Dev Toolkit Problems

gpetros

When I open the Dev Toolkit up, nothing appears. I am able to sucessfully connect to my SQL Server DB and open my company within it without getting any errors (after copying the DLLs and slave.exe file over from the CFRONT directory). This DB was created from the backup.fdb file that gets installed along with the Navision 4.0 install. I also imported the DevTool.fob file as the installation instructions indicate. What did I miss?

Thanks,
GP

frutta

Have you create developer database, there is a backup database in
your installation developer toolkit folder.

You should create that database first, then open the database using
developer toolkit and then you can import object from your own db.

ara3n

right and you import txt objects so you have to export all your objects to text first.

gpetros

Ok, that works for me. Thanks, guys. I'm not sure why the install instructions with the Dev Toolkit don't say to do that in the first place.

My next question is this: How do I get all the standard Navision objects into my new database? Restoring the DevTool.fbk only has a few objects in it, but I need things like an updated Salesperson/Purchaser table, for example, that integrate with my objects. When I try to Import a complete export with all objects I get an error stating that: "You do not have permission to create the 'Salesperson/Purchaser' Table." How do I import changes I've made to the "standard" Navision objects?

ara3n

you can open the vanilla chronus database and export all the objects. That is how you can get navision standard objects.
When you import standard navision objects. They have to fob, not txt files.

gpetros

ara3n wrote:

you can open the vanilla chronus database and export all the objects. That is how you can get navision standard objects.
When you import standard navision objects. They have to fob, not txt files.

The key was doing the import/export as a .fob file instead of a .txt file. Once I used .fob, I was able to import everything successfully. Thank you for your help!

DenSter

You can also import objects from a running client. So have your Cronus database open in a Navision client, run the Dev Toolkit, and you can have it connect to the client without exporting the objects first. It's a little slower that gong with the object file, but it's a lot less hassle.