Spent four days at a customers office in front of an Axapta-installation. Everything works, sometimes. Checked everything, from license-file to configuration. Since I’m not doing Axapta, and have never seen it before this customer, I gave up on Friday since today (Monday) is deadline for production. Microsoft Business Support was called in and today I’ve gone through a bunch of stuff including registry hacks and file deletions. If these are supposed to fix a problem with an application, why aren’t these fixes included when you install? Or at least into the GUI so it’s possible to apply them without all this mumbo jumbo?
Installing a new separate web portal is the same problem, a bunch of stuff not available anywhere but in small textfiles or the registry… Not to mention that you have to add the new website in the administrative interface, which happens to be programmed in .Net. With the worst error-handling known to man. If I was to work with this every day I’d feel like a fool. If I recommended this software to a customer, I’d feel even worse. If you by accident enter anything that’s wrong in a field, the application shows you an error-message which you can’t close. Force-quit, restart. Nice work.
There’ll be an update a little later, have a day or two left with this exiciting one…
