User friendly way to let user pick a report?

I have a table that stores report names, the user that generated the report and report date. What is the best method for displaying a list of available reports and letting the user select one for viewing? Would it be an LOV?
Darren

Hai,
Try Tree View Or List item with List Style as Tlist. Because the user can see more than 1 report name at a time.
Regards,
Manu.

Similar Messages

Group and display characteristics in a user friendly way

Hi all,
We have a scenario where we have created a DOC type which we assigned to a class with several characteristics.
The problem is that the characteristics are not disaplayed in a very user friendly way in tab "additinal data".
Is there any customizing we can do in order to group the characteristics?
For example:
-Is it possible to show 3 or 4 characteristics and then have an empty line and then show another 4
-or Is it possible to customize to create sub tabs?
Any other ideas that can make it easier for the end users to change/display their characteristics would be helpful!
Best Regards
Mikael

Hi,
Is there any customizing we can do in order to group the characteristics?
For example:
-Is it possible to show 3 or 4 characteristics and then have an empty line and then show another 4
-or Is it possible to customize to create sub tabs?
All the configuration data is stored in some tables. So adding some lines as a separator into a database won't be possible since tables have fields which have certain data types which won't match the requirement.
Hence your requirement cannot be met.
Hope this answers your query.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

Most user friendly way to browse document libraries for saving documents

We are trying to figure out the most user friendly way to save office documents to different site collection document libraries. The locations appear fine when we click "save as" for recent folders. We can even click browse and use
the up arrow for getting closer to the root path of the site. This works fine, but there is not an easy way navigate to a different site collection. Sure, I can copy/paste the web address in the file path, but I think that is asking too much for
basic end users. Is there a different approach I am not aware of?
Thanks,

How about Link a library to the Windows Favorites Folder, the use favorite to save document.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJeRX-h7Hjw
Please 'propose as answer' if it helped you, also 'vote helpful' if you like this reply.

HT4009 Not very user friendly! Where is the place to report a problem!? I have been billed for an in-app purchase but not had the goods - I received an error message telling my I hadn't been charged at the time and now it is on my bill! What can I do?

Not very user friendly! Where is the place to report a problem!? I have been billed for an in-app purchase but not had the goods - I received an error message telling my I hadn't been charged at the time and now it is on my bill! What can I do?

You can try contact iTunes support via this page : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Purchases, Billing & Redemption

Load external text in a user friendly way

Ok this is what i want to do.
I know how to load external text files in AS3 but I want the user to be able to do it from within my excited swf file. The obvious way to do this is to load the text file using a string from a dynamic text field (e.g: "myfile/myTextFeild.txt") but i want it to be more user friendly.
If you click file open in Microsoft word, for example, you get the user friendly open box where you can find the file you want to load by browsing through your hard-drive.
Can you do something like this is AS3?
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks

see if you can extrapolate the path from there. FileReferenceList.browse()

Handling contraint violations in a user friendly way

How do you trap constraint violation errors is a user friendly manner ...
I've seen a number of related posts on the forum but have not yet seen a solution that people are happy with.
Ideally, Id like to:
- avoid displaying the 'raw' oracle error to the user
- display a user-friendly message in an alert box
- sent the user back to the entry forms with his
entered data present.
This requirement seems fundamental to the development of a reasonable application, somebody must have solved it.

I'm no expert, but here's info from my own experience.
1. Trap those pk/uk constraint violations in an appropriate exception block. Get this working and test it under all conceivable exceptions.
2. Write an exception handler, producing the javascript/html/redirects you need.
Oracle exception handling is pretty mature, but you need to put some effort in to catching everything listed in the package throws declarations.
If you're working with forms or other components the approach is different, but you weren't terribly specific in your question.

