.
I therefore decided to get a new drive. I've gone for a Crucial M-4 256GB SSD. However, as I do a lot of database work (MySQL mainly), I don't want to hammer the SSD with lots of writes. So I have also bought a WD 500GB hard disk (5,400rpm) together with a caddy for installing it into the DVD space. The caddy comes with an external enclosure so that i can slot my DVD drive into there instead and continue to use it via USB.
System details: MacBook Pro 6,2 mid-2010, i5 2.53 Ghz, 4GB DDR3, both internal and additional gfx card, matt hi-res screen, OS X 10.6.8, Time Machine on Iomega external firewire drive
In my mind, I will be allocating the following to each drive:
SSD - primary drive:
OS X 10.6.8
All my Apps and Utilities, documents etc
HDD - secondary drive:
MySQL data files
OS X swap file
Windows 7 partition
Questions:
1. Does this sound like a valid setup - ie is it doable?
2. Will the SDD automatically be picked up as the primary drive when OS X boots?
3. How best to install OS X? Should I do a system restore from Time Machine or take this opportunity to reinstall from scratch? Time spent on this is not a major issue as I have a backup latop to work on in the meantime
3. Can I actually install Win7 on a secondary drive with Bootcamp or would it need to be on the primary SSD?
4. If I can install Win7 onto the HDD, will that Win7 partition be bootable from Parallels 7? I've heard some people have difficulty with this using VMWare
5. Is it worth having the swap file on the secondary drive or should I leave it on the SSD?
6. If I upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, will the full disk encryption work with an SSD?
7. I know that I need to go into the DVD app to edit the path to the DVD drive form 'internal' to 'external'. However, does anytone know if games that require the drive to be inserted also work with external drives? Not a big deal if not as I only have 1 of these left.
Any additional advice most welcome
Thank you.

