Paul
This only realy confirm what POS MYOB is and
not deserving of being intrated to
There are much better alternatives
N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:38 PM
Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: MYOB and Delphi can hitch up? Alas No!
Dear anyone thinking about MYOB and Delphi hitching up somehow,
A while ago I wrote to this user group that there was a publication called
MYOB in the $14.95 NEXT Handbook series that seemed to answer all of my
questions about Myob and Delphi connectivity. (If you're into it, you might
recall that the purchasible ODBC drivers operate in a read only manner for
MYOB data.)
However then came an unexpected and forgotten return phone call form an
insider in the ginormous MYOB organisation.
Apparently the NEXT Aussi publishers of the booklet were not supposed to
have released that booklet this side of the Tasman without the express
permission of a MYOB staff member here in New Zealand.
MYOB is not intending to continue supporting some of the matters covered in
the booklet, and some things that developers may have strated getting used
to in Australia, for much longer. As we had not been introduced to a lot of
things happening in Aussi, MYOB did not intend to even expose the
information to us. Apparently some of the problem has to do with the old
architecture used in MYOB which possibly even predates the entry of Delphi
into the marketplace [you can work the rest out for yourself - leagcy
concepts].
The whole problem of the NEXT publication arrose because the Aussi liasion
man left MYOB at some point crucial to the kind of information that should
have been vetted before the publishers went to print, with a version for New
Zealand. Its even possible that there is only one version of the
publication - the Aussi one.
The net result is that the only way to get stuff into the MYOB database from
Delphi, is to get the user to do a manual import of a Delphi file dump.
I've not tried it yet.
Other methods do not accurately feed back to the Delphi prog whether any
procedure has been sucecssful or not; and even checking for the existance of
a certain file that is created upon sucess (by MYOB) can be misleading and
give incomplete or inaccurate information, I was told.
Real COM object etc .. or whatever .. is not envisaged for the next few
releases of MYOB, again due to the current historic forms used in the actual
database structure and MYOB programme access methods. 30 000 Aussi customers
are happy with things as they are and MYOB doesn't want to risk suddenly
making them unhappy juts to change things to make developers happier. The
risk are apparently too great for a sudden move. (I am only attempting to
relate what I was told by the very well placed individual.)
Since that phone call nothing has loomed upon the horizon to encourage me
that another way will be found for the foreseeible future. So, if my client
wants to procede in going over to MYOB, I'll have to go the file dump and
manual import way to keep his address database, and MYOB client cards in
sync.
Paul A Norman
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