Contents of a launch file

The following illustration shows the contents of the launch file for the Real Estate Sales Manager application.

The launch file contains the following items:

• The first line contains the number of dictionaries operating. For stand-alone applications, this will always be 1. Only launch files for multidictionary applications, such as Microsoft Dynamics GP, will have more than one dictionary operating simultaneously.
• The second line indicates both the ID of the launch file and the product ID of the main product.

Within the application, the product ID is the value passed to the Dictionary ID parameter used for security and online documentation.

• The third line contains the name of the main product.
• The next four lines contain a dictionary location ID and the locations of the application dictionary, the forms dictionary, and the reports dictionary for the main product. The locations are in generic format.

A launch file can have several sets of dictionary location IDs and dictionary locations. This may be useful if you have certain workstations that you want to access a different set of dictionaries. The set of dictionaries to use is specified by the Workstation2 setting in the DEX.INI file. For example, if the application were started from a workstation that had “Alternate” as its Workstation2 setting, the set of dictionaries identified by the dictionary location ID “Alternate” would be used.

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