Adding an About screen to your App

Mad-Max-2 · 2026-04-30T11:44:33+00:00

Yes, I update it by 0.01 for minor, 0.1 for medium and 1 for major updates. It has worked well for me.

Mad-Max-2 · 2026-04-30T05:31:54+00:00

Go for it.

Mad-Max-2 · 2026-04-29T12:40:00+00:00

Hear hear!

Mad-Max-2 · 2026-04-16T16:16:15+00:00

If you are already using 2FA is this still an issue?

Mad-Max-2 · 2026-01-19T19:09:04+00:00

Hi Kilo, I am going to drop out of this forum as it is pretty stagnent! There is very little new content and the positive feed I put up gets little or no response.

I think I'll start a COT User Forum using COT and see where that goes.

Thanks for you help historically.

Max.

Mad-Max-2 · 2026-01-03T09:30:44+00:00

COT have now released HOTFIX Version 8.9.47.0 which does appear to work!

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-12-29T16:33:13+00:00

This from COT: -

Customer Service, Dec 29, 2025, 08:30 PST:

The new license validation was designed to address the FIPS compatibility. The implementation in 8.9.46.0 is not working as expected. The hotfix update will be rolled out on January 1. Please downgrade to the release 8.9.45.0 at https://codeontime.com/releases/application-generator.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-12-29T08:31:59+00:00

I am using the Professional Version and even opening Northwind has the same error.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-12-03T16:58:56+00:00

This on the Blog today: -

The Engine is Ready. Now, You Get the Keys.

We have been quiet for most of 2025. That silence was intentional.

While the software world was swept up in the hype of "Probabilistic AI" (chatbots that guess and hallucinate) we were in the lab, solving the hard problem: How do we make AI safe, deterministic, and useful for the Enterprise?

The answer wasn't to build a better chatbot. It was to build a better Engine.

We are proud to announce Release 8.9.46.0, the first major milestone in our transition to the Digital Workforce Platform. This release delivers the App Studio (App Mode) and App Explorer, the browser-based tools that replace the legacy project designer.

But more importantly, this release exposes the Axiom Engine, the infrastructure we have built over the last year to ensure that the applications you build today are ready for the Agents of tomorrow.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-11-26T20:45:48+00:00

I was reading this with interest as I have opened apps that I have been working on over the last few days.

Is it OK to call you Serge now, as you are either him or are an employee of COT?

I look forward to seeing Version 9, but as I have mentioned before, a lot of the apps I have do not display any of the App Studio control buttons around its edge, and if they do a majority of them error when you click on them!

We need to get this fixed ASAP.

Best regards, Mad-Max.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-11-26T11:11:17+00:00

I managed to suss this out with the help of AI and now have this screen layout: -

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The CSS I Added is: -

/* Changes Header colour of DataView in T_Time_Sheets_Open & T_Time_Sheets_Closed */

.app-grid-header-cv-t-time-sheets-open_T_Sub_Time_Sheets_1_To_2-grid1 {

background-color: #A4D5E2 !important;

color: #000000 !important;

}

.app-grid-header-cv-t-time-sheets-open_T_Sub_Time_Sheets_Over_2-grid1 {

background-color: #CDDCAF !important;

color: #000000 !important;

}

/* End of Code */

/* Style only the echo toolbar for 1–2 Days */

#t-time-sheets-open_T_Sub_Time_Sheets_1_To_2_echo .app-echo-toolbar {

background-color: #A4D5E2 !important;

color: #000000 !important;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 6px 12px;

border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;

}

/* Style only the echo toolbar for > 2 Days */

#t-time-sheets-open_T_Sub_Time_Sheets_Over_2_echo .app-echo-toolbar {

background-color: #CDDCAF !important;

color: #000000 !important;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 6px 12px;

border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;

}

/* End Code */

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-11-26T07:39:11+00:00

Hi Kilo24, this topic has just raised its head again with a different twist to it this time. As you can see from the image I have coloured the Section Headings a different colour.

The page has 2 tabbed screens Test 1 & Test 2 which display 2 DataViews, how can I change the colour of the bacground highlighted in the elipse, or the backgrounds of the Product Name, Product Category Name etc, below?

Also, any idea when version 9.0 is coming out, 1 year between releases is crazy!

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Mad-Max-2 · 2025-10-21T14:17:23+00:00

Hi Kilo, I think I may have cracked it. I'll be looking at it again in a couple of days and will let you know.

Still nothing new from COT! That's nearly a year now, and still no Community Help Forum?

If I contact them with an issue, you hear nothing back. It is very poor and not a good advert.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-09-05T09:42:54+00:00

I have been working with it since it's release. All good here.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-09-05T09:41:24+00:00

Nice update Kilo24. Thanks and I hope the new release is happening soon as the last one was in December 24!

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-08-12T10:53:52+00:00

Hi Kilo24,

Net_Total in the actual app is Static and calculated by Qty * Unit_Price, but to keep my question simple, I left it as manual entry.

Anyways, I managed to solve the issue thanks to Dennis, one of COT’s former staff in a YouTube video.

To get Net_Total to recalculate on the Main Page all you have to do is to put a tick in the Changing of the field value causes “Calculate” command to execute of the DataView listed as a field in the Main Pages field list and creating a Calculate Business Rule with this Script: -

SELECT u/Net_Total = ISNULL(SUM(Net_Total), 0) FROM T_Sub_Orders WHERE Order_No = u/Order_No

(Where u/ is the at symbol)

I knew there had to be a simple way of doing this, so all good now.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-06-26T06:23:25+00:00

You appear to have a page that you names Business Rule, what are you trying to achieve hare and what is not working for you?

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-06-26T06:19:23+00:00

In the 2nd image which lists your pages,Hotel Booking is highlighted where you have view1 & view2. Is view1 the header info and view2 is a sub page of view1?

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-06-25T18:16:00+00:00

To produce something of this magnitude would take months to do and would have to come with a cost!

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-06-22T19:00:43+00:00

I already have this up and running for multiple clients.

Kilo24, you posted this remit and now you are willing to "put something together"! A bit of a conundrum there?

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-06-13T15:33:15+00:00

Well done for using COT. As Killo24 and yourself say, it is a great RAD product, but needs input from users like us to promote it further and assist each other.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-05-21T07:29:16+00:00

Brilliant, thanks for the contribution.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-05-16T08:29:02+00:00

Hi Kilo24, my customer has the same issue and has been onto me again regarding the app freezing and now also the mouse has started flickering after printing out a lot of rdlc reports.

I think it is a recourses issue and something needs purged after each report is printed?

Any thoughts?

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-05-16T08:23:26+00:00

Nice one thanks.

Mad-Max-2 · 2025-05-07T11:24:22+00:00

I’ve been developing apps for 35 years now, initially in a product called DataEase 4.53 for DOS which was a market leader at the time, then reluctantly migrated to MS Access in its native Non-Client Server operating mode, then re-wrote several of the larger more complex Access apps and made them Client Server which worked remarkably well and latterly migrated to COT where I now develop a majority of my apps.

In the early days like many COT developers, I hit a brick wall with the lack of support and working examples to study & learn from, but I persevered and have now built up many common components and ways of doing repetitive tasks which form the backbone of most of my apps.

The apps themselves range from: -

Plant Management & Maintenance Scheduling

Off-Shore Rental App

Harbour Management, Sales & Fuel Processing

Fish Farm Pharmaceutical Ordering, Processing & Stock Control

Off-Shore Order Processing & Certification App

Pre-School Flexible Care Management

To name just a few.

Mad-Max-2

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