To Update a Client Application that Uses Screen-Based Web Services

MYOB Acumatica is the client application that uses screen-based web services. Before you update your MYOB Acumatica instance, we recommend that you follow the procedure described in this topic. It can help to prevent application failures and omit the regeneration of the WSDL description for each change of the user interface of the system.

To Update a Client Application that Uses Screen-Based Web Services

To prevent application failures with the update to a newer version of MYOB Acumatica, which is the client application using screen-based web services, perform the following steps before you install the update:
  1. Create a test copy of your production MYOB Acumatica instance.
  2. Make changes to your client application, as described in To Use the Screen-Based API Wrapper.
  3. Test the client application with the test copy of your MYOB Acumatica instance.
  4. Update the test copy of your MYOB Acumatica instance to a new version of MYOB Acumatica.
  5. Test the client application with the updated test copy of your MYOB Acumatica instance.
  6. Update the production instance of MYOB Acumatica to the new version.
Note:
You should distribute the client application along with the XML schema file that is generated by the screen-based API wrapper. For details, see Screen-Based API Wrapper.