What are the tools you use to manage your various customizations (Mongoose Forms, IDOs, Reports; SSRS; SQL SPs, Tables, UETs, etc.)?
And how do you use them to assess patch impact?
I need to find a better way to manage all this and need your recommendations.
So far, I've been describing my customizations in an Excel (Google Sheets) file, in which each tab is a Form (at first) or a Customization (when several Forms/IDOs/SPs/etc. are involved).This system is becoming messy, being live with CSI for one year already; it's not enough now, since:
We're using CSI 9.01.01 on-premise.
I've heard of Form Control; I've seen that Source Control tool can be linked to a User, and that Form Scripts can be automatically opened in Visual Studio (2013/2015).
What are the best options:
I'm dealing with this right now & it's making me nuts. Infor hasn't really done much on the "developer side" to make these things easy for us (IMO). There's definitely going to be a bit of "roll your own…
LOL. Sorry, I guess this is/was a serious question. The short answer is, there are no good options. Certainly not a comprehensive tool that captures all enhancements, versions them, lets you revert back…
Thanks, although quite depressing... heheh.
Is FormControl of any help?
Also, for the second part of my question: how do you analyze the impact of a patch before applying it?
There is new functionality in the Mongoose toolset that allows you to point at a group of forms and objects and it will package all of the pieces of a solution. Additionally any forms that you include it will package up all of its components: The form, Collections, Sub Collections, Tables, Scripts, Validators etc. All of this gets packaged into a deployable .zip that can be imported into another environment, even moving from on prem to cloud. Additionally you can also package up data within tables so that you can move information as well.
If you are interested in this then check out the Deployments form. There are two uses of the form. One that packages by access as and another that is more free form which allows you to package up the elements freely and even script this out so that you can reexport if you need to.
Hope that helps
Paul
I'm definitely going to be looking at this. Just loaded it up & already look promising!