Workflow bug

Ok I am having a really odd problem with a workflow I use quite a lot.
Basically, I use it to duplicate and resize images that I then upload manually to a website. The workflow is saved as a finder plugin, so all I do is select the images I want and tell OS X to run the workflow on them. The workflow starts with Get Selected Finder items, then duplicates, does some renaming and then resizes the duplicated files.
This used to run fine under Tiger, but stopped working under leopard. No big deal, I just figured that the commands had been revised and that I'd have to build a new workflow, which I did. The new workflow runs perfectly under automator - I open the workflow in automator, use finder to select the files I want, then run the workflow and everything is fine. The trouble is, it doesnt work as a finder plug in anymore - it shows up in the automator section of the finder menu, but when it runs, it does NOTHING!
I really do not understand how or why this is happening... anyone out there have any clue about this? I can send the workflow to you if you want.

This one seems to suggest that your problem is with the rename action. There isn't a solution in that particular thread, but perhaps an AppleScript could be used to replace the buggy action. You also might take a look at Apple's Automator Actions page for something else that may work for you.

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3146: Commit happened in activity/function - Workflow Bug?????

Here is my problem:
I get a 3146: Commit happened in activity/function error in my workflow.
Yes many state that I should remove all commits from my code and let the workflow do it for me BUT... there are no commits in my code, I removed them all.
Anybody has an idea? Is this some sort of workflow bug? Is there a workaround?
--Dmitry

This is not a workflow bug. There is a commit inside the code being called for that activity. :) May be somewhere inside the downstream APIs called from within your code.
Try a simple function activity code with simple statements. You will not see this error.
The reason for this error is, the workflow engine sets a savepoint just before executing a function activity so that in case of an error, it can rollback to that savepoint. If it does not find the savepoint after the function activity completes, engine assumes only a commit could have removed it after it was set. So check what could have erased the commit.
Thanks

Change of supplier move-in error

hello everybody,
i am executing change of supplier. In the distribution company i have the following error in the WF log:
"A move-in is already due on 01.03.2009 for installation XXXXX (contract YYYYYYY)"
i checked and prior to the execution of Change of supplier no move-in was available for the Business Partner or installation and the Supply scenario was correct with the Old supplier.
Actually the contract YYYYYYY is the one that the Workflow creates for the move-in process. And of course i get an Agent decision required message and an item in my inbox.
Another strange fact is that, when i continue the execution of the workflow without any manual modification, the change of supplier is executed succesfully.
Any ideas about what could be the problem? Customizing problem? Workflow? parameters of the Switch document? i would like to execute this process as automatically as possible.
Regards
Ponce

Hi,
I strongly think it is workflow bug. You need verify each step in the workflow and see why it is generating this message.
-Anand

Adobe Creative Cloud Good Move or Bad??

Any insight on what you think of the Creative Cloud apps?

