Building new company, but can't edit the new company menus... (SOLVED!)

Wed Jan 3 05:25:47 PST 2018

     Your “PFMENU” suggestion was correct.  I thought I was setting PFMENU, but didn’t realize that PFMENU was being overridden until I took Jose’s suggestion and ran setperms.  I know who did this 30 years ago but she’s dead now, so it won’t do much good for me to lecture her...  <g>

     Problem was totally solved in about 2 hours.  It was a minor end-of-year closing problem that required me to edit a few dates on some mis-posted detail records.  

Thanks!

Mike

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Subject: Re: Building new company, but can't edit the new company menus... (SOLVED!)

Sorry Mike.  Didn't see your reply until this morning.
Tell those users to stop doing things without your permission.  :)
Glad you figured it out. 

Bill

On 1/2/2018 9:29 PM, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:

From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
bounces+mschw=athenet.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jose
Lerebours via Filepro-list

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.

Mike

Set PFMENU

On 1/2/2018 8:05 PM, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:

      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.

     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.

     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:

PFDIR=/u/newcompany; export PFDIR

PFMENU=/u/newcompany/menus; export PFMENU

      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.

      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

work.

      Suggestions?

And, Happy New Year everybody!

Mike Schwartz

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     Hmmm... good thought.  Setperms apparently doesn't obey the PFMENU setting, either, although setperms did find the (moved) databases in /u/newcompany/filepro:

pts002 schwartz root: ./setperms
Checking for user 'filepro'...
User 'filepro' found, proceeding normally...
Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro programs
located in /u/appl/fp
Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro menus
located in /u/appl/fp/menus
Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro data files
located in /u/newcompany/filepro

    Setperms found my old menus in /u/appl/fp/menus and not the new menus in /u/newcompany/menus.   

[ $quiet ] || echo
[ $quiet ] || echo "Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro menus"
if [ "$PFMENU" != "" ]
then
    cd $PFMENU
    [ $quiet ] || echo "located in $PFMENU"
elif [ "$FPMENU" != "" ]
then
    cd $FPMENU
    [ $quiet ] || echo "located in $FPMENU"
elif [ -d $PFPROG/fp/menus ]     

     OK, found it!  Somebody apparently is inserting some settings in someplace else that is overriding PFMENU.  When I go into a filePro menu and then "shell out", I see that PFMENU is no longer /u/newcompany/menus.  I will have to figure out where that is...

Thanks Bill and Jose!

Sorry to bother you all!     

Mike
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