Building new company, but can't edit the new company menus...

[Jose Lerebours]

Have you 'setperms' for the new directory tree?

In my filePro application, I also use what you describe but each time, I 
make sure I zap the lock files and run setperms



On 01/02/2018 08:40 PM, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:
>      Interestingly, when I run the programs (executing the first user defined menu in the system) PFMENU does what I would expect.  It finds the menus for the “newcompany”.  It is only “define menus” that does not allow me to edit the menus in the /u/newcompany/menus subdirectory.
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> On 1/2/2018 8:05 PM, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:
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>       I am running filePro 5.0.13D4 on SCO Openserver 6.  I built a complete
> new "testing" company by copying all the existing filePro databases and
> menus to a new subdirectory structure.
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>      Qualifiers will not work in this instance.  I want code I can mangle
> without any possibility of damaging the main code or databases.  I will
> transfer all my changes to the main system after I am done making changes to
> my test system.
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>      I copied all the filePro databases from  /appl/filepro to the
> /u/newcompany subdir, then I copied the menus to /u/newcompany/menus and
> I've set the following:
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> PFDIR=/u/newcompany; export PFDIR
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> PFMENU=/u/newcompany/menus; export PFMENU
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>       Everything seems to work, EXCEPT when I go to the filePro main "P" menu
> and try to edit a menu.  The "P" menu always seems to open the original
> /appl/fp/menus.
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>       I don't want to change the PFPROG setting, because I only have one set
> of filePro programs on the system.  From the "P", when I try to "Define
> Output" or  "Define screens: or even "Define edits" I get the correct
> "newcompany" programs "Define user menus" is the only thing that does not
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>       Suggestions?
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> And, Happy New Year everybody!
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