Hello, im upgrading a database that include a lot of customizations and add-ons. is it feasable/reliable to use th eupgrade toolkit of Navision. or better to analyse/compare every modified object ?[8)] i need your opinion guys. thank you
Hi, I think you definitely need the upgrade toolkit since comparing every single object separately would take you forever. Besides, a lot of data needs to be migrated to the new table structure of 3.7. Doing this manually would also be a very hard task to do. 
The upgrade toolkit will do most things for you. However, you will have to make sure yourself that all customizations are correctly upgraded. How to do this is described step by step in the UPGTK manual. Please remember to take a backup of the database before you start. 
BR, Kenneth
You definitely need to use the upgrade toolkit (3.70B or 4.00) and follow carefully every step. The merge toolkit will help you to bring the customizations from the original system to the new one, but you’ll see that the automatic merge of the code if 90% - 95% reliable, not 100%. Here, we use automatic merge (with test validation) for the following objects: - Tables - Dataports - Codeunits Then, we manually merge the changes for Forms and Reports by using the compare tool. Do not hesitate if you have any question…
Hi, I just in the process of upgrading a 2.60 to a 4.0 and I am using the latest toolkit (2.0SP1). I am experiencing a lot of problems. Some related to customizations in objects that differ heavily between the versions (and no toolkit in the world could help with this), but also some other very strange problems. For instance, objects that are new in 4.0 aren’t getting merged correct, mostly it has been keys that haven’t been brought over. Which is very strange because these objects don’t even exist in 2.60 so it should have just been a straight-forward copying. So just be careful and test the new database a lot to be sure everything is ok. Regards daniel
Like David said, the merge is about 90% reliable. It would be nice if you knew what 10% it would fail on, but normally you have to check all of the objects to verify they were done correctly.
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Like David said, the merge is about 90% reliable. It would be nice if you knew what 10% it would fail on, but normally you have to check all of the objects to verify they were done correctly.
Originally posted by chrisk - 2005 Jan 14 : 18:12:20
I PREFERED to do evrything without any merging tool. im doing fine. but about merging from 2.6 to 4.0 i think it is much harder, in addition 4.0 still needs more enhancement in its exe’s good luck