Actually this could be
a very useful dialog if it results in the recognition that there is a need for
some form of formal representation from users of the EBS system.
Currently we have a group of presumably hard working EBS developers grappling
with a complex set of technologies and an equally hard working group of rather
frustrated EBS users, but no formal representation from the user side that
could consolidate that frustration and use it to positively shape the EBS
experience. MSU has an Administrative
Data Users Community (ADUC) but I suspect that a
more focused, proactive representation may be more useful in the short
term. Suggestions?
Laurence Bates
From: Richard Wiggins
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011
6:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] EBS HR
Module, SAP GUI and Adobe Acrobat
Sir, you are dealing with
an entity known as the Internet, or the Web.
The proprietary soup you live in is your own world. There is a
world of standards in which you choose not to reside. You, and your
masters, and MSU administrators, must live in what you have wrought.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Scott Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
OK folks, enough is enough.
We are dealing with a MAMMOTH corporate entity known as SAP,
which has a software product that is incredibly complex. Any one of you
who thinks that such a MAMMOTH corporate entity is going to expend huge amounts
of time and money trying to be compatible with every release of every browser
and browser add-on that exists on the day after the next point rev is released
really needs to take the next shuttle back to reality. It ain’t
gonna happen, despite all of the bitching and moaning happening here on the NAG
list. We are professionals, and professionals deal with the reality that is
before them. Today that reality is IE8, Firefox 3.x, and Adobe Reader
9. If you would like to change that reality, I suggest you direct your
communiques to the 4th Floor of the
I am no apologist for SAP, EBS, AIS, Microsoft, Mozilla, or
Adobe. I’m just a lowly AP12 trying to get his work done with the
tools that are available to me. I don’t like the restrictions any
more than you do, but come on folks – get a grip! This is our
reality for the foreseeable future. If you don’t like it, well, I
guess you have a choice to make.
(Asbestos undergarments cinched up and ready for flames.
Personal insults cheerfully ignored)
- Scott
From: Richard Wiggins [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011
2:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] EBS HR
Module, SAP GUI and Adobe Acrobat
Official Web sites
should adhere to Web standards. Specifically, in the year 2011, if a
content provider claims that the content they serve needs to adhere to a
browser, such as IE8 instead of IE9, that content provider is incompetent.
Their content needs to adhere to HTML 5. Any such content provider
needs to be relieved of duty, and their managers and administrators as well.
/rich
On Wed, Jul 6,
2011 at 1:18 PM,
The 4G requirement
is just not correct for XP, since only 3G is usable there.
As for Acrobat, there might be some difference between 10.0, the intermediate
version and 10.1. A friend found an interesting rendering problem that
was
resolved in the latest version which was in the first 10 version. Maybe
this
is the problem?
Has anyone used Foxit with EBS?
--
On 07/06/11 10:36,
Ok. Now this is
getting frakking ridiculous.
We had problems about 3 weeks ago and we called the EBS helpdesk. We
called because it was taking 5 and 8 minutes to get any kind of faculty
appointment approved in the system.
We were told that users HAD to have the LATEST version of Adobe...
Correct me if I'm wrong... ISN'T ACROBAT X THE LATEST VERSION?...
AND they had to have 4 gigs of memory. (Yes, that's exactly what I
was told. And like a dip, I didn't get a name of the agent we spoke to.)
So, what is it? Is Acrobat X the problem? Or is it not? I
really wish we could get consistent answers between the web site, helpdesk, and
everyone else that's throwing answers around out there.
My problem right now is that ALL users, except for one, are having the same
problem. It's taking 5 to 8 minutes to process an approval for a faculty
appointment. That means nothing to me, but the users that do it here say
that's unacceptable. Only one machine is able to process them in any
acceptable amount of time.
All machines have either XP Pro SP3 or Windows 7 SP1, IE 8, Acrobat Reader X
and SAP. The only two differences between these machines are the OS and
that some have 2 gigs memory, others have 4 gigs. Otherwise, they all
have the same version of IE, SAP and Acrobat Reader.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
-dak
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Geiger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] EBS HR Module, SAP GUI and Adobe Acrobat
On 7/5/2011 at 4:02 PM, Lee Duynslager<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hey has anybody
else out there had problems with any of the PDF forms
Used with the SAP GUI in the HR module in EBS, after the latest
updates to Windows?
What did you do to resolve the problems?
You know you can't
have Acrobat X installed, right?
--
Kim Geiger
Information Technologist
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517-432-3120 x 429
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