Using Captivate 5.5 user variable in Designer ES2
Can I use Captivate 5.5 user or system variables in LiveCycle Designer ES2 to fill form data?
Yes, I'm sure it is frustrating, and it is not good news if CP5 has some of the same issues. Two suggestions if you haven't already done so: put a request in to widget author for a AS3 version, especially since CP5 doesn't support AS2. Also, place a bug report on this site, and see if an Adobe engineer responds (occasionally they do).
Best of luck.
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Using define for the user variable/
Hii,
I am trying to define a user variable and then using this variable trying to output the result. plz help
1 define ename = 'TURNER'
2 declare
3 result number(7,2);
4 begin
5 select sal into result from emp
6 where ename = '&ename';
7 dbms_output.put_line(result);
8* end;
SQL> /
Enter value for ename: turner
define ename = 'TURNER'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement
thanks
sharathSQL> set serveroutput on
SQL> define ename = 'TURNER'
SQL> declare
2 result number(7,2);
3 begin
4 select sal
5 into result
6 from emp
7 where ename = '&&ename';
8 dbms_output.put_line(result);
9 end;
10 /
old 7: where ename = '&&ename';
new 7: where ename = 'TURNER';
1500
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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jeneesh
One '&' is enough!My mistake.Thanks Kamal Kishore.. -
Persistent User Variable in ICM
I was wondering if anyone knows what the maximum number of persistent user variables that can be configured on an ICM Enterprise platform. I understand that these are logged to the Logger database so there has to be some limitation.
I am going to be needing to use about 265 persistant User variables, I just wanted to check if anyone could see any issues with that?Hi David,
I know it is a lot but it is for a self service IVR that is interfacing to a credit card transaction back end, so we will need to keep unique sequence IDs for 240 different unique transaction numbers.
For instance example when a call is received it will be given a transaction ID such as 480020001, this will then be be combined with a sequence number (0001-9999) to give a unique Transaction ID. When the call completes successfully, we increment the sequence number for that transaction ID. The problem is that we have 240 of these transaction ID's and each will have it's own sequence number...
I was thinking that the ICM user variables could be used rather than a database lookup. However I have not ruled out the database yet or any alternative options, as the scripting for the variable would be a real challenge.
Thanks,
Kiarash -
According to this link - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lcdesigneres2_whats_new.html - Acrobat Extended 9 owners should be able to obtain Designer ES2 as an update, but the Customer Service of BOTH LiveCycle and Acrobat don't know how I can upgrade my Designer ES1 (v8.2) to ES2. My Designer came with my Acrobat Extended 9 purchase. Has any Acrobat 9 user upgraded to Designer ES2? How? Thank you.
Hi,
Congrats on your 25 years! That is a great accomplishment.
Perhaps, I was a little cavalier about suggesting that you setup and use a multi-boot environment. It sounds like it is probably easier to have a Windows box nearby! And, I think Adobe should at the very least, throw-in an Win LCD license with any package that includes Acrobat Pro--it is only fair!
Big, corporations are very short-sighted in achieving their profit goals. If a manager invests too far in the future, they will surely lose their job.
Your comment:
"wouldn't it be a valid explanation for all the other Adobe products"
I believe there is a difference in maintenance of an existing product and maintaining it while developing a Mac version. Now that there will be a 0.5 upgrade every year, Adobe has its hands full adding great new features to the CS product line with each release. I would like to think that Designer is part of the CS family, albeit the stepchild, it would seem, and Adobe will continue to improve it at the same rate as other CS products. (Incidentally, releasing a new version every year is another example of being shot-sighted, in my opinion.) Adobe appears to be late in releasing Designer ES3--Acrobat Pro 10 ships with ES 2.5. I personally skipped upgrading to CS 5.5--had Designer 10 been part of it I, would have made the CS 5.5 upgrade. Heck, if Acrobat Pro10 shipped with Designer 10, I would have upgraded to Acrobat Pro 10. I'm still on the 9.0 that shipped with CS 5.0.
Anyway, my point is, Adobe has laid out an ambitious schedule and perhaps Adobe has failed to meet that schedule with regards to Designer. If that is true, I think that puts another nail in the Designer/Mac coffin.
I feel your pain and I hope I am wrong.
Stephen -
When publishing a captivate I get the message "Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name." and it won't allow me to publish the Captivate, can anyone help?
Hi There,
Can you tell me the Operating System and Captivate version you are using?
Also can you confirm if you are getting this issue will this one project or all the projects? Try to copy paste this project on a new blank project and then try to publish.
Regards,
Mayank -
Can you submit a User Variable instead of the Captivate Quiz Score variable to an LMS?
