Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The new object restore process

While working on building a system within JDE we discover the OMW zip feature. Starting with TR 8.98 it was standard. We have learned some things about that really cool feature.

1. It works great..most of the time.

2. When working with sub-forms, after a restore you may have to dirty the form in someway for the target system to see that something needs to be generated. Strange but true.

3. NER business functions cache stuff, have seen it mostly in table structures and data structures. You have to open the business function and open the table IO to refresh, save and then close out. Remember to check-out first!

4. Make sure if you are restoring to PY (or the equivalent, and I know about promotion and all that jazz) that your project is at the correct status to allow a check-in to that environment. You may think it is not working since it is getting saved to DV for example.

5. When saving the objects or projects to a PAR file, make sure to have the latest code from central objects on the local machine, that is where it saves from. Do a get on all the objects to be safe. I know that the tool can be used for saving your work, and that is awesome, but more awesomer is the ability to save off commonly used code instead of rewriting it every time.

That is all for right now, I have more insights but will save them for another time.

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