My company has a strict regulation against customization, because we want to minimize impact during FP and version upgrade. That's why I have not purchased development license. However I have pressure from development team that development license is needed for them to modifiy reports.

May I know what type of customization or modification can be done on standard reports without development license ?

Thanks !

Hello yearooichuah,

a strict regulation against customization is nice, but in real life you need to customize your system for the needs of the company. I have never seen a system without customisations.

Even with a development license you can minimize the impact in case of FP and version upgrades. A development license give you the possibility to compile your own programs, but you can´t modify the standard programs of ERP LN. If you want to modify the standard programs as well, then you need the ERP LN source code, which is an additional license.

A report can be modified normally without a develoment license, but if you wan to debug a programm because the report did not show the requested results, then you need the development license.

Regards

Dieter

Thanks Diether !

A lot or work can be done in respect of reports without a development licence using a copy of a standard report within your peronalisation VRC.

In summary layouts can be added, changed or removed and report scripts can be written to allow data from any table in the database to be displayed in your own layouts.

It is also possible to add the varaible procesinfo$ to the session form allowing you to use your own variables in the reports.

Ideally you need to get hold of some documentation in respect of basic report development.

Cheers Neal

While no customization is a good strategy from migration and upgrades point of view , it places severe lacunae on business flexibility especially business works in a very dynamic environs.

As indicated by dieter , u can devise customization strategy which does not impede migrations / upgrades . It can be like
1. No changes in baan standard dd / domain
2. dont make changes in baan standard programs as far as possible
3. Creation of new programs and use of AFS to facilitate automations and flexibilities. AFS is very good facility to do development in harmony with standard.
4. Building /devising buisness procedures around ERP processes as far as possible.