I am attempting to create two quizzes in a course that has branching. I know that Captivate only allows for one quiz if you are using Question type slides, but I am using a simulation to check the knowledge of a process. I want to report one of the simulation completions depending on which branch the user goes to (different branches for different products). How or is it even possible to submit user variables in place of the Captivate Quiz Score variable, the time in the course variable, and the Pass or Fail status to an LMS?
Sadly, I am using Captivate 5.5. I was thinking it should be possible to use Javascript to be able to take a specific variable and submit it to the LMS in place of Captivate's Quiz variables. I just don't know Javascript well enough to know how to do that.
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Unable to publish in Swf format. Get error message reads: 'Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name'. Anyone know how to fix?
Hi There,
Can you tell me the Operating System and Captivate version you are using?
Also can you confirm if you are getting this issue will this one project or all the projects? Try to copy paste this project on a new blank project and then try to publish.
Regards,
Mayank -
Quiz not advancing after incorrect answer (quiz uses user variables to show wrong answers)
Hello All,
Long time lurker, first time poster. Hopefully someone can help me.
After viewing this excellent video on the adobe captivate blog "so what were the right answers anyway" I created a quiz with user variables and a conditional advance action. It displays red crosses next to the each question that was incorrectly answered at the end of the quiz.
I set up user variable for each question with a value of 0. On an incorrect answer the variable would be set to 1.
At the end of the quiz is a slide which lists the question and shows a red cross next to each question with a variable set to 1. uses conditional action which is triggered "On Enter"
This works, but my problem is when I preview the quiz (in browser or as SWF), on an incorrect answer the failure caption appears but will not actually advance to the next question when I click anywhere or press y. It works OK on correct answers.
I can sovle this by adding a next button, but I want to understand what I'm doing wrong.
Using captivate 6.0.1.240 (boxed copy)
windows 7
images on quiz properties and conditional action below
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Jacob CI tested this work flow on 6.1.319 and it works fine. So it is a bit guessing in the wild... no 6.0.1.240 around for the moment. Seems strange, because a simple action like your Assign action should normally release the playhead. But of course it is a question slide and they do not always behave as expected. Could you try to replace the Assign action by a standard advanced action with 2 statements, like this:
Assign var_question_1 with 1
Continue
And please, let me know if it works? This could be a difference between the two versions, but not sure at all.
Lilybiri -
Send Captivate user variables and values to the LMS ?
Hi all. has anyone got a clever way to send a bunch of Captivate user variables and their values to an LMS (Moodle) so that they end up recorded as part of the SCORM course results or do these need to be explicitly part of a Quiz ? I think that I can setup where I get these values from the Learner so that they take the form of a Quiz (even though there is not a right answser) and set the the LMS settings to record interactions and scores. But is there an easier way to send them via LMSSetValue or even using a widget ?
FergalYou can do it, but it will definitely not be the easiest way to achieve the objective. The accessibility of your web form will determine what you can and can not do.
The first issue would be populating the field of the form, and that can be achieved by actually re-generating the form programmatically and assigning a value to the html value tag for that field.
The second issue of "click on the button" is not trivial. If you're in the windows environment you will have to get into intercepting windows messages from the message queues and get the handle of the web browser window and after finding all the relevant information that will change every time this process is performed, is in my opinion not worth the effort.
I would approach this di
fferently in looking at what you are trying to achieve in the first place and that is to do directly with the data what the form would've done.
Forms will either send some e-mail to someone using the submitted data or submit information to a database or write it to a file. If you have a cgi script behind the form you can pass the information directly to the script rather, i.e call the scrip directly in the same way the form would've using your program and skip the form.
If you can be specific about your objectives and give me details about the forms and detail on the web server type and the capabilities of handling various types of cgi scripts I can give you detailed advice and pointers towards achieving the solution.
Questions you need to answer:
What would the form do with the data? (mail, file, database etc.)
How many fields do you need to submit?
What type of web server are you running? (IIS, Apache etc.)
Were is the form hosted, on the www
or on an intranet?
Is it accessible to you to change/add scrips to it?
Hope this helps.
Best regards
Jattie van der Linde
Engineering Manager, Software & Automation
TEL Magnetic Solutions Ltd -
Create User Variable in Captivate via Widget / AS3 ??
Hello all,
I have created a widget which will load many variables into Captive from an XML file. This is great.
Now i don't want to create 100 user variables in the Captivate variables section.
Can you create a user variable within a widget/as3 that will load in Captivate WITHOUT creating the var in Captivate first???
And how might you do this?
Thank you so much!
~ SeanI've had some time to figure this out... so here's what I've found.
When you place a caption on the Cp canvas, it's base AS3 type is an cpItem. Once you add a Captivate user $$variable$$ from the Variables Panel to that caption, the AS3 type becomes an rdCaptionItem which has an event associated with it... Once the variable value is changed, the caption text is automatically updated. You don't get that with a regular cpItem caption.
