I am creating a web application that will offer the user a list of available timezones. I don't want to see the entire list of timezones, however, because it's long and I don't need anything outside of one or two countries. Is there a way to filter for specific timezones, or based on country, or even several countries?
In Noda Time, you can filter TZDB time zones by country using the location information stored in TzdbDateTimeZoneSource.Default.ZoneLocations.
Each ZoneLocation has a ZoneId (such as America/Los_Angeles) and a two-letter country code, such as "US". You can use this to filter time zones to a country, as shown in this answer.
The only downside with that approach is that you are still left with only the time zone id to show the user. If you want to show something more friendly, like "Eastern Time" or "Central European Time", those values aren't in Noda Time. Instead, you can use the TimeZoneNames library.
With TimeZoneNames, one operation you can can do is to get time zones with their id's and their localized display names for a particular language. For example:
var zones = TZNames.GetTimeZonesForCountry("US", "en");
See the TimeZoneNames readme for additional operations and sample output.
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I have an application that uses subscriptions for each member that joins. I'm having some issues with dates and calculations related with it. For example, let say a member joins on 2/10/2020 at 10:00. When the user submit the request to the server to process the subscription (the server is using UTC) the date that is being calculate is 2/10/2020 16:00 (because I'm -6:00 hours from UTC). This scenario is OK at this point, because the date is still the same (no matter the time). But, if we replicate this scenario when the user joins for example 2/10/2020 at 19:00, when the request is received and calculate the date, the result is 2/11/2020 01:00, and that produces an error in the invoice because the billing date of the invoice is wrong (one day after). What is the best way to implement this? I have read a lot of this topic, but most of the pages and questions are related in the other way, server to client, to parse of format dates to display to the user.
I have several questions related with this process.
Should I sent the date for the UI to the API? Or the timezone and
based on that, calculate the date in the API? (since the server have
UTC)
Moment.js library have a way to solve this or should be better with vanilla Javascript using Date?
Is there any HTTP header for the request to handle the time or date?
This really depends on what behavior you want to have. Before you try to fix anything, think through and decide on the exact requirements for what the billing date should be based on.
Is the user's time zone relevant? If so, you'll likely need to know what the user's time zone is. You'll be potentially assigning different dates to different invoices even if they're using the same UTC point in time. Your business might get confused on why some customers have invoice dates before or after the business day.
Or maybe the time zone of your company is more relevant? Many business work that way. All of your invoices will be aligned, but some customers might get confused on why their invoice date is before or after their current date.
Or maybe some customers snap to time zones of nearby offices, in the case of businesses with offices around the world.
Only you and your company can decide this. There are probably other options I'm not thinking through here. It's a business decision, not a technical one.
On your three questions:
That depends on what you decide above.
Libraries are a good idea for simplifying your code, but they're not a hard requirement. You can use the Date API, if you know what you're doing, but you may find libraries easier to work with. Also, Moment is in maintainance mode. For new development, the Moment team recommends you use Luxon instead of Moment. There are other popular modern libraries also, including date-fns and js-Joda.
There's the date header, but that's not going to help you with this.
We have a database that stores news stories from many websites. The entire text of each article is stored in one field of unstructured data as nvarcharmax. Our clients query on a person's name to see if they appear anywhere in any of our articles. But in order for us to be compliant with requirements in our industry, as well as not infringe on any copyrights, we're only allowed to return the 25 words which surround that person's name that was queried on. Along with that we give the client the URL of the article and they can take it from there.
Is this something that can be accomplished in Azure Search? The ability to only display a subset of words from the field which is being queried on?
You can use the hit highlighting feature in Azure Search. Please see highlight= parameter in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/searchservice/search-documents.
Azure Search returns up to five text fragments, which are usually sentences, that contains the search hits per field. It currently does not allow you to configure the size of the window/fragment so you can't get a specific number of words surrounding the search terms.
I have two tables:
The Cost file:
Facility,
Product,
Cost Set,
Cost Bucket,
Cost
The Transaction file:
Facility,
Product,
Quantity,
Date
My issue is that I need to run through the cost file for a specific cost set (03) and present the information in a list report as :
Facility:Product:Quantity:Bucket 1:Bucket 2:Bucket 3:etc. etc.
I have tried many things, but cannot get the information to display without the quantity aggregation getting hosed by the number of cost buckets for the facility/item combination. I am pretty sure it has to do with determinants, but I set them up and found it to be of no help.
Can anyone point me in a direction that might be helpful, or is there something more I can add to this description that might be useful?
