We're already doing this, as a "pre-view".
Here's what we're really trying to do: In our software we have a universal printer handler, and all print jobs go through it so the end-user can select either "PDF" or to a printer. With some destructive print jobs we will only allow printing to printer for auditing purposes.
For security purposes browsers are not permitted to expose local resources so the only way that we can really provide a printing solution for these print jobs is to either print to PDF and let the PDF print to the local printers or to an HTML page and provide access to the local printers. For regular print jobs (text) the browser print works as you can access via CTRL P or using a print button on the page which gives a list of local printers. What is happening is that when we use *HTML* for those printouts that use the graphic print rather than the text we render a blank page and not a graphic printout. We can get a PDF, but the logic for "previewing" will not allow for "updating" the print job. HTML is the right choice, but not for graphics.
Do I need to implement a PDF to HTML converter for these jobs?

Hi Jane, thank you for your suggestion, but that would mean that ALL our print programs would need to be processed via the report writer. (Nearly 300 programs)

We have plain text printouts now being processed via the *HTML* file type and this is a good solution.
Our issue now is any of the graphic forms that we print, like invoices, statements etc. These forms render via PDF properly, but when directed to HTML the result is a blank web page.

Any or all suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Mike.

As always Mike, you're the King. Thank you.

We are attempting to print our standard print-outs using the file type of *HTML* and out of the box the page is being rendered, however we would like to NOT have the Page info on the top of each page. We would also like to be able to control the rendering to either portrait or landscape. One other thing we have noticed is that in the rendering, our TOP doesn't line up with the HTML page-breaks in the rendered page. Are there other properties and methods associated with this file type as there is with the *PDF*?

Tom,

It has been my experience in the past that if there is a substantial work load and many clients attaching to the "server" you will see a reduction of performance as a "workstation" (PC with Windows 11) just doesn't have the configuration (buffers, CPUs) to share the processes. I don't know how many clients you will be throwing at the server, but my suggestion is spend the extra money and get a real server with either xeons or rizen processors and use a server OS such as Windows Server 2025 as 2023 has already reached it's end of support.

Stephane,

I found it here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pvxplus.pxplus

Mike

Good afternoon list,

I am trying to add an index to a VLR file which already has the maximum alt keys of 15. I realize that I could drop one and add a new one but I would require exclusive access to the file. Is there already a function or tool which I could use to index (sort) a file temporarily (maybe a memory file) during the instance of the session?

Many Thanks in advance,

Mike Penchoff
Food Decision Software Inc

https://manual.pvxplus.com/PXPLUS/properties/query.htm

There's a plethora of info in the on-line help. This link refers specifically to the query definition property of a cell.

Cheers
 

Hi Edward,

There's a number of ways you can approach this, one is to set up a simple host and then connect to it via simple client using RDP to the server. Two is to use the Azure Virtual Desktop for each user and have the client installed on each.
My money's the AVD as you will be using Azure Active Directory and will provide extra MFA security.

Cheers

Mike

Hi Paula,

Please find a link to all data types used in SQL.
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_datatypes.asp
Typically I have used the DOUBLE def for numbers.

Mike P.

Dear list

We have Simple host running on a 2016 Windows Server and have simple client on the same server connection to the host. The number of PvxPlus licences is 26, but we are only able to connect 22 times from the same simple client and then we get following error message:
Connect Failure:
Unable to connect to host XXXXXXX;11000
Error #0 Record/filebusy
Last OS error:
The operation completed successfully.
We are connecting to the server with RDP and running the Client from the desktop.

Any or all suggestions would be appreciated.

Mike Penchoff
Food Decision Software