User-friendly way to issue chown commands on remote servers

I'd like my technically unversed users to have, on demand, the benefit of chown commands giving them ownership of certain files being executed on remote servers. I'd like this to be doable without administrators' involvement and with no physical access to the servers by any of the users being entailed.
By "benefit of chown commands" I mean the results a competent user would get entering the command if he or she were actually doing so. By "technically unversed" I mean specifically that said users aren't and won't ever be trained to ssh into subject servers and issue chown commands themselves directly.
I should mention that the "Get Info" interface does not in this case avail users of a way to take ownership of particular files because ACEs apply to the files in question. That ACEs apply changes what is presented: instead of any editable fields under Ownership and Permissions, all users see in the "Get Info" interface is a list of whatever ACEs apply.
Please note that users do, by virtue of ACEs, have "change ownership" permissions for the files in question. Also, authentication to the servers in question under subject users' own logins is possible as necessary.
What I'd like to start with is getting some idea how complicated this could be for me to do myself as a beginning AppleScripter. I'll describe what I guess would be involved and hope for someone to shed light.
I'm guessing that something the user at his or her own machine does involving a file he or she has selected would constitute an Apple Event which a process on the client would send to a process on the server. Then I expect the server process would issue the chown command locally respectively of
1) which file was selected when the Apple Event took place, and
2) subject user's identity.
Finally, I expect some feedback might contingently be sent to client process incidentally to need to give user feedback.
Is this a fair sketch of how this should work? What is a beginner with limited time likely to accomplish attempting this?
(Find context for this posting here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=831517&tstart=0)
PowerMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

First, if I understand you correctly, I'd be using
Curl and, say, Perl rather than Applescript to get
this done. In other words, what you wrote in
Applescript is about all I'd need in that
language--yes?
That's correct, give or take any errors in the script. (For obvious reasons I didn't test it.)
Then, please note that I want to chown, not chmod. Is
this an issue?
Nope. (Beyond what you pointed out below.)
I am looking at Perl documentation and read that "on
most systems, you are not allowed to change the
ownership of the file unless you're the superuser..."
(http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/chown.html).
However, isn't apache running as root?
I never thought about that. Wow, this is complicated! Are you really sure you can't make do with chmod instead?
Anyway, the answer is yes and no. The main Apache process usually runs as root, but executes CGI scripts (and other requests) as another user to avoid inherent insecurity. So unless you do something terribly, terribly insecure, you will not be able to chown from Perl. (And, although I am often lax about security, enabling root access for CGIs strikes even me as dangerous, which means it's a very bad idea.)
Really what you want is for the CGI, which does not run as root, to hand off to another process which does. I'm not a Unix guru, and would never claim to be, but I think the two following methods might work:
1. Set up a cron job running as root which looks in a directory once every minute/hour/whatever. The file name should be the user to change the owner to, and it should contain a delimited (in some form; return is possibly safe) list of files. Have the cron job walk through the list of files and use chown, then clobber the contents of the file. (Note that a CGI can use "chmod", which can make sure that the files it creates in the directory are readable by the cron job.) (Also note that you'll want to use flock to avoid race conditions between the cron job and the CGI!) This method would not be instantaneous, since the cron job only runs periodically.
2. Set up a script which runs as root which takes a line of text in the format:
user:path/to/file
and executes chown using that information. Make this process run at startup as root. Have it open a named pipe, with permissions such that CGI script can write to it, and watch for input from that pipe.
Some general notes:
A. Whatever you do, make sure that the binary/script/whatever running as root can't be written to by anyone who doesn't have root permissions.
B. Make sure to check that the user and file actually exist before doing anything with them. (And make sure to do it in the root process, since you have no guarantee that someone won't figure out what's going on and come up with some clever injection scheme to make your root process break security.) (And don't do it by passing a command to the shell; use Perl's chown or some equivalent, so that you'll be somewhat less vulnerable.)
C. For that matter, don't forget to check and make sure that the path you're about to chown is within the share point, and that the user you're going to chown to makes sense in context, so that nobody can (for example) take over someone else's user directory, or get write permission to /sbin, or something evil like that. (In fact, it might be for the best if you limited the chown operations to files only, just to be sure.)
Also, I get the part about how a constraint involving
"do shell script" method argues against using pure
Applescript in this case. But just for my information
is Applescript otherwise sufficiently capable?
If it weren't such matter of getting everything on
one line, could Applescript send commands between
hosts, convert local paths to paths on servers, issue
change ownership commands, and handle authentication?
Do methods adequate to those purposes exist in
Applescript?
Or would using multiple scripting languages be
entailed anyway? I'm guessing the latter.
Yes and no. Helpful answer, right?
First and foremost: AppleScript was originally created as a language to control programs, which would have an extensible grammar through the installation of files called "Scripting Additions". It has since been puffed up via AppleScript Studio to an application-building language in its own right, but the language itself does not have support for a lot of things which, nevertheless, the language can do by controlling another program or by extension.
AppleScript can send messages between hosts. If the remote host is a Mac, and has "Remote Apple Events" turned on in the "Sharing" control panel, then you can send commands to programs on the remote machine almost exactly as though they were local. (The only differences are in how you specify the application and how you let AppleScript know what the remote application "understands".) This support is built into the language.
If the remote host is not a Mac, you must control a program which can "translate". When it comes to terminal programs, for security reasons Apple did not include any interactive systems which could be controlled. (Although they did include "expect", I see, which would theoretically allow you to work around this...)
Since converting a path is really just text processing, yes, AppleScript can do that. I didn't try to build that in because I am under the impression that you know some other language/shell scripting tool better than AppleScript, so it makes better sense for you to put as much of the work into the parts you know, in order to make debugging easier. One method of doing it in AppleScript:
set x to [a POSIX path found somehow for a file on a connected server]
if (the offset of "/Volumes/" in x) is 1 then
-- "the offset of" uses 1-based offsets, not 0 as in most languages
set x to text 10 through -1 of x
-- This removes "/Volumes/" from the beginning of x
set x to text ((the offset of "/" in x) + 1) through -1 of x
-- That removes up through the next slash, which is the volume name
set x to "/Path/To/The/Share/Point/On/The/Server/" & x
else
error "The path isn't in /Volumes/, so either the server is mounted in a nonstandard way or the path isn't on a remote host at all." number 9000
end if
(The other method of which I am aware is to change AppleScript's text item delimiter to "/", convert the path to a list, test whether the first item is "Volumes", then put together items 3 and up into a string again. I have always had a semi-irrational prejudice against using this method because Apple's documentation circa about 1996, from which I learned AppleScript, made it sound like this might be dangerous, but it works.)
The Finder (which can be scripted) can apparently change ownership and permissions -- a fact which I did not know until just now; I must have missed it last time I looked for it -- and of course "do shell script" can be used to call "chmod" and "chown". The problem with both of these methods, vis-a-vis your particular difficulty, is that your files are not local. You could turn on Remote Apple Events and have the Finder do it, but that's really a security hole. And a potentially maddening one to figure out if anyone starts exploiting it.
I'd stick with a CGI and the cron/named pipe scheme. No matter what you do you're going to have a little extra security risk, just because chown requires root permissions, but minimizing that risk is probably a good thing.