Other side of the coin
Hi Phatgi,
As has been mentioned by the majority of professional creatives (thus NOT Adobe sales people and staff) CC is indeed a good move for the financial future of the CEO, head management and shareholders of Adobe.
For the customer the switch to CC has the following negative results and/or effects for the customer:
1.Your software upgrades automatically, introducing new, potentially production show-stopping, bugs that may/will cause you to lose clients.
2. Updates are completely up to the discretion of Adobe, and since they already have your monthly upkeep, their motivation to provide timely and quality product updates has been lowered. For example, Photoshop CC introduced a serious workflow bug (hidden layers will be selected by the move tool) that is still unresolved. Flash CC removed essential animation features. Premiere CC introduced some show-stopping "features". And so on. Congrats! You became their new beta testers.
3. The pricing structure is simple: you pay, and you get to play. You do not own the software. No perpetual licenses. It is up to Adobe's goodwill to allow you access to their tools. You cannot use the software unless you pay the upkeep. Should you forget about that expiry date on the credit card, your deadline is forfeit, and you lose your client. This has already happened to customers.
4. Cloud-based services check your uploaded content for "bad" things, like unlicensed and unlawful use according to Adobe rules. This is done automatically, and we may block your access to this content, even though it is YOUR content. Then you will have to prove it is yours. You may lose the freedom to use content as you want. Your content is watched by Adobe at all times.
5. Many free and other commercial desktop applications exist already, outside the "Adobe Cloud" that allowyou to build and publish websites, mobile apps, iPad publications, and content for any medium or device without the "Adobe Cloud". Most, if not all, of these alternatives are superior to the "Adobe Cloud".
5. The previous simple perpetual license options gave you and your team access to the very latest versions of all the Adobe professional creative desktop applications like Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and also give you a choice which applications you would actually NEED at a reduced price. You could pay just for one license of InDesign for your entire team installable on one machine, and two licenses of the Adobe Web production suite. This would have saved you and your company a lot of money. Adobe took away that choice from you. Simpler? Yes, perhaps. But they also took away our freedom of choice.
7. There is no exit strategy. Once you stop paying, you cannot access your files
Adobe holds your content hostage.
8. You cannot pay once for a version, and keep using it, even if you decide that version's features are all you will ever need for your work. You have no choice in this matter. (CS6 will be binned sooner or later, and only a subscription option will then be available).
At present these above features are very depressing. There are more new features yet to to be rolled out to consolidate control over you the Adobe customer. All your bases are belong to us.
http://vimeo.com/66594939#at=0
Regards
Herbert (A creative professional of Adobe software since Photoshop V3, and who has quit using all Adobe software earlier this year, and now works with alternative software he actually owns and has control over.)

Bug with workflow that creates a folder and sub folder with the same name.

Hi,
I've found a possible bug in SharePoint 2010 workflows. I only have access to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 over my companies intranet, afaik I don't have access to to logs or anything server side so sorry for the any missing information.
I had some problems with a workflow in one list that needed to create some folders and subfolders in a second list. The production version did a lot more so I setup a test area with 1 list and a workflow that only does the folder creation part and have managed
to consistently replicate this problem.
The test list has two columns, [title] and [sub folder title]
The workflow starts by getting the values for [title] and [sub folder title] into variables.
It then creates a folder in the same list with the same name as [title], and then creates a sub folder under this with the name from [sub folder title]
So the resulting structure would be:
Test List:-
List item with fields [title] and [sub folder title]
[folder: title]:-
[folder: sub folder title]
If both folder names are different (e.g Folder1 and Folder2) then it works perfectly fine, if both folder names are the same (regardless of character case, e.g. samefolderName and sameFolderName) then the workflow fails.
As part of the test i made the first action of the workflow to log the message "Workflow Started" to the history list. When the workflow fail there's nothing logged in the history list other than the error: "The workflow could not update the
item, possibly because one or more columns for the item require a different type of information."
Creating a sub folder with the same name as it's parent works fine manually but for some reason a workflow can't seem to do it in one action.
As there's no history list entries before the error it looks like the workflow is just failing to start but if i do something like add an if statement to check if [title] and [sub folder title] are the same, and only create the subfolder when they are not
then it runs fine doing what it's set to.
The function of the workflow in our office was for convenience so were just working without it. Just wanted to post to see if anyone else has come across this/could try to replicate or explain this and see if it's a SharePoint bug or something specific
to our setup.
thanks,
Martin

not sure about the specifics of your workflow, but if you're querying the list for the folders... keep in mind that a list lookup will only ever bring back ONE item... even if there are several items that meet the filter criteria... example: if i search
a list for an item assigned to "john doe", there may be 15 tasks that meet the criteria, and it'll only grab one... this is why SP Designer WARNS you when your list lookup may exhibit this behavior.
Scott Brickey
MCTS, MCPD, MCITP
www.sbrickey.com
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BUG: KEYBOARD SHORTCUT KEYS DO NOT ALWAYS ACTIVATE A SERVICE (A WORKFLOW)