Sparrowhawk wrote:
Over the last few weeks my HDD has been failing verification (4 times in the last fortnight ). I have used both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior to repair the drive and each time the outcome has been successful, only to have Verify Disk report errors a few days later.
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the present boot drive to a blank external drive, you can hold the option key and boot off this drive.
Option key or c key boot off the 10.6 install disk and use Disk Utility to Repair the internal drive, preferablly to Erase with Security Option Zero all Data, this will assist in mapping off bad sectors on the drive likely responsibel for your problems.
Reinstall 10.6 fresh and use the same log in name as before, Software update fully and install programs from original sources and lastly files from the clone.
Your drive should be fine after this, if it's still having problems then it's very likely a mechanical issue and needs to be replaced.
The caddy comes with an external enclosure so that i can slot my DVD drive into there instead and continue to use it via USB.
You can't boot or install OS X/Windows from a external optical drive is what I understand, so you will have to plan around that issue with bootable clones, Winclone etc.
Clones can be booted from and reversed cloned onto new internal drives, in a lot shorter time and safer than TimeMachine restores.
note: intalling a drive in the optical slot is a violation and disqualification of warranty/AppleCare
Time Machine on Iomega external firewire drive
TimeMachineo only restores, it's not a bootable clone drive.
Most commonly used backup methods
In my mind, I will be allocating the following to each drive:
SSD - primary drive:
OS X 10.6.8
All my Apps and Utilities, documents etc
HDD - secondary drive:
MySQL data files
OS X swap file
Windows 7 partition
Questions:
1. Does this sound like a valid setup - ie is it doable?
No, Windows BootCamp will have to go on the same boot drive as OS X.
The swap file of OS X should be on the SSD for speed, yes it will wear it out, but it employs wear leveling and likely by the time the SSD wears out your going to be buying a new machine anyway.
So on the SSD, OS X, Windows, Programs, basic user folders. This way if the hard drive has issues your up on the SSD.
On the hard drive place new folders with data there, like a storage drive.
2. Will the SDD automatically be picked up as the primary drive when OS X boots?
You set either Windows or OS X as the Startup Disk in System Preferences, and it is the only boot drive.
With OS X/Windows which you select which partition to boot from using the option key at boot.
You could also go with virtual machine software if your hardware demands with Windows isn't great or you can do both.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
3. How best to install OS X? Should I do a system restore from Time Machine or take this opportunity to reinstall from scratch? Time spent on this is not a major issue as I have a backup latop to work on in the meantime
Scratch and only return files manually, no restores or migrations. This way your free of corrupted data.
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3. Can I actually install Win7 on a secondary drive with Bootcamp or would it need to be on the primary SSD?
SSD primary.
4. If I can install Win7 onto the HDD, will that Win7 partition be bootable from Parallels 7? I've heard some people have difficulty with this using VMWare
VM software of Parrallels and VMFusion can copy the BootCamp Windows and uses it as a file in OS X, which one can save snapshots of that virtual machine file, especially useful for malware and only updating pristine copies of Windows so your not pwned.
5. Is it worth having the swap file on the secondary drive or should I leave it on the SSD?
SSD for speed, it's extra space for memory and the faster it is the better for your computer,
If your in the box, might as well max the RAM, that's even faster.
6. If I upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, will the full disk encryption work with an SSD?
Yes, but Filevault has serious drawbacks, first it does slow down your CPU as it has to encrypt and decrypt everything on the fly.
If you have trouble with your machine, you can't easily access the Filevaulted drive to recover files.
If you have some sensitive data, you should be using a Iron Key self encrypting USB or a similar external drive (has it own keypad or key), because johhny law, customs and Apple will need the password to search or fix your machine.
With the sensitive data on a external source, then you can use it with any machine.
If you want to keep your speed up, not have to buy all new versions of software and some third party hardware as there are no drivers, I suggest you stick with 10.6 on that machine, it will be around for quite some time.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
10.8 on new hardware is coming, decide then or when 10.9 rolls out, don't torture yourself with 10.7 on older hardware in my opinion.
does anytone know if games that require the drive to be inserted also work with external drives? Not a big deal if not as I only have 1 of these left.
Most games I know install and have their own copy protection not requiring a disk being inserted as it wears out that way also won't work with machines that don't have optical drives.
However I suspect if it has that sort of content protection that it won't work on external optical drives.
Likely a game that old won't work on 10.7 nor 10.8 anymore anyway, so you will have to give it up.
Be warned that 10.7 can cost you more money in upgraded software, PPC based programs of old will no longer work. Also drivers for older third party hardware, so beware before you upgrade.
CS5 doesn't work too well on 10.7 neither, so you'll have to go to CS6 for instance.

F.E.A.R sound problems (requires attenti

Hi all
I have done some more investigation into the Auidigy 2 ZS Drivers. I have discovered a rather nasty, yet glaringly obvious bug with the way F.E.A.R handles hardware sounds and the Audigy sound card. 
For some reason it assumes the Audigy is capable of utilising 96 simultaneous voices(sounds). Now this all works fine in DirectSound software mixing, but enabling hardware sound mixing causes a few things to go wrong.
For example numerous ambient sounds just do not play when hardware mixing is enabled, however disable hardware mixing and your performance will increase (minimum frame rate) and more sounds will be audible. For example the box hitting the chain link fence in the performance test.
I have gone through all F.E.A.R related threads and reinstalled the WMFADist.exe codec (as suggested). It seams the only way to have F.E.A.R running with all sounds working is through Software Mixing (hence no EAX and no surround sound).
This requires a new patch for the game and/o possible (which I doubt it requires). Driver update for the Audigy to rectify this bug. Could someone from the on forum staff contact CreativeLabs Dev relations as I am unable to obtain any assistance from them (yet I did with a previous issue).
Thanks

i also had problems in fear, but it was because i wasn't in gaming mode..
Note, patch the game.. Aint there a EAX patch for this game too?
Just google some more.. And try to disable the crystaliser when gaming, it gave a loud beeeeeeeeeeeep grrrrrrrrrrrwwwwwwwww in doom III sometimes...

