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    Question about publishing to VPS.

    I published my database and related files to a VPS on ZebraHost. Since then data has been entered into the database tables on the VPS. I have also since created some reports and Letters I would like to work with the data.

    My question is this, how does one publish the report and letter files w/out also publishing over the dbf on the server. There is no option for example to select just the .DDD file, I can only select the .dbf file but if I do that I lose the data on the VPS.

    Surely one does not have to manually copy an paste .fpt, .ddd, .ddx, .cdx files to the data folder on the VPS. Must be a way to handle through the publish tool without overwriting the dbf.

    Hope this makes since. I am sure there is an easy solution but I have not found it.

    CHuck
    Last edited by Hansolo; 05-27-2009, 09:11 PM.

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    Re: Question about publishing to VPS.

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    Surely one does not have to manually copy an paste .fpt, .ddd, .ddx, .cdx files to the data folder on the VPS.

    I'd say your answer from all is going to be YEP! but just the .ddd file - see what others think. BUT ABOVE ALL backup your files on VPS before doing anything.
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Albert Einstein, (attributed)
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      Re: Question about publishing to VPS.

      Thanks Pete. I was afraid of that. I would have figured by now the publish feature would be a little more robust. First time using it really and thought I was missing out by not using it. I used to copy folders from the development system to the server. Might as well go back to that. At least then I have a backup of the development files on the server as well in case of file corruption which seems so prevalent in V9.

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        Re: Question about publishing to VPS.

        I use an external FTP program to publish just the dd* files.

        There was another thread recently with the excellent suggestion that reports, etc. just be tied to sets (even if there's just one table in the set) so that you can easily and simply upload them with Alpha's publishing tools and not worry about overwriting data.
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