BUG: KEYBOARD SHORTCUT KEYS DO NOT ALWAYS ACTIVATE A SERVICE (A WORKFLOW)
When you assign a keyboard shortcut to a Service (such as a Service Workflow created in Automator) using the System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, if that shortcut key combination includes the Command key, pressing that shortcut will always successfully activate the Service. No problem there.
However, shortcut key combinations that do not include the Command key (for example, the shortcut key combo Ctrl-Shift-D) WILL NOT activate the Service in any newly opened application, until you click on the Services Menu option in that application.
As soon as you click on the application's Services Menu, this seems to bind the shortcut key combo to the Service, and thereafter, that keyboard shortcut will activate the Service in that particular app. But if you then quit and reopen the app, you'll find the Service will once again lose its binding to the shortcut key combination and will thus fail to work again.
This means that shortcut key combinations such as Ctrl-D, Ctrl-Shift-D, F15, Alt-F15, etc are not really viable shortcuts for Services, because they will not work in any newly-opened application until you click on the Services Menu in that application.
This bug thus greatly limits the shortcuts that you can employ for Services, because you can only reliably use shortcut key combos that contain the Command key. This is a fault that Apple really needs to fix. This is a very old glitch: I notice it is present in Snow Leopard 10.6.8, as well as Yosemite 10.10.1.
This bug does not apply to application shortcuts, however, or to other shortcuts in the Shortcuts Preference Pane, just to Services shortcuts (including the Mac's default Services, or any Services you make yourself using Workflows on the Automator software).
To give some examples:
The following keyboard shortcuts for Services WILL NOT work until you click on the Services Menu in the application you are using (and they will cease working again when you quit and reopen the app):
Ctrl-X
Ctrl-Shift-X
Ctrl-Alt-X
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-X
Alt-X
Alt-Shift-X
F1, F2, F3, etc
So until Apple fixes this bug, the above type of key combinations, that do not contain the Command key, are best avoided as shortcuts for Services. It is particularly unfortunate that function keys F1 to F19 do not work reliably, as these would make great single-key shortcuts to Services.
However, the following sort of keyboard shortcuts for Services, all containing the Command key, once set up will always work without fail:
Command-Alt-X
Command-Ctrl-X
Command-Shift-X
Command-Ctrl-Shift-X
Command-Alt-Ctrl-Shift-X
Command-F1, Command-F2, Command-F3, etc
So all the above can be reliably used as shortcuts to Services.
Here X denotes keyboard keys such as A, B, C, 1, 2, 3, =, \, [, etc.
Note that even for keyboard shortcuts containing the Command key, you may very occasionally need to click the Services Menu to get them to work initially in an application (notably in the System Preferences application itself). But if this is necessary, it is just required once when they are first set up, and thereafter the shortcuts containing the Command key will always work without fail.
The above was tested on Yosemite 10.10.1, but most likely applies to other versions of OS X as well, as I believe this bug is an old one. This bug is definitely present in Snow Leopard 10.6.8, because I have observed this same fault in an old Mac I have that runs Snow Leopard.
I have reported this bug to Apple, so hopefully they will see my report and act upon it. However, it might be an idea if others also report this problem of Services shortcuts not working property, to ensure that Apple get the message. You can report a bug to Apple via their bug feedback page here.

Exactly where do you want to use a GO BACK "shortcut" in Bridge? Maybe I don't even understand what you mean by Go Back. Bridge is only a file browser, nothing more. It doesn't open, edit, manipulate or save files at all.
Are you simply referring to going back to view a folder that you viewed before?
Please don't take this a criticism. As someone who will gladly pay money not to have to learn any shortcuts at all, I'm just puzzled and curious, that's all.

Bugs in PDF workflow/ Quartz Filters?

I've noticed several issues with PDF workflows in Lion that seem to have gone wrong. Whether deliberately or not, I don't know.
1. If you Export a PDF from Preview with a Quartz Filter, that filter is not applied to the copy of the PDF in Preview's window, though the file on disk does get the filter applied. If you close and reload the PDF, the effects of filter will be displayed.
2. If you create a new Quartz Filter in ColorSync Utility, it doesn't work.
Even duplicating an existing system filter, like "Gray Tone", doesn't work when you apply it to a PDF document in ColorSync Utility.
3. If you do have any user quartz filters, they don't show up in Preview's Export file dialog, unless you copy them from ~/Library/Filters to ~/Library/PDF Services.
There are several webpages about this.
4. Save As PDF-X has disappeared from the PDF button of the print menu.
I have seen other webpages that mention this.
All these issues are on both of my Macs, so I don't think it's a local problem, though I would be grateful for any confirmation.

