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Sunday, March 09, 2008

How To Find Out What Time A Timecard Was Submitted Using Wfstatus.sql

I was recently posed a question: To identify when a timecard was submited?
Easy: Use WFSTATUS.sql
Pass parameters the Internal Type of the Timecard and the Timecard Number (It is also the Expenditure_ID as well as the Item Key)
Reference: Metalink Note: 185820.1

Macroscope

I find Macroscope pretty useful tool in providing complete picture of the documentation - Easy to use, many quick links to navigate both horizontally and vertically within the product, it is a pleasant experience. Based on PMP Methodolgy. At a very high level, Macroscope documents are created based on Owner's view, User's view and Developer's View. To know more about Macroscope Click here
I saw a pdf which provides more information on this,
Click here to read more about it.

It is interesting to note that Macroscope is considered as a as a Market leader by Gartner as shown in the picture below:


More on this latter.

How to display images in a seperate lines?


Pix 1:




I was trying to get two images displayed on a separate lines - although these are adjacent to each other; however to my exasperation, the images were displayed on the same lines. Have tried various tricks, including
. It is not consistent. For example these photos had to manually separated using text like this. Whereas, I was able to separate the technorati and LinkedIn icons. I will try to look at some examples later.
On a side note, these are the pictures of a bird that appeared outside our home, after I placed a toy bird - looks exactly like the one in the photo.

Pix 2:



Friday, March 07, 2008

Using Unix Find Command

Find:
find . -name "wfstatus.sql" -print
the above command will search all directories starting from current directory for any file containing wfstatus.sql.
Problem: find displays an error message for any directory I do not have permissions.
So how do I suppress these messages?
The following command will do the trick:

find . - name "wfstatus.sql " -print 2> /dev/null
will suppress cannot read dir or Permission denied messages and print only if it finds the file.
Output of this command:
/oracle/prodappl/fnd/11.5.0/sql/wfstatus.sql

explanation:
/dev/null is a virtual file in Unix; data written to is deleted.
I use the cheatsheet from Stanford.edu (to go to stanford clickhere )

In order to do a case-insensitive search, instead of "name", use "iname":
find . -iname "WFSTAtus.sql" -print 2>/dev/null

if you want the search to be restricted only to files, then use "-type f"
find . -type f -iname "WFSTAtus.sql"   -print 2>/dev/null

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

GrandCentral

This is a surprise gift for me on the day I got the US Citizenship. Google has bought Grandcentral and it is a cool way to get connected, without providing your numbers. All you need to do is to add this button on your blog or Website and the system connects the caller to you.
It appears there is a delay to get a login to Grandcentral; However, if you are a blogger, you get it right away; You would need to setup which numbers to call and then embed the code into your blog. Any US phone can get connected by entering their number. Best part is your number is kept priviate.




Here is the note I read from article:


With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you can receive phone calls and post voicemails right on your blog. Though GrandCentral is currently in a private beta test, bloggers can skip the wait and get a free account immediately. Sign up now