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Resolved PowerClient - preserve case in deployed application name?

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  1. Ronnie Po
    Ronnie Po
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  3. Saturday, 20 March 2021 00:27 AM UTC

When setting up a project for a PowerClient deployment, there are options to create a desktop shortcut and a Start menu shortcut.

If you choose those options, the shortcuts always end up with all lowercase letters, so that, for example, if your app is named PowerBuilder, the shortcuts show up as "powerbuilder."

Is anyone aware of a setting, or a hack or workaround to preserve the case of the project's app name?

It may be possible to manually script your own shortcuts in the PowerClient preload event, but I'm hoping there's a simpler solution...

 

PowerClient App name:

 

Deployed desktop shortcut:

Deployed Start menu shortcut:

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Saturday, 20 March 2021 00:52 AM UTC
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Hi Ronnie,

This seems like a bug because in the documentation it doesn't mention such limitation.  Please open a support ticket.

Thanks,
Armeen

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Ronnie Po
  1. Ronnie Po
  2. Saturday, 20 March 2021 04:43 AM UTC
Hi Armeen,



That's what I was thinking, too. I've reported the issue as a bug.



Thanks...
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Andreas Mykonios
Andreas Mykonios Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 22 March 2021 12:53 PM UTC
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Hi.

Actually, I believe this isn't the exact way it works. If in the given url you use Capital letters, they are preserved. Example: http://<myserver>/DemoApp2019 will create desktop shortcut and menu shortcut preserving the casing as it is in the url. So it will be DemoApp2019. If your url was http://<myserver>/DEMOAPP2019 then desktop shortcut and menu shortcut should be DEMOAPP2019. I found that while experimenting with linux & apache.

Of course, it would be nice if it was doing whet you showed, preserved the appname from powerclient project.

Andreas.

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Ronnie Po
  1. Ronnie Po
  2. Monday, 22 March 2021 17:49 PM UTC
Hi Andreas,



Good catch! That's even more strange. As a weak workaround, we can try to force users to click a link rather than enter the URL in the browser. Of course, wary users are suspicious of clicking links and will always type the URL instead...
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