Blogs posted May 2004

While waiting for the DD ACTIVATION phase of an add-on installation to finish, my mind wandered off to something I’d noticed with my new WAS 6.40 testdrive for Linux is here! system, with the SID “NW4” (NetWeaver ’04).... Read More »

class=”saptxtsml1″>When working on a new Portal project we  are all faced with the challenge of having fewer resources more tasks and  less time and if that’s not bad enough developing EP6 applications can be... Read More »

Until this week it was cumbersome to send out interesting forum posts to other people that may benefit from the post’s content. You had to open your email account, create a new message and copy the link of the post or the whole text into it.... Read More »

My friend Matthew Langham reports on SAP at JAX 2004 in Frankfurt (Matthew is giving a total of three sessions at JAX). It’s not that SAP hasn’t had a presence at other non-SAP events before now; it’s just great to see that SAP is... Read More »

Business Package for Portal Development Kit 60.3.0 The public version of the Portal Development Kit for Java (PDK) Business Package   is now available for SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP4 on iviewstudio for download. PDK 60.3.0  ... Read More »

It’s relatively easy to create specific OLAP queries with the support of the BI Java SDK command processor (see Moya Watson’s Command Interfaces: Keys to Simplicity in the BI Java SDK). But what can you do if the command processor does... Read More »

MWSnap Any self respecting consultant worth his salt knows the importance of screenshots. You never know when OSS would ask for the pictures 😀 And if you are preparing training material you just cann’t live without a screen capture... Read More »

Many thanks to customers and developers involved in verifying the e-mail notifications for workflow. It wasn’t so much the feedback about the code that we were interested in (hey, only the crème de la crème worked on this). What we... Read More »

Err…, Nevertheless, in case you DO have an application and need to know about sizing, of course there is help from SAP. You can find it on service marketplace under the alias /sizing.

A few years ago, Aaron Marcus and Emilie West Gould applied the principles in Geert Hofstede’s study of cultures in organizations to Web interface design in their article Cultural Dimensions and Global Web User-Interface Design. It may be a... Read More »