Daynote ,Svenson

MM-xxxix     Tuesday

2000-02-08

It remains unseasonably warm at 9°C. It also remains wet but not with a steady rain like yesterday but with short and heavy showers. Adding strong gusty winds to this made for some surprising driving conditions.

The posting problem that the Germans have is different from the one in Belgium. The Belgian problem is caused by running the archiving before the posting. The result is that temporally invoices are not posted but remain in the temporally invoice file (HI-OM3 member). The Germans have the same symptoms but a different cause. the result is that no invoices remain in the temporally invoice file so the proposed recovery is not going to work. I suspect that the so called missing invoices are not really from Supplies (OMSI-3) but rather from another module. OLI and OSI and OMSI-1 all create invoices directly in the HI file, bypassing the HI-OM3 and thus bypassing the General Ledger. All invoices go to the Accounts Receivable. This is bound to produce problems in the financial balance. If this is the case it is not my problem anymore. But I will have to find out and prove it.
I lost the whole after noon fishing data on the German system and trawling sources on our system. And the V9 deathline did not move.

The morning was spent chopping up sources in TeleSales to find the difference between V8 and V9. Our code has not changed but the program behaviour has. Becoming all but unusable. To allow fast order entry the user could use the tab key to move from field to field, adding extra order lines without interruption. Now every other tab a message pops up with a test on a field that cannot be filled yet.
After spending some days at this problem we change the interface from an updatable browser to a input dialog. This solves some other problems as well.

I am feeling a bit washed out so I am going to bed early (try to ...).

Adios