Tracking user shapes

Hi all!
I'm trying to track a user shape in my secondary room but it seems it can't be done or am I doing anything wrong? I can make it work with a square and a circle but when I want to assign a tracker to a user shape I can't select it in the "Use Tracker...-selector". The manual states I can do it but did I get that wrong as well?

Hi Moqtev, I also just tried the footage that comes with the Color Apple Pro training book and ran a manual tracker on the boat and yes you can only use the circle or the square. You can not select the tracker number. When I did a course on Color with this book,interestingly the user shape was never taught during the tutorials but only the circle or square was used to make changes in the secondary.
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User Shape in Secondaries

HI!
I'm new in Color, and I'm testing how it works, because I shall colorgrade a video with around 200 shots next week.
I have run in to a strange problem. In Secondaries I make a User Shape, this brings me to Geometry. There I track my mask, safe it, and attach it to the mask (In this case tracker 1). I Attach my mask on the Secondary (In this case 3). I go back to my Secondary. Colorgrade the selekted, ..are happy. Close down and go home. Next morning when I open my projekt, my Secondary (3) are emty.
I can find (load) my mask in Geometry, then I can attach my tracker again. Then my colorgrade are back too.
But why are the Shape and the Track information not saved with the projekt?
Can anyone tell me where I go wrong?
Pleace...
Christina

Here's a little treasure hunt for you all, some directory spelunking.
A COLOR project container saves everything that could be used to move the entire project to another machine. The "bins" that exist within the interface are just ways of splitting up the grade internally so that components can be copied within the timeline. Abandon all "Final Cut" thinking before proceeding... paraphrasing Dante... Abbandona ogni speranza, tutti che entrate. Actually as you drill down through the container, you may be reminded of his tour of the various circles of ****...
Try this. Navigate to the directory containing the COLOR project. For me, its in "Final Touch Items". its a bit of a private, ironic joke. Right-click on the .colorproj line item. Select "Show package contents". You should be presented with a pane containing a number of files and folders like "Archive", "Still Store", "Shots", the xml files (if created) and some ls files. Open the "Shots" directory.
You will be presented with a directory listing corresponding to all the clips in your project, numbered like the shot list in the Setup Room. Pick one that might be interesting, like "Clip 31", which has a tracked user shape in it, maybe. It will open to reveal more files and directories, "Grades", "Pan and Scan", a thumbnail, and a .si file which is a very interesting little file to interrogate (use Text Editor) to figure out why that clip is behaving in some weird way, because it is essentially the XML translated "Item Properties/Format" dialogue that FCP has sent to COLOR. If you have run a tracker, there should be a trk file, which is the tracker data for that clip. Each grade that you have composed for that clip will have a grade-directory. Each grade directory will contain a file that represents the IN primary color correction (pcc), an OUT pcc, a scc (secondary) and a cfx. It may contain a kfd file, which is the keyframe data. It may contain a bsx file, which is the user shape, which I think you are calling a "mask".
In answer to your direct question "are my masks saved in the Secondary bin?" No. They are saved as part of the overall grade, and you access it through the Geometry Room/User Shapes interface.
By the way, the on-screen representation of the user shape will disappear every time you exit the clip you are working on. (Its a bit of a pain, actually) You are required to re-select it in the user shapes bin in the Geometry Room/User Shapes to re-reveal it. By any chance... ? Because you don't see the shape control points doesn't mean that it isn't being applied, if it has been connected. I wonder if that has led you to believe that the shape has been thrown away.
The internal architecture of COLOR is not something that most people delve into until faced with some kind of nightmare forensic reconstruction... care to speculate on how I got to know it so well?
Not from somebody else's training DVD, that's for sure.
jPo

Tracking a user shape

When I create a custom user shape in the geometry room, say a shape around a person, how can I then track that shape? Do I have to use the manual tracker in conjunction with the user shape? Any insight is appreciated.

