Will 32 Bit OI Resolve AttachingAREV files in accounts with "." in them? (OpenInsight Specific)
At 03 JAN 2002 11:04:00PM Jim Dierking wrote:
Unfortunatly our application is called "Market.plus". As I understand
it, changing the application name is very difficult. I also understand that OI cannot attach any files or access any data in any
file or record in which the account has a "." in the name. I am
praying that the 32 bit version will resolve this. I would appreciate
any information, advice, or perspective offered. We are using the INET_GATEWAY. We've created a separate AREV account as a practical
work around for sending and receiving data from the web. But it would
be really nice to have access to all of our main applications data.
TIA,
Jim Dierking
Liberty Natural Products, Inc.
At 04 JAN 2002 12:08AM Mark Ford wrote:
We are faced with the same problem. Our application name is Survey.it Clients can define any number of surveys. One client has defined 200 surveys. For each survey we create 4 files using the survey name. If the survey name were entered as HOTEL then the system creates Hotel(data) hotel.qus (question and answer definitions), hotel.dfn (reports) and hotel.txt (Comments).
We have over come the problem by writing a small program to:
1. Copy the files to the Global account and renaming the files to hotel_qus, hotel_dfn, hotel_txt
2. The name of the current survey (the one which is open) is saved in a varaible rp.survey and the variable is used in all subroutines to using the format rp.survey:".DFN" for example. We added code to the program to read the program records in the source file and find and replace ".DFN" with "_DFN", ".QUS" with "_QUS" and ".TXT" with "_TXT".
After running the program the system tested okay. We then attached the files in OI and OI was happy.
So far so good.
I hope this helps.
Mark
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At 08 JAN 2002 06:48AM Robert Lee wrote:
Hi Jim / Mark
I haven't had the exact problem you describe of using an application name with a dot as I have done all of my development in OI. However,
I recently went through the exercise of renaming my app. It wasn't too much of a drama, although compared to Don, I probably took the sledge hammer approach. Unless the dot causes other spectacular problems, I would describe the task of renaming an application as achievable and only moderately scary - perhaps half a days work in my case.
Have a read of this thread.
It may help. The good news is you are actually copying the application to the new name so if it all turns to custard, you don't actually lose anything (apart from time and pride).
Robert Lee