It is always a challenging part to work with complex data types in ABAP. And one of these types is handling deep structures.  However it depends on how well we understand the structure design. We will see how to access deep structures programmatically with an example.

In our example we are using already existing table type RANGE_QMNUM_TAB.  We are declaring a structure x_deep2 which contains another structure x_deep1 which in turn contains a table type. You can use following program and also can modify according to your requirement.

TYPES: BEGIN OF x_deep1,
       v_qmnum TYPE qmel-qmnum,
       RANGE_QMNUM_TAB TYPE RANGE_QMNUM_TAB,
       END OF x_deep1.

TYPES: BEGIN OF x_deep2,
       v_qmnum1 TYPE qmel-qmnum,
       v_test TYPE x_deep1.
TYPES: end of x_deep2.

DATA: it_qmnum TYPE RANGE_QMNUM_TAB,
      wa_qmnum TYPE RANGE_QMNUM,
      it_deep2 TYPE TABLE OF x_deep2,
      wa_deep2 TYPE x_deep2.

wa_qmnum-low = ‘XXXXXXXX’.
append wa_qmnum to it_qmnum.

wa_deep2-v_test-RANGE_QMNUM_TAB[] = it_qmnum[].
APPEND wa_deep2 to it_deep2.

I hope now it is clear that it is not as difficult as it looks in structure wise. Though it shows how to pass values to deep structure, I guess it helps all to write for getting values as well from deep structures.

After so many delays and technical glitches, IIMs are out with the result of their elite of the all exams; CAT. You can check your CAT results on CAT IIM website which is catiim.in However it seems that Prometric servers are not able to handle the load of the coming traffic. I tried checking scores of some of my friends and thankfully one of them has got through and able to pull a call from IIM A.

We will keep you updated about the results whenever CAT servers are up. Till then you may post your queries here. All the best folks

Update: CAT servers are down due to heavy rush. You can still check your scores at http://scorecard1.catiim.in

However, it is observed that CAT results are horribly random. People who were expecting score in 99s have gone down to 80s. People don’t have a call at 99%ile and still randomness continues. We are unaware of how Prometric has come to these scores but students seems dissappointed after the declaration of result.

We will keep you updated on result as we get any new news. till then keep visiting madeitsimple.com

I hope homeopathy and kids - part 1 was interesting and helpful for all our readers. Part 2 elaborates more remedies that can help your child to develop better and learn better. If you think your child fits one of the following remedies (majority characters), he will be cured by that remedy. These remedies resemble their basic constitution and so will stimulate their vitality to react better as per the law of homeopathy that says “like cures like”. So observe your child in health and know their basic constitution.

BARYTA CARB:  These kids are simple minded. They are slow learners, be it walking, talking or in academics. Child cannot absorb what is going on in his surrounding. He has poor retaining capacity and so he forgets whatever he studies. He has to learn again and again. He has fear of criticism and jesting and so he prefers to stay alone in a corner. He is shy. When asked about something complex, he either replies something stupid or out of context. He scores poorly in school. Somehow he memorizes his chapters but due to slow comprehension and reduced vitality, he fails to reproduce what he studies. He thus fears strangers and new places. Helps to treat tonsillitis, quinsy, snuffles, cough, and toothache in decayed teeth, mouth ulcers in kids.

SULPHUR: These kids are very intelligent. New ideas keep cropping up their mind. They may or may not be toppers at academic level but they are blessed with a sharp mind. These kids are prone to worm infestation with craving for sweets. Child complaints of burning while passing stools. He cannot stand still at one place without support of chair or something for long time. He wants to lean on something to stand. He saves all his old toys and books and doesn’t want to throw them. Not because he is attached to them but he has great ideas to mould them and use again creating something new out of rubbish. He likes to throw his things here and there. This makes him feel lively. He doesn’t like to bath, work or exercise. He is a dreamer. He may experience burning sensation anywhere in his body, esp. soles, stomach, eyes, etc… this remedy is helpful to treat skin complaints, mouth ulcers, constipation, morning diarrhea, pneumonia, etc

LYCOPODIUM: These kids are also very sharp. They love mental work but when it comes to physical activity, they feel tired and weak. These kids have low self confidence, poor memory and great anticipatory anxiety and so they fear facing new people. They hate change in their life and wish to be surrounded by familiar people and familiar places only. They are extremely irritable. Such kids enjoy being centre of attraction but they are very nervous so they fear crowd. Once he gets comfortable with all, he is friendly with them. Lycopodium child is very obstinate and he doesn’t like oppositions. He seeks disputes and is easily angered. He is greedy and miser. He kicks off things and screams. He cries all day and sleeps all night (child cries all night and sleeps all day is found in psorinum and lac canninum kids). Kid desires sweets. Canine hunger but easy satiety. Helpful to treat jaundice, hepatitis, reduced appetite, constipation, throat affections, pneumonia, flatulent colic, etc

