Overlays was one of the first thing I wanted to ask when I read your original email but thought I'd wade through the list in case someone already pointed that out..
You mentioned you want to stay away from overlays. Any specific reasons why? Personally I feel it's a great tool, and not using it might eventually get you to a spot where it might be very hard for you to reconcile your system to a state where they are actually useful, in case you'll eventually do decide to use overlays. I see only pros to leveraging the use of overlays, the only con being they can be a pain in the rear sometimes (especially with the 7.6.04 version) with some of the 'extra' steps you need to do in order to even implement a small change. But those steps are worth the few extra seconds / minutes you spend on them I think. Joe _____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:41 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field Dale, LJ also noted he reproduced the issue with 8.1 Dev Studio against an 8.1 server. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Dale Jones Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:00 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field ** David, Did you create an overlay for view, each Attachment field , Attachment Pool, the destination Page and Tab? May want to try in Base Mode. May want to try in a Dev Studio version with the same version as Server. (Rule of thumb is newer versions of Dev Studio will try to introduce features that Older Version of ARS server will not be aware of and not know how to handle.) Take Care Dale Jones DCS Raleigh, NC 919-523-6034 _____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] on behalf of Shellman, David [dave.shell...@te.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:39 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field ** Tried that. You get a message that the form types do not match. Dave On May 15, 2013, at 12:24 PM, "Julie Sellers" <julsell...@yahoo.com> wrote: ** Dave, When you export a form it creates two items for import, the base form and the overlay (indicated by the form name with a '.o' extension). Could you not export the data, export the form, and then only import the base form (basically deleting the overlay)? Just a thought... _____ From: "Shellman, David" <dave.shell...@te.com> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:57 AM Subject: Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field ** Mark, If someone could verify it's a version issue or if it's an issue that also exists with 7.6.04 that would be great. We went through several discussions with Jason Miller before we upgraded. He was assured by Dev Studio developers that using a newer version is backward compatible. We needed to upgrade to 8.1 to get us out of a corner that we had been painted into with 7.6.04 Dev Studio. 7.6.04 had several shortcomings once an "unmodified" form had an overlay added. Since the forms were home grown from previous versions of the AR System we decided to go to convert them to "custom" forms. 7.6.04 Dev Studio does not have the ability to delete an Overlay which needs to be done before converting. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brittain, Mark Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field ** Hi Dave, The general rule has always been to use the same version of the admin/developer tool as the server version. So there might be something with the 8.1 developer that is not compatible. Mark From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:51 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Question concerning Attachment Pool field ** I'm seeing something odd with Developer Studio. Not sure it's me or something with Dev Studio. Using 8.1 Dev Studio against a 7.6.04 server (Windows app server running on Oracle). We have a form that has two Attachment Pool fields on the form. I'm attempting to move the fields to a Tab on a page field. Drag and Drop doesn't seem to allow me to move the fields there. On a regular field, I can right mouse click and use the Move field option. However with an Attachment field, I don't see that option. I can create a new Attachment pool field on the tab but I can't seem to move an exist one. Am I missing something obvious? 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