Payment advice required on ACH file to bank

Hi Folks,
My client have a requirement to add payment advice to ACH payment file to bank. I'm generating the DME file (ACH payments ) correctly and are able to print payment advices. I want the payment advice to be added to the DME file; When, I unchecked the
the print control for printing payment advices, the payment advices are not added to the ACH or DME file.
If I check the flag "individual payment" on vendor master ( means separate payment for each invoice), then the payment advices are added as a separate record on the payment file. However, we don't want individual payment for each invoice in the case of multiple invoices to the same vendor.
Does any anyone have any idea how to fix this? I search for an OSS note but didn't find any.
Thanks for your help.
Tony

Hi Tony
Acc to my knowledge, usually we would maintain an advice note against an invoice like a reference. So Std SAP might not able to pick that adivce for multiple invoices. Which might be correct.
I would suggest you take the help of an ABAPer to see from where it picks up the data during the individual payment and if that same field is getting populated during the multiple (which might not be happening).
Please, correct me if my understanding of the process is wrong.
Regards
Nikhil

Document storage advice required

Good day,
Our developers are doing a project that involves processing Purchasing Invoices that have been scanned and converted to PDF. They are using ArchiveLink and at the moment are storing these documents directly in the database. They(developers) were under the impression they were simply linking the documents from the file system but I don't think that is correct. It is still under development.
Anyway, to cut a long story short I would just like to know if there are any other implications to storing approximately 2000 x 130kb PDF documents on average per month in a ERP database ? I know it will eventually effect our backups and restore times but as far as MaxDB is concerned is the database usually configured in a specific way to handle this kind of thing like on Content Management Server ?
I would like them to move the documents to Content Management Server or a 3rd party solution like ImageNow and just need some advice.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Nelis

After doing some more research I came across notes 653774 which states "..file repositories have been eliminated as of Basis Release 6.10. If a file repository is used in a live system, the data can no longer be addressed after a release upgrade to Basis Release 6.10 (or later version)." ...so that will prove helpful
Also note 595663 gives information on using ArchiveLink with database storage and mentions it should only be used with smaller datasets, for production SAP Content Server should be used.
This more or less gives me the info I require.
I'm still curious to know whether MaxDB is specifically setup differently on Content Server to handle large volumes of binary documents ?
Nelis

Advices required for a JAWT implementation for Windows Mobile 5 and 6

Hi,
I want to create a jni bridge in order to open a player in a java Frame. This player works fine in a mobile native application.
I want to know if somebody tried already to create such a bridge keeping in mind that this is for mobile environment. If yes, is there some specific problems which I should be aware of?
Specifically I have 2 problems.
1. My jni getHWND method always return 0.
JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_JavaRMEngineInterface_getHWND
(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jobject component){
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//try {
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JAWT awt;
JAWT_DrawingSurface* ds;
JAWT_DrawingSurfaceInfo* dsi;
JAWT_Win32DrawingSurfaceInfo* dsi_win;
jboolean result;
jint lock;
bstrt jawtPath = "\\Windows"; // Put Path String from jrePath to jawtPath
//Load AWT Library
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//for Java 1.4
hAWT = LoadLibrary(jawtPath + bstr_t("\\jawt.dll"));
//if(!_hAWT)
//for Java 1.3
//_hAWT = LoadLibrary(jawtPath + bstrt("\\awt.dll"));
if(_hAWT)
PJAWT_GETAWT JAWT_GetAWT = (PJAWT_GETAWT)GetProcAddress(_hAWT, L"_JAWT_GetAWT@8");
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awt.version = JAWT_VERSION_1_3; // Init here with JAWT_VERSION_1_3 or JAWT_VERSION_1_4
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if(result != JNI_FALSE)
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if(ds != NULL)
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if((lock & JAWT_LOCK_ERROR) == 0)
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if(dsi_win)
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ds->Unlock(ds);
awt.FreeDrawingSurface(ds);
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Hello Brian,
the client technology is based on web dynpro, but it runs in an own Mobile Client. Therefore you do not need the internet browser for the application.
During the client development you can use the web dynpro tools to design the layout and the screen flow of your application. In the last step you can deploy the application to your mobile client and run it without a browser.
The mobile client includes a web dynpro runtime to display the data. Therefore you do not need a J2EE server in order to run an application.
The mobile occasionally connected scenario provides a api to access the local database. NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 for PDA supports two different databases:
1. MinDB ( from SAP, included no additionals license fee required )
2. DB2E
NetWeaver Mobile includes a complete queing mechanism.
You can also take a look into two eLearnings which provide a good technical overview:
Link: [Architecture and Runtime|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e048e20c-7246-2a10-e8a5-8b2b78b5b994]
Link: [Development Cycle and Tools|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/204fc387-6646-2a10-99b7-bba030bc3f68]
Unfortunetly there is no fixed timeline for WM6.But I guess this will be available soon.
I'm afraid but also don't know of any fixed timeline regarding Adobe Interactive forms.
The architecture of NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 is pretty new and full of great new functionalites. The User Interface for NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 uses eSWT to render the UI elements.
Best Regards,
Stefan

