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Steve Knowles
Posts: 657

7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Mar 08 9:00 AM

This is in the marketing info for SP2 - can anyone tell me where to find this tool? I have upgraded by dev system but can't seem to locate..

Enhancements to Application Architect
Active Form and Script Migration Tool—provides a conversion tool for customizations made for the LAN client to migrate over to the Web client—greatly reducing time-intensive work needed to migrate customizations

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Nicolas Galler
Posts: 93

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Mar 08 9:30 AM

That one got me too

The tool is still in beta, you have to email Sage to get a copy. Email 'globalslxbetaprogram@sage.com' and ask for the Migration Tool.

I converted a custom entity page using it. It did a good job with the page itself (even brought the icon over in the nav bar and set the transparency on it which I was pretty happy with) though it pretty much mangled the form. Seems to be very picky about how you align the controls. I think the quickform wizard now is good enough that you'll go faster recreating the form from scratch rather than trying to get everything aligned in Architect so that the migration tool will eat it. Might still be useful to bootstrap a project though. I did not try converting any vbscript but I can't imagine that that would be pretty.

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Steve Knowles
Posts: 657

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Mar 08 9:34 AM

Thanks Nicolas. My expectations are low, but I would like to give it a try. I've been trying to access your blog for the life cycle of the smart part. When I try to access: http://chivinou.blogspot.com/ I get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Do you know if your blog site is down? Thanks

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Mark Dykun
Posts: 297

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 6:53 AM

We tried the upgrade wizard as well. The code part is definately not pretty ... As you can imagine the code is only for reference since you are looking at 2 completely different environments and programming paradigms. Things like ado recordsets become nonsensical moving forrward so it makes more sense in a lot of cases to just redo honestly. Since things are now broken into tiers thought has to be given to where something will actually work. e.g. is it a business rule, is it a UI event, or is it a property extensions. So much client lan code is created mixing all 3 since it really is a 2 tiered application that pragmatic descisions have to be made when transitioning to the web.

Does this make sense?

- Mark

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Steve Knowles
Posts: 657

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 6:59 AM

I traded three magic beans for the tool and I want magic!! hehehehe Yeah, It would be very suprising if it just worked. I agree, it is kind of like turning an apple into an orange. It should be marketed accordingly also - especially to salesmen. It will be interesting to see if it is useful or not.

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Mark Dykun
Posts: 297

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 7:07 AM

Nicolas's blog is at http://blog.chivinou.net/ I was just there and it seems to work fine for me. How the tool is framed is definately a must or lots of technical people will be making up of sales promises. Not fun.

- Mark

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Steve Knowles
Posts: 657

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 7:17 AM

Got to Nicolas' blog on my virtual machine - the host won't connect on IE or firefox.. strange.

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Mark Dykun
Posts: 297

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 7:23 AM

Cool, I looked and could not find his blog on the smartpart lifecycle. He has moved over to word press to blog so you might have to ask him for it directly.

- Mark

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Nicolas Galler
Posts: 93

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 9:32 AM

I moved it to http://blog.chivinou.net a couple months ago - the blogspot address is supposed to be redirecting but not sure how well that works. The smart part one is at http://blog.chivinou.net/2007/12/06/slx-entityboundsmartpart-lifecycle/ let me know if you can't get to it!

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Bob (RJ)Ledger
Posts: 1103

Re: 7.2 SP2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Mar 08 4:08 PM

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Originally posted by Steve Knowles

I traded three magic beans for the tool and I want magic!! hehehehe Yeah, It would be very suprising if it just worked. I agree, it is kind of like turning an apple into an orange. It should be marketed accordingly also - especially to salesmen. It will be interesting to see if it is useful or not.

Right now the tools is restricted to partners.. if it ever goes beyond that.. I'd expected it to be a "non-supported" type of things.. just like the existing "forms converter".
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RJLedger - rjlSystems

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