Great,Plains,California,VAR,Ne computer Great Plains California VAR Newsflash: FRx Recovering Notes
----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
FRx is by all means great reporting tool, however if you arenot professional Great Plains consultant, you should be aware that due to thefact, that FRx is designed to server various accounting applications: GP, Axapta,Navision, Solomon, Small Business Financials, etc. you should expect thisuniversality to require technical expertise in FRx maintenance. In this small publication we would like tocover FRx service pack related issues: 1. Dynamics GP 10.0 requires FRx SP 9 orhigher. In fact, manufactured FRx CD iscoming with FRx 6.7 SP 9 incorporated. If you have earlier version of Dynamics GP andrespectively FRx 6.7 installed and implemented in your organization, please beaware of FRx service pack related issues. First login your existing FRx and write down its version. For example if you are on GP 9.0, likely yourFRx is 6.7.8XXX or 6.7 with service pack 8. In this situation, if you will try to insert FRx 6.7 CD, coming with GP10.0 (it is 6.7 with SP9) FRx will be installed and then it will try toupgrade SysData forlder: Specification set files. Upgrade might be successful, however all theother users, who are on 6.7 SP8 will not be able to use FRx and will receiveerror message similar to the following: FRxDemo.f32 could not be updated. Verify that all FRx programs have been closedby other users, and that you have modify permissions for Sysdatadirectory. Please, follow the stepsbelow to understand the issue and guidelines for fixing 2. When FRx upgrade happens, it upgrades so-calledspecification set files. Specificationset files are relatives to Microsoft Access DB files and they are gettinglocked during the upgrade and then when user call them. If user tries to call FRx specificationfiles, located in Sysdata from older version of FRx workstation, locks areplaced, but then there is no way out in old FRx logic. You can try two scenarios: roll back to oldservice pack or upgrade to new service pack on all the FRx workstations 3. Rolling back. Here you should look at your system backup and locate FRx Sysdata folderfrom the day before. If this is yourlucky day, first restart your computer or server, where FRx sysdata was hosted(to release locks, or MS Access ldf files), then restore it from backup 4. Forcing upgrade. First recommended step is to reboot the server, hosting Sysdatafolder. The other work around would beto uninstall FRx application on local computer, Citrix or terminal server andthen reinstall FRx with different sysdata and IO_Data folders. Then change Sysdata folder path to the copyof the Sysdata make a copy of this folder and in the copy delete all LDFfiles
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