For those who have seen Gemini, how does Baan Tools look like? Is it a continuation to Baan 4 and Baan 5 Baan tools, or it was written in a different technology?

It is interesting if the new investment that most companies did in Baan Tools will be kept once they upgrade to this new version....

Regards

Shaknini

Tools in Gemini is the same technology.
alone some differences are perceived in Gemini:
- Baan Base TP no support anymore.
- Then forms are dinamycs only.
- Customization of fields and labels by end user.
etc.

More documentation in the attach!.


Good luck!
El Gran Maestro

PD: sorry, the attach method dont work! :-(

Tools in SSA ERP LN 6.1 is indeed same tech, although it is developed further.
For example, the DAL 2 concept is developed.
That's a big improvement to my opinion.
In the DAL you simply fill in some functions like:
table.field.is.applicable()
table.field.is.readonly()
table.field.is.valid()
table.field.is.mandatory()
table.field.update()
...

After that the 4GL engine handles accordingly:
- It disables automatically fields that are readonly according to the related DAL function.
- It makes fields empty when they are not applicable anymore
- It provides a default via the update function when a field becomes applicable.
- It checks the value
- and so on...

To my opinion this should be interesting for at least the programmer's amongst us because it saves a lot of programming time.

Hi Evert-Jan,

Thank you for your answer.

According to the Baan Support Site, some 3GL/4GL tt functions are not supported with Webtop:

app_start();
client2server();
server2client;
sleep();
shell();
run.baan.prog();
run.prog()

Is this true for LN too?

- Sakhnini

I don't know.
May be webtop colleagues can tell?

Sakhnini,

That is true and there are many more functions/code which has to be changed to make it compatible for Web. Check with BaaN/SSA support for the "Webtop/ThinERP implementation" document. Also, be aware newest version has just been released- WebTop-4.0 - which is said to be compatible against all browsers etc, some of the limitations might have been fixed/work-arounds.

app_start() is replaced by start.application.local() in order to support Webtop (BaanIV,5 and 6)
server2client() and client2server() is supported in Webtop
The other functions may cause problems when using them the wrong way.

Administration has many similarities to previous versions.