Speaker/sound advice

A kinda off topic question but hopefully someone can help:
I want some advice on a sound setup for my home, i want surround sound in my livingroom with wireless speakers for use this with my tv, PC, Hi-fi and maybe other appliances.
Also i would like to be able to (if not straight away) roll this setup to other speakers in other rooms of the house and be able to control which appliances/speakers are in use.
I wasnt sure where to start with this, but figured music junkies who use the apple forum might be a good source of knowledge! if you think im asking in the wrong place then a link to a more suitable place would be helpfull
as you can likely guess im on a kinda budget, so the cheaper the better!

Hello peterrayner,
It sounds like after updating to iOS 7 your earpiece speaker is not working correctly and you must use the speaker.
I would recommend a few things here.
First close all the apps that are running on the device.
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that restart the phone:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
If the issue persists, I would next backup your device to iTunes, and restore it:
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

Pro sound advice

Hi there,
Ive been using Logic for a short time now ad I just have a couple questions about the best way to input/output the sound, I know not specifically Logic related but hopefully the amount of Pro users in the forum should be able to help!
I use Logic to record both my solo projects (guitar/vocals/midi) and my band demos though usually only one or two tracks at a time, ie we'll track the drums and bass, then go away and record guitars, then put vocals on at another time. Needless to say I am a musician and not a recording engineer, I just know my way around the software to a certain degree.
So for sound input, I have this question.
I just bought an M-Audio Firewire Solo, as I needed an interface quickly and this is what they had in the Apple store. It cost me about £150 ($300). To be honest, I am really happy with it, and it works well with Logic. But every time I see the Apogee Duet I really want one. Would I really notice a huuuge improvement in sound quality and is it worth it for my recording needs? Its like $600, and having just bought the M-Audio device (unfortunately out of the returns period) I just want to know if it is really worth it? I know Apogee owners love their Duet and I understand they are supposed to be awesome but in an honest and unbiased opinion, would I benefit enough ($600 worth) to warrant buying one?
Secondly, regarding output.
Currently I am relying on hifi speakers (good ones nonetheless) when I am home, and in ear earphones when I am out and about to monitor tracks.
I want to buy some good headphones, or monitors, but not sure which to go for! I am probably using Logic 40% at home and 60% on the go or elsewhere. Could I realistically get some great headphones and use them both at home and on the go, or would I be better off getting monitors for home?
All advice is much appreciated thankyou!
Tom

Thanks for the replies.
I think for now I will stick to the M-Audio and probably end up dropping the cash on the Duet when I see one in a store. The online images are tempting enough but I think I can restrain myself. If I saw it on display somewhere, it may well be a different story.
Regarding the MOTU interface. For now, if I ever record my band, it is all tracked seperately. For example, our singer goes to college a few hours away drive from the rest of the band during some of the year so we'll get the drums recorded proffessionally then take the mix home and I will add guitars. Then I'll take my Macbook to the bass player and lay down his part. Then email the mix to our singer who will put her vocals on and send it back. If you see what I mean. This is all just for demo's and quick recordings, our full-lengths and press demo's are all recorded and mastered completely proffessionally. With this in mind, I think single input, or mic/guitar input is fine for what I need.
As for the monitors/headphone suggestion, I think I will invest in both following both your advice.
You outlined exactly my situation, I will sit in a coffee shop and shuffle a few parts around so I will invest in some headphones.
I guess it might be time to get some monitors too.
Thanks for the replies!

