I'm newbie in RSA Archer, I want to know when it's convenient to use a questionnaire instead of an application. I would also like to understand the limits and potential of both objects.
Is it possible to create a cross reference between an application and a questionnaire?
Waiting for your kind help, I thank you in advance.
Giovanni,
An application (just like a questionnaire) you can add fields, rules/actions, advanced workflow, etc. The difference with a Questionnaire is that it has to target a record within an application. Meaning you cannot create a questionnaire record without a targeted record, you must first select a record form another application.
Typically you would use a questionnaire to perform an assessment on let say a device, application (non-Archer specific application) or perform a "review" on a policy or control standard. The questionnaire based on the questions configured would provide "scoring" of that targetted record. From there a questionnaire can be configured to generate Findings for questions not answered correctly.
There's a plethora of information on the RSA Community (https://community.rsa.com) the can help you along with an active discussion forum.
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Is there a way i can find out if the current meeting window from which i opened the add-in (compose mode) is from a new meeting or from an already created meeting that i opened for edit?
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There are a lot of use cases where this is relevant:
I believe the purpose of many add-ins is to augment the item (e.g. appointment/meeting or email), the user is currently reading or composing. This is usually done in a 3rd party system by associating the meeting in Exchange with a "record" in a separate system. To find out if the current meeting is already associated with a "record" (and possibly display the contents of it), you need a way to identify the meeting obviously. If it's a new meeting, you know there isn't a "record", however if it's an existing meeting, you need to be able to identity it. Exposing itemId in compose mode would satisfy this need. And by the way, the feature is already requested on User Voice!
I can only speculate as to why Microsoft haven't added the feature yet, but I think Office JS started out with support for emails. Compose-mode for emails is almost exclusively for authoring new (unsent) emails, hence they would never have an itemId.
This is not the case for appointments and meetings, however. They are frequently being edited after they have been created, as meetings are often rescheduled, augmented with a more detailed agenda, etc.
Unfortunately the workaround of using saveAsync to obtain the itemId has several drawbacks as you already alluded to: it's very intrusive as it will leave behind "ghost" meetings (as the user now can't regret saving an appointment/meeting) and it causes the sending of spurious meeting update requests to attendees, etc. And it doesn't work in Outlook for Mac! - one of the big selling points of this add-in technology compared to VSTO/COM-add-ins.
At my company we have attempted several times to port our existing VSTO add-in to Office JS, but everytime we stall on this exact issue, as the drawbacks are simply to many!
However, an approach - besides maybe using some crude heuristics - we have thought about, goes like this:
1) Via EWS (or MS Graph), augment every meeting(!) of every user(!) with a custom add-in property containing the itemId. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43140644/10752973 on how to set custom properties from the "outside".
2) When the add-in is opened, see if the custom property is present. If the custom property is there, it's an existing appointment/meeting (and you'll know its itemId). If it isn't there, it's a new appointment.
As I said, we haven't implemented it, but in theory it might work. But it's such a huge hassle (and will burden both the Exchange server and the application itself), for something so simple. We would effectively also need to monitor each mailbox in Exchange to detect newly creating appointment/meetings in order to augment them with the custom property, which is needlessly complex.
But I hope this answer might convince the Outlook Add-ins Team to reconsider adding support for obtaining itemId in compose-mode for appointments/meetings.
I would like to know about authorization in jUDDI. I would like to give Publisher capabilities to few of my clients And also I want few of my clients to inquire or access only those services which are related to them. I want to hide the rest of the services which are not related to them. Can we achieve this using jUDDI? and How?
As of right now, no. There is an open ticket for this to provide role, group, list, etc access control on a per record (business/service) basis but it hasn't been implemented.
This problem is also a complex one, since UDDI has both a search and a getDetails set of methods. Get Details in the easy one, but search is very complex. Filtering out records and keeping the paging option still functional would be a challenge
I've got a lookup field on Account entity called something. Each such Something has a reference to an account. When my users click the magnifying glass, I want them to see a list of available Something records but filtered to view only such instances that link to the currently treated entity.
Also, I'll need to design such a filtration for Contact instances to only show the Something records that are related to the account that the currently regarded contact is a member of.
I can't decide between a plugin on Retrieve and some JS in OnLoad registering a fetchXML. All such operations will be done client-side. The solution needs only to work in CRM13 (and if possible apply some cool functionality in that version).
Suggestions?
JavaScript & FetchXml are your best option here as with a Retrieve plugin you're taking the performance hit of executing on every retrieve regardless of whether the entity is being retrieved for the lookup. A filtered lookup in JS only applies for those scenarios that require a change to the field on Account.
Another other good reason for using a filtered lookup in Js is they are now a supported feature in CRM 2013 as opposed to the "hack" that was required in 2011.
Some more info on addPreSearch and addCustomFilter can be found on MSDN and there's a decent blog post providing examples here.
I have a requirement to allow my users to pull up a report for their customers using the customer's credit card number as a parameter. For security we want to mask the field, as is common on many e-commerce sites.
I'm pretty sure this is not an out-of-the-box capability of reporting services. But I'm hoping this can be accomplished by adding some VB to the report. Not sure though.
Anyone have an idea how this can be done in reporting services?
As far as I know there is no masked input for parameters in SSRS 2008. I'm not sure if custom code is the way to go. You haven't wold us about how you're delivering the reports, but a custom app or website with a ReportViewer may be your best bet for a solution. In addition to the ReportViewer control, you can place your own (masked input) controls for the user to input the parameter and send the value in code behind.
An important note though, think very carefully about how you deal with Credit Card numbers. Ask questions like this one (top comment: "If you have to ask this question, you probably shouldn't be storing credit card numbers. Outsource this if at all possible ") on our sister site security.stackexchange.com if you're unsure. In any case, know that SSRS isn't particularly secure by default: for one thing it stores the parameters sent plainly in the ReportServer databases.
Theoretical question. Lets say I build an application for managing clients, products, bills and such. All without a user login.
Is it possible to get multi user (each one with his own clients,products,...) functionality after the main application is done?
Or should I think of the multi user in the first place? How flexible is rails at this part?
thanks in advance
dennym
What you are asking for is a pattern called Multitenant. There are different ways to do it, but none are provided by Rails natively.
You could start with this slide: http://www.slideshare.net/tardate/multitenancy-with-rails
And figure out if you want to do; partitioning based on data, Rbac, model or schema.
There are is one that offers it as a service that says that it is easy to do after you have your application: http://railskits.com/saas/
But in our experience, it was a bit outdated and missing some features that we wanted.
You can also take a look at other gems like: multitenant or act_as_tenant.
We ended up using act_as_tenant and doing it from the beginning.