Specifically there is a default configuration problem on XP with some releases of version 3 of Firefox that result in pdf attachments appearing as text/pdf mime types, rather than application/pdf. The text/pdf will strip all non-text content from the attachment, resulting in a corrupted and unreadable attachment at the other end.

The problem is described at the very end of this discussion:
http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9716

The fix is a rather complex edit (described in the above, but the easiest solution may often be to use a different browser.

1)  Open a new Internet Explorer window

2)  If the Menu Bar (File, Edit, View, Favourites etc) is not visible, right click the blank area beside the first tab and click "Menu Bar".

3)  Click the Tools menu, then Internet Options

4)  Select the Security tab

5)  Select "Trusted sites", then click the "Sites" button.  In the window that pops up, ensure https://titan.skillsense.com is in the list, or add it

6)  Close the Trusted Sites dialog, and under "Security level for this zone", make sure the slider is set to "Medium-low".

7)  To ensure that the settings are now correct, click "Custom level", and scroll down to "Downloads" (about 1/3 of the way down).  "Automatic prompting for file downloads" should be set to "Disable", and File Download should be set to "Enable".  If you need to change these settings, you will end up with "Custom settings" instead of "Medium-low".  Click OK.

You may need to restart Internet Explorer or Windows for this to take effect.

To enable logging proceed as follows:

1. Stop the DeskClient if it is running - note you cannot edit the configuration file while the DeskClient is running, since any changes will be overwritten when it is stopped.

2. Find the file called 'config' - which will usually be located somewhere similar to:

c:\Program files\SkillSense\EasyTrak\config

3. Open this file in an editor such as Notepad.

4. Add a line at the end of the file similar to:

logFile=c:/Progra~1/SkillSense/EasyTrak/client.log

Note: use forward slash "/" not back slash "\"

5. Once the log file has been captured, don't forget to remove the log file line from the config file, so as not to continue consuming disk space.

UPDATE COSTCENT SET TYPE=1 WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM COSTCENT WHERE CENTRE REGEXP '[[:digit:]]{3}' AND NOT CENTRE REGEXP '[[:digit:]]{4}' AND NOT CENTRE REGEXP '[[:digit:]]{5}');

But as this http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/23/ho … -in-mysql/ explains there is a relatively straightforward work around. Based on this article, the following does succeed:

UPDATE COSTCENT SET TYPE=1 WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM (SELECT * FROM COSTCENT WHERE CENTRE REGEXP '[[:digit:]]{3}' AND NOT CENTRE REGEXP '[[:digit:]]{4}' AND NOT CENTRE REGEXP '[[:digit:]]{5}') AS X);

See this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … amp;page=6

1. Open a web browser and log into EasyTrak.

2. Open the Setup - Employees form, and enter the new Employee information as required, and then save the form. Make a note of the new employee number.

3. Open a web browser, and log in to the EasyTrak Kiosk administration screen at the address provided by your site support person.

4. Check the 'Allow RFID Register (takes effect immediately after Save)' checkbox, and then click [Save] at the bottom of the page.

5. Go to the EasyTrak Kiosk, and enter the new employee number, and make sure the new employee's name is reported at the top of the screen. If it is not, go back to step 1 and check that you have entered the information correctly.

6. Touch the [New Card] button on the screen, and when prompted by the pop-up to 'Please swipe your new card', hold the tag to the reader and confirm that you hear a beep.

7. To test the new tag registration, press the [Timecard] button, and then when prompted, hold the new employee tag to the reader, and confirm that it is recognized, and a timecard screen is displayed, and not a message saying 'the tag is not recognized' . Note that the timecard displayed may be empty - this is not a problem.

8. When finished, return to the EasyTrak Kiosk web browser administration screen, and UNcheck the 'Allow RFID Register (takes effect immediately after Save)' checkbox, and then click [Save] at the bottom of the page. This will make sure that no-one can re-register an RFID tag without your permission.

