Teaching with a clean desktop

Simple trick I learned today :

Right-mouse click on the desktop > Arrange Icons By > uncheck show desktop icons. All the icons on the desktop are now hidden… cleaner to teach programs. To get them back — do this procedure again.

cheers

Data Integrator (1)

I took a nosedive into Data Integrator a couple of weeks ago.

The first thing I discovered was : they went to a lot of trouble trying to make an interface as un-intuitive as possible. The first two encounters with the product resulted in shouting from my part -- and just not working on the side of Data Integrator.

So -- I persisted.

A couple of weeks later, the product is becoming clearer. Projects contain Jobs (check) -- Jobs contain WorkFlows (check) WorkFlows contain DataFlows (check).

My conclusion so far — Data Integrator is not the easiest of products to use – but luckily, I succeeded in putting my hands on a good “core” tutorial pdf file…

Small Bug in BO XI R2

Strangely enough, the small bug I talked about in the previous article, persists in BO XI R2..

Small BO 6.5 Bug

A program always show more bugs when released and shown to the public.

Here is a strange one.

1) create a ranking on any field. check the “top” checkbox and a textbox appears where you can enter the top-howmany you want… it says 3 by default.

2) put the cursor next to the 3 (left) and enter the number 2 … next, use the delete-key to remove the 3…

what remains after clicking ok… is a top-23…

strangely enough, BO does not really remove characters removed from that textbox by means of the delete-key.