What's the relationship of cost bucket to product? When you say "Bucket 1", "Bucket 2", etc are these the data values within the Bucket data item? If you could give us some sample data which ultimately generates one line of output, that'd be great.
General advice. If this model is solely for RS use (not QS adhoc), you may find it easier to simply create an object within FM which is custom SQL joining the required tables together.
So, not really sure if this is the right place for this but I have this current Context level data flow diagram for the bellow specification extract and I have never done one before so I was wondering if it was correct or if it needs fixing? any help appreciated
This is a link to a screen of my current one http://i.imgur.com/S4xvutc.png
SPECIFICATION
Currently the office staff operate the following processes:
Add/Amend/Delete Membership
This is run on-demand when a new membership application is received or when a member indicates that he/she wishes to make amendments to their details. It is also run in those rare instances when a membership is terminated at the discretion of the manager. A new member has an ID number allocated (simply incremented from the previous membership accepted). A membership balance is also maintained for accounting purposes.
Another process operates in a similar fashion on data associated with transfer partners.
Monthly Maintenance
This is run on the last day of each month to issue requests and reminders for subscriptions due, and to remove memberships where fees remain outstanding. Standard letters are also generated. Membership balances are updated as appropriate.
Payment Updates
This is run prior to the Monthly Maintenance, with membership balances being updated accordingly.
Payments to partners are also disbursed at this time.
New Member Search
This is run whenever a new member has been added to the database. The partners are partitioned in terms of vehicle category and location. Normally, there is a limited choice of partner in a particular location (if, indeed, there is any choice) but for some popular destinations, several partners are involved in providing the airport transfer. Thus, a search is then made through the appropriate section for potential matches in the following manner:
A search is then made on the grounds of sex (many female passengers in particular prefer a driver of their own sex, especially if travelling alone or in couples).
Matches are then selected according to factors such as cost (if available), availability of extra requested facilities (such as child seats, air-conditioning etc.)
Existing Member - Additional Searches
These are run on-demand in the same fashion as for a new member's search. Members may of course request any number of such searches, but a separate payment is due for each.
All financial transactions (payments) are also posted to the separate Accounts file, which also stores other financial details relating to running costs for the consideration of the firm's accountants at the end of the financial year.
Thanks for any help, regarding this level 0 Context only DFD
It needs some fixing.
The most obvious flaw is that you use verbs in your dataflows. In some cases this can be fixed easily by just discarding the verb. Return balance and status is not a datflow, but balance and status is.
In others cases it is not so easy. Check Balance, is it outstanding? sounds more like a Process than a dataflow. It looks like Accounting is responsible for doing that job. So will Accounting produce a list of outstanding balances? Or will it return a single balance and status, and if so, based on what input? Will your Airpot Transport System send a list of balances to check to Accounting?
Take for example Monthly Maintenance. What matters is that you want
requests and reminders for subscriptions due
Standard letters
These need to be visible in your DFD
The fact that you want to remove memberships where fees remain outstanding, probably has not place in the toplevel diagram, because that looks like an internal affair.
In general, focus on what the System produces. Maintaining internal state is secondary, is is a necessity to produce the desired output.
Is it possible to search venues (via venues/search) in whole city without passing "radius" parameter? Because I don't know radius of each city :) Documentation says "Searches can be done near a point or through a whole city", but how can I provide this in venues/search?
Thanks.
I do not think there is a way to tell it 'search the entire city', but I also think it might be a wrong use case.
You need to remember a few things when searching:
Foursquare will return up to 50 results (the limit parameter)
The 50 results are ordered by the most popular places around the center of your search
So if you are searching a city which have more than 50 venues in Foursquare database, 'searching the entire city' will usually get the same (up to) 50 results - always.
This where the filters comes in handy, in our case, to get you better results for our needs, we use the categoryId combined with the radius to get things we want to show our users. Sometimes we get information from other cities because of a big radius, but for our application its okay, we actually give our customers more options :) . I can also guess that a lot of apps also use the query filter as they know the name of the place they are looking for.
You just need to experiment with it and discover how to get the data which is right to your application.
In theory, to search an entire city I would use the city lat/lng from Google or Open Street Maps or geonames and do a 10Km search around that point (intent=browse, radius=10000), the following is a guess, but it will get 50 places for over 99% of the cities people who own smartphones live in :)
You can do obtain results within in a city as follows:
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?near=Singapore,Singapore&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID
&client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET3&v=YYYYMMDD
For more details check the documentation:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/explore
Assuming you're talking about requests with a query, I would just set a reasonable value for radius and use the city's default city center. If you want to avoid showing results from neighboring cities, you can post-request filter by the returned venue's "city" string in the location stanza.