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This text refers to program version 5.3  

Updating from Previous Versions of HansaWorld SmartApps

The latest version of HansaWorld SmartApps is always available at HansaWorld's website, www.hansaworld.com, from where updates should be obtained. If you are online, clicking the [HansaWorld.com] button in the Master Control panel will take you to this site.

Inevitably, new versions will incorporate significant structural changes. Because of this, it cannot be guaranteed that they will be able to open databases created by previous versions unless you use the export and import functions.

To update, follow these steps:

  1. Before installing the new version, create a database back-up as usual using the old application.

  2. Download the new version of HansaWorld SmartApps and install it in a new folder or directory.

  3. Ensure that the new folder or directory contains the "DBDef.txt" and "Default.txt" files, but not a "Hansa.HDB" file. Ensure it also contains a folder or directory named "Backup" which in turn contains the back-up file created in step 1, and that the name of this file has a .txt extension and does not contain any spaces or other non-alphabetic characters.

  4. Copy the following folders and their contents from the old HansaWorld SmartApps folder to the new one: "Attach"; "Halcust"; "Shared"; "Tmp"; "Web"; and "Webcust". You may not have all of these folders in your installation: if so, copy the ones that you do have and don't worry about those that are missing. Do NOT copy the "Hob" folder.

  5. Launch the new HansaWorld SmartApps application. A new database is created.

  6. Import the back-up created by the previous version of HansaWorld SmartApps using the procedure described on the Restoring from a Back-up page.

    For reasons of speed, it is recommended that you back up, restore and update on the master machine in multi-user systems. If this is not possible, use a single client machine. If you have separate back-up files for different Companies, they should be imported individually. Attempting to import them simultaneously using different client machines could result in data being lost.

  7. In multi-user systems, you should now install the new HansaWorld SmartApps application on all client machines. Repeat steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 above on each machine.
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