What does that mean? It means that the caption type is determined at design time and not runtime. So even though you can create variables at runtime, you can't update any captions because the type is still an cpItem with no events. For example, if I wrote the following AS3 code to create the vTest Cp user variable at runtime in a widget:
cpVariables.setVariableValue("vTest", "Hello World!", true);
cpVariables.SetVariableLength("vTest", 100);
and placed $$vTest$$ in a caption, nothing would get updated during runtime because the vTest variable was not created at design time. The caption is still a cpItem and has no associated event to update the caption text with the newly created variable value.
How can we fix this? You can't... as far as I can tell, you need to define the variable at design time in the Captivate Variables Panel. I thought about updating the caption myself by watching for changes in the variable by tapping into the WidgetEvent.VARIABLE_UPDATED event, but the newly created variable was not in the variableNamesArray for the callback... so there was no way to know if and when it changed.
Long story short, Adobe needs to provide a better way to make this easier for widget developers... and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Right now, the ability to create variables at runtime is somewhat useless. It may be good for inter-widget communication, but there's better ways to do that.
Jim Leichliter -
How to use user variable in Member Formula
Hi All
I have to write a member formula for %linearity quarter for a weekly application.This member will be used in reports and we do not want to do this calculation in reports, hence need to write member formula. The formula is
Week1 of Q1 forecast / Q1 Total Forecast , Week2 of Q1 Forecast/ Q1 Forecast.............,Week15 of Q2 forecast/ Q2Total Forecast.......and so on.
According to me it should work in the below mentioned manner , but need help in improvising the formula.
If(@ismbr("Weeks1") or @ismbr("Weeks2") or @ismbr("Weeks3") or @ismbr("Weeks4") or @ismbr("Weeks5") or @ismbr("Weeks6") or @ismbr("Weeks7") or @ismbr("Weeks8") or @ismbr("Weeks9") or @ismbr("Weeks10") or @ismbr("Weeks11") or @ismbr("Weeks12") or @ismbr("Weeks13") or @ismbr("Weeks14") )
"Current_Forecast"/"Q1"->"Current_Forecast";......
If anybody can help in suggesting how can i use user variable in this formula to achieve the required result.
ThanksHi
Thanks for the suggestion and it would be a better idea to use ISIDESC as compared to ISMBR.
I also wanted to ask if in the below mentioned formula if the result of first line is true than will the second line pick the current_forecast value of the respective member of Q1 and divide it by the current_forecast value of Q1.
IF(@ISIDESC("Q1"))
"Current_Forecast"/"Q1"->"Current_Forecast";
Also i need to know how can i write a member formula for week YOY% using user variables.The general formula is
Week 1 of FY13 - Week 1 of FY12/Weeks 1 of FY12
Week 2 of FY13 - Week 2 of FY12/Weeks 2 of FY13 and so on till week 53.
Thanks -
User Variable Options: How can I use them in a Business Rule?
How can I use a "User Variable" set in File / Preferences in a Business Rule? It doesn't seem to appear as an Essbase Substitution Variable or as a Global Variable of Business Rules. The only way I know how to use it is to place the dimension on the POV or Page dimension of a data form, then use a Global Variable in a run time prompt to pick the member and run a BR against it, or some function of it.
What do I do if I want to have that dimension in Columns or Rows? How can I set a BR to directly reference the member chosen under User Variable Options?
JThanks Alp, but I can't seem to reproduce what you are writing below. I want to refer my Business Rule to address the value set in File / Preferences / User Variable Options; no matter what members I show elsewhere in the data form.
My other workaround is through a run time prompt and hope the user selects the appropriate user variable at the very bottom of the selection list in order to calculate the appropriate list of members.
J -
User Variable used in my virtual KF
Hello,
I would like that a BEx user enter a value a variable (into a popup windows) then I will use the result of this variable to calculate a Virtual Key Figures.
Is it Possible ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
StephaneHi Stephane,
please check the HowTo paper underneath for a detailed description how to pass the variable values:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/how to use variable time references in currency conversion
Cheers
Andreas -
Odd Behaviour using User Variables to select members in Planning form
I have a form to enter budget adjustments and another form to review the effects of those adjustments at a parent Entity level.
For each area of the business there are obviously different adjustment and parent levels required in the form.
In summary I can drive a form from a User Variable using the functions (Children, IChildren, ILvl0Descendants, Descendants and IDescendants) but trying to use other options results in unexpected behaviour.
For example with the following structure:
Entity
-Total Cost Centre
--Group A
---SubGroupA1
---SubGroupA2
---SubGroupA3
---GroupA-Adj
----GroupA-AdjX
-----AdjEntityA1
-----AdjEntityA2
--Group B
---SubGroupB1
---SubGroupB2
---SubGroupB3
---GroupB-Adj
----GroupB-AdjX
-----AdjEntityB1
-----AdjEntityB2
For the adjustment entry form the users would want to see AdjEntityA1 and AdjEntityA2 if they are in business group A.
