basic questions - new database navision 4.0

navaptec

hello there,

i'm new to navision and visited only two trainings til now,
so i have some very basic questions.

1. somewhere in a manual is mentioned that you shouldn't use the demo database of navision for stting up a new customer/mandator cause it's limited.
i' ve created a new database and imported the backup,
as mentioned in the manual.
only the tables were imported, no forms, reports, etc..
at the import dialogue i can't choose the application objects
although they have been backuped.
how do you handle this? is there kind of a start up guide how to set up a new database/mandator?

2. is the developer license somehow limited, or could you work with it just like with a regular license?

excuse my english, which needs practice too!
thanks in advance!

Ian_piddignton

Hi

It sounds like the back up was eiter Data only or the data base you restored to had an object in it that was modified. In those circumstances on data would be restored.

The demo database itself is not limited buit the demo license file is. Developers licenses work just like normal client licenses but a full developers license allows you to write directly to tables that a client licnese would not let you write to.

If you have access to a developers license I would suggest you makle a copy of the database.fdb file so that you have a 'clesn' set of data. Then in Navision import the developers license. This should give you everything you need to carry on.


Ian

navaptec

thanks for the fast reply ian!

i repeated it - same again.
the dev license file is imported.
did a backup from the original cronus demo db (data and application objects)
then i created a new empty database,
but at the import dialogue the app. objects check box is greyed out.
any idea why?

just for my understanding,
if you have to setup navision for a new customer,

do you create a new database for him in which the cronus ag is not included

or do you just use the demo database, create a new mandator in it and import his license file?

Ian_piddignton

It can depend on the client. Sometimes the Cronus company is left for a while and a new comapnay is created for the clients data. Other times it will be deleted and then client company created.

The objects check box gets greyed if anything gets done to the database. This includes setting up a new compnay before restoring.

If you have a database with all the data in you can always export all the objects from another database and import them into your new database.

Regards

Ian

navaptec

thank you very much for answering my questions!