Webservice fails to update

Dakkon

Has anyone else encountered issues with webservices not updating properly? I have renamed fields, added fields, and removed fields from tables (along with their exposed page objects) and the changes do not show up on the web reference when I update it in visual studio. I have run into this same problem in the past only to have the objects finally refresh after a lot of tinkering with adding and deleting bogus fields. Does Navision cache the definition of these objects somewhere? This is infuriatingly frustrating, it's really making me hate Navision web services. ](*,)

Dakkon

To clarify further, I found that when I inserted a new field in between others, it did not get picked up. However, when I created a new field with an ID higher than all other existing ones, it magically refreshed correctly. Then, I go back in and delete this bs field and refresh again, and now my service correctly reflects the page object. This is incredibly stupid and all I can think is that the Navision server is caching the definition somewhere and not checking in a thorough fashion to detect if the object has changed (though you think it would look at the frack'n date, time and size). I tried restarting the services, and removing the page object from the service list and re-adding it, all of which themselves did no good. I'm guessing not that many people add services and then go changing them a lot, but for the project I'm working on this is pretty common in the dev stages.

Armonds

I have similar problem.

I made CodeUnit with function which have XMLPort as parameter.

And started WS for this codeunit.

But after changing XMLPort, the WS schema for XMLPort isn't changing.

I tried to restart WS, added removed fields to XMLPort, enabled disabled WS in NAV, recompiled CU and XMLPort but without luck

How to update WS schema?

Armonds

Maybe the problem is that environment is without AD....

In other network with AD web service updates without problems.

I found workaround, by adding new middle services. Then the new service is showing changed objects, but also only once...

So to make changes in web service schema, I must every time reinstall middle tier.

There must be a way to reset cashed Web services schema info. ](*,)

Dakkon

Well in my case we have active directory but I still have to jump through these stupid hoops to get the service to update itself appropriately.