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RE: Upgrading from 2.3c: msg#00021
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Hi
Charlie and Brian ...
Lurking in the background enjoying your exchange. As always, learning
from Brian's vast experience and knowledge.
All
the best to both of you and all other DP'ers
Tony
Thanks, Brian. That's a fantastic sheet.
I'm not sure if I knew about your dad. I'm sorry, but I'm glad you got
to meet him. I remember our conversation in Cal.
Russia, Mongolia
and China! I'd like to hear about that. Thanks for all the
info. I'm hard at work redesigning. It's not easy when you haven't
developed in a while.
Take care.
Charlie
Brian
Hancock wrote:
Hi Charles,
Good luck with the switch, I think you will be
relatively safe with the change but it is good to be cautious...
By the way, I wrote myself a DP Cheatsheet, which if you glance over it you
might see some new features since 2.3c which may make your job easier, http://www.brileigh.com/DPCheatsheet.pdf
By the way, you do not need to be developing public web applications to
take advantage of DP web's capabilities... For example In almost
ever major DP application I have written there has been an element of
Customer Relationsihp Management. Occasionally calls by clients are
part of an "incident", that ideally one person should by default handle, or
customer might have been assigned to specific customer servcies people or
teams of people. With VoIP PABX's (IPBX) DataPerfect could easily make your
phones smarter. Most IPBX's support XML based inbound dial plans, using your
DP application could could add a few tables that allow the phone system to
enquire on the DP application and route calls to the correct
people. Because DP is so quick and easy for creating XML
solutions, the sky is the limit, perhaps by using VoiceXML your application
could provide messages to users about the status of their
shipments. VoIP PBX hardware is quite inexpensive and if
you have clients still using DP applications then being able to add this
level of technology on top of DP could keep them running for years
more.
Things Down Under are great... Jake is almost 15 months old
now... I have cut my official work week down to 3 days so I can look after
him the other 2 days...
I haven;t been back to England for a while, my
father passed away nearly 2 years ago now... I am glad we had the
opportunity to meet each other before he died...
I have only just got back from a vacation
through Russia Mongolia and China... it was great fun... Its hard
getting back into the swing of work...
Regards
Brian
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:28 PM
Subject:
Re: [Dataperf] Upgrading from 2.3c
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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Original Message -----
Sent:
Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject:
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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Original Message -----
Sent:
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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