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Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

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I am having problems with upgrading field customizations from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011. I think I have narrowed it down to the value of certain properties... namely 'parent' and 'parentform'. Everything looks OK on the screen but it will not save the data in the field if these two properties are added to the customization file. If I remove these lines (highlighted below) it works but then it is not arranged on the screen how we want it for user input. 

Could someone please assist me with this and give me tips on what has changed in Dynamics SL 2011 that does not support this? What is the correct way to do this in Dynamics SL 2011?

 

Begin SAFMaskedText cname

'' Version         =   6

   height          =   21

'' parent          =   "Frame5"

'' parentform      =   "Form1"

   left            =   6

   top             =   135

   width           =   249

End

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    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    I am just posting an update on our conclusion on this issue.

    We did not find any hotfix that fixed the problem. Our workaround to this problem was to place the controls that were affected in a Frame instead of a Groupbox, as mentioned by A Zamora.

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    A Zamora 25 on at
    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    I was able to work around it by moving the affected fields into a new frame, then hiding the old frame (deleting it caused more issues so I just made it smaller and invisible). Hopefully the hotfix is the true resolution!

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    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    Could you specify which hotfix you used?

    The only hotfix that I can see that might be related to this is the one that makes so that fields are visible in the grid if they are customized. We have this one applied and it doesn’t fix the problem with the Customer Maintenance screen.

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    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    There is a hotfix out there for screen customization made in customization manager, that seemed to work for us.

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    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    Hi,

    From our research it definitely seems to be a 'bug' in the newer versions. Microsoft SL 2011 uses a Groupbox control now instead of the older Frame control. The Groupbox does not seem to support the 'parent' and 'parentform' properties. When we remove these properties from our customization we can get it to work or if we create a custom frame (using the older style SAF Tools frame) and place the textbox controls into the custom frame, it seems to work as well.

    Like mentioned earlier it definitely seems to be a 'bug'. Hopefully Microsoft will notice it and put out a fix for it soon.

    We would like to know too if someone finds another workaround.

    Thanks.

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    A Zamora 25 on at
    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    Hi,

    Were you ever able to resolve this issue? We are experiencing the same with AR customer maintenance, a few customized fields will no longer save data changes. We went from 6.0 to 2011 recently. Have been tweaking fields and deleting/re-importing customizations but to no avail...

    thanks!

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    Re: Problems with field customizations - Upgrading from Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 to Dynamics SL 2011

    Is there anyone that can help us with this? This issue is hindering us from upgrading.

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