For the review form they would like to see Group A and its children.
I am trying to avoid writing multiple forms for each business user (largely because the number of groups can vary dramatically). I can't really use generations to drive the selections as whilst the business has effectively levelled the hierarchy business units can be working at different levels of this hierarchy.
I want to offer a couple of options to the business. One will be to define a form that pulls all of the relevant entities into the form and relies on security to restrict the values displayed to the user. The second option would be to utilise User Variables to drive selections. It is the second option I am struggling with.
If we consider a user working in Group A, I think I can see a formulaic way to select the various combinations of Entities if I set the user variable to be GroupA-Adj.
I can define a data form that sets Entity to the L0Descendants of say GroupA-Adj and this is fine.
When I try to define a review form that selects the Isiblings and Parent of GroupA-Adj I hit a problem.
It seems that Children, IChildren, ILvl0Descendants, Descendants and IDescendants works as I would expect.
Using IAncestors and IParents return just the User Variable setting (i.e. just the 'I' part, not the parents or Ancestors).
Siblings, Isiblings, Parents, Ancestors all result in an error message because not all dimensions are represented in the form.
This prevents me using a User Variable to build the review form in which I would like to display the siblings and parent of the entity GroupA-Adj.
Anyone got any ideas?I would love to see the ability to select EDA's from Planning Forms, it would definately make life a little easier.
As CL says, attributes are great at filtering forms and BR's, their only drawback is that you can only use them on sparse dimensional members.
To get round this problem i've relied on security to filter out the accounts i do not need to see in the forms for the specific users, and kept the form selection on @IDESCENDANTS(Account_Parent).
If you wish to filter on the Period dimension and this is a dense dimension, can you not get round the problem with rollups and, for example, @DESCENDANTS(Q1) to only return 3 months in the form, it really depends on your outline structure. -
Inserting user variables into MYSQL database using servlet
I have a servlet that recieves user entered parameters from an html form and inserts them into a user table in MYSQL, or at least is supposed to. I can get it to update the table with specific values but not with the user variables. I know the single quote marks are for inserting specific values but without them it doesn't properly work.
The parameters are parsed correctly into the variables, so I just can't figure out how to ge tthe variables into the database. Any help would be wonderful
register.html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Register</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FDF5E6">
<CENTER><IMG SRC="dvdti.jpg" ALIGN=middle > </CENTER>
<HR>
<H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Please enter your registration details:</H1>
<FORM ACTION="http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/Assignment1.register">
<BR>First Name: <input type="text" NAME="Ufirst_name"><BR>
<BR>Last Name: <input TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Ulast_name"><BR>
<BR>Address: <INPUT TYPE="text" name="Uaddress"><BR>
<BR>E-mail: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Uemail"><BR
<BR>Password: <INPUT TYPE="password" NAME="Upassword"><BR>
<CENTER>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Register">
</CENTER>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
register.java:
package Assignment1;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;
// Connects to a database to retrieve music data
public class register extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
// Database connection code starts here
Connection conn = null;
// loading jdbc driver for mysql (help in mysql.jar file in classpath)
try{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
// connecting to database
try{
// connection string for demos database, username demos, password demo-pass
conn = DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc:mysql://mudfoot.doc.stu.mmu.ac.uk:3306/roddiea?user=roddiea&password=");
System.out.println("Connection to database successful.");
catch(SQLException se) {
System.out.println(se);
// Create select statement and execute it
try { Statement stmt2 = conn.createStatement();
// Get the regdetails from the reg form
String Ufirst_name = request.getParameter("Ufirst_name");
String Ulast_name = request.getParameter("Ulast_name");
String Uaddress = request.getParameter("Uaddress");
String Uemail = request.getParameter("Uemail");
String Upassword = request.getParameter("Upassword");
stmt2.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO customer(first_name, last_name, address, email, password)" + "VALUES('Ufirst_name', 'Ulast_name', 'Uaddress', 'Uemail', 'Upassword')");
System.out.println (stmt2);
out.println(stmt2);
out.println(Ufirst_name + Ulast_name + Uaddress + Uemail + Upassword);
// close the html
out.println("</BODY></HTML>");
stmt2.close();
conn.close();
}catch(SQLException se) {
System.out.println(se);
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I also realise that this is a more MYSQL titled problem, but those forums look rubbish <_<Investigate PreparedStatement.
Currently you're trying to insert a value "Ufirst_name" instead of the value of the variable called Ufirst_name.
It's possible to do this (you could do something like this: "... '" + UfirstName + "' ...") but DEFINITELLY NOT RECOMMENDED. Instead use a prepared statement.
D.
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