Re: Viewpoint Pro Brain-Damaged?

} > Indeed SuperViews strike me as a bit naff too, and is for me one of } > NewEra's turn-offs. } > } Or distribute SuperViews at all. The SuperViews are defined in a set of tables } in the database. I assume if you create a SuperView, unload these tables, } create the same tables in another database and load the data the SuperViews } will magically exist in the other database. But tools for this I have never } seen. If you are clever enough you might even be able to update these tables } after you have made changes to the database and perhaps your SuperViews will } at least be accessible. Whether the reports/forms will still be usable I don't } know. } Does Informix expect us to create SuperViews and the reports/forms from scratch } at every customer site? } I pointed out all of this to Informix shortly after they realeased the first } product using SuperViews. The fact that they have done nothing about it } since shows they can't be very interested in this technology. SuperViews is } a good idea, but Informix's implementation of them is not. } } If you do all changes to the database via ViewPoint Pro I think the } SuperViews survive. That is hardly something we want to do. How do we } keep track of these changes, document them, combine this with a database } design tool+++ } } Again dear Informix. In database design and development you are excelent, } but as soon as you make something with a user interface you are not. } } We have long since lost all interest in ViewPoint and all other usage of } anything that relies on SuperViews. } I agree with all these points, and we, too, tried to make a case with Informix about this. As you may (or may not) know, all this is a moot rant-and-rave since there will be no further releases of the ViewPoint product. Informix decided that there was too far to go to make this be the tool everyone wanted and is pursuing other options for a report-writer tool. I don't know what that is, yet, but am always interested in learning. So, bottom line...you're right: it doesn't work right, and it never will. Stay tuned for further developments. - Corinne -- Corinne Gregory, Senior Consultant ASIX, Inc. 777 108th Ave. NE, Suite 1830, Bellevue WA 98004-5118 corinne.gregory@asix.com