Upgrading to DataFlex 3.2: Difference between revisions
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This was never supported and will no longer work, because DataFlex now has the ability to use other database drivers, make API calls and other such options, which cannot support such characters at the runtime and driver levels. Even the DataFlex 2.3 User's Guide documented that the only characters allowed for field names are letters, numbers, underscore ("_") or the pound sign ("#"), and the field name must start with a letter. | This was never supported and will no longer work, because DataFlex now has the ability to use other database drivers, make API calls and other such options, which cannot support such characters at the runtime and driver levels. Even the DataFlex 2.3 User's Guide documented that the only characters allowed for field names are letters, numbers, underscore ("_") or the pound sign ("#"), and the field name must start with a letter. | ||
Filelist Entries | '''Filelist Entries''' | ||
In order to remove the invalid characters from filelist entries, you can run the DataFlex File Maintenance Utility (dfmaint). | In order to remove the invalid characters from filelist entries, you can run the DataFlex File Maintenance Utility (dfmaint). | ||
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3. Make sure that the rootname does not contain any illegal characters such as "@" or ":", such as a commonly used rootname entry in DataFlex 2.3b: "@:menu". | 3. Make sure that the rootname does not contain any illegal characters such as "@" or ":", such as a commonly used rootname entry in DataFlex 2.3b: "@:menu". | ||
Data File Field Names | '''Data File Field Names''' | ||
In order to remove invalid characters from File.Field definitions, you need to open the file using DFFile, the DataFlex File Definition Utility. Some commands, make_file for example, will not work properly with invalid characters in front of file.field names. | In order to remove invalid characters from File.Field definitions, you need to open the file using DFFile, the DataFlex File Definition Utility. Some commands, make_file for example, will not work properly with invalid characters in front of file.field names. | ||