Update a system form using XML

Question

Hi all,
I'm trying to update a system form by adding a tab (folder). The form is Customer Equipment Card (nb 60150), in the service menu.
I just want to add a folder called Counter.
When I load the XML file below, I get the following error :
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xFFFFFFFE): Function not supported on current SBO Version - upgrade is required
If I want to add a button, it's working, but not a folder.
Something's false in this XML file (I add the good uid before I load it) ?
Thanks for your help
Sébastien

Answer 1

> - Drop the datasource section
> The error is gone, but I don't see the folder in
> in the form
You could try and check wether it's there but invisible (access it in your code and wait for an exception).
> - Linkto Objet
> If you look at the XML code of the form, you can
> can see that all the folder are links to this item.
> Moreover, when I add the form using VB (it's working
> that way), the XML result will show linkto = "54"
I believe. I analyzed another system form and my own forms: None of the tabs are linked to anything. Is this documented? What does it mean?
> - the data source is SYS_71 for all the folder of the
> form. I don't understand what you mean when you want
> me to set the val_on to this datasource
I looked at the XML source of another system form and the tabs had val_on="SYS_whatever". With my own forms I set val_off="N" and val_on="Y". I remember having had some problems there, but I can't put my finger on it now.
> - item group
> I'm using SBO 6.5, I can't find help on that, maybe
> it's only on 2004.
No, it's 6.5. It's not in the documentation but you will find it somewhere inside the guts of this forum. As I said, I once had trouble adding tabs cleanly to a custom form using XML.
Of course, all this is just blindly stabbing into the dark. What else can we do?