The NovoMotion deployment package includes a process to enable and disable triggers. This process is executed in the U2 environment and is called NOVO.E.T

It's sequence is as follows:

NOVO.E.T filename or ALL; UPDATE or DELETE; and ENABLE or DISABLE

• Filename is the file to be acted upon.

• Either UPDATE or DELETE can be specified - both can be specified if needed.

Example: NOVO.E.T IM UPDATE DELETE ENABLE

• Either ENABLE or DISABLE can be executed.

• Versions of NovoMotion before 4.0 allow the additional keyword AFTER to be used to change the execution order of the existing trigger in conjunction with the new NovoMotion trigger. At release 4.0 and beyond, the AFTER keyword is the default syntax and is no longer allowed.

If the AFTER keyword is used or if the NovoMotion version is 4.0 or greater, the order is

1. request the write of data to a file
2. execute the Manage 2000 trigger
3. execute the NovoMotion trigger
4. write the base file record to disk.

THIS IS USEFUL IF THE MANAGE 2000 TRIGGER IS CHANGING DATA ON THE BASE FILE THAT SHOULD BE RESPECTED BY THE NOVOMOTION TRIGGER.

Prior to NovoMotion version 4.0 and with no AFTER keyword, the order is

1. request the write of data to a file
2. execute the NovoMotion trigger
3. execute the Manage 2000 trigger
4. write the base file record to disk.

Here is an example where the update trigger was enabled on the PT file:

:NOVO.E.T PT UPDATE ENABLE 
            
  Verify current trigger status...          
  Create Update Trigger...                  
  :LIST.TRIGGER PT                          
  BEFORE UPDATE TRIGGER: NOVO.UPDATE.TRIGGER
 BEFORE DELETE TRIGGER: not defined

If a trigger already exists on the file being enabled, the user is asked to specify if the new trigger should replace the existing trigger. Users can choose to enable at their discretion. Here is what one would see:

:NOVO.E.T WC ENABLE UPDATE DELETE
                                        
  Verify current trigger status...                                         
  This file already has an UPDATE trigger defined: GLOBAL.UPDATE.TRIGGER   
  Replace it? ?N                                                           
  ... UPDATE trigger will not be replaced.                                 
  This file already has an DELETE trigger defined: GLOBAL.DELETE.TRIGGER   
  Replace it? ?N                                                           
 ... DELETE trigger will not be replaced.

If you checked the trigger, here is what one would see:

:LIST.TRIGGER WC                                                      
  BEFORE UPDATE TRIGGER: GLOBAL.UPDATE.TRIGGER                          
 BEFORE DELETE TRIGGER: GLOBAL.DELETE.TRIGGER 

Now - if one enabled the trigger and accepted the overwrite:

:NOVO.E.T WC ENABLE UPDATE DELETE 
                 
  Verify current trigger status...                                      
  This file already has an UPDATE trigger defined: GLOBAL.UPDATE.TRIGGER
  Replace it? ?Y                                                        
  This file already has an DELETE trigger defined: GLOBAL.DELETE.TRIGGER
  Replace it? ?Y                                                        
  Create Update Trigger...                                              
 Create Delete Trigger... 

And again - here is what one would see:

:LIST.TRIGGER WC                                                      
  BEFORE UPDATE TRIGGER: NOVO.UPDATE.TRIGGER                            
 BEFORE DELETE TRIGGER: NOVO.DELETE.TRIGGER

If the user DOES enable the NovoMotion trigger and an existing trigger is there, the NovoMotion trigger will execute the existing trigger code before it executes itself.

NOTE: There is also a global RECOMPILE keyword that is only used when new versions of the software are installed. Its syntax is:

:NOVO.E.T RECOMPILE

Additional Usage Notes: If a U2 file is about to be purged yet the user wishes to retain the data in the related SQL table - even though a U2 DELETE trigger exists, the user would DISABLE the DELETE trigger for the file, purge the file and then ENABLE the trigger.