How to provide an easy way for end users to join a specific sharepoint group

Hi,
I have created a sharepoint group with auto accept requests to join the group.
However to join the group users have to go to the specific membership of the group and click "actions->join group" on the url: <a href="http:///_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=592"> Surely there is a more user friendly
way to join a group in SP2013 right? Can I create a link users can simply click on that joins them to the specific group?
Thanks in advance

I'm not sure this was ever designed to be user friendly as typically only Admins or those with elevated permissions would see these groups. There isn't as far as I can see, any way to add this step within a Wokflow too, unless you're able to install
some third party steps.
Steven Andrews
SharePoint Business Analyst: LiveNation Entertainment
Blog: baron72.wordpress.com
Twitter: Follow @backpackerd00d
My Wiki Articles:
CodePlex Corner Series
Please remember to mark your question as "answered" if this solves (or helps) your problem.

Is there a way to go back to the old calendar system rather than the one currently in ios7? The ios7 calendar is cumbersome and not user friendly.

Is there a way to go back to the old calendar system rather than the ios7 calendar? The ios7 calendar in the iphone does not allow one to see the exact time of appointments in the month mode, it is not user friendly. It's lost its flexibility. How can I go back to the old operating system?

I'm sorry, but Apple does not provide a downgrade path for iOS. Because downgrading is unsupported by Apple we cannot discuss it on these forums.
You may leave comments at Apple Feedback.

This is old. ITunes doesnot have a support you can call to get things done. There needs to be an easier way to contact them? The screens are not user friendly.

Help! I need to contact ITunes by email because they have no phones to call anyone. The screens are not user friendly. This makes life very diffcult.

