I know Trent you saw one instance where I was going from INT to BIGINT on a PK field and said you would look into it.

I have had a few more instances where changes would not take correctly.

On two occassions I was able to get the changes to publish by saving the package as a seperate step, closing and reopening DDT, then publishing.

On a few other occasions I had to undo my changes, or in one instance when I tried to remove the PK field (experiment) without first deleting the index referencing it I had to pretty much rebuilt the table.

Once you got me going with the framework, I sailed through all the tutorials and an sold on the value of the framework. The reliability of the DDT concerns me, please let me know if i am doing somthing procedurally wrong to cause these update issues.

Keith Chisarik

So..... what is the procedure to update table structures, deploy them to the databsse with existing data, and merge those changes into existing BO's without losing anything (custom properties, etc)?

Thanks.

Keith Chisarik