[FX.php List] one machine intallation

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I have used that since FM 5.5,
and I'm not able to understand how you find the time to maintain a
system the old way.

ggt667

On 4/26/07, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at cayre.dk> wrote:
>
> Den 26/04/2007 kl. 9.32 skrev Kevin Futter:
>
> > Most of our staff members get quite disconcerted by
> > layouts changing right before their eyes!
>
> At a one-day seminar last year, I heard about a strategy to work
> around this problem:
>
> Divide the solution such, that all raw data are in one (set of) file
> (s), and put the UI in another (set of) file(s).
>
> Modify the UI file offline at will, and distribute it to users
> whenever practical. This has the advantage of letting different users
> have completely independent (and different) UIs to the system, and
> lets you propagate changes in more manageable steps...
> In addition the UI file(s) *may* be local to the user, depending on
> the systems properties...
>
> I'm preparing to o a complete  rewrite of my employers CRM system
> which is currently a relatively big FM6 system:
> Files: 47
> Scripts: 2244
> Script Steps Read: 19944
> Fields: 3449
> Relations: 571
> Layouts: 559
> Fields on Layouts: 16003
>
> I'm looking forward to being able to develop on the 'live' system,
> and so, am glad to hear most of you never had trouble doing it.
> (Since FMI seemingly has no problem handling consistency of records
> manipulated by remote users, I would be surprised if they were unable
> to do the same for the integrity of structure changes, assuming of
> course that there is no problem locally on the FMS machine)
>
> Have any of you considered the data/UI separation strategy?
>
>
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