Hi Brian,
I'm not using DP for any web applications. Mine is a more traditional
use -- the one I showed you in California.
I think I'll make my changes in 2.3c, then when that all looks good,
test a switch to 2.6. That way, if there are changes or problems, I
know where they came from.
Thanks.
BTW, how are things down your way? How's England?
Charlie
Brian Hancock wrote:
Hi Charles,
Version 2.6x supports commandline
arguments to import a file in a DP Transaction Log format.
/EI-filename So for example if you had an application that you wished
to import data from, you could take its output massage it into the
Transaction Log format and directly import it into DP. I use this for
dynamic web application with DP as the backend database... It brings
the reliability power and simplicity of DP as a multiuser database and
allows you to do things that were unimagineable with the previous
versions.
If you are using DP for any
production of HTML reports, then the new feature of conversion of the
ampersand symbol and other standard XML entities to their web form
makes life alot easier. For instance when using the ;W field print
indicator on am alphanumeric field contain an "&" charcter it is
converted to & in the ouput which will be correctly interpreted
in a browser. It makes creation of XML files a breeze which means you
can use DP together with many more applications.
You mentioned that you are worried
about having to rework reports... I can't remember having to do that,
except for a minor bug relating to creation of WordPerfect merge files.
But it is a simple thing to get around.
Regards
Brian
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:40 AM
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Re: [Dataperf] Upgrading from 2.3c
Hi back to you Brian,
Nice to hear from you.
In 2.3c, panel links are restricted to the related child records.
There's an old saying that says, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
When I read about others having to rework reports, etc., I got gun shy.
What are the improvements? What do you mean by an alternate means of
importing records with web potential?
Charlie
Brian Hancock wrote:
G'day Charles,
One issue would possibly be the
traversing of Panel Links with the F5 key... In 2.3c is gave you
access to all records in the target/child panel link and not just the
ones related to the displayed record.
I can't think of anything else,
except to say that I am surprised you hadn't upgraded long before
now.... and why wouldn't you move up to the lastest version 2.6x,
which give you an alternate means of importing records with web
potential, as well as a few other nice things.
Bye
Brian
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:16 AM
Subject:
[Dataperf] Upgrading from 2.3c
Hi Everybody,
I have to make some changes to a database I built years ago. I thought
the might be the right time to upgrade from 2.3c to 2.6h. But before I
did so, I wanted to find out what the differences are, and whether it
would necessitate changing reports. I read that there were report
changes that had to be made when upgrading from the 2.2x series.
Thanks.
Charlie Wolf
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