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    Syteline 6 - Document Management

    Does anyone have recommendations for an efficient way to scan and catalogue documents like customer POs? In the past i've seen products like FASView, and DocTrak. At this point I don't even know if they are still available, and I don't remember that they offered any interface to streamline...
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    Changing a Fill-In to Combo-box Drop-down-list

    How can I widen the display area for DB field being displayed as a drop-down-list (without a schema change)? The idea is to store only the 2 characters (like "07"), but show the digits-description ("07-Tanks and Military Vehicles") on the screen for selection. Currently, the user must just...
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    Hanging in morning, then error 132, then ok.

    Tmp sum records get left behind when users don't exit syteline properly. ONe is created for each user when they log in, and deleted when they logout. The records keyed by time. So all the possible unique times between 6:30 and 7 are used up. Running Syteline Crash recovery on some regular...
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    export delimited decimal fields

    I'm trying to build a delimited text file to feed someone else's (non-Progress) program and they need the leading and trailing zeroes displayed in the decimal fields. I tried formats on the variable definition and export. Is there an easy way to do this? (This is just simple logic to test...
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    Limt on UNIX proutil?

    Our Progress application is Syteline, as of the start of this project, they have not released a version that runs on OE10. I'm not trying to truncate the bi on the same db that I'm loading. I'm working with a few databases at the same time. Should I expect to be able to run multiple...
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    Limt on UNIX proutil?

    I'm setting up new Solaris hardware on Solaris 10, with Progress 9.1E. I have two proutil session running the background, doing bulk loads (no integrity). The CPU is between 85-90% idle. While they load, I moved on to create another DB and kicked off anohter proutil to truncate the bi on...
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    Testing my warm spare

    That as just what I needed. I verified the DB after I did a restore from a proback -norecover, it worked perfectly. Thanks.
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    DB extent sizes best practice?

    What is the maximum size for a fixed DB extent? Is there a best practice for calculating the appropriate size for your DB fixed extents? I'm running Progress 9.1E04. We have several databases, the sizes range from 13GB to less than 100mb.
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    Testing my warm spare

    I'm using rfutil to "roll forward" my ai's on a spare db. The roll forward is successfull each time. How do I verify that spare DB is good? Is it possible to test the spare without making it necesary to restart with a fresh backup afterwards?
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    surcharges

    Could you write something to run before invoicing to populate the misc charges, based on qty shipped - qty invoiced? We calculate the surcharge at shipping and stuff it in the misc charges automatically. Standard invoicing picks it up there. You need 4gl, but not Syteline source code. It's...
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    Drop Ship on Cust Orders

    What is the textbook purpose of the Syteline Customer Order drop ship? How does your business companies use the drop ship vs. the customer ship to address on the order? The main use of the drop ship here has been to indicate an alternate destination for one/some of the lines/releases on an...
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