Hi there,

I do not have a lot of experience with A-Rev, however I am hoping that someone here may have experienced a similar problem that we are currently experiencing:

When users try to run some reports (can be various reports, at various times, with variour logins etc - appears totally random), it seems to take ages and ages and ages to do anything, and in fact all it is doing is creating a sfx file which gets bigger and bigger until all the available disk space is taken up.

We are running A-Rev 3.0, with an Openinsight front end, with Nt4.0 terminal Server.

This could be a million and one different things, however if anyone else has experienced anything like this, can you please post your findings.

Thanks and Regards

Troy

]]We are running A-Rev 3.0, with an Openinsight front end, with Nt4.0 terminal Server. «

Not sure if this is the cause of your porblems, but I know that you should be at Arev 3.1 or higher to allow OI to there at the same time…

J

Thanks for that.

Hmm I am not the one who developed it, more like the one to try and keep it content, so this is news to me.

Is there any documentation anywhere that could reference the necessity for A-rev 3.1 to run OI?? As I am keen to see what it says and why the necessity.

Any other information about this would be helpful - ie why this is needed?

Thanks again.

Rgds

Troy

You have to use Arev 3.1 or greater if you want to use OI on the same database because of compatibilities in the dictionary structure, and to so with indexing too, I seem to remember. Not sure of where this is documented though…. I'll have a hunt around and see if I can find it.

JB

Hmm that is interesting…from what you are saying it sounds as thought the d/b should not function at all….maybe not…but ours is…anyhow, if you can find that documentation/reference I look forward to reading it.

Thanks

Troy

The database will function. But you could get some problems.

Take a look here: http://www.revelation.com/85256311006a3217/2b270df8a7d6fb488525656b005fed64/a9a56524aacfb93585256311006096a2?OpenDocument

where this is from:

Before you share an application between Advanced Revelation and OpenInsight, note the prerequisites listed below.

Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

Either OpenInsight Version 2.5 or OpenInsight for Workgroups Version 3.0. Both are available right now. You can share applications with either version of the product, I recommend Workgroups because of ODBC, SQL Server and Notes capabilities.

Advanced Revelation version 3.1 or above. This is very important, because only with this version do dictionary items contain a value in field 34, which is equated to DICT_PRODUCT. The values are:

0 or null Both Advanced Revelation and OpenInsight

1 Advanced Revelation only

2 OpenInsight only

Without this information (and some other changes made to the dictionary structure for 3.1), the data, dictionaries, and indexing cannot be shared. Even though earlier versions of the dictionary might look similar, DICT.MFS will know how to handle the data in field 34. It is important to remember that the requirement for Advanced Revelation 3.1 is only if you want to share data - if you are looking to do a wholesale migration to OpenInsight and don't care about using the data in Advanced Revelation anymore this requirement is waived.

Thanks very much for the help. I have some reading to do!

Regards

Troy

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