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Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)
Product Documentation

Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)

This is an article serving as documentation for my first ever app on the Android Operating System. For tablets and phones. The app in a nutshell displays flight restrictions in a given area Description As a quadcopter flier myself, I wanted an app to show me a map of the area I was going to film or fly. I wanted it to...

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Basic Android App using Google Maps and Current Location
AndroidOS

Basic Android App using Google Maps and Current Location

I am writing an app for a tablet running Android and wanted to include a Google Map. The following exercise focuses solely on creating an app which opens Google Maps at your current location. How? I couldn't find any instructions using the tools I had (Android Studio) which is why I've written this article.

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A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITS
Extensible Markup Language

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITS

"Quick" may not be the right word, so this is a somewhat summarized article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors and populating an OUTPUT table in the SITS database. Note that this does not include steps thereafter in the Staging or Target destination which will be specific to your business requir...

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XML Schema Reference
Extensible Markup Language

XML Schema Reference

XSD Elements Element Explanation all Specifies that the child elements can appear in any order. Each child element can occur 0 or 1 time annotation Specifies the top-level element for schema comments any Enables the author to extend the XML document with elements not specified by the schema anyAttribute Enables the aut...

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SITS: Export field code and name
Extensible Markup Language

SITS: Export field code and name

You might be able to work it out from the online manuals but it took me a while, we wanted to bring back both the code and the lookup value in our XML to our Staging environment.

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SITS: XET format for Export not available
Extensible Markup Language

SITS: XET format for Export not available

Trying to export a STU record but I want to use the XET template I created rather than the pre-installed XML export formats. When I try to export using data format XET, the system has never heard of it.

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SSIS Multiple Lookups in one
SQL Server Integration Services

SSIS Multiple Lookups in one

A quick article on an alternative to multiple lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor").

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