CALCAREA CARB: these kids are cute and chubby. Very stubborn and fears people will know his weakness. He is indesicive and irresolute. He wants others to help him take decisions since he knows he knows his intelligence but on the contrary, he is self willed. He is intelligent and hard working but takes time to understand things. Profuse perspiration on slightest exertion. He loves sugar and boiled eggs. He finds reasons to avoid physical activity since he has low stamina. He learns to walk late and may have delayed dentition. This remedy is helpful to treat constipation, tonsils, cold coryza, bronchial asthma, tuberculosis, calcium and phosphorus deficiency and so treats osteogenesis imperfect also.

PHOSPHORUS: This child is very attractive and pleasure to be with. He is artistic, musician, friendly and outgoing kid. He makes friends with all very soon and loves to be the centre of attraction. To maintain his popularity, he will do anything. Very sharp and beautiful looks. Easy going and extrovert behaviour. Very helpful. He always needs company to talk and fool around. Easily mixes with the world. He loves cold drinks, ice creams, chocolates. He may suffer from throat pain later but still carves icy cold drinks and water. This remedy is helpful to treat jaundice, pneumonia, constipation, nose bleed, etc…

Please do comment if you liked our article. If in case of any query or help, you can write us at kirti[dot]tekwani[at]gmail[dot]com . You can consult us or your nearest homeopath before administering any remedy.

So you have got the iPad or you may have got MacBook Pro. Whatever apple product you may have, your collection is incomplete unless you get cool iMac G4 lamp. Now what is it? Yet another product from apple? Nah, iMac G4 is a lamp made from the dome of dismembered iMac G4, it emits the kind of glow every Apple fan craves.

It’s an iconic design but unfortunately sold out. Still you may try your luck here or you may bid for busted iMac on one of the online selling websites and Apple shop to make iMac G4 lamp of your own. Before I close this post, Apple is not making this lamp. iMac G4 lamp credit goes to craftmanship of Etsy artist Randall180 who created this gem. Have a look on some more pics of Apple iMac G4 lamp.

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It’s probably the job of their dreams for some people, but for others, it is a reality to work online. They have the luxury of working from home, they save on commuting expenses, and their work is relatively flexible to allow them to get involved in other social and recreational activities as well. But there are drawbacks to working online, as people like me very well know, and unless you take deliberate care to avoid the three deadly sins when working online, you’re going to end up in a real mess.

• Procrastination: It’s very easy to keep putting off things when you have a flexible schedule with a deadline that seems far away when the week or month starts. You think you have all the time in the world, but before you know it, you’re band in the middle of the deadline and you’re scrambling to finish your work on time. Procrastination happens very often when you work in an unsupervised environment and don’t have to report to anyone on a regular basis. So if you work online, you must take care to avoid this deadly sins.

• Loss of focus: With all the entertainment that is available online, you’re bound to keep checking your email and playing games online if you’re not focused on your work. You need to dedicate time just for your work and avoid other distractions when working. It is a tough ask, because you’re tempted to go online on Facebook or Twitter, chat with a friend who sees you online, or do any of the thousands of things that you can do online. When you lose focus, it’s hard to regain it if you don’t have tremendous will power and self control.

• Distraction: And when you spend all your time at home, there will be distractions like the phone ringing with personal calls, visitors stopping by, the television with your favourite program, the oven timer going off, or you wanting a snack from the refrigerator because you’re hungry. Before you know it, the day has come to an end and you’re not even halfway to your target for the day. If you let distractions sidetrack you, you’re going to make a habit of it and neglect your work. You don’t accord it the importance that is due, and so work begins to take a back seat.

To make your online work a success, it is important that you are dedicated and strong willed. You must put your job above all else, no matter how much more interesting the distractions are. Only then is it possible for you to sustain your tempo on a long term basis.

By-line:

This guest post is contributed by Brenda Harris, who writes on the topic of online executive mba programs . She can be reached at her email id: brenda.harris91@gmail.com .

SAP certification, a buzz word to brand yourself and may be a piece of paper to boast. Neverthless, it is equally important to have relevant SAP certification along with your experience rich CV. There are many false believes prevalent about eligibility of doing SAP certification. I hear a lot  of questuions like “I am a fresher, can I do SAP certification?” or “I am have experience in Oracle/SQL and also have done MCSE/Red hat certification, which SAP certification should I do?”

I will try to answer some of these questions with proper explaination.

SAP has grouped all hardware, server or database administration level task into one single umbrella called Basis. If you are a person who wants to do career in database administration or have work experience in DBA, then SAP Netweaver Technology Consultant certification is the right choice for you. This certification is also refered by SAP Netweaver Admin certification. This certification includes everything from installation, sizing, post installation activities, configurations, R/3 monitoring, Netweaver system monitoring and administration.