All done!

c:\Documents and Settings\{$user}\

which is probably not the desired behaviour. To get the home directory to default to a more unix-like directory, set the HOME environment variable in Windows as follows:

HOME   c:\{$cygwinhome}\{$username}

These are also helpful reading:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00200.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg01120.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg01117.html

and

$ man mkpasswd

For example, currently these do NOT accept time queries:

time.chu.nrc.ca
tick.utoronto.ca
tock.utoronto.ca

whereas these do:

tick.greyware.com
tock.greyware.com

Make sure the url such as:

<skillsense:internalServletLoc>http://localhost:8080</skillsense:internalServletLoc>

- is accessible from the browser.

Other symptoms include these messages in the logs:

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "HR" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</HR>".
        at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:354)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:673)
        at com.skillsense.eprofiling.servlet.ObjectURIResolver.resolve(ObjectURIResolver.java:101)

and "Error resolving uri ... at base null" in the expand log.

Note that the xadf url tag above must NOT end with a trailing '/'

Here's an example:

mysql> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW PRODUCTION_REPORT AS (  ..... );
ERROR 6 (HY000): Error on delete of './bellcamp/arc/PRODUCTION_REPORT.frm-0002' (Errcode: 2)
mysql> quit;
Bye

cxtinac@tank1:~$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3432
Server version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log Debian etch distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> use bellcamp;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW PRODUCTION_REPORT AS (  .... );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>

sql_mode='IGNORE_SPACE'

DataVision inserts a space as shown in the above DATE_SUB expression. MySQL needs the above mysql_mode param in order to parse this correctly as an expression.

Put it in /etc/mysql/my.cnf - only once per install obviously

The answer is press and release repeatedly.

/*    
 * The following almost seems like a bug in the infrastructure somewhere.
 * 
 * If the empty tests below which require filling in stub methods obviously,
 * are moved to their default location ABOVE the real test testRosterDayNumber() and uncommented,
 * the real test testRosterDayNumber() gets invokded AFTER
 * teardown() and hence the test fails because it cannot get a DB connection obviously.
 * 
 * This occurs both in cruisecontrol, and running locally within eclipse, so likely
 * an effect of JUnit.
 * 
 * So the learning is, if you have stub tests, put all the stubs AFTER the completed
 * tests or comment them.
 * 
 * I will put a note to this effect in the forums too, so we only ever have to waste time
 * on this once.... Hmm...
 * 
 */
    @Test
    public final void testRosterDayNumber() {
        try {
            Timestamp startDate = Timestamp.valueOf("2007-01-01 00:00:00.0");
            ArrayList<Roster> rosters = Roster.getRosterList(domain);
            for (Roster roster : rosters) {
                boolean firstPass = true;
                int rosterDayNum = 1;
                for (int i = 0; i < 365; i++) {
                    Timestamp testDate = Utilities.addDays(startDate, i);
                    int dayNum = roster.rosterDayNumber(testDate);
                    int dayCount = roster.get_dayCount();
//                    System.out.println("i: " + String.valueOf(i) + " | " + String.valueOf(dayNum) + " | " + String.valueOf(dayCount));
                    /*
                     * NOTE: rosterDayNumber is OFFSET by one - and (I know this is a mess)
                     * it is compensated for by the other code.. so rosterDayNumber runs incrementally
                     * from 2 (yes TWO) to the roster day count plus 1. 
                     */
                    assertTrue("Roster Day Number not in range",dayNum <= dayCount + 1);
                    
                    if (firstPass){
                        rosterDayNum = dayNum;
                        firstPass = false;
                    }
                    
                    if (dayNum > rosterDayNum){
                        assertTrue("More than unit increase in Roster day number: " + String.valueOf(dayNum) + " | " + String.valueOf(rosterDayNum), dayNum - rosterDayNum == 1);
                        rosterDayNum = dayNum;
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            fail(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
    
    @Test
    public final void testSchedShiftTimestampStringString() {
//        fail("Not yet implemented"); // TODO
    }

    @Test
    public final void testSchedShiftMaster() {
//        fail("Not yet implemented"); // TODO
    }

    @Test
    public final void testIsRosterOffDay() {
//        fail("Not yet implemented"); // TODO
    }
    @Test
    public final void testPriorSchedWorkDay() {
//        fail("Not yet implemented"); // TODO
    }

    @Test
    public final void testNextSchedWorkDay() {
//        fail("Not yet implemented"); // TODO
    }

Use an update install, and invoke change.exe as part of the install script: