Does installing a new version of an fmx cause user problems?

Hi,
I have (for many years) been installing my forms on a production server with no regard as to whether this caused users of the current form any problems/issues.
Indeed I was taught that it doesn't, and that the user had to exit the form back to the menu in order to pick up the newly deployed version.
Obvioulsy it's probably good practise to deply when no users are currently using the form, but my question is if you do deply a new version of a form when someone is using the old version will it adversely screw up the user's session?
TIA
Pete

As far as I can tell from searching on support site, this note 151618.1 explains why it's not a good idea to change forms on the fly. On the non-production servers I set the MMAP paramter to allow updating at the expense of greater memory usage buts its not an option on the production system given the number of users.
I did suggest that the luxury we had in the past of just updating forms would probably have to end and a more structured release cycle adopted. I think the approach we need is as part of the install process copy the form to a stage location and as part of the server restart process copy the new files into the exec directory.

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