Click Support at the top of the page, then click Contact Us.
Very simple.

How to let user download multi files at the same time in WebDynpro ABAP?

hi all:
As you know, WeyDynpor has provided upload/download UI element, but it seems that it only support one file upload/downlaod at the same time.The following is the API method to download one file in Webdynpro:
    cl_wd_runtime_services=>attach_file_to_response(
     EXPORTING
       i_filename      = lv_filename
       i_content       = lv_content
       i_mime_type     = lv_mine_type
       i_in_new_window = abap_true
       i_inplace       = abap_false
*      EXCEPTIONS
*        others          = 1
but if when use click one button, we want to provide user a html file plus 2 icons files which are used as this html file's resource file, then how to let user download these 3 files together at the same time?
one simple way is calling the download api (cl_wd_runtime_services=>attach_file_to_response) 3 times,
but it is very ugly that three popup windows are shown to let user select every file's download path, which is unaccepted.
So anyone know more convienient way to handle it?
thanks.

Hi,
I suggest you to zip the files and attach it to the response. Do the add file part for each of your files
     "References
     DATA lr_zip TYPE REF TO cl_abap_zip.
     "Variables
     DATA lv_zip_xstring TYPE xstring.
     DATA lv_zip_name TYPE string.
     DATA lv_file_content TYPE xstring.
     DATA lv_file_name TYPE string.
     "Create instance
     CREATE OBJECT lr_zip.
     "Add file
     lr_zip_attachments->add(
       EXPORTING name = lv_file_name
              content = lv_file_content ).
     lr_zip_attachments->save( RECEIVING zip = lv_zip_xstring ).
     "Attach zip file to response
     cl_wd_runtime_services=>attach_file_to_response(
       EXPORTING i_filename      = lv_zip_name
                 i_mime_type     = 'ZIP/APPLICATION'
                 i_content       = lv_zip_xstring ).

Why is iTunes so frustrating and un-user friendly?

Hi all,
I switched from an android phone and table to the iPad and iPhone about 6 months ago and cannot believe how much easier to use they are. I've not had one single issue with Apple's hardware and honestly don't think I could live without my iPad, it's my TV, my library, my stereo, my PC. I use it for absolutely everything.
However, iTunes for Windows is one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used. I have a 2.6ghz laptop with 8gb of ram running Windows 7. iTunes is constantly hanging up my system, crashing to the desktop, taking hours to do a simple sync and tonight I have encountered an issue where iTunes is refusing to import the mp3s I have asked it to.
I have booked a call for tomorrow morning regarding the latter issue, but I really just want to know why iTunes isn't as good as their hardware. It really ruins my user experience with my Apple products. How can they get their hardware so right and their software so wrong? The maddening thing is that unless I jailbreak my products I have absolutely no choice but to use iTunes to get content onto my devices.
I've done a Google search on iTunes problems and there literally thousands and thousands of people who have been experiencing these issues year after year. Funnily enough it appears to be Windows users that suffer the most, iTunes seems to run as you would expect it to on Macs.
I'm so frustrated that if my play around with my friends new Google Nexus tablet goes well at the weekend I may sell my iPad and iPhone and return to android, that is of course if the Nexus can do what my iPad can do, and do it well.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make iTunes work better or have any insight into the reason why Apple does not seem to be listening to the thousands of people complaining about the iTunes software? Any input would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
A very frustrated and disappointed iPad lover!

I totally agree. I have been an avid apple user, iPhones, iPad, iTouch, iMac and apple tv... until I get to try Samsung Note 4 and was surprised how easy to configure everything. Apple keeps on changing the set up for itunes in so many ways that busy people really don't have time to sit down and learn with it. My last iPad 4th Generation will be the last for this and will jump into Android. There are more problems that I don't have time to elaborate but if people will see the difference, they will surely give up Apple and jump into Android. The hardware quality of apple and the battery life has been noticeably diminishing. The issue on Audiobooks purchased has remained one of the problems for apple users. You can't just download the audiobooks you already purchased easily each time there is an update on the OS. I have done my research and I see a lot of people facing problems with this. If you want apple.. you should have the time to sit down and update always the software, learn the new things that keeps on changing for the better but most often conflicts with other applications that they need to ask you to download again the newest firmware and so on until you realize the gadget that is supposed to give you convenience and comfort is now taking so much of your time and will be part of your routine. On the other side, Android is not restricted... it is merely like an external gadget attached to your computer. And that makes a huge difference. I hope Apple will hear this and make iTunes not a requirement to transfer files from computer to your gadget. TIME is valuable to us as well, what is comfort and convenience if you spend most of your time attached to your gadget just because you need to keep up with it. A quarterly update or twice a year update with a specified date should be an answer to this... We should be in control of our gadgets and not be controlled by it. Apple is in control of the user... while Android users are not enslave with the gadget but controls on how we want to use them. Huge difference on that perspective.

