how to identify the customized objects in navision?

jegan1811

anybody can explain how to identify the customized objects in Navision
object designer? and what are the objects can be the customized objects?
explain please.

Ian_Piddington10199

Theres no 'Sure Fire' way to easily see the customised objects but the following normally gives a good indication.

Look at teh modifed flag. every time an object is altered and saved this is checked, howerver it can be unchecked.

Look at the Time field. On the whole MS sets them to 12:00:00 so anything else is likely to be a modified object, although this field can be changed.

Look at the Version numbers and see if they have been updated.

Look at the BLOB size. This one of the few fields you can just change.

The best option is to either to drop everything to excel from your database, and also from a database that you know is unmodified and compare. Or download a tool that can compare the contents of FOB's to do the same thing. Again you will need a known unmodifed set of objects to compare against.

There is a fob viewer you could download from herethat could help.


regards

Ian

DenSter

Unfortunately no.... none of the fields in the object designer has anything to do with 'the best way' to identify modified objects. None of those fields can conclusively tell you whether an object is actually modified. They are a good guideline, and will get the job done if nobody has deliberately tried to cover up any mistakes.

The best way to find modifications is to export the objects out of your customized database, and also from the base version of your database version (not the exe version but the object version), as text, and compare them with a text compare tool.

Revolution1210

It all depends on how well the database in questions has been maintained.

Modified objects should have had the object list updated and you should in theory be able to filter on this in order to return a full set of modified objects.

However, this is not always the case and you will maybe find a whole host of objects which are marked as modified, with no version list update and no signs of documentation within the object. Has the object really been modified or not? The answer in that case is to do a compare, satisy yourself as to the level of modifications, then update the version lists accordingly.

This is a pet gripe of mine, as you may be able to tell :roll:

Waldo

jegan1811 wrote:

anybody can explain how to identify the customized objects in Navision
object designer? and what are the objects can be the customized objects?
explain please.

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Kowa

I've been using the merge tool from http://www.elliecomputing.com lately for 3-way merges and must say it really is an enormous help. If the objects are split into separate text files it shows all version changes very quickly. It does all that can be done automatically ( and much faster than the NDT automatic merge function )and leaves only a small portion of manual merge work. Also it doesn't alter the original text files and still saves the current projects merge status, in case you're interrupted.

One con that is apparent immediately : The german translation is a catastrophe, so I guess other languages than english should be checked in case they are needed. It almost looks like someone used babelfish for the caption translation