RE: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Re: Demand Planner

[Flemming Birch-Rasmussen]

The two tables that you mention is not owned by Axapta, but owned by Demand Planner and hence the names. The two tables are installed when you install the Demand Planner and this is the reason for them not being available in the AOT. It is the Demand Planner responsibility to populate these tables and the Demand Planner wouldn’t be able to populate the tables correctly if they were created within the AOT of Axapta. Still remember the Demand Planner has to be integrated to Navision and Great Plains as well.   Could you elaborate on the massive joke on how the code is written?     /Flemming From: Harry Deshpande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14. marts 2005 22:20 To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Re: Demand Planner   Hi   A few more issues from my side.   I hate the name of the Axapta table associated with demand planner. The table name starts with MBS_ (forgotten the complete name). Axapta has an impressive naming convention and the name of the table starting with MBS_ is just not acceptable.   Further, this table is hidden in AOT. What for? The Axapta practice is to make the objects available for modification by default and as far as possible.   Further, look at the code written to transfer the data into standard Axapta tables. The way the code is written is a big, massive joke.   Now for you these may be small issues. But for me these are very essential aspects. Sort of a big warning.   I will not get into the design flaws in the front end and back end since someone else has pointed them correctly.   In fact this has got me thinking.. is this a taste of things to come in Axapta 4.0? Is this what Microsoft is planning? 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CGNZ does not accept any liability for any changes made to this email or attachments after sending by CGNZ. You must scan this email and attachments for viruses. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of CGNZ.    CGNZ accepts no liability for any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by our own negligence or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of this email and attachments.   From: ptrputer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 10:10 a.m. To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Re: Demand Planner   Hi Flemming > I'm not aware of any problems regarding date format. I would appreciate > if you could elaborate on this issue. Any other date format than the US one does not import to the Demand Planner. > Why wouldn't you sell the software? I was about to write: "Because it's a piece of crap." but then I decided to be a bit more constructive than that. There are several shortcomings as far as I can see: - not integrated. Why do I have to have a whole new set of permission and right management for this tool and can't use the Axapta one? - synchronization issues, as stated above. Axapta could easily be adapted to synch from the Demand Planner by changing the date format - but it didn't work the other way around. - lack of documentation, as stated before. I will elaborate on that later on in my post. - several serious design flaws in the front end. It takes too much closing of windows, using several submenus and buttons that are used in another way than windows standards to achieve even small things. > Is it because you can't see the use > for the features that the Demand Planner offers? Then I can > understand > that you won't be so impertinent to sell the software. Actually I do see the use - why else would I even bother working with it? Right now a report to Excel with some embedded functions is working better for my clients than what the DP offers - sad but true. > Regarding the documentation, I will not agree with you. When installing > the Demand Planner you get the following documentation: > *      Installation Guide. Which is basically telling me how to click through the installer and then includes some basic SQL concepts. Now *that* was a big help. > *      A very extensive Demonstration Guide. Okay, yes, this one was good. > *      You can order the detailed training material from Patnersource. Or I can't. Don't get me wrong, I seriously wanted to like the software. Finally a Demand Planning tool for Axapta coming right from Microsoft. With Excel integration, multiple forecast methods, highly adaptable formula and warning system, multiple dimensions and so on.. sounded like I found a real gem. But after clicking through the installation and the demonstration and trying to run forecasts on real world data, my enthusiasm was gone immediately. I can see the huge potential in that tool and maybe all the flaws will be fixed in the next version - and I really hope for that. And hey, never forget: Our potential, your passion. Regards, pp Sharing the knowledge on Axapta. Sharing the knowledge on Axapta. Sharing the knowledge on Axapta. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Axapta-Knowledge-Village/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.