R.6 Designer w/ R.5 Databases

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Other than avoiding new R.6 features (particularly related to @Functions and LotusScript class properties/methods), is there any reason not to use the R.6 designer client on R.5 databases? Seems like I have used newer version desginers on older databases since about 4.5 without problems but now there’s some problem with views I modified in an R.5 database using the R.6 Designer and the boss thinks I broke it because I used the later version client. I’m quite sure I did not use any R.6 features.

Anybody have any thoughts?

Randy

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Subject: R.6 Designer w/ R.5 Databases

There’s a field that gets added ($Version from memory, but I may be wrong) that you need to strip out - have a look in the Sandbox for a few nice utilities for doing this. That isn’t new to ND6 though.

Other than that I’ve been doing it quite happily and everything’s working fine.

The test for whether or not you’ve used any ND6 features would be to try running it under NDF6 and see if the problem still exists. If it does, then it’s probably not a version problem.

Stephen Lister