We've also moved away from the out-of-box archiving. Instead, what we're doing now is we've made a copy of the form, called it <form-name>_BACKUP, then run an escalation that does a push-fields to the Backup form, then a run process to do an Application-Delete-Entry on the original form.
________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Tavares Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 13:56 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Archive Form Invalid ** I came across this many times. It means there is a field somewhere on your original form that is not on the archive form. Or the fields have the same id but are of a different type. One time I was able to resolve this by using ar utilities to create .csv files of all the fields on both forms, then comparing the two line by line till I found where they were out of sync. Sometimes the field you create on the orginal form does not copy to the archive because the 'Views' are out of sync. If you have a .def of the form before the change, you should import that. It would probably be the easiest solution. Or, try reversing the change you made. Either case, the out-of-box archiving sucks. That's why we are getting away from it. On 6/7/07, Cathy Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** Was there a resolution to this issue? I'm also receiving ARERR 8999. I'm getting this error when creating an archive form from the original form. I can move past the error, the archive form gets created and data gets moved. After the original form is saved with archiving enabled, I am unable to make a change in time selection or in the qualification. I receive the 8999 error again along with "Unable to Save/Update form" We're on 6.3 patch 21, Oracle 9i R2 patch 8, Windows 2003 Cathy Ward University of Michigan IT Communications ----- Original Message ---- From: "Amen, Kevin" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:18:55 PM Subject: Re: Archive Form Invalid ** Tried to add two new groups to the permissions on a field. ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 16:03 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Archive Form Invalid ** What kind of a change did you do... fieldid by any chance? ----- Original Message ---- From: "Amen, Kevin" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:41:18 PM Subject: Archive Form Invalid ** Hello All, I made a change to a field on a form. The form has an archive form set. When trying to save the for, received the following error: The Archive form is invalid. Archive form should not be in use and it's data fields should match those in the main form. Please check the manual for requirements for a valid Archive form. (ARERR 8999). The main form and archive form are now no longer connected. Any ideas? Kevin Amen Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Information Management, Applications 510.923.3691 (Office) / 510.520.4060 (Cell) __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49938/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar /features/mail/> alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49937/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar /features/mail/> __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48255/*http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/_ylc=X3o DMTI5MGx2aThyBF9TAzIxMTU1MDAzNTIEX3MDMzk2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNCQUJwaWxsYXJfTkl fMzYwBHNsawNQcm9kdWN0X3F1ZXN0aW9uX3BhZ2U-?link=list&sid=396545433> from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"