Supplying patches of forms to endusers

[Chet Sapino]

I had to make several changes to a from to fix a couple of bugs. How would I supply this new form to an end user without trashing his dbf table? No changes were made to the tables or sets associated with this form. Table is dbf.

[jkletrovets]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

Hi Chet

Take a look at this thread.

In particular posts #3 and #6. This is an easy way to accomplish what you are looking to do.

Regards,

Jeff

[Chet Sapino]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

Hi Chet

Take a look at this thread.

In particular posts #3 and #6. This is an easy way to accomplish what you are looking to do.

Regards,

Jeff

How are any of these techniques going to work if you have a 100 or more customers out there? Are you going to have them all zip up their databases and send them in on a cd?

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

all zip up their databases and send them in on a cd

That's not what the suggested posts in the thread discuss. You backup the portion of your database that contains the forms. You send it to them. They unzip it there.

[Chet Sapino]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

That's not what the suggested posts in the thread discuss. You backup the portion of your database that contains the forms. You send it to them. They unzip it there.

Ok. I see it. I zip the application files only using the Mark Files option which consists of the forms reports and scripts, and the customer unzips it to their directory. Sounds good. I was a little bit worried there for awhile.

Thanks much!

[jkletrovets]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

Chet

Sorry you found my help not helpful. But as Stan noted, I don't think you read the context of the thread properly. I, in essence, use that same method all the time.

If your needs require a more polished solution, search the board for Astrum. Cal Locklin has talked about his update method at various times using Astrum to send and "installable" update.

[Chet Sapino]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

Chet

Sorry you found my help not helpful. But as Stan noted, I don't think you read the context of the thread properly. I, in essence, use that same method all the time.

If your needs require a more polished solution, search the board for Astrum. Cal Locklin has talked about his update method at various times using Astrum to send and "installable" update.

I have Astrun Pro and use it all the time. This is a very good product for $89. Since I purchased it last year, I "threw away" Wise Installer.

Once I find out what files are in the zip, I will create a patch using Astrum.

Thanks,

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

In v10 you can import/export individual layouts.

See attached image...

[Chet Sapino]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

In v10 you can import/export individual layouts.

See attached image...

I don't let anyone near the control panel so this will not work for me. They get a runtime application that has the a5 security built in with password protection.

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

I don't let anyone near the control panel so this will not work for me. They get a runtime application that has the a5 security built in with password protection.

I'm thinking there must be an xbasic function for this. Poked around but didn't see it.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

Chet,

As nearly always there is another way in Alpha, check out this method from Jim Chapman in the Code Archive.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

I'm thinking there must be an xbasic function for this. Poked around but didn't see it.

Hi Peter,

Please see thumbnail.

[Chet Sapino]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

In v10 you can import/export individual layouts.

See attached image...

The suggestions that involve backing up the application files only and unzipping them to the target folder did absolutely nothing!

In the zip db dialog, when you mark application files only, you get marked, where app = database name,

app.adb
app.alb
app.alm
app.alx

where tbl = table,

tbl.ddd
tbl.alb
tbl.alm
tbl.alx

copy these over and you get nothing. No Update of any forms, or reports.

Any suggestions?

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

The layouts based on sets are stored in different dictionaries. Suggest you review the help file topic "Alpha Five File Types". It explains where your design elements are stored. The elements you change are the elements that must be copied over. Make sense?

[Chet Sapino]

Re: Supplying patches of forms to endusers

The layouts based on sets are stored in different dictionaries. Suggest you review the help file topic "Alpha Five File Types". It explains where your design elements are stored. The elements you change are the elements that must be copied over. Make sense?

If you follow the zip database dialog, it gives you the files that supposedly contain the forms, reports, etc. if you select mark application files only. Now if you zip these up and unzip them to the target dictionary, nothing gets updated. This doesn't work.