You don't track the shape, you track the object. Create a motion database by picking an in and out point and letting the analysis proceed. You are not forced to use the manual tracker unless the base video is so bad that the auto tracker can't follow the target. That file then is attached to the user shape, which, in turn, is attached to a secondary. The COLOR tracker is only single-point and is only as good as the point that you pick. It will not do any corner-pinning or anything to the user shape other than X-Y translations, so if your target object changes in any way, you will eventually wind up hand-animating it.
Good luck.
jPo

Changing a color completely in a user shape.

Thanks in advance for any ideas! Have 2 shots that require hats on people to be changed to a completely different color. The Opposite color to be exact. Need to use a "usershape" to isolate it as it's too close to skin color on the subjects for a simple tweak.
I know how to do this is FCP with the color wheel, but color seems much more pixel accurate and easier to create a mask. Any ideas how I could alter the color from magenta to green?
Thanks!!!

it's too close to skin color
how I could alter the color from magenta to green?
So the skin color is magenta? Might want to massage that and try to give yourself some more separation, maybe in Primary.... and even if you have to introduce a little bit of error, maybe think about re-fixing it at a later stage...
I was going to advise using an HSL qualifier in Secondaries..., and you might try that anyway, in conjunction with a User Shape. And you'll likely need a tracker if the tolerances/separations are really too tight, which will add its own baggage.
If this is a moving picture, I expect you'll also need to animate the user shape as the character will likely be changing shape within the scene.
Curves in secondaries will not be available to you as a tool, as they are not vignette or HSL qualifiable.
User shapes are a non-starter in the COLORFX room, where inserting an "Invert" node would be one tempting option to flip the magenta over to green... especially if the luminance value is close to 50%. You could still fix that with a brightness node, though.
It is sort of possible, with some effort and "add" nodes, to build up a kind of user shape with ovals... but this is one of the reasons why that room is of very limited value, unless you are applying "overall" effects. In the end, though, probably so ridiculously awkward as to not be worthwhile.
So there are several things you can't do... and my own approach would be to eyedropper the hat and see what kind of real separation there might be, before I resorted to the much more labor intensive user shapes. Within the HSL qualifier, if that worked reasonably well, then its going to be a fairly straightforward 3-way-Inside correction. A coarse oval or very, very simple user shape might help if there were some "cleanup" garbage-matte fixes necessary.
If the separation isn't there, I'm afraid you're really into a rotoscope and I hope you've got plenty of time on your hands. You will likely have to animate the user shape in the Geometry/User Shapes room. Save, save, save. And I hope you're on the latest version, because COLOR regularly forgets things that are done in this room. If you do use a tracker.... they are not re-connected (in versions prior to 1.5.3) on re-opening the project, so you should render out the clips immediately!
Make the tool do as much of the work as possible... I thought that's what computers were for!
Actually, this would be a fairly straightforward task in an application like daVinci "Resolve", but they have a completely different architecture.
jPo

Tutorial - how to track user progress in a Captivate movie

I wanted to start working with the new scripting capabilities
in Captivate 4 and thought a good first project would be to create
a set of variables and custom actions and execute the actions based
on the state of the variables. I wrote up a description/walkthrough
with screenshots and the source .cp is downloadable here:
http://elearninglive.com/wordpress/2009/01/tracking-user-progress-in-captivate-4-using-var iables-and-actions/
Hopefully it proves useful to others!
A couple of things I mention at the bottom of the post in
regards to the new features in CP4:
1. The actions window is amazingly slow once you add more
than a handful of actions. Perhaps it's just my machine? I have a
very fast machine with lots of ram, but perhaps it's something
unique to my environment?
2. You can't 'chain' actions. In other words, you cannot use
'execute multiple actions' setting to execute user-created actions,
just the built-in ones, which seems to me a pretty big limitation.
I had to work around it.
3. As an add-on to #1 above - there is no way to
import/export code. Since the actions window is so slow it would be
ideal if we could just import code written in a text file, or
better yet, have a simple code editor (like the actions panel in
Flash).
My 2 cents, fwtw, as a new CP4 user....
mark
www.elearninglive.com