Thanks Benwiggy for that tip.
I am still running Snow Leopard due to things dropped in Lion.
I needed fax capability before I could move to Lion.
I was also waiting for the bugs to get worked out because I will lose some time when changing over.
I still have the menu item with Snow Leopard but the work flow for PDF-X is now broken as well.
I have not always had Acrobat pro.
I am famialure with inserting, extracting, and typing information on PDF documents as one would need to do in an office.
I had always used preview and the PDF-X "save as" feature to embed fonts.
I see there is a save as format to "PDF/X" in Acrobat Pro v9.0.
There is a settings button next to the save as box.
It has four different settings or flavors of PDF/x:
PDF/X-1a
PDF/X-3
PDF/X-4
PDF/X-4p.
Then there is a conversion box that allows input of a "conversion profile".
There there is a viewing or printing condition box as well.
As you can see I don't work with colors much. It is all about preserving the text and images in a document as everything is usually black and white or grey scale.
What setting for PDF/X would you suggest if "font" embedding was an issue and it was desirable to preserve the text and images as they were, without regard to color correcton.
Thanks in advance for your reply.

Another bug in Oracle Soa Suite 11gR3 (bpel workflow)

Hello,
I am getting an error that i guess be a bug in soa suite (bpel human task workflow).
I created a simple workflow that have three human task (three steps of approval):
1 ) I deployed the project
2) I invite a requisition for the bpel through SoapUI
3) I access the worklistapp application and make login using the user approver1
4) I click at Approve button. It works.
5) When i logout and login using the user approver2 (second human task - second level of approval) the requistion is there, but when i click in task the bellow exception is throwed:
Obs.: If i restart my weblogic server, and access the worklistapp with the user approver2 (again). It Works.
Question: Should I always restart the Weblogic Server for each step in a workflow ? If my bpel have 5 human tasks, i have to do 5 restarts on the weblogic server for work ?
Anyone has the same bug ?
Error 500--Internal Server Error
java.lang.NullPointerException
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     at oracle.adf.model.binding.DCInvokeMethod.setAssociatedIteratorBinding(DCInvokeMethod.java:865)
     at oracle.adf.model.binding.DCIteratorBinding.cacheRefOnOperation(DCIteratorBinding.java:5132)
     at oracle.jbo.uicli.binding.JUMethodIteratorDef$JUMethodIteratorBinding.getActionBinding(JUMethodIteratorDef.java:283)
     at oracle.jbo.uicli.binding.JUMethodIteratorDef.isRefreshable(JUMethodIteratorDef.java:59)
     at oracle.adf.model.binding.DCExecutableBindingDef.isRefreshable(DCExecutableBindingDef.java:274)
     at oracle.adf.model.binding.DCBindingContainer.internalRefreshControl(DCBindingContainer.java:2975)
     at oracle.adf.model.binding.DCBindingContainer.refresh(DCBindingContainer.java:2845)
     at oracle.adf.controller.v2.lifecycle.PageLifecycleImpl.prepareModel(PageLifecycleImpl.java:112)
     at oracle.adf.controller.v2.lifecycle.Lifecycle$2.execute(Lifecycle.java:137)
     at oracle.adfinternal.controller.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:192)
     at oracle.adfinternal.controller.faces.lifecycle.ADFPhaseListener.access$400(ADFPhaseListener.java:21)
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     at oracle.adfinternal.controller.faces.lifecycle.ADFPhaseListener$1.after(ADFPhaseListener.java:267)
     at oracle.adfinternal.controller.faces.lifecycle.ADFPhaseListener.afterPhase(ADFPhaseListener.java:71)
     at oracle.adfinternal.controller.faces.lifecycle.ADFLifecyclePhaseListener.afterPhase(ADFLifecyclePhaseListener.java:53)
     at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl._executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:364)
     at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:177)
     at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:265)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:227)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:125)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:300)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:26)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:56)
     at oracle.adf.model.servlet.ADFBindingFilter.doFilter(ADFBindingFilter.java:191)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:56)
     at oracle.adf.share.http.ServletADFFilter.doFilter(ServletADFFilter.java:62)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:56)
     at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.webapp.rich.RegistrationFilter.doFilter(RegistrationFilter.java:97)
     at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl$FilterListChain.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:420)
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     at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl$FilterListChain.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:420)
     at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl._doFilterImpl(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:247)
     at org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.TrinidadFilterImpl.doFilter(TrinidadFilterImpl.java:157)
     at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.webapp.TrinidadFilter.doFilter(TrinidadFilter.java:92)
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     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3650)
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     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2268)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2174)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1446)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)

