VERB User's Manual

Visual ER Bridge User's Manual

Overview

In OneWorld Xe and ERP8, the Visual ER Compare tool will not allow you to compare objects with different names. Visual ER Bridge (VERB) is a tool that lets you overcome this limitation. Now, if you have copied a JDE vanilla object, you can use VERB to compare the vanilla object to the object you derived--even though they have different names!

Terms of Use

This software is provided as FREEWARE.

Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation, in whole or in part, for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation.

Notices of copyright and/or attribution, which appear in any file included in this distribution, must remain intact. You may not disassemble, decompose, reverse engineer, or alter this file or any of the other files in the package.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE.

How it works

VERB works by doing the following:

VERB creates a new spec folder on your location workstation (e.g. C:\VisualER)
VERB gets the vanilla object's specs from central objects and places these specs into the new spec folder.
VERB renames the vanilla object in the new spec folder. VERB does not modify central objects or your OneWorld spec directory.
After VERB is done, you may use Visual ER Compare on your derived application. When prompted for the specification location, select the new spec folder that VERB created and populated (e.g., C:\VisualER)

Installing VERB

To install VERB, simply copy VERB.exe to your local OneWorld system\bin32 directory.

If you want everyone to have VERB when they do a OneWorld client install, then add VERB.exe to your deployment server foundation and recompress your foundation directory per CNC guidelines.

You may also setup a OneWorld shortcut. Select Windows Executable and type VERB.exe in the shortcut parameters.

Running VERB

To run VERB, double-click VERB.exe from the system\bin32 directory.

VERB will prompt you with a OneWorld login if you are not already logged in.

Once logged in, you will see this screen:

On this screen:

Enter the Vanilla application name (i.e., the name of the application that you copied.) The application can be an interactive or batch application.
Enter the name of the derived application (i.e., the name of the application that you copied it to.)
Check the "Correct for vocab overrides" (default) if you want VERB to apply vocabulary overrides to the output specs. This results in the desirable ability to compare renamed objects such as forms, column headers, and controls in Visual ER Compare.
Press Process

If all goes well, you will see a message that showed the process was successful. You may proceed to use Visual ER to compare your derived application:

Run OMW
Select you derived application
Run Visual ER Compare
When prompted for the specification location, select "Remote Specifications Location"
Select the directory given to you by VERB (e.g., C:\VisualER)

Note that you may only compare one application at a time. When you are through comparing ER, you may delete the contents of C:\VisualER as you wish.