It’s frustrating enough that we must run the client to trigger auto-updater nearly everytime we go into DMT but with Power Tools not auto-updating, sysconfig issues, overwriting versions (don’t forget to put pilot in a different dir than live) it’s so much worse.
Do we really need a full client update every minor version? Can we do better version mismatch tracking now that the intent is to release every month?
How is anyone supposed to setup DMT to run scripts reliably unattended for more than a week or so? How are even power users expected to manage all this?
I understand PowerTools is supposed to have an auto-update feature in 2026.1.
Are we really waiting for the local client to get dropped before this thing works?
Sorry, I don’t have answers to your questions here. I tried power tools in 25.1 but been holding on tight to Classic for as long as possible. Hopefully the Power Tools in 26.1 will be solid.
Go to menu maintenance and change the report style menu form to use to classic. Not user choice or kinetic.
The issue stems from this being set to kinetic or user choice and therefore it attempting to launch the kinetic version of report style in the power tools client which doesn’t have the required files.
Changing it to classic still allows you to open it in kinetic in the browser but also allows power tools to continue to work in 25.2.
I know what it does but months after PT release it doesn’t work. Further, it’s not likely to have a future yet there’s no known future direction on email reports workflows.
It works fine, just launch classic report style from your regular menu. No need to go through power tools when they haven’t taken the client away yet. Yes it is likely to have a future, Epicor has not made any indication its going away and there is no comparable functionality in any other partner product.