Thank you, Tomasz!
That really works! I'll add example of changes to DataBinding.cpx because it is not so obvious what to do after renaming package and applying automatic refactoring (that doesn't fix all what it should fix).
Assuming we've renamed the package from bpm3 to bpm3.db3
Before changes:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Application xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/application"
version="11.1.1.60.13" id="DataBindings" SeparateXMLFiles="false"
Package="bpm3.db3" ClientType="Generic">
<pageMap>
<page path="/taskDetails1.jspx" usageId="bpm3_taskDetails1PageDef"/>
</pageMap>
<pageDefinitionUsages>
<page id="bpm3_taskDetails1PageDef"
path="bpm3.db3.pageDefs.taskDetails1PageDef"/>
</pageDefinitionUsages>
<dataControlUsages>
*<dc id="ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3" path="bpm3.ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3"/>*
</dataControlUsages>
</Application>
After:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Application xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/application"
version="11.1.1.60.13" id="DataBindings" SeparateXMLFiles="false"
Package="bpm3.db3" ClientType="Generic">
<pageMap>
<page path="/taskDetails1.jspx" usageId="bpm3_db3_taskDetails1PageDef"/>
</pageMap>
<pageDefinitionUsages>
<page id="bpm3_db3_taskDetails1PageDef"
path="bpm3.db3.pageDefs.taskDetails1PageDef"/>
</pageDefinitionUsages>
<dataControlUsages>
*<dc id="ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3" path="bpm3.db3.ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3"/>*
</dataControlUsages>
</Application>
Really what is changed:
- <dc id="ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3" path="bpm3.ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3"/>
+ <dc id="ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3" path="bpm3.db3.ApproveForm3_ApproveTask3"/>

Bug? - SharePoint Designer workflow email to a person field - combines two emails to create an invalid email

Hi there,
In my SharePoint 2010 Custom List - I have a SharePoint Designer workflow that sends emails to a Person Type column called "Notify". However when I type several users here in NewForm.aspx in Notify field - two of the users do NOT get email. On
checking logs it so turns out that email is being sent to: [email protected]; [email protected]@c.com; [email protected]; [email protected];
Now the bold text above is an invalid email address (without the semi colon between two users) and user2 and user3 do NOT get any email.
The way it is implemented in SharePoint Designer workflow is pretty straightforward - see Notify field below.
Any help will be appreciated on how to fix this? This seems to be an SPD bug?
Thanks.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to send email to a person field.
I try to reproduce the issue, however, I can send email to five people correctly.
I recommend to create workflow as below:
Then when you open the email, you can find that it cc to five users.
Best Regards,
Linda Li
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support

BUG in Workflow for overall PR release

hi,
I have configured work flow for PR for individual release....work flow is working fine.....
Now i have set up the work flow for over all release of PR...i have done all work flow settings
I have activated the links for WS 20000077.
I have assigned agents to WS 20000077,TS 20000159, TS 20000161, TS 20000162,TS 20000163.....
...But my work flow is not getting triggered.
Is there any BUG in Workflow for overall PR release??
Utsav
Edited by: Utsav.agra on Aug 26, 2009 6:00 AM

hi,
Activate the WF template....check notes 103628 & 103628 and as per this req, settings....
then
Use transaction SWLD and Select the "Tasks" button.
Input task type WS, task 20000077.
Select Change (its client-independent object).
Select the graphical editor.
Select "Activate" button, or Workflow -> Activate...
Now check it...
Regards
Priyanka.P

