Yes, the ActiveX control is required in order for an end-user to use the Web-deployed application. Alternatively, the system administrator could deploy the ActiveX manually instead of granting the user the access. We provide the ActiveX as a .MSI file so that the system administrator can deploy that the same way they deploy Windows service packs. The .msi file that would install the Appeon Xcelerator plug-in ActiveX control is included in the Appeon product. It can be found in C:inetpubwwwrootappeo...

Yes, the ActiveX control has been digitally signed by Verisign.

We can provide the ActiveX as an .MSI so you can push it out to your users the same way you push Appeon service packs. The .msi file that would install the Appeon Xcelerator plug-in ActiveX control is included in the Appeon product. It can be found in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\appeon\weblibrary_ax\support (if you are using IIS as application server)

Appeon has two ActiveX controls that must be downloaded. They are compressed as .CAB to speed up downloading. Under Internet Explorer you will see these two ActiveX by the names EonDownloadCenter and EonUISpace. Other than that, obviously there are HTML, JavaScript, and XML files just like any other Web page. Also, if the PB programmer add additional OCXs or DLLs to the application, these elements hast to be downloaded.

Do end users need Windows administrator rights to allow ActiveX? Do they also need administrator rights to download the application's elements (first deployment)? 1. If you are using IE 8 on Windows Vista or Windows 7 OS you DO NOT need Windows administrator rights. 2. If you are using Windows XP or non-IE 8 browser (for example IE 7 or IE 6) you need administrator rights to load the ActiveX. Alternatively, the system administrator could deploy the ActiveX manually instead of granting the user ...

Appeon can be deployed in public mode. But you have to be careful to warn the external users of two things: 1. They must use Internet Explorer 2. They must add the URL to the IE trusted site list 3. They must be Administrator role on Windows OS (only for Windows XP - not required for newer versions of Windows, such as Windows 7)

Appeon Web application is composed of HTML, JavaScript, XML, and ActiveX. - The ActiveX is a generic plug-in just like Flash. It is installed to the IE browser and will appear under the Manage-addons section. - The HTML, JavaScript, and XML files will be cached in the client-side either under the user profile folder or the browser temporary internet files folder. This is configurable in AEM, but by default it will be stored in the user profile folder. In Windows 7 OS, the user profile folder is l...

When a PowerBuilder application is processed through Appeon, how does Appeon determine which part of the code of the application resides on the application server and which resides in the web page? The file downloading parts are handled on Web Server side; the front PB codes are handled on Client side, and the DB related codes (such as dw, e-sql) and the NVOs are handled on Application Server.

Appeon ActiveX's size is round 5.9 MB on 32bit machine and 9.26MB on 64bit machine.

What's the average size of the downloaded items on the client machine? Appeon ActiveX's size is around 5.9 MB on 32bit machine and 9.26MB on 64bit machine. Other files (like html, JS file, dll/ocx, picture files, ini, etc.) will be downloaded to the client side, but the number and size of the these files really depend on the each application. If you want to know the size of your application once downloaded on the client machine, you can deploy it locally and run the application. You will f...

If the application that we want to migrate to web with Appeon use some local files, can they be put on the Appeon Server or do they must be send to the client side? Depends on what kind of local files we are talking about: if it is just DLL/OCX, or INI or pictures, they can be configured in the Appeon Developer as shown in the attached image, the file will be deployed to the server side and later automatically download to the client side.

When enable this functionality please be aware of the following information: * SQL file for Oracle database only works fine with Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g databases. * If a database server has multiple users, executing the SQL file under the login of one user will be effective for that user only. To make sure all users can use the DataWindow data-caching feature, you should use different logins to execute the SQL file. * When you execute the SQL for a database server, the current login user of the ...

Since the ActiveX is controlled by IE itself, Appeon cannot provide the way to silently install the MSI file. Besides the way to add the URL to the trusted sites to enable the MSI file, you can also select the appropriate zone and then click the Custom Level button to enable the following settings (they are enabled for the trusted sites by default): 1. Download signed ActiveX controls. 2. Run ActiveX controls and plug-Ins. 3. Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting. 4. Activ...

This article describes the steps the Client must follow to ensure that the issues being reported are reasonably-suspected to be Appeon Product Issues. It is important the Client carefully follows this checklist to avoid wasting precious down time and frustrated users. Appeon Technical Support will only assist with Appeon Product Issues. APPLICATION SERVER DOES NOT START This is NOT an Appeon Product Issue and is NOT covered by Technical Support. WEB BROWSER DOES NOT START This is NOT an App...

This article describes the Appeon's recommendations to ensure successful deployment of applications to a production environment. It is important the Client follows these recommendations. A problem caused by not following these recommendations will not be eligible for Technical Support. PERFORMANCE TUNING The PowerBuilder source code should be optimized to ensure high performance and high scalability. Most PowerBuilder applications exhibit some level of performance and scalability issues when run ov...