Sound advice from BT's business partner Lithium

I was curious about who and what is behind our new forums, so popped over to the Lithium site and wandered around a bit. BT seem to have chosen a partner who has a good pedigree in online communities.
A Lithium Guru, one PaulGi, has some great advice for opening up positive dialogue scenarios that can benefit customers and businesses alike:
With those people who have a genuine gripe about a product, the advice is engage them in a dialogue.
To be successful, the community users should feel they can post comments that aren't all positive - opinion is the lifeblood of a community. If users feel they can post without being censored then you're going to get valuable material, and the community will start to self police itself. It's important to note that comments like "I had a terrible experience with this product" should be answered - engage these people "sorry to hear about your experience, can you tell me what the issue was, or how we could have improved it?"
I hope that BT will follow their partner's very sound and perceptive advice, and that these forums will indeed give the opportunity for some deep serious polite debate and sharing of information about any relevant matter, even though the subject might sometimes ruffle feathers.
Pash
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I wonder what PaulGi would think of my problem:
I was going to start a discussion about General Discussion's perceptive post :
I am beginning to get a little worried by the way the new forum is shaping up. Towards the end of last year, I had begun to get the feeling that many of the "difficulties" that had been encountered in respect of the Phorm Phiasco were now behind us, the Forum Mods were showing a friendlier and more helpful side and by and large the forum was becoming a very useful place.
We now have a new forum, but less than a week in, all that good-will seems to be leaking away at an increasing rate of knots.
Why is that? Well, 2, or maybe 3, examples of privacy and security issues that have all come to a head simultaneously. The reaction to these being raised seems to be at least a partial reversion to the "bad old days". I thought we had moved beyond all this - but sadly not.
My peers believe this is a problem, I think they may be right, I wish to hear the evidence and to discuss it - and if it appears to be compelling, I wish to ask for - no, demand, change. I wish to know how many of my peers here on the forum agree, or disagree with whatever arguments are being raised - which seems to me to be the essence of what this forum purports to be.
Discuss.
But the way this forum is turning out makes me feel like I am treading on eggshells: whatever I start to write I have to delete for fear it could be interpreted by the mods as "calling them out" or at least being critical of them, and I'll get banned, so I'm not going to say anything
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Sound Advice

I've got a recording of a school play where there are quiet bits (talking) and loud bits (singing). What advice can anyone offer for an easy way to get a more compressed dynamic range?
I think that the compressor filter would be the right thing, but am having trouble getting the right parameters. I don't really want to have to go along with the pen tool to change the level up and down if I can avoid it, but it seems the least bad way so far!

Sounds like the Compressor/Limiter filter is right for you. From the manual:
• Threshold: This parameter defines how loud the signal must be before the compressor is applied. This is the most important setting you need to adjust.
• Ratio: This slider determines how much compression is applied. Don’t overdo the compression; a little goes a long way. Too much compression can reduce the dynamic range to a flat, unvarying signal.
• Attack Time: This setting determines how quickly the filter reacts to changes in audio level (the default is usually acceptable, but you may want to experiment).
• Release Time: This setting defines how slowly the filter lets go of the change in audio level that it made (again, the default should work well, but feel free to experiment).
• Preserve Volume: Compensates for the attenuation of the clip caused by compression by raising the level of the entire clip by a uniform amount.

Advice Required : Unusual website client request.

Hello,
This isn't a joke!
I have been asked by a client to build a website that satisfies the following criteria.
1. All webpages must end with .html
2. The webpages must not require any particular web technology behind the scenes to work.
3. It's fine if website requires javascript.
They have some good reasons for this.
1. If all the webpages end with .html then any future change in backend technology would not adversely effect search engine indexing.
2. Similar to 1 in that they don't want changes in back-end technology to require any significant change in the existing html.
I have a rough idea how to deliver this and I would welcome any advice or comments anyone may care to offer.
My plan is to...
1. Develop the server side of things using java - but not .jsp's
2. Develop the client side of things using html and javascript so ending in .html
3. Connect the server and client side using AJAX approach, so seperating client from server.
Is this a foolish approach or am I thinking along the right lines?
Is there a java technology I should use?
Thanks
Edited by: RedBoffin on Aug 27, 2008 6:50 AM

