Unintentionally chosen "Initialize Workforce": how to create minimal?

Hello everybody,
We have chosen the option "Initialize Workforce", thinking we would first get an option to make further decisions. We were wrong... and now we have a problem. Our production Planning installation now can't be refreshed anylonger, since this proces will also try to refresh the Workforce cube (step 66 within the refresh proces).
According to Oracle there is no "step back" option. Their idea is to use some backups. However, this has been done too long ago now to make this really possible, so we want to go for a different option: simply install Workforce, but in a minimalistic way. Install it in such a way that it will just "work" enough to make the refresh option work again. This would have some performance problem, but that is not an issue with us.
So, what are the most minimal number of steps to get Workforce to work after the initialize workforce option has been chosen?

We had someone initialize workforce in error. We also did not have a backup at that time of the SQL database.
If you insist, Oracle will provide an unsupported solution which involves some SQL scripts that remove components of workforce from that applications relational database.
We had to tweak the script a but due to some SQL table relationships. And be sure you do not leave in the part that removes the Actual and Budget members.
In the end, we got rid of 99% of it and things work fine.
Open a ticket with Oracle support and request the unsupported solution of the SQL scripts.
this was with 9.2.1 where we had success.

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BEGIN
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END;
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user8816970 wrote:
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end;Also get the whole pascalcase, camelcase and lowercase correct. Do not code in uppercase - it not only looks stupid, it contravenes programming standards that existed since the 70's and are still applicable and used today. From Microsoft's .Net to Java and /C/C++ and Pascal/Delphi and Visual Basic and most other languages. It is just plain silly to code in uppercase. Cobol standards do not apply today and were intended for punch cards - which is why I find this whole code-reserve-words-in-uppercase approach used in PL/SQL, flawed and idiotic.
When I select the last line and hit F9 I get a dialog box that says:
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We are all entitled to our own opinions. So I respect you there brother
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I might be dense so forgive me on this, but I don't think that will solve it.
your example uses field from apex, like :P3_SOME _VALUE
this report screen has no fields. there are no :P#_ type values to pull. I'm writing a report screen using a report template.
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I thank you all the info you have given, its been a great deal of info that I can use at some point, but so far I don't think it will solve my issue.

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how to create check box in ALV Reports?

Hi
check the report BCALV_TEST_GRID_EDITABLE
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               I_BYPASSING_BUFFER                = SPACE
               I_BUFFER_ACTIVE                   = SPACE
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               I_CALLBACK_USER_COMMAND           = 'USER_COMMAND_LOCAL'
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            I_CALLBACK_HTML_TOP_OF_PAGE       = ' '
            I_CALLBACK_HTML_END_OF_LIST       = ' '
             I_STRUCTURE_NAME                  = 'SFLIGHT'
            I_BACKGROUND_ID                   = ' '
            I_GRID_TITLE                      =
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              IS_LAYOUT                         = G_LAYOUT
              IT_FIELDCAT                       = XFIELD[]
            IT_EXCLUDING                      =
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            IT_SORT                           =
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            IT_EVENT_EXIT                     =
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--> p1        text
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DATA: LS_FCAT TYPE SLIS_FIELDCAT_ALV,
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REFRESH XFIELD.
       1. per Default eingeblendete Felder                          *
*........Ikone/Symbol..................................................
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            INCONSISTENT_INTERFACE = 1
            PROGRAM_ERROR          = 2
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LS1_FCAT-CHECKBOX = 'X'.
LS1_FCAT-KEY       = 'X'.
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LS1_FCAT-EDIT     = 'X'.
LS1_FCAT-INTTYPE   = 'C'.
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LS1_FCAT-SELTEXT_M = LS1_FCAT-FIELDNAME.
LS1_FCAT-SELTEXT_L = LS1_FCAT-FIELDNAME.
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LS_SP_GROUP-TEXT     = 'SPECIAL'.
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How to create subpicture for a button?

