Slideshow VBUSI

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AccountView for Windows
Business network software
accountview
November 1998
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Schedule

• Accounting for Developers
• Enterprise Modeler
• Linking through COM
• SDK/Business API
• Using the Integrated Test Facility
• Loose Ends

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A Bit of Background

• AV Windows result of more than 3 years of work
• Built on experience gained with 4,500 DOS
  installations in 20 countries
• More than 100 Add-ins built
• Huge custom projects delivered by VARs
• 8 Developers
• 2 Documentation Engineers
• 26 Total Staff

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Accounting for Developers

• Basic User Interface
• Debitoren exercise
• Posting transactions
• Handeling corrections
• Posting payments
• Analysing data
• VAT Report
• Invoicing
• Layouts

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Accounting for Developers

• Audit Trail
• Data Structure
• Data-Integrity
• Self-Diagnosis
• Error Log

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Enterprise Adventure Travel

• Adding fields to an existing entity
• Adding a new entity
• Adding user menu options

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3-Tier Client server
business software
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AV Object Model
Business Example
Object Hierarchy
Application
AccountView
Administration
TravelWorld
Business
Invoicing
Dataset
Sales Order
Recordset
Sales Order Header
Recordset
Sales Order Lines
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VB Code Example

• Microsoft Excel 97
• Sub Main()
• Set oExcel CreateObject("Excel.Application")
• oExcel.WorkBooks.Add ("c\documents\sales98.xls")
  
• oExcel.WorkBooks(Sales March").Activate
• End Sub
• Visual AccountView
• Sub Main()
• Set oAV CreateObject("AVWin.Application")
• ltesting oAV.Login("demo", "demo")
• Set oAdm oAV.open_admin("TRV_Work")
• Set oGL1 oAdm.create_object("gl1")
• End Sub

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COM Examples

• Code samples
• AutoManager

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Integration Scenario
Primary process Vertical market application
AccountView Professional
Financial Transactions
Rules
Setup/ Trans
Rules
Setup/ Trans
New Setup Data
Processed Transactions
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Integration Issues

• Synchronising setup data
• Do it yourself
• Use AV tools
• Timing
• Startup/hourly/monthly
• Integration Entry Points
• Daily Journals
• Sales/Purchases/Projects

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COM Details

• Requesting ADO recordsets
• Error handling
• AccountView Script Server
• Using the COM interface from FoxPro

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COM Scalability
Internet Information Server 4.0
AccountViewCOM Server
AccountViewCOM Server
FinancialAccounting
HTML / ASP
AccountViewCOM Server
WWW
Cust
Cust
Cust
Cust
Cust
Cust
Cust
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SDK
Integrated Test Facility
SDK
Business Views
SDK
SDK
Business toolkit
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AV Business Application Interface
Calculatesubtotals
Calculatediscounts
Order Pipeline
CalculateVAT
Calculateorder totals
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AV BAPI

• Tracing API Events
• A look at the API Registry
• API types
• Common API methods
• ADDon.VCX
• Template code classes
• Using the API to validate user input

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SDK Details

• Modifying existing reports
• Distributing your work
• Adding menus in code

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Integrated Test Facility

• Testing Overview
• Testing Types
• Regression, Stress, Boundary, Network
• Sample Tests

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Questions?
accountview