Here we go again. Another version of utilities to copy any database object from one location to another. In spite of "Copy to" which I use occasionally, I keep coming back to these utilities when I need to pull old scripts or functions from backups or move forms or browses from one database version to another. Or to delete a whole bunch of whatever ......
Previous versions of the utilities used tables to display and manipulate the database objects. This was unwieldy and made installing or moving the utilities, from one database to another, a real pain. That is no longer the case. The same functionality is now contained in an aex file and is therefore available in any Alpha application on that machine.
This version is also easier to use, in that your file history is saved within and between sessions, so there is less tedious hunting in the file dialog.
There are now just two options (1) Replace/copy and (2) Delete. These are the only options I ever use myself, so I got rid of the others.
At the A5 Control Panel, Click Tools, Addin Manager. This will create the Addins_Installed and Addins_Disabled folders if they haven't already been created.
Copy the utils.aex file into the Addins_Installed folder in the Program Folder you are working with. I have not tested the utilities under Vista but there shouldn't be a problem with Vista-compatible versions of A5.
To activate the utilities, type
UtilsObj()
in the interactive window, or enter that line into a script that can be run from the code editor or elsewhere..
I have tested this version with both A5V5 and A5V9. There doesn't seem to be any reason it shouldn't work in any version in between.
I know there are people who think a tool like this is of little value. For myself, I've found that having a single place in which to do any copying/moving/deleting of objects across files and databases is very convenient. And it's now a lot easier to get the functionality than it was before.
Previous versions of the utilities used tables to display and manipulate the database objects. This was unwieldy and made installing or moving the utilities, from one database to another, a real pain. That is no longer the case. The same functionality is now contained in an aex file and is therefore available in any Alpha application on that machine.
This version is also easier to use, in that your file history is saved within and between sessions, so there is less tedious hunting in the file dialog.
There are now just two options (1) Replace/copy and (2) Delete. These are the only options I ever use myself, so I got rid of the others.
At the A5 Control Panel, Click Tools, Addin Manager. This will create the Addins_Installed and Addins_Disabled folders if they haven't already been created.
Copy the utils.aex file into the Addins_Installed folder in the Program Folder you are working with. I have not tested the utilities under Vista but there shouldn't be a problem with Vista-compatible versions of A5.
To activate the utilities, type
UtilsObj()
in the interactive window, or enter that line into a script that can be run from the code editor or elsewhere..
I have tested this version with both A5V5 and A5V9. There doesn't seem to be any reason it shouldn't work in any version in between.
I know there are people who think a tool like this is of little value. For myself, I've found that having a single place in which to do any copying/moving/deleting of objects across files and databases is very convenient. And it's now a lot easier to get the functionality than it was before.
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