> But I didn't really know what AuthorWare was actually
> capable of producing until this past year when I
happened to subscribe to
> the
> AWARE list (AuthorWare Developers) and over time read
about the
> capabilities it
> had. It was an excellent tool - and it seems, the best
there ever was for
> our
> needs, and it amazes me that there isn't anything to
replace it yet that
> matches it. Of course, the problem was the shockwave
plugin. Which is a
> big
> problem and the real original reason I never looked into
it in the first
> place.
The biggest problem Authorware had was poor marketing. Second
was it had no
way to natively create the eye-candy that Flash was wowing
the world with.
Third, there was no attempt by Macromedia modernise
Authorware with a lot of
very basic things that would have made a huge difference to
everyone's
perception of the tool
Fourth, Marketing kept telling people Authorware was dead,
from about
Authorware 5. I think the Flash team was on a bonus for
converting people
>
> I don't understand why Adobe is now making Captivate the
next AuthorWare.
> That's basically what they're doing it seems. It's like
saving up to buy a
> ferrari when you have on sitting unused in your garage!
They already had a
> great elearning development tool in AuthorWare and just
needed the one big
> piece: output to flash swf and not shockwave. I guess
there were technical
> reasons why that wasn't done?
I think it is clear to those of us that have had to move to
Captivate from
Authorware that Captivate is *very* lacking in specific
advanced features
and functionality that old hands are used to. As with any
product, users are
bombarding adobe with requests that boost the power and scope
of Captivate.
It's a natural progression.
>
> As much as I like Captivate 4, it's a few major releases
away from coming
> close to what we *really* need.
I agree - but it is a lot closer this time around :-)
Steve
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Tracking user actions inside Compliance Calibrator

Good day everyone
I am currently working on a CC5.2 implementation and I was wondering if there was any way to track user activities, to be more precise:
1- who created mitigation control X
2- who mitigated risk X for user Y
etc...
Im working on an implementation for a client that already had custom ABAP SOD tools that would output reports assigned to different reviewers, each action was tracked through the process and reviewers/approvers had to signoff along the process so people were accountable..
So far, the only way I found to trace who did what was by the way roles/authorisations will be separated between the Netweaver users, since I'm new to this platform maybe I am missing something.
Any help is appreciated, thank you
Jay

Dear Jay,
Check the entries in these tables:
/VIRSA/DTCWKFLOW               Mitigation Work flow Table
/VIRSA/MITREPORT               Mitigating Reports
/VIRSA/MITWKFLOW               Mitigation Work flow Table
/VIRSA/ZMITAPVR                Mitigating Control Monitors
/VIRSA/ZMITCNTL                Mitigating Control - Users
/VIRSA/ZMITHROBJ               Mitigating Control - HR Object
/VIRSA/ZMITMON                 Mitigating Monitors and Approvers
/VIRSA/ZMITPROF                Mitigating Control - Profile
/VIRSA/ZMITREF                 Mitigating Controls
/VIRSA/ZMITREFT                Mitigating Controls Text
/VIRSA/ZMITROLE                Mitigating Control - Role
/VIRSA/ZSODMIT                 SOD Group Id and Mitigating Reference Numb
Regards,
Naveen.

Track user changes in customized transparent table

Greetings..
How do i to track user changes in my table ? is there any master table that keep track changes made by user on the specific field.? Is there possible if the table have the original and changed data.