Do I need to have min. experience to do SAP Certification?

It is recommended to have some experience before you do SAP Certification. Though it is not mandetory but you can always take more for your money if you have experience in DBA or administration. However, if you do not have experience at all i.e. you are a fresh graduate, you cannot do certification without taking a certification track course from SAP. This means you need to enroll for SAP certification track training course at any of the SAP’s authorized training center like Siemens or Gennovate. Only after completion of training you would be allowed to take certification. If you have experience of 2 years in SAP then all you have to do is ask SAP communications team in your organization to get in touch with certification team. Forward your CV to SAP and get it approved. Then proceed to book a test slot and appear for exam. It’s that easy.

Will SAP certification give me quick placement?

No! is the answer. No doubt SAP certification is given due cerdit while shortlisting cadidates, but any organization would expect that as an SAP certified professional, you would possess some key skills, which comes only after certain experience. If you are a fresher and expecting to get a quick job after doing SAP certification then you are having a day dream. Obviously you would get preference, but nothing should be taken for granted. 

I hope I have answered most common questions regarding SAP certification. If you have any doubt please leave a comment, I will certainly get back to you with answer.

Apple iMac is so short on iMac 27-inch that they are simply paying 15% extra to customers who can return faulty iMac. In earlier post apple iMac review, we reviewed iMac as a product. Now let us have a look at how can you test your iMac screen and may sell back to Steve Jobs for 15% extra $$. Let us take a look at what are the steps involved in testing your apple iMac screen.

Have a close look at image:

Those are cropped photos from a screen test taken with the same white balance settings on my dSLR. In other words, the greys and whites should match. Clearly, they don’t. [via macrumors]

How to carry out test on iMac screen:

Go to the link below with the height and width of your window maximized,

http://tapplox.com/imac-led.html

1. While focussing your eyes on the grey bars at the bottom
2. Resize the height of your browser window so that the grey boxes are almost touching
3. Resize the browser back to full size
4. Repeat steps 1-3 several times. Do the test while you are looking directly at the screen, do not tilt your screen up or down. Align your eyes perpendicular to the screen.

Note: Your screen may have the yellow tinge on a corner as opposed to the entire bottom.

While testing make sure that two bars appear indistinguishable from one another during entire length of the test. If there is slight shift in color LCD do not worry. However, there should not be significant color shift. Most of the displays with the issue have a noticeable much warmer (yellowing) tone towards 1/3 bottom of the screen, as illustrated in the photos below:

The grey bars look similar when they are closer to one another as displayed at the top of the screen. Yelloing issue starts from middle of the screen and continues till bottom of the screen. Yellowing issue will become more significant if you are testing iMac screen in a dark room. It will increase if you lower the brightness. Also note that sometimes in very bright condition yellowing is more subtle.

Do Not Tilt the Angle. If you do tilt the screen upwards, the yellow will fade — BUT as this happens, the top of the screen turns Purple, which will be more difficult to notice in grey. Anyway, nobody should be using their iMac in such a way. If you are doing the test, try to align your eyes normally.

Be very sure that you are not observing any color difference. If you are observing any significant screen then make sure you give a call to Steve Jobs and ask for your share of 15%

We read tons of news these days about child sucides. It’s really sad to know that child are falling victim to sensitive issues like social burnden and expectations. Though I would say value system, caring and educated parents can help child flourish his childhood and strengthen his whole life.

 Childhood is the most challenging phase of everyone’s life. A child has to compete, learn, retain and survive every moment since birth. All he desires is love, security, appreciation and respect. Deprive him of any one thing and he is shattered. This loss will affect him throughout his life, since childhood is a moulding phase of life. A kid retains everything like the clay or we can say a child is like clay, you can mould it the way you want. It’s the onus of parent to strengthen this caly that can help child to sustain brutelities of life. Parents can help child retain good things. Subconsciously child absorbs every impression he goes through and it directly builds his personality. No doubt kids are stubborn, violent, capricious, irritable and difficult to deal at this age. Every child is different and beauty of homeopathy lies here. Homeopathic medicines are prescribed on the basis of individuality of a person and so also kid. Medicines can help a child to calm down, fight stress and develop better. Before you read more of this article, I would like to apeal that a child needs no medicine if child is growing under proper value system, educated & socially aware parents who can show him correct path and instill attitude to face the world. Now let’s see which one is your child most similar to:

1. Chamomila:

These kids are very restless, irritable, and angry, throw tantrums, abusive and are quiet only when carried on laps and petted. They point their hand at one thing and when it is offered, they throw it away demanding for some other thing. I.e. they are capricious. This child complains of colic and rolls on floor since pains are intolerable. Piteous moaning because he cannot get always what he wants. Impatient kid.  Extremely Impatient. Very sensitive to pains. Chamomila is also great for distress in teething kids. Mild and gentle natured kids should never be given chamomile.

