Launching Navision automatically

bjc

Launching Navision automatically.

We need to automatically launch Navision from another application at a particular Customer, maybe using an ocx.

Has anybody got any ideas?

mfabian

No way before release of NF 3.0. The old 2.x Versions are not able to react on triggers fired by OCX's.

One quick-and-dirty workaround is a program like MSTest which simulates keystrokes and mouse-movements. You could use this program to simulate e.g. an automated Backup.

Marcus

Dave_Cox

How would your 3rd party software call navision?

you can open Navision with a command line string, have a look in the installation notes!.

just use the system shell from your other program.

Skeeve

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by fabian:
No way before release of NF 3.0. The old 2.x Versions are not able to react on triggers fired by OCX's.

One quick-and-dirty workaround is a program like MSTest which simulates keystrokes and mouse-movements. You could use this program to simulate e.g. an automated Backup.

Marcus

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In fact, we have a little tool developed in C/FRONT which automatically starts Navision and does a login. You can start any Object within Navision. I don't know how this exactly works because I didn't develop it. In addition it's not free. We sell this tool to our customers i.e. for making backups automatically.

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Skeeve
Navision Developer

[This message has been edited by Skeeve (edited 02-03-2001).]

mfabian

One mayor drawback on C/Front is that afaik it's not able to fire triggers defined on the table, making it quite unreliable.

Example: Inserting amount and price on a sales order line doesn't calculate the amount and setting the itemno. doesnt look up posting groups etc.

Marcus