Pardon me if the subject question doesn't make sense and let me try to explain. We have a production environment of BO pointing to a production database. And we have a development environment pointing to a dev database. When a user complains that a report doesn't work, we would like to copy the report to the dev environment and after...
I have a webi report that accepts a date input. I need to receive data from the user in the format "dd-Mmm-YYYY"; however the calendar control that BO presents to the user for date selection is always shown in M/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there any way to control this behaviour? ...
Since the support for BO and Crystal pretty much stinks when it comes to finding an answer I thought I'd try to post this here. We are having some issues with Crystal Reports on the server and I wanted to patch it up to SP5. I finally found a download (and even then I'm confused whether to use the SP5 or FP 5.2, so I guess I'll put SP5 o...
In our scenario, a developer builds the web app locally and then we place it out on the application server. Recently, projects have been upgraded to Visual Studio 2008. We have been having issues (such as the print control not functioning properly) and I want to see if they are related to the merge modules (or whatever else). My first ...
I see two main "schools of thoughts" when it comes to creating larger-scale enterprise-wide apps on .NET (Winforms, WPF, ASP.NET). Some folks use the "repository pattern" which uses a repository that knows how to fetch, insert, update and delete objects. Those objects are rather "dumb" in that they don't necessarily contain a whole lot ...
I have posted a question about multilanguage database design here,[]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/929410/what-is-best-practices-for-multilanguage-database-designI like Martin's suggestion,but now I have a question what will be the best way to create business objects? If I will create product which will contains ProductTranslation ob...
Can any one suggest good resources and practice exercises for Teradata and Business Objects and their combination. I have no idea on where to start..I am aware of SQL, database concepts and programming languages like c, php, c++, C#. I need to learn teradata, BO practically. I need to develop applications for reporting data from Teradata...
Martin Fowler suggests using a service layer as a boundary between the domain model and and "Data Loaders". However, Rockford Lhotka suggests building validation into the business object itself and this is exactly what CSLA.NET does. The benefits of abstracting this into a service layer is obviously that your service layer can coordinat...
My question is not exactly about programming per se, but I think SO has already overgrown its "programming-only" scope... For those who don't like to read long introductions, here is my attempt to formulate the question without any background - the chances are some of you could understand right away what I am asking about: Q: When deve...
I'm a pretty young developer, and still in the emulation phase of my career. I have read a lot about some topics like concurrency, and using unit of work to allow your business layer to control persistence transactions. I have even implemented some painful, but functional code that implements these topics. But I have not really ever se...
Hi, I have been offered by my employer to work on SAP Business Objects to analyse large amount of data they have. I have the following doubts before I could accept that: a. I love programming and do not want to lose touch with it. Do you think working on this tool would excite a person who loves building software? Or Is it like most p...
Should a business object contain a reference to other objects (as in the id field references another database record) or should it have an instance of the actual objects. For example: public class Company { public int Id { get; set; } public CompanyStatus Status { get; set; } } or public class Company { public int Id { ...
Suppose I am developing a software for a pharmaceutical company where each 'ProductionLine' has multiple 'Stages' and each Stage has multiple 'Machines' Now suppose I am maintaining three tables to record Stages and its Machines (leave the ProductionLine away for the shake of the discussion). (1) Stage (Basic data which represents all ...
I'm using Business Objects Collections. (Not using datasets. Generics collections only.) Collections of Business objects are filled using SQL Reader I'd like to know your opinion what is best approach to fill master details (or parent-child) collections Assume I have 2 objects: Invoice and Invoice_Details Invoice Object has generic col...
I have a Business Objects Web Intelligence report that is performing a distributed query against two databases. When I run this query that includes a BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION QUERY SET xact_abort ON GO USE Pipeline2 GO BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION SELECT * FROM [CQSR_PROD].CqUSer.Cq4User1.Defect COMMIT TRAN GO I get this erro...
I have 2 classes i.e Customer-Order and Customer class has a reference to a collection of Orders. I use master detail bindingSources. My problem is when i use the lazy load pattern for orders my detail bindingsource is not updated. UI BindingSource1.datasource=GetCustomers(); BindingSource2.DataMember="Orders"; BindingSource2.datasour...
I've commonly seen examples like this on business objects: public void Save() { if(this.id > 0) { ThingyRepository.UpdateThingy(this); } else { int id = 0; ThingyRepository.AddThingy(this, out id); this.id = id; } } So why here, on the business object? This seems l...
Creating a custom business object to slide into a dataGridView works wonders... except I can't think of a programmatic way to set the column order. Do I have to add them one by one by hand manually again just to get a nicer sort or is there some cryptic hidden attribute I can use? ...
I am in the process of designing an enterprise application from the ground up. I am trying to decide between using the Enterprise Library Validation App block or using the Dynamic data Data annotation for my Business Objects Validation. They both seem to be similar in that the validation rules are decorated on the object properties as ...
Is having reference to System.Windows.Forms in a business class and using MessageBox.Show wrong? Currently have a event processing decorator class decorating a service class. When certain events fired decorator would like to ask user if they want to proceed processing certain functionality. Is it ok for this decorator class have these...