do exe upgrade only from 2009 to 2013

generic

hello is it possible to do exe upgrade only from 2009 to 2013?

The client has many modification we have done and we have performance issues because some reports on RTC just take too long to run but on classic they run fine. I heard 2013 has resolved these issues.

We could load those v 7 reports and do an exe upgrade and I was wondering if there is any major technical reason not to do it.


Thanks.

Alex_Chow

Try it and let us know.

From what I understand, executable upgrades are not supported by Microsoft anymore. I learned this the hard way upgrading the executables from NAV2009 to R2.

kine

You will still need to make more than just exe upgrade. Do not forge that FORMS are not incuded in the client, thus all references must be removed, replaced by page, properties were changed (LookupForm is now LookupPage etc.). Of course, there are tools to transfom this, but still, I think you will need more than this. First step is to use latest NAV 2009R2 build to be sure that the problems are no longer there...

generic

yes there is a exe in the upgradetoolkit that will automatically change those in TextFormatUpgrade2013. Anything else?

JDVyska

Alex Chow wrote:

I learned this the hard way upgrading the executables from NAV2009 to R2.

I'm curious - what happened when you tried?

Alex_Chow

JDVyska wrote:

Alex Chow wrote:

I learned this the hard way upgrading the executables from NAV2009 to R2.

I'm curious - what happened when you tried?

RTC didn't work.

Marije_Brummel

Have you done an analysis of the upgrade?

The hard part of the upgrade, the forms, does not exist anymore. This means an upgrade should not be that difficult anymore, unless you use kitting that is replaces by assembly.

Or am I missing something.

If you do a tech upgrade you will have to at least upgrade codeunit 1 since there are a lot of hard coded references there.