You can use appeongetclientip function to get the client IP address, or use appeongethttpinfo function to get http header information. More details please refer to the Appeon Help | Workarounds & API Guide | Appeon Workarounds PBL Reference | General API |AppeonExtFuncs object for details.

About Download Client Files (JavaScript files(*.js), *.dat and images ... ) : We have a lot of objects (over than 120 MB), can you confirm it should be downloaded to each client PC at the first time connection? Is it going to download everything? Yes it will be downloaded at the first connection. Please go to AEM > Application Properties > Client Settings > [your application] to set the default run mode to 'Run now', then only the file which is in currently running will be downloaded. But if you u...

You can do a silent installation of Appeon plug in by using a msi file. You can choose either of the three ways we describe below. Once the install is completed successfully you can get the weblibrary.dll and ceondownloadcenter.dll under the directory C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files or C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files\CONFLICT.x. #1- Use the MSI package directly to do the installs. ax_install_x32.msi /qn OPTION="-s" #2- Use ax_install.exe which is released from MSI to do the installs. ax_in...

ISSUE: The Appeon Xcelerator plug-in cannot be loaded. CAUSE ANALYSIS: This issue may be caused by improper security settings, limited login user permission or third-party software conflict. SOLUTIONS: SOLUTION 1: Add the URL of Appeon Web application to the TRUSTED SITES zone in Internet Explorer. SOLUTION 2: Adjust IE security settings. Click the TOOLS menu | INTERNET OPTIONS | SECURITY tab. Select the APPROPRIATE WEB CONTENT ZONE. Click the CUSTOM LEVEL... button. Enable the following...

PHENOMENON: If you are not the administrator, you may run into the issue which keep you from loading or installing the Appeon Xcelerator plug-in. ANALYSIS: Technically speaking, the user with the administrator right can directly load/install the Appeon Xcelerator plug-in. For the user without the administrator, you need to follow up the solution below to manually load/install the Appeon Xcelerator plug-in. SOLUTION: Step 1: Click the IE information bar at the top which is saying "This webs...

If you want to store the INI file to the client machine, please go to AEM > Application > PB Features > INI Files > [your application] and set the INI file deployment mode to 'client-side'(see attached). The content of all INI files will be stored under C:\Windows\System32\AppeonINI\[your application]\Ini.xml, so that you can directly read/write with profilestring & setprofilestring function in the application. In case you want to send back these files to the server too, we would suggest you to use the App...

Please do the following procedure to solve this problem: 1. Check and make sure the URL of the app has been added as the trusted sites. 2. Remove the add-ons and caches, and then access to the app to re-install them. 3. Turn off the Pop-up Blocker (see attached). 4. Use Run As Administrator to run IE and access to the app. Regards,

Please go to IE> Tools> Internet Options> Security, and then select the appropriate zone (Internet or Local intranet), and then click the Custom Level button to enable the following settings (they are enabled for the trusted sites by default). Finally please click OK to save the changes and close IE. * Download signed ActiveX controls * Run ActiveX controls and plug-Ins * Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting * Active scripting For more information about Configuring IE security settings for Ap...

In Appeon 2015, you don't need to have the admin right to install the Appeon ActiveX control if you are using Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Safari Web browsers. FOR IE BROWSER:  If you are using IE 8.0 or later on Windows Vista/7/2008/8/8.1, you can log into the machine with any user, because no special privilege is required to download and register the ActiveX control; If you are using IE 8.0 or later on Windows 2003, or if using IE 7.0 or earlier, you must log in as a member of the Administrator group so y...

Please go to your application folder on web server, for example: C:inetpubwwwrootsales, and modify the x32_application.htm(for 32-bit IE) and x64_application.htm(for 64-bit IE) under this folder change the title to the application name you want to. ...

If you are using Chrome 42 and you are having problems with Appeon plug-in, please take a look at the following article:Chrome 42 [http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/15/chrome-42-blocks-java-silverlight-other-plugins-by-default-now/] In case the your problem persist please close and reopen browser after successful installation of the multi-browser plug-in. Please refer to articles below to check client settings. http://www.appeon.com/support/documents/appeon_online_help/2015/installation_guide/bk01ch05s02.ht...

Appeon plug-ins is required for Appeon web application, Appeon uses the standard COM technology. Appeon for PowerBuilder contains some client-side ActiveX plug-ins. Just like other popular development software, C++ apps also use some base classes, such as MFC, ATL, etc., or other supporting files and PowerBuilder apps use PBVM, etc. Appeon Active X is similar to the PowerBuilder Virtual Machine (PBVM) except that they are implemented in JavaScript and C++, rendering UI and handling some non-database-relat...