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 Author  Thread: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?
basanth kumar varma alluri
Posts: 9
 
How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 20 Sep 08 8:07 AM
Please help me.


Thanks
Basanth
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Stephen Redmond
Posts: 190
 
Re: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 21 Sep 08 6:24 AM
If you have messed up your VFS, you can truncate the VIRTUALFILESYSTEM table in the database and then copy over the values from the Blank or Eval database (in theory, these shoud be the same).

Have you any customizations? If so, I would try and get these out into a bundle, if you can, before truncating the table.

This is one of the reasons that I always recommend exporting the VFS to the file system. That way you have options to apply source control, etc.


Stephen
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Lee Owen
Posts: 46
 
Re: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 02 Oct 08 9:39 AM
this doesn't work for me. i truncated the vfs table and copied over the data from the blank database. tons of errors. my web client is so messed up. i just want to start over. what needs to happen to wipe this and start over?
help!@!!!!
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Steve Robertson
Posts: 146
 
Re: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 02 Oct 08 11:12 AM
Hi Lee,

This is from Sage:

1. Open SalesLogix Administrator
2. Click on Execute SQL and run the following (after backing up the host database)
delete from VIRTUALFILESYSTEM
3. Open Application Architect.
4. From the View menu, click Project Explorer.
5. In the Project Explorer pane, right-click on VFS on SERVERNAME, and then click Install Bundle.
6. On the Select Bundle to Install window, browse to the \Upgrades folder on the SalesLogix installation disc or network share.
7. Click the Sage SalesLogix 7.2 VFS for Upgrades.zip file.
8. Click Open.
9. On the Select Bundle window, click Next.
10. On the Select Items window, click Next.
11. On the Installing Items window, click Finish.
Note: If any errors occur between Steps 8 & 9, click Yes.
12. Repeat steps 3 through 9 for all web based service packs
Note: Web based service packs are not cumulative. Service Pack 1 must be applied before applying the Leads bundle followed by the Service Pack 2 bundle installation.
13. Re-build the Interfaces.
14. Re-build the Web Platform.
15. Deploy web portal

You should then have an out of the box SalesLogix 7.2.2 Web system.

Cheers,

Steve
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Nick Hollis
Posts: 549
Top 10 forum poster: 549 posts
 
Re: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 03 Oct 08 5:08 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Stephen Redmond

If you have messed up your VFS, you can truncate the VIRTUALFILESYSTEM table in the database and then copy over the values from the Blank or Eval database (in theory, these shoud be the same).

Have you any customizations? If so, I would try and get these out into a bundle, if you can, before truncating the table.

This is one of the reasons that I always recommend exporting the VFS to the file system. That way you have options to apply source control, etc.


Stephen


I do this a lot - half the time when I do a new install the VFS gets corrupt somehow and I just copy one from my eval 7.2.2, and fixes everything. There are only a few things in the VFS from what I can see that are environment specific, and they are to do with particular user's tab orders etc (and the web reporting server configuration, so this needs to be updated). But this doesnt stop anything working..

As Stephen mentioned, make sure you bundle out your changes if you have customised the VFS.
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Lee Owen
Posts: 46
 
Re: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 03 Oct 08 7:52 AM
i did the steps above and got to 7.2.2. Ultimately i'm trying to get to the new 7.5 and i don't have any luck getting by 7.2.2. I don't care about customizations, i just want to get to 7.5. anyone got tips for this process?
When i try to build the interface in AA i get this:

INFO - Deploying file \deployment\common\bin\Sage.Entity.Interfaces.dll to Common
ERROR -
System.ApplicationException: Cannot find a valid code template for entity 'Sage.Platform.QuickForms.QuickFormMainDetailViewDefinition'
at Sage.Platform.QuickForms.WebFormGen.BaseTemplateGenerator.FindTemplate(IQuickFormDefinition quickForm)
at Sage.Platform.QuickForms.WebFormGen.BaseTemplateGenerator.Generate(IQuickFormDefinition quickForm, TextWriter writer)
at Sage.Platform.QuickForms.WebFormGen.FormInterfaceGenerator.Generate(IQuickFormDefinition quickForm, TextWriter writer)
at Sage.Platform.QuickForms.WebFormGen.InterfaceBuildPackage.ProcessForms(IModelItem parent, IEnumerable`1 generatorList, BuildType buildType, BuildItemGroup items)
at Sage.Platform.QuickForms.WebFormGen.InterfaceBuildPackage.GenerateInternal(OperationStatus op, BuildType buildType)
at Sage.Platform.Extensibility.DeploymentPackageBase.Generate(OperationStatus op, BuildType buildType)
at Sage.Platform.Extensibility.Services.RegisteredPlatform.Generate(IProject project, OperationStatus op, BuildType buildType)
at Sage.Platform.AdminModule.AdminModuleInit.Deploy(RegisteredPlatform platform, OperationStatus op, BuildType buildType)
at Sage.Platform.AdminModule.AdminModuleInit.BuildWebObjectsImpl(OperationStatus op)
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Stephen Redmond
Posts: 190
 
Re: How to recreate the Virtual File System (VFS)?Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Posted: 03 Oct 08 1:03 PM
Hi Lee,

Forget about all the other stuff before. Just install the 7.5 upgrades and then follow the instructions for upgrading the VFS in the Upgrade manual - from Step 49 "Create a new project workspace".


Stephen
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