RedBoffin wrote:
Hello Steve,
Thanks for your thoughts.
re: #2. They are more concerned that there (client-side) web pages are 'clean' of any (server-side) code. I think what they mean is that say their website was made using JSP/Servlets and then (for some reason) they wanted to switch to .NET, then they want (ideally) such a change to have almost zero impact on the client-side web pages.This could mean two things:
1) The code sent to the client is pure HTML/Javascript
2) The code that makes up the View is pure HTML/Javascript
If 1) then a full use of JSP is no problem, because JSPs generate regular HTML, nothing special about it.
But the JSP would be the View, so if they want 2) then you would not be able to use JSPs. You would end up doing a lot more work and use a lot more servlet code to do what essentially JSPs already do.
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Mapping .html as you suggest in order to continue using JSP's is really interesting. I have just set up a sandpit java web app using SSI filter mapped to .html, so that #include virtual="" can be used in the html to import headers, footers, nav links, javascript files, etc. Maybe your suggestion is a simpler approach?
What do you think?I think using JSPs for this is the better choice, because you get a lot more functionality and a lot simpler/easier to maintain code.
Coding for a maybe change to a completely different architecture is a nightmare. From the client perspective I agree, searched/bookmarked pages should the same, and with a well designed View layer, this is no problem. But the server-side should leverage the entire servlet architecture or is a waste.

Advice Required on Suitable Soundcard & Softw

I am looking for a good soundcard which will enable me to archi've my favorite analog LP Singles in digital format but not sure which soundcard and software offer the best sound quality in terms of recording from a analog source. Your advice will be much appreciated. Thanks.

My aim is to allow the customer to create BI Templates/Reports in BI Publisher. They would then have to add the report name to a select list in APEX. When the report is run, a web service request is made that saves the output file to local disk.
I have managed to achieve this part. The next step is to have the file popup as a download to the user. This is the part i am unable to add to my SOAP call. Does anyone what the code is to popup the generated report to the user as like any other download
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Business logic in EO, VO - design advice required

Hi all,
I'm looking for some design advice on the best way to approach this issue - or in fact advice that I'm making an issue out of something where it doens't need to be !
Lets say I have a single entity object called UsersEO. I have two view objects called NewUserVO and ExistingUserVO. I use the NewUserVO just for inserting new records and the ExistingUserVO for modifying existing records. When users are editing existing users, I need to provide a checkbox that indicates that when the record is saved, their password needs to be re-generated and emailed out to the user.
I want to include the check of the "GeneratePassword" attribute while processing the rest of my user business logic, in the doDML method of UsersEOImpl. From here I will call a database procedure that handles changing the password and emailing the user.
Initially I created a transient attribute "GeneratePassword" in ExistingUserVO but then to access this from within the UsersEOImpl.doDML would require me getting the AM from the transaction, and getting the current row of the ExistingUserVO. I believe that this is bad practice to access a VO from within a EO ?
Is my only option here to create the transient attribute "GeneratePassword" on the UsersEO and then include in the ExistingUserVO but not the NewUserVO ? That way I can easily access the "GeneratePassword" attribute from with the doDML without have to accessing the VO.
If I have 10 different VO's that require different attributes, it just seems strange to add 10 attributes to the underlying EO and then only include the relevant entity attribute in each VO - or is this exactly what I should be doing ?
On a slightly different note, but similar theme - if I had a "VOTransaction" attribute in my EO and I included this in each VO created from the EO - how would I set different values in this attribute for each VO so that within the EOImpl I would know which VO was triggering the entity validation ??
Many thanks for your help !
Cheers,
Brent

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If I have 10 different VO's that require different attributes, it just seems strange to add 10 attributes to the underlying EO and then only include the relevant entity attribute in each VO - or is this exactly what I should be doing ?
How about creating a BaseVO which extends EO (including transient attributes for password change and voName/Type detail ) that provide a default value for voName/Type attribute and all other VO extending the BaseVO and overriding that attribute setter to specify the name/type?

