As of Version 7 Release 7.02, a new session of Power Painter retains the chart type selection from the previous session. The workaround is to manually select the desired chart type.

Reporting Objects containing a Where component that use a parameter cannot be opened with Power Painter. A warning message is issued when attempting to open such a Reporting Object.

The Conditional Styling property for fields in reports and graphs is not displayed if properties are sorted alphabetically. Change the sort to view properties with groupings to see the Conditional Styling property displayed.

When creating or editing a Power Painter document, changing the theme of the Power Painter environment may cause the browser to shut down. This is a Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 issue introduced with security update 918899, and is available in the most current cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 6.0. The fix for this issue was first included in security update 922760, issued November 2006.

The IE browser shut down problem can occur anytime and is known to occur if you create or edit a report, select to change the theme, select the report in the canvas, and open the query panel.

To verify what security updates (hotfixes) are installed on your XP machine, open the Control Panel, run the Add or Remove Programs tool, select the Show Updates option in the top part of the tool, and the hotfixes installed are displayed under the section titled Windows XP – Software Updates.

Note: In Internet Explorer 7 and 8, this issue does not occur.

When a large file (with 2000 fields) is opened in Power Painter (or Advanced Graph Assistant), the following JavaScript looping message is generated:

A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort script?

If you select No, you can successfully proceed and continue working without experiencing any issues related to this warning message.

Power Painter and Advanced Graph Assistant do not work with Sun ONE Application Server 7, but may work with Sun ONE Application Server 8.2 if you disable the security manager. Although Sun ONE enables the security manager by default, development environments, and authorization and authentication features, work well with the security manager disabled. To disable the security manager in Sun ONE, on the JVM Options page, remove the following option: -Djava.security.policy.

Not all fields and objects with drill downs display as underlined text. This is a display issue only, and the drill down on the field and/or object still works.

A Power Painter report containing a graph does not run successfully when WebFOCUS is installed and configured with ISS and the Tomcat plug-in and the graph request utilizes GRAPHSERVURL to create the graph. The problem does not occur when using JSCOM3 instead of GRAPHSERVURL to create the graph. GRAPHSERVURL will successfully create the graph when WebFOCUS is installed and configured with a Tomcat standalone configuration.

When using the Oracle 10g Application Server, Power Painter and Advanced Graph Assistant hang when trying to open the application.

Power Painter is not fully functional when accessed from an SAP application server. Graphs can be created successfully, but the following message is returned when creating reports:

Failed to Retrieve Query Tree