2. Ignatia:

This remedy is helpful for nervous and hysterical kids, esp. girls who have attention seeking behaviour. Suppose if there is a little girl in a family who is always pampered a lot and is always the centre of attraction. Her mom delivers a baby boy/girl who suddenly starts getting greater attention now. Our little Ignatia feels jealous, ignored and considers her sibling as her rival. She behaves weirdly in order to get back everybody’s attention but fails. She complaints of abdominal colic but no particular reason is associated with it. She sobs for hours. Child is in depression. Ignatia will help her get over her behavior.

3. Natrum mur:

This remedy is helpful for kids who have broken families, who suffered from grief due to death or divorce of parents, emotional injury or any condition which deprived him/her of love they desired and deserved. They prefer to stay alone since then and hate being consoled i.e. they dislike being sympathized. They don’t let anyone get closer to them as they fear emotional injury. Brooding tendency sits alone and weeps for hours. Externally appears to be calm but if severely reprimanded, they are out of control and throw tantrums, kick and scream and no amount of consolation will calm Very responsible since young age. Dwells on past incidents. Very strong emotions but cannot express it. Very sensitive to criticism and jesting. Child may fall ill after fights or separation of parents. He may even harbor suicidal tendencies or revenge within due to depression.

4. Pulsatilla:

These kids are very delicate, physically and emotionally. They are very mild, shy, yielding and cozy. They are very moody i.e. happy one moment and sad in another. They mould themselves as per the surrounding in order to seek love and appreciation from all. They love to get noticed. They will do anything and everything to please the people around. They will prefer to compromise than to fight. Very spontaneous but soft in nature. Weeps easily. Emotionally arousable. Insecured and vulnerable look. Never cruel or rude. Fearful kids, esp. fear of closed spaces and of dark in evening so they desire open airy surroundings. Easily discouraged. Quite a selfish kid. Pulsatilla is most of the time suitable to girls but if characters match, can be given to boys without a doubt.

5. Sepia:

Sepia is helpful in sad and indifferent kids. Indifferent to family, friends, exams, competition, games, be it any. They are not interested in anything. Nothing stimulates them. They are not happy if they win, they are not sad if they loose. Cries without reason. Dissatisfied with those who try to help him and intolerance to contradiction. There may be history of broken family. Can be helpful after natrum Mur. 
Above remedies can support a kid and help him tackle his life in better way. Observe his behavior and use the remedies or consult your homeopath. You can also mail us if in doubt. I would re-iterate importance of a parent in child’s life. Be resposible, aware & nurturing parent. Instill values in your child and see him winning every juncture of this world.

Author - Dr. Kirti Tekwani

With basic knowledge on data dictionary objects, it is clear that all the records in the database are stored with a unique identifier. And this unique identifier can be of any form. However, one of the challenges is to deal with the unique key which is stored in the form of RAW16.

The unique identifier for the records in CRM module and in Audit Management Application of Quality Module is in RAW16 format. However the way we display the record name on the screen is with the External Identifier which exists for each unique identifier.

Code provided below demonstrates how to get the Character format of the unique identifier which is stored in RAW format.

This will be helpful for the objects which use tables like CGPL_PROJECT, CGPL_TASK etc, (which are used in CRM modules and also in Audit Management Application of Quality Module as mentioned above).

 To convert the GUID (RAW16) into Char24:

DATA: V_GUID TYPE PLMT_QUEST_RES_UI,
      V_EXTERNAL_ID TYPE CGPL_EXTID.

Pass the value of GUID (RAW16) for which we need to convert into Character Format into the variable V_GUID-GUID.

  CALL METHOD CL_PLM_AUDIT_CONVERT_SERVICES=>CONVERSION_OUTPUT
      EXPORTING
        IV_INPUT  = V_GUID-GUID
      RECEIVING
        RV_OUTPUT = V_EXTERNAL_ID.

This method internally uses the function module CONVERSION_EXIT_CGPLP_OUTPUT for the conversion purpose.

Here is the process to call a method inside our object (report, function module etc,):

1. Click the Button “Pattern” or Ctrl+F6 present on the toolbar.
2. Select the radio button “ABAP Object patterns” and click Ok button.
3. Enter the class name in Class/Interface field (Enter CL_PLM_AUDIT_CONVERT_SERVICES).
4. Enter instance variable also incase of calling an Instance method. (As CONVERSION_OUTPUT is a static method no need of instance in this case)

Press F4 in method field which will list the methods that are available for the class (Select CONVERSION_OUTPUT) and click ‘Yes’.

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