i got the below explanation from other thread, which has explained by an expert, so, take it as reference and interprete according to ur req.
BEGIN
Table Events:
Go to SE11 and open your Ztable
click on the Table maintenance generator.
you can find the function group. right
Take the Function group name and go to Tcode SE37
and open the Function Group.
In the Status of the small window of the Function
group display
you can find out change requests , Main program and
Function group Docu tabs.
Click on Main program and create user defined Include.
check the sample code below
Click on main program
Create user defined include
User-defined Include-files (if necessary). *
INCLUDE LZPHIRF... " Subprograms
INCLUDE LZPHIRO... " PBO-Modules
INCLUDE LZPHIRI... " PAI-Modules
Create the below include.
INCLUDE LZPHIRI01. " PAI-Modules
Double click on the Include name. you have the below
code
Loop at Extract.
module liste_init_workarea.
chain.
field fild1
field fild2
field fild n
module set_update_flag on chain_request.
You have to add a new module here
check the below code
*----User defind module
Module user_defind_validation.
endchain.
Double click on module write code in that.
Include <Include Name> *
*& Module user_defind_validation
Module user_defind_validation.
Here you can write your own validations.
field2 = field1 /2.
field4 = field1 /4.
if field4 field3.
message.
endif.
EndModule. "user_defind_validation
Events allow you to change the generated table
maintenance dialog at predefined positions, which
cannot be reached by user modules in the screen flow
logic.
The user routines are called dynamically at runtime.
For this reason, the routines must be in a user include
in the table/view maintenance dialog function group.
All extended table maintenance global data is available.
An interface is only required for events 22 and AF.
The events can be additions or replacements.
Additional events
Event 01 before saving the data in the database
This event occurs before new, changed or deleted
entries are written to the database
FORM abc.
DATA: F_INDEX LIKE SY-TABIX. "Index to note the
lines found
LOOP AT TOTAL.
IF <ACTION> = desired constant.
READ TABLE EXTRACT WITH KEY <vim_xtotal_key>.
IF SY-SUBRC EQ 0.
F_INDEX = SY-TABIX.
ELSE.
CLEAR F_INDX.
ENDIF.
(make desired changes to the line TOTAL)
MODIFY TOTAL.
CHECK F_INDX GT 0.
EXTRACT = TOTAL.
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ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
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Hidden iPhone File Tracks Users' Every Move

The security of Apple's iPhones and iPads is being called into question after it emerged the devices contain a hidden file that tracks the owner's locations.
full story - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110421/twl-hidden-iphone-file-tracks-users-ever-3fd0ae9.html
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Associated problem.
Switch your mobile off when not in use!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/25/wifi-security-flaw-smartphones-risk
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Tracking User Access to Help

Is there a way to track user access to HTML help? I'm wanting to be able to run a report that will tell me how often the online help is accessed either at topic level or just the full help level if that is the only possibility. Is there a plugin or third party app that can do this?
For my Webhelp apps, I am able to tag individual html files with Omniture tags, however I can't do this for a compiled .chm file. The issue with the Omniture tags is that everytime I recompile help, I have to reinsert the tags.
I am using Robohelp 8, HTML Help and Web Help
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Diana Weber

Hi Diana.
With the web output you could try using something like Google Analytics or even invest in the RoboHelp Server application. However neither of these will work with HTML Help. The problem with HTML Help may not be the feasibility of recording hits on a file but pricacy concerns by the user. The Windows System Monitor records file hits but you'd have to manage a way of homing in on the data on each end user's PC!
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Anyone use sccm to track user's HP docking station serial number and model?

i am only able to see whether the laptop is dock or not by registry key so far.
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\IDConfigDB\CurrentDockInfo
anyone manage or use sccm to track user's HP docking station serial number and model before?
thanks
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

The pin in picture looks liek a 5mm pin and one one on docking station is a smart pin. So you would need something like the one in picture in this link.
In the picture observe the component in left hand bottom corner.
http://www.amazon.com/HP-power-adapter-airplane-DV574A/dp/B0006VX07I/ref=pd_sim_sbs_pc_11?ie=UTF8&re...
I would say, take the adaptor to store and get one.
Wish you luck,
Karthik
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Tracking User Activity with Standard Web Logs and Tools Like WebTrends

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Tracking user in logs

Gurus,
I have this question about tracking users.
Since there are so many log files in hyperion, I was just wondering if someone can help me with this.
What log file would I view to see what user has retrieved a financial report at a specific time in workspace.
We have been having this problem of the print services crashing a lot which is why I am curious to know which user is trying to pull a report or calculation when the reports crash.
For example,
user A retrieves a financial report in workspace, what log would tell me the user A trying to pull the report.
Also if user A is doing a calculation, what log would i view that would tell me the user has run a calculation and the name of calculation.
Thanks

