PowerServer 2017 contains the following new features:
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Supports to bring up the virtual keyboard on the mobile device at a single tap.
See the section called “of_setdwinputmode” in Workarounds & APIs Guide.
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Supports to run the Appeon mobile app or Appeon Workspace via the URL scheme technique.
See URL Scheme Name in PowerServer Toolkit User Guide.
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Supports deploying and uploading the application files to the Web server via FTPS.
See Require explicit FTP over TLS/SSL in PowerServer Toolkit User Guide.
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Supports printing data to native (high-quality editable) PDF files.
See the section called “DataWindow printing” in Supported PB Features for PowerServer Web.
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Supports activating PowerServer on Amazon Web Service and Windows Azure cloud servers.
See the section called “Product Activation” in PowerServer Configuration Guide for .NET.
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PowerServer .NET supports the auto scaling feature of the Amazon Web Service cluster.
See the section called “Special instructions for Auto Scaling in Amazon Web Service” in PowerServer Mobile Tutorials.
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Supports uploading/downloading files to/from the Appeon file server via HTTPS.
See the section called “Functions for AppeonFileService object” in Workarounds & APIs Guide.
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Supports iOS 10 & 11, and 32-bit Android 7.
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Supports MS SQL Server 2014/2016, SQL Anywhere 17, and UltraLite 17 (both 32-bit and 64-bit).
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Supports SQL Server new data type: date, datetime2, xml , datetimeoffset(7), nvarchar(MAX), varbinary(MAX), & varchar(MAX).
PowerServer 2017 also makes the following important changes:
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Removes PowerServer Toolkit from the following PowerServer editions: Developer, Workgroup, & Enterprise, so PowerServer Toolkit is available in the PowerServer (PB Edition) only.
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PowerServer Toolkit 2017 (which can be installed to PowerBuilder 2017 only) can deploy apps to PowerServer Web/Mobile 2017, or 2016, while PowerServer Web/Mobile 2017 can only host apps deployed from PowerServer Toolkit 2017 (not 2016 or earlier toolkit).
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Drops support for EAServer (as application server), Appeon Mobile Emulator, and Appeon Performance Analyzer.
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Changes the product and component name: from Appeon Server -> PowerServer, Appeon Developer -> PowerServer Toolkit, Appeon Server Web Component -> PowerServer Web Component, Appeon Help -> PowerServer Help.