How to create user-friendly MDX parameters for MS Reporting Services?

In SQL Server Reporting Service, when I connect to my cube to create a dataset, in Query Designer I create my query with a filter. It creates the following MDX for me:
SELECT NON EMPTY
KPIValue("KPI1"), KPIGoal("KPI1"), KPIStatus("KPI1")
ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY
[Create Date].[Month Num].[Month Num].ALLMEMBERS * [Create Date].[Hierarchy].[Month].ALLMEMBERS
DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION,
MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM
( SELECT
( STRTOSET(@CreateDateYear, CONSTRAINED) )
ON COLUMNS FROM [ERP])
WHERE
( IIF( STRTOSET(@CreateDateYear, CONSTRAINED).Count = 1,
STRTOSET(@CreateDateYear, CONSTRAINED),
[Create Date].[Year].currentmember ) )
CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, BACK_COLOR,
FORE_COLOR, FORMATTED_VALUE,
FORMAT_STRING, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS
When I add this dataset, Reporting Services creates a parameter named CreateDateYear. When I pass a value like "2014" to this parameter I get nothing and I have to pass a value like
[Create Date].[Year].&[2014].
How can I change my report to change this parameter for passing the value like "2014" instead of ugly and not user-friendly string
[Create Date].[Year].&[2014]?

Hi ,
Follow the below steps
1. Create a dataset with MDX as below which would return the member caption (2005,2006 etc) and member uniquename ([Date].[Calendar Year].&[2005],[Date].[Calendar
Year].&[2006] etc)
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterCaption] AS [Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION
MEMBER [Measures].[ParameterValue] AS [Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.UNIQUENAME
SELECT {[Measures].[ParameterCaption], [Measures].[ParameterValue]} ON COLUMNS
, [Date].[Calendar Year].ALLMEMBERS ON ROWS
FROM [Adventure Works]
2. In the parameter's available values choose the above data set and set the options as
Value Field = ParameterValue
ValueCaption = ParameterCaption
In this way use will see only the years and based on the selection the respective values will be passed to the dataset as parameter.
Best Regards Sorna

Is it possible to change the Calendar 7.0 view to show 2 weeks instead of 1 week or month view. I find the month view is far too messy and the 1 week too short. To date I found the previous version more visibly user friendly

I have upgraded to Mavericks and have found the Calendar 7.0 not visually user friendly. The week view is too resrictive and the month view far too messy. Is there any way of editting the view, the ability to change the colour and thickness of the grid lines would at least help. This version of Calendar seems to be a retrograde step.

Agree. Positively loathe the new calendar display - each day blends into the next and I can't get my information at a glance. Looks like it's time to switch to BusyCal or Google Calendar.

I have downloaded IOS7 on my iPhone and all calendar events have disappeared. The general functions of the calendar have changed and are definitely not 'user friendly'. How can I retrieve my calendar events. Will Apple improve the calendar function

I have downloaded IOS7 on my iPhone and all calendar events have disappeared. The general functions of the calendar have changed and are definitely not 'user friendly'. How can I retrieve my calendar events. Will Apple improve the calendar function or revert to the previous system. Even the typing function on IOS 7 is faulty - very slow to respond to the keyboard. I no longer enjoy using my iPhone. Can anyone assist. Thank you

Very strange! All of my calendar events have reappeared. This has happened one week after downloading iOS 7
The calendar however, is not easy to use.
The typing function on the phone has become even slower. Have to wait for each letter to show on screen.

User friendly way to let user pick a report?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for