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July 11, 2006
Re-inventing the wheel
Normally I don't blog about work too much. So to have two entries in two weeks is completely unusual. Today was most amusing though and I've not laugh that hard in probably the past 3 years.
One of our clients are part of a bigger group, and their head offices have ordered an issue to get every office running on the same financial IT package. So our company was asked to apply changes that was made to a standard product, (so that it would legally fit in in the UK) for their offices in the UK - we were sent these objects from the company that did the development in Germany and it was implemented way before I joined, but today a little bug creeped in and we were contacted to "fix it".
So I open up the database, make a few coding changes to the standard code, test it... and it fails. Hmmm... change the code back... it does the same thing. Nothing different than it did before I started. Eventually I decide to check the code on the form (this is also standard)... and someone had changed the standard code behind the form to point to a different codeunit.
At this time I'm already chuckling, more at myself than anything else, but oh well. So I open up the codeunit that the form points to. I read through it and this is where I started laughing. Whoever did the coding over in Germany, had made an EXACT copy of the standard codeunit and then went around the STANDARD functionality and pointed EVERYTHING to this copy that he made.
I'm not exactly sure why, or how they managed to do this, but it must've taken them literally days. I looked at just about every form, dataport, menu and codeunit that refers to our dear standard posting routine... and it all has been changed to point to the NEW copy of the same codeunit.
After that I went through some standard forms and that was more amusing, but I'm not going to bore you with it all.
I'm just amused.
Posted by karinm at July 11, 2006 7:33 PM
Comments
is this an oracle application? without knowing the technology, that's what it sounds like. who knew you were a geek!
Posted by: jeff at July 11, 2006 8:30 PM