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Table 127 illustrates another example of how this process works, using more detailed
data for you to review.
The first column of Table 127 elaborates on the installation sequence outlined earlier
in this section. In Step 1, the user initially installs OpenEdge Studio with a PROMSGS file
for American English. The file header date of this newly installed PROMSGS file is
04/14/2007. In Step 2, when the user installs an add-on product, the add-on product
installation compares the header date of its American English PROMSGS file, 04/15/2007,
with the header date of the existing American English PROMSGS file, 04/14/2007. Since
the header date of the PROMSGS file associated with the add-on product is later than the
existing PROMSGS file, the PROMSGS file is updated or synchronized.
This example helps to illustrate the criterion for updating PROMSGS files. Only PROMSGS
files associated with languages that are currently installed in the OpenEdge will be
updated by the add-on installation process.
In Step 3, when the user installs another OpenEdge product, such as the OpenEdge
AppServer, and identifies the Spanish PROMSGS file, the PROMSGS file with the date of
04/14/2008 is installed. This latter part of the example illustrates how the PROMSGS files
can become out of sync per the date information in the respective headers.
Table 127: Example of PROMSGS files being out of sync
Installation
step order Install...
1. A product such as
OpenEdge Studio
As Table 127 indicates, the installation of previously non-existing Spanish PROMSGS file
dated 04/14/2008 into the OpenEdge installation is now out of synchronization with the
updated American English PROMSGS file dated 04/15/2008, which updated the original
American English PROMSGS file.
When an additional OpenEdge installation is performed and the OpenEdge Installation
program detects that a PROMSGS language has been installed that did not previously
exist as illustrated by Step 3 in Table 127, the OpenEdge installation program displays
a message. This message indicates the following:
• The add-on product name that contains the latest PROMSGS
• The destination path of the add-on product
And the PROMSGS
file is...
Installed for
American English
2. An add-on product Updated for
American English
3. A product such as
Application Server
Installed for Spanish
PROMSGS
Which contains
this header date...
04/14/2008
04/15/2008
04/14/2008
The OpenEdge installation message only displays this message when it detects that
add-on products have been installed and it reads a new file called addons. The addons
file is a text file defined as a Windows initialization (.ini) file. This file is created and/or
updated in the OpenEdge destination directory by the add-on installation program. To
resynchronize your PROMSGS file, you must reinstall your add-on product.
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