Some bugs that are crippling my workflow

Hello
I've tried to search forums and didn't find anything or too little about these bugs, so I'm starting a new thread. Still I'm curious nobody encountered these or hasn't bothered to tell.
First, export from FCP to TGA sequences (using QT conversion) got broken in February or maybe March - yes, I'm installing Apple updates as they come, my fault
Since then FCP exports image sequences using aspect ratio but the resampling is nearest neighbor, therefore unusable in serious production. Before that, you got nice 720x576 images from a PAL sequence, now you get ugly pixelated 768x576 ones. If I missed some preference where to set this could you pls tell me? Or could you please do anything with this? Only workaround is to export MOVs and then use QT player which exports correct images (real pain if you have multiple exports). We work with image sequences a lot, so this would definitely help.
Second is rendering of image overlays and motion effects in timeline. We completely stopped using FCP for gfx overlays, because the render output is totally unpredictable. Sometimes it works ok, but quite often we get one of there bugs:
2a) Blue dots on the alpha edges of titles (imported TGA images, not titles from FCP generators)
titles are mostly orange since orange(mobile operator) is our major client, maybe with other titles you get other dots this happens very erraticaly and depends from case to case, sometimes everything works and sometimes you get one or two shining blue dots
2b) bright 1px frame around edges of images resized/cropped using motion effects. This happens on captured video or imported stills without alpha.
This is mostly visible if you use a white background. Problem shows itself always when I crop/resize/move a clip. Sometimes it helps to use a luma key on the image and the border disappears.
Funny thing both these problems have in common is that they don't show until you render. RT preview looks ok, but after render or export the dreaded dots and/or white lines appear.
Doesn't matter if I use ProRes codec or uncompressed 8bit or 10bit codecs, if I set rendering to RGB, YUV 8bit or 10bit, motion filtering quality to anything. To me this seems as if it was an encoding problem.
Also I'd like to join ranks of people who have been hit with the good ol' bug of bad EDLs created from timelines with speed changes. After a week of little sleep, our timing was absolutely packed as always and after we put the EDL from FCP to smoke, all clips with speed changes had wrong TC. So we spent whole day writing down timecodes by hand and manually re-editing them in smoke, a day we missed dearly during the next long nights :((
so, I just call for help to all you hard-working people at apple, if you could contact me I can explain more or send you examples of where things have gone wrong.
Michal

Since we have a smoke(linux), many desktop compositing and 3d Wintel boxes and two PowerMacs with FCP our typical workflows are:
a) ingest and edit on macs -> online on smoke/combustion/shake/whatever ->put it all back to macs, make broadcast master tapes from macs.
b) Create animations and gfx on PCs(3d/AE/comb/...) -> edit them together on macs, make broadcast master tapes from macs.
so we almost always need to trensfer footage between systems. For smoke we usually use SDI for sending PAL material, but when working with HD or other exotic formats, there is nothing better than good old tga sequences. We also must render to image sequences from 3d rendering farms for obvious reasons. Even when not farming, tgas give us the best speed when reading/rendering on the wintel boxes and the best compatibility around all software/hardware. Also, we have already experienced the joy of an hour-long render crashing after 58 minutes, leaving a corrupted mov. There's nothing like it. Even the mov is ok, you still have problems with codec compatibility/color shifts, etc.
Sometimes you just need a quick still export form the edit suite. Was easy a few months before, but now you must do stupid workarounds if you don't want ugly corrupted pixelated crap.
That much for the need of exporting tgas.
p.s.: it would make our life a bit easier if we could make FCP import TGA sequence straight on as any other editing application.(WINK apple developers ) Not that converting them in QT player would be so hard but anything that eases the strain on your mind in front of an important client is good.
P.S.2: sorry, this was meant as reply to andy, i'm new here
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Can I just add a state to bug work item and not set the state to the workflow

Hi,
Based on my team, we need to add a state/states to the bug work item, just add the bug state, and let it displayed in the state dropdown list. We don't want to add the state to the workflow. Can I do that?
Thanks,
shmily

