Upgrade Toolkit

Chapter 3. Upgrading to Multilanguage
3.4 REPLACING BASE VERSION OBJECTS IN CURRENT CUSTOM DATABASE
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In the section called Creating Translation File and ObjectTime.txt on page 17, you
may have chosen to translate only those objects in the customer’s current database
that have been customized. If you did, you must now replace all base version objects
in the customer’s database that have not been customized with those from the English
version of the old base version.
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Before you carry out this procedure, you must have an English version of both the old
base version and the customized objects in the customer’s current database.
The old base version must have been through all steps described in the previous
sections in this chapter. Your local Microsoft Business Solutions office may have made
such a fully multilanguage-enabled old base version available to you.
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To replace base version objects in the customer’s database:
1 In Windows Explorer, create a copy of the English version of the old base version
database.
2 Open the copy of the English base version database and delete all companies.
3 Open the customer’s current database and export the customized objects to a
*.fob file, for example cust_W1260.fob.
4 In the copy of the English base version, import the file that you created in the
previous step, cust_W1260.fob. When prompted, choose to open the Import
Worksheet window, and in that window, click Replace All.
You have now imported the customer-specific objects to the copy of the English
version of the old base version.
5 Select all objects and export them to a *.fob file, for example cust_EN260.fob.
6 Open the customer’s current database and import the file that you created in the
previous step, cust_EN260.fob. When prompted, choose to open the Import
Worksheet window, and in that window, click Replace All.
When you have completed this procedure, you have made sure that the names of
functions and so on in the base version objects are the same in both the old base
version and the customer’s current database. This will make the merge easier.
You are now ready to prepare for the merging process as described in the next
chapter.