When is NaN.NaN.NaN?
Trying to select the ‹ or › results in the pop-up calender dissapearing, and the curious “Not a Number” date appearing.
Summary: it is not possible to enter a date using the pop-up calender for other than the current month.
Posts Tagged ‘fail’
When is NaN.NaN.NaN?
Friday, June 4th, 2010SAP Warning
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Do you want to proceed?
When logging on to do submit some expenses, I was asked about the Transaction CO Through-postings from F1, and about how they were locked.
You better ask yourself, ”Do you want to proceed? Well, do ya? Punk?!
Update: Turns out that this means that month has been closed. It remains to be seen what that means for my expense claim.
Word trying to raise the dead: Attached templates from servers long gone.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010So, after the IT department failed to upgrade Lotus Notes remotely, they came to my desk, and ran Microsoft Update. Manually. And installed about 40 updates. Why hadn’t these been updated already? Don’t ask.
Some of these updates were for Office, and naturally, something went wrong. All of a sudden, Word started hanging when trying to open documents. Google found some forums, which lead to this article
Documents that have attached templates take a long time to open in Word 2002 and in Word 2003 …
So the solution is unplug from the network, and run a Macro, cutting and pasting into it every directory in which you may have documents with attached templates on non-existent servers. Oh fun.
Not to mention that I also dislike VB, especially VBA, and trying to research recursive directory search code requires the internet, which is disconnected because testing the VBA macro will hang. Nice.
Oh, and by the way, the AutoOpen macro? Yeah, it runs after the templates have been loaded, so no good trying to write a macro that fixes this only when you try to open this document.
Dear Lazyweb: write me an app that searches all my computer for Word files, detects an attached template beginning with “\\” and replaces it with “Normal”.
Lotus Notes Fail: Importing ICS files
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010This is supposed to easy, and I guess it is with v8, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. In fact, this kind of thing typifies my entire Lotus Notes experience. ICS files are common file format for calender entries, and have been around since forever, and Notes can’t import them, which is doubly weird since Lotus was involved in defining the standard.
When you use the “Import…” option, you get this dialogue:
Import Document Dialog
Not a good start really. Nothing in the “Files of type” selection that make sense, so stick with the default “Structured Text”.
Then, you get this dialogue, with a selection list in the middle with about 200 entries in it.
Import Dialog - Select Form
Most of these entries have helpful names like:
- R5 Compatibility Form
- Setup MiniView
- Switcher Form for Calender
- Switcher Form for Folders
- Switcher Form for To Do
- To Do
(Ahh! That looks familiar, we must be getting close to real options, oh wait, what’s this….)
- $$View Template for Calender
- $$View Template for Threads
- $$View Template for TodoByCategory
Anyway, you get the idea. After about 80 mouse clicks, I found an option “Calender Entry” which seems the obvious choice.
Hit OK, and a the screen flickers, and …. nothing. Ok, check the date that the calender entry was for, and …. nothing.
Oh well, write off the last 5 minutes as a total waste of time, try to not curse this confounded software, and add the entry manually, which deep down, you knew you should have done in the first place, because lets face it, nothing works like it should with Notes.
(Someone pointed out this link (via this one), but it only talks about sending calendering information via email. It doesn’t help my import an ICS file.)
More Firewall weirdness
Friday, February 26th, 2010Ok, not weird, just crap.
This link is blocked: http://www.rotronic.co.uk/content/humidity_feuchte/index.php The resulting page said it was in the “pornography” category.
Out of frustration, I typed in “Dirty Sex Sluts” into Google and selected the first link. Can you guess what happened? I wasn’t blocked! Boom! Full-on porn right there, on my screen, in the middle of the cube-farm!
And yet, I’m told that I can’t have the RDP port opened between internal offices on an intranet because of security concerns. Right.
SAP: GUI fail. Behold, the “Easy Access Menu”
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
(The funny scrollbar is because this image is composed of 4 screen captures)
Ok, so which one of these options is to record my timesheet?
Serious GUI fail.
More SAP weirdness
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Following on from my previous post, which described my first experience with SAP, I have continued to be thoroughly unimpressed with this application so far.
Honestly guys, your GUI is shit.
Right click on the system icon, and you get these options:
Both, by the way, kill the client.
Lotus Notes
Thursday, August 7th, 2008I discovered today that I was able to edit the help text in Lotus Notes. How this could be usefull I’m not sure.
Anyway, I decided to add some useful knowledge. I draw your attention to the insertion between items 3 and 4.
Heh. Haven’t come very far, have we there IBM. Still sucks pretty hard eh?!
I’ve taken it upon myself to log every single fault I find in Lotus Notes. Hopefully with enough evidence we’ll get something done about it.
I have a text file on my desktop, and everytime Notes pisses me off, I add to it.