Hi shmily,
If you add a state for the bug in your work item definition file, you have to define the transition for the state. If not, when you change the state, the backlog page or task board will not display the work item correctly.
Please check the links below for more information about workflow design guidelines and customization for work item type:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194981.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh409273.aspx
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LR 3 Bug Report - file renaming error - significant workflow issue

System configuration:
MacPro Dual 2x2.66Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon
9GB RAM
OSX 10.6.4
Lightroom Application on System Drive
Canon .CR2 files and Lightroom Catalog on internal software-based RAID drive
Camera Raw Cache set to 50GB and resident on System drive
Here is the issue:
Once I finish the first round of editing a group of photos, I then rename them with the title of the event and a sequence number. I use LR's batch rename feature in the Library module. If I then delete 1 or more of these photos and attempt to rename them again(same event title + numerical sequence), the new names do not properly apply the numerical sequence after the filename. Either of the following can happen, and whcih one will happen is not dependednt on what I do.
1. The files can be renamed, with the first image having a sequence number 1 number higher than the lowest number I typed into the sequence box in the batch rename dialog (if I type a number 1, the sequence starts at 2). There are also random gaps in the sequence numbering scheme. For example, the numbers will count to 15, then skip to 17, then count to 176, then skip to 178. The rest of the files might be renamed correctly, or there might be gaps. The gaps always skip a single number, and most of the time the numbers skipped are odd numbers, though numbers with a 16 are usually skipped (16, 116, 216)
2. The files can be renamed as mentioned above, but with the addition of a -1 to the end of the sequence (example: filename-200-1 or filename-3-1). The addition of the -1 is also random, though it is more common with lower-numbered files than higher-numbered files.
I have experienced this bug on groups as small as 50 photos or as large as several hundred. I have tried remaning the files to a completely different text/sequence combination and then back to the one I want, and it does not help the issue. The sequence numbering is more likely to have more gaps the more virtual copies are present in the series of photos being renamed.
This is a major workflow issue for me because the files I deliver have to be named sequentially, without gaps, following a specific text/numer naming convention. The bug is currently adding many extra hours to my post-production time. Any assitance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Thanks for the detailed description. I was able to repro this with your steps and have logged a bug for futher investigation.
Becky

Bug tracking and project workflow management

Hi,
I was wondering how bigger projects are managed so that everyone in the team knows what he has to do and what are current problems on the project, what is their status etc.
I googled for a while and found lots of sites that offer free hosting for web-based project management. I also found a web-based project managing solutions on sourceforge (phpcollab and itracker)
Our company is relatively small but there sometimes are bigger and long-lasting projects and sometimes the status is a complete mystery, nobody knows what are all the known bugs that he is responsible for and project current development/bug status.
We tried with worksheet(excel)-based tasklists but when number of items increased it turned to be impossible to find out what and when must be done.
Thank you for sharing your experience in this area
Mike

Thanks for that, please inform me if I found a wrong product : I found
http://scarab.tigris.org/ as a project home.
It is not the setup that worries me, I mentioned web-based tools because for the current time there is no collaboration with external parties and I want the entire project management centralized in the company
Mike

Bugs in FCP-Motion workflow/Render Files lost

Hi
There seems to be an issue with Motion files going off line in FCP 6 when a project is closed and then reopened.
In one sequence, the render bars were (wrongly) showing up as if the motion files were fully rendered. However, on playback they were clearly playing in 'unlimited' RT mode. When I copied and then re-opened the sequence, these files were then showing up as unlimited.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ant

Interesting...
I'm having the same problem when I use FCP's Smoothcam filter. I will render it all, save, close the project and the next time I open it those render files are gone. It wasn't consistent though. Sometimes they'd stick and other times they wouldn't. To work around it, once I rendered a shot with that filter I exported it as a self-contained QT movie,re-imported it and replaced the shot. Kind of a pain of a work-around, but a work-around nonetheless. (And I didn't have a duplicated sequence but was on-lining a film that was cut in FCP 4.5 - so maybe that was where my little bug arose!)

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