Please can somebody please give me some sound advice!

Hi There,
I hope that I've posted this in the correct forum? apologies if I haven't.
I was hoping to get some advice from you guy's/girls please, I would like a change in career and over the last
year have been teaching myself Microsoft Office Suite (only completed Word Fully) and now exploring Excel (which has so much more to it than I originally thought, I was so naive), I was hoping to get a starting position on a help desk that deals with queries
within the office suite and hopefully one day build up to qualifying as a Microsoft Office Expert.
So I found a online training company who would do the starting qualifications (Microsoft Office Specialist)
for £200, quite reasonable i thought although the exams would be £80 each, again not too bad.
The person I spoke to though told me that it wasn't necessary to take the exams as I could put on my CV that
I have completed training with this company. and that employers would do a skill set anyway. To be fair I thought that a little strange but as I'm just starting out who am I?
Anyway I done a little research by calling a employment agency that deals with IT positions and was advised
that maybe I needed to get an MCSE first as that might be able to get me started as they haven't come across Microsoft Office Specialist Roles.. but this is I feel going in a completely different direction.
So I looked online and the only Microsoft Office Specialist positions that I came across is ones that included
knowing Active Directory DS?
I only wish that there was a company that would take on people who trained on the job..
Please help!

The training company is right in that if you take the training you can add it to your CV. If you get the certification you can also add it to your CV. Both things will be looked at favourably by potential employers. But the training company is also right
when they say that neither will be enough: the employers will want to assess your skills themselves anyway. This doesn't mean that it is useless to get certified. It will help to get your CV "up" in the stack of CVs, so that your chances of getting
to the interview stage (rather than being discarded right away) will increase. It is up to you to demonstrate your value during the interview, but first you need to reach that stage.
The employment agency is also partially right in that a MOS certification may not be enough if you are looking for a Help Desk position. This type of position typically also requires knowledge of the operating systems and the supporting network infrastructure,
and even the computer hardware, so additional certifications would be needed to prove this knowledge. Once again, you don't require the certification as an absolute requirement; if you have the knowledge, you can state so in your CV and the employer will evaluate
you. But having the certification can help distinguish your CV over others that don't have it.

Similar functionality to Google/Outlook Calendar advice required

Hi all,
I have built an Apex app that is used to create jobs and assign them to an engineer. It is a straightforward app and we are now looking at adding some new functionality, specifically I have been asked to provide a diary type view of the jobs scheduled for each engineer to help with the allocation of new jobs.
I have tried the out of the box Calendar region in Apex and it isn't quite what I require and I was wondering if anyone had some advice and guidance that they could offer to help me out?
The easiest way to describe what I would like to achieve is a Day view similar to the Google Calendar interface, or Outlook Calendar, where you have the hours of the day down the side of the page and for each engineer their jobs that have been scheduled for that day is shown in a block that covers the time that the job has been scheduled from and to i.e. 9am - 10.30am.
I have searched this forum and the internet for something similar that I could adapt but have so far have not found anything, I love the example in this post:
[http://rutgerderuiter.blogspot.com/2008/07/drag-planboard.html|http://rutgerderuiter.blogspot.com/2008/07/drag-planboard.html]
however I think it is not quite what I require and is more advanced than my simple JavaScript skills could handle!
In order to visually illustrate what I have in mind, the following is a good example:
[http://www.pioneerinteractive.com/screenshots/sched-day-view.JPG|http://www.pioneerinteractive.com/screenshots/sched-day-view.JPG]
My data is structured pretty much as you would expect where there is a table of jobs with columns for job no, engineer, date start time & date end time, job description.
If anyone can provide me with some tips on how to achieve what I have explained, or even a different approach that you think would satisfy what I have discussed then I would really appreciate it.
Best regards,
Stu

I've found a work-around to this. I import the ICS event into "Calendar", then visit it in iPhone Calendar and change its calendar to Google Calendar, it then synchs properly.

SOUND ADVICE REQUIRED!

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