I don't see the USAGE table getting populated with FR report usage in 11.1.2.2. However I've these in the FRLogging.log (MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/domains/domain name/servers/managed server name/logs
FRLogging.log)
This entire record is for one report open.
Starts with retrieveObject
[2013-05-22T17:25:14.582-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.EPMFR.performance] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvE8R343n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ00005W,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRLogTimer] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: logTimeEnd] PERF: 0000000016 ReportStoreManagerImpl retrieveObject(/My Reports/Sample Basic, 2) This one shows which user opened the report.
[2013-05-22T17:25:16.455-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.EPMFR.performance] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '13' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvE8RW_3n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ00005c,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRLogTimer] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: startJob] ----------------------------------------------------------
[2013-05-22T17:25:16.455-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [00069] [oracle.EPMFR.performance] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '13' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvE8RW_3n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ00005c,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRLogTimer] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: startJob] START: JobId: 3; User: admin; Name: /My Reports/Sample Basic
[2013-05-22T17:25:16.456-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.EPMFR.performance] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '13' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvE8RW_3n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ00005c,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRLogTimer] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: startJob] ----------------------------------------------------------This one shows the database connection details
[2013-05-22T17:25:16.514-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.EPMFR.performance] [tid: Thread-89] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvDuacI3n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ000000,1:24578] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRLogTimer] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: endJobSummary] REPORT: [Start:052213 17:25:16.478-0400][End:052213 17:25:16.514-0400][Elapsed:0.036][Host:USPITCKATTOOKA2][JobId:3][User:admin][Name:/My Reports/Sample Basic][InBook:false][UserPOV:{ dsname=Sample Basic server=USPITCKATTOOKA2 app=Sample db=Basic type=Essbase metadata={Measures=Measures,Market=Market,Scenario=Scenario}}]This one is the dataquery
[2013-05-22T17:25:16.544-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.EPMFR.performance] [tid: Thread-89] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvDuacI3n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ000000,1:24578] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRLogTimer] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: logTimeEnd] PERF: 000003: 0000000011 DataQuery createAdmQuery
[2013-05-22T17:25:16.544-04:00] [EPMServer0] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.EPMFR.core] [tid: Thread-89] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 0000JvDuacI3n3wb0DMaMF1HbIaJ000000,1:24578] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.haradm.EssbaseMDXDataQuery] [APP: FINANCIALREPORTING#11.1.2.0] [SRC_METHOD: execute] SELECT[[
{[Year]}
DIMENSION PROPERTIES [Year].[MEMBER_ALIAS] , [Year].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME]
ON COLUMNS ,
Hierarchize({ [Product].Children, [Product] }, POST)
DIMENSION PROPERTIES [Product].[MEMBER_ALIAS] , [Product].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME]
ON ROWS
FROM [Sample].[Basic]
WHERE ([Measures], [Market], [Scenario])
]]You can see the time when the user clicked on the report, what query was used in the report, any conditional formatting applied and,...... (all information about that report.
Regards
Celvin
http://www.orahyplabs.com

Tracking user activites

Hi all,
I constantly churn out website for new Property / condominium launches in Singapore and here are example of websites:
www.highlinetiongbahru.sg
www.palmssixthave.com
www.sophiahills.properties
I'll like to be able to track users activities on Google Analystic as well as observation a list of competitors website activities and compare the weakness/strength among them to see how i can improve things.
Are there any good addon or any other methods to be do the above?

Not that I know of, but please also see analytics documentation: [https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032399?hl=en]

Tracking user

Hi all,
Is there any way to keep track of users who has changed the db.Let, there is a table where any user can insert,update or delete data. Is there any way to identify the user who have done that?
thanks in advance.

You can track user activities by either:
setting up Audit on specific objects on certain users.
tracking activities from the redo log file / archivelog file by means of the logminer.
~ Madrid

Tracking user activity, 'Activity Universe'

How can I track user activity within InfoView and Central Management Console of Crystal? I need to audit which users are viewing which reports, what changes they are making, permissions that are being set and so on...
I have heard of "Activity Universe". Is it part of Crystal, I dont seen an install option when I install and I dont see any clear reference to it?

I found the audit page, that is what I need.
However... it is not available to me: "Your license does not allow auditing."
What kind of licensing do I need?
What is the cost?
Is there a webpage that clearly explains the licensing cost/options?

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