Hello!
I have really tried to find the answer to this rather silly problem on my own, but without result. Please help someone!
The situation:
I have a menu with three choices: "Play Movie", "Scene Selection" and "Subtitles". Now, the text presenting these choices are part of the background image, created in Premiere (the program I know best). They are written with an old typewriter to get that gritty feeling.
I want the user to scroll between these "menu items". The currently selected item should be indicated by a black circle/spot/dot before the text of the item. By default, when the menu appears, there is a black circle in front of (to the immediate left of) the item "Play Movie". The user should now be able to step with his/her remote to the other items, thereby making the black circle in front of "Play Movie" disappear and appearing instead before some of the other items. In short: the black circle is always showing before the currently selected item. OK, I got a bit verbose there, but the idea got across hopefully. One more thing: the background color is 100% white.
Up to this point, my solution was this: I placed black circles (small images with gradation and all, very nice looking) in front of ALL THREE ITEMS. Then I convert these into buttons. Then I choose the color set for the menu so that the unselected state is 100% white, plain and simple, with 100% opacity, thereby covering the black circles that should not show. Only in the selected and activated states does opacity for the button subpicture drop to 0%, thereby revealing the black circle that should be seen.
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What I tried ws this: I created a monochrome, small image in bmp format - a black circle on white background. But this image just shows up as a black rectangle in Encore.
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Regards,
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Basically, when one realizes the limitations of the Sub-picture Highlights, as set by the DVD-specs., it's easy to see the "workaround."
A couple of the aspects of Sub-picture Highlights are:
1.) 2-bit color (either ON, or OFF), from a limited color palette, with degrees of Transparency (the opposite of PS's Opacity).
2.) they will appear on top of anything else on the Menu, including things like Button text/graphics.
By constructing your Sub-picture Highlight in PS, you can use Masking to define where it will be, and where it will not be. In the case that prompted my article, the poster had a series of Text Buttons, and the Sub-picture Highlights were formed from that Text. The poster did not like the look of those 2-bit jagged blocks of color overlying the Text in the Button. The workaround is to "punch a hole" in the Sub-picture Highlight, so that it is hollow, where the Button's Text appears. This is done in PS, by using the "outline" of that Text to create a Mask for the Sub-picture Highlight. The jagged aspect can be adjusted a bit, by using a degree of Transparency (set in the non-Auto Color Set back in Encore). We still have a 2-bit color Sub-picture Highlight, and it still overlays the Button's Text, but now there is a hole in it, right where the Button's Text is located, and it is seen through that hole. The introduction of Transparency has the visual effect of "softening" the look of the 2-bit color, even though the jagged edges are still there - they just look softer. I went on to show how one could even use a second Sub-picture Highlight, that is just a bit larger than the first, and with more Transparency to simulate a "glow." Now, we cannot have a real "glow," because we are limited to that 2-bit color for the Sub-picture Highlight, but we can simulate it.
Much of what a designer does is really slight of hand - illusion. They all have to work within the limitations of the DVD (or BD) specs., but with a bit of creativity, planning and some work in PS and Encore, they can create enough smoke and use enough mirrors to fool the user into believing that what they think they see skirt the DVD-specs. They do not, but that's where the illusion comes in.
We get a lot of questions from people, who claim that one commercial DVD, or another, has full-color Sub-picture Highlights and they complain that Encore cannot do that - only 2-bit Sub-picture Highlights. What they are seeing, but do not realize it, is a dupe Menu, with a full-color graphic, and no real Sub-picture Highlight visible. Jeff gives full details on doing this. Same for those who have seen a Button with a duo-tone thumbnail, that turns full-color, when the Button is navigated to. Wow, how did they do that, and why can't Adobe Encore do that? Well, what they saw was a dupe Menu, with a full-color thumbnail and no visible real Sub-picture Highlight.
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These are all just tricks, but if the user buys into the illusion, who's to know?
Enjoy,
Hunt
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2:
]newclass *CustomClass in @interface's {}
and THEN
@property (nonatomic, retain) newclass *CustomClass;
in the header file also.
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Based on my limited understanding at this point, I find the need to
@property (nonatomic, retain) newclass *CustomClass;
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hi,
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/html/plsqldoc/pldoc904/wwsbr_api_view.html
this only allows you to search for the meta-data available in the CM views but not the content of an item that is available when doing a search.
in the next major portal release we will have a publich search API that can be used for these type of requirements. you can execute your search and format the results in the way you want.
regards,
christian

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Learning how to look things up in the documentation is time well spent investing in your career. To that end, you should drop everything else you are doing and do the following:
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Locate the link for your Oracle product and version, and click on it.
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BOOKMARK THAT LOCATION
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Spend a few minutes just getting familiar with what kind of documentation is available there by simply browsing the titles under the "Books" tab.
Open the Reference Manual and spend a few minutes looking through the table of contents to get familiar with what kind of information is available there.
Do the same with the SQL Reference Manual.
Do the same with the Utilities manual.
You don't have to read the above in depth. They are reference manuals. Just get familiar with what is there to be referenced. Ninety percent of the questions asked on this forum can be answered in less than 5 minutes by simply searching one of the above manuals.
Then set yourself a plan to dig deeper.
- *Read a chapter a day from the Concepts Manual*.
- Take a look in your alert log. One of the first things listed at startup is the initialization parms with non-default values. Read up on each one of them (listed in your alert log) in the Reference Manual.
- Take a look at your listener.ora, tnsnames.ora, and sqlnet.ora files. Go to the Network Administrators manual and read up on everything you see in those files.
- *When you have finished reading the Concepts Manual, do it again*.
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