Currently most of the utility programs that come with the MAS 500 SDK such as the Data Dictionary Utility and the Strings Utility require a developer to create a new MAS 500 task entry using the Task Editor and add these utilities to the desktop.

The downside to doing this is the developer must re-do this effort whenever they change to a diferernt MAS 500 database as well as remember to remove these tasks from the desktop if they are planning on deploying customizations to a customer's system that includes a custom Business Desktop menu.

The premise of adding the SDK utilities to menu structure of MAS 500 is a hold over from the days of the old launcher. New utilities such as the Lookup Definition Utility that come with the SDK are stand alone applications that do not require all this additional work in order to use them. The older utilities should be upgraded to follow this model as well and make it bit easier on the developers and allow them to be more productive.

by: Louis D. | over a year ago | 6 - General Enhancements