Why is the data inconsistent when ps1 files are edited here?: https://psu.domain.com/admin/settings/files

[Schittli]

Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 5.6.5

Hello,
I have a strange puzzle:

Unfortunately, as a new user, I have to combine all screenshots .
These are the titles for each Screenshot :

1. If we edit and save a file here …**
2. and then, we open the same file here** …**
3. why does the PSU Page displays outdated file data?**

I guess that PSU displays the file on this page that the PSU service is currently using to display the app.

By the way:

1. The File on the disk really has the content of screenshot #1:
   c:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository\dashboards\AD\Get-ADUser\AD\Get-ADUser.ps1
2. But PSU really displays wrong content in Screenshot #3
3. And there is no intuitive way to re-read the file-content

This situation is dangerous because you don’t realize that you are editing an outdated file.
Would a “Refresh/Reload” button be useful here?

And: When the user opens the file, couldn’t PSU check whether the file has been updated and display a warning or ask whether it should be re-read?

Thanks a lot, kind regards,
Thomas

[MS-Marox]

Hi,

if you edit files directly (under “Files” or the script itself on the server) you need to reload those informations:

The button is also found under “Files” - just hover over it and select what you changed, otherwise everything gets reloaded (which takes some time).
Just out of curiosity, why do you edit files under “Files”?

[Schittli]

Thank you very much, @MS-Marox
for your fast answer & solution!

I find it pretty strange that the “Reload configuration Files” function is on the admin panel where one realizes that one needs it:

1. For example, one has edited files directly on the disk in VS Code or restored a backup
2. Then one works in the APIs or apps-Panel and realizes that PSU has the wrong file-versions.
3. Now one cannot simply use “Reload configuration Files”, but must switch to https://psuniversal.akros.ch/admin/settings/files

In general, it would be great if PSU would check whether the disk has a different version when the user starts editing a file and ask whether ‘reload configuration files’ should be executed before editing.

(I guess that it doesn’t take much effort to perform this check, and it protects customers from strange/unexpected problems.)

I will answer the question in the next answer why I edited Files in https://psuniversal.akros.ch/admin/settings/files

Thanks a lot for your help!

Kind regards,
Thomas

[insomniacc]

I’ve come across this, I have auto refresh turned off because i don’t want my apps to recycle (not sure if this is just for the app code or scripts too) If I know I’m going to be modifying scripts outside of the PSU GUI, I have a script with Sync-PSUConfig in it, I run that whenever I need things to update in PSU.

[Schittli]

Just out of curiosity, why do you edit files under “Files”?

Hello @MS-Marox,

thank you for your question!
I have described the background to my problem in a separate topic:

Quite frustrating: Apps » Pages: Editing a page does start editing the App!

PowerShell Universal Version: 5.6.5 Hello PSU is acting very strange: When I want to edit a page file in an app, PSU starts editing the App-file (and not the Page file). I have this PSU App with 3 pages: Repository\dashboards\AD\Get-ADUser\AD\Get-ADUser.ps1 Repository\dashboards\AD\Get-ADUser\AD\pages\Home.ps1 Repository\dashboards\AD\Get-ADUser\AD\pages\p2.ps1 Repository\dashboards\AD\Get-ADUser\AD\pages\p3.ps1 Now, I try to edit page 3, p3.ps1. Here’s what happens: [image] Is this a bu…

Thanks a lot, kind regards,
Thomas

[Schittli]

@insomniacc

I’ve come across this, I have auto refresh turned off

Hello @insomniacc

Thank you very much for your answer and your proposal for your manual workaround.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the “auto refresh” option anywhere. Could you please tell me where to find it?

I much prefer working with “auto refresh” because I always want the last change I made to be active (otherwise I wouldn’t make any changes), so I don’t want to have to specify that the change should be activated

Thanks a lot, kind regards,
Thomas

[MS-Marox]

I guess @insomniacc is talking about the auto deploy functionality for apps

[insomniacc]

I don’t think it was auto deploy, maybe the terminology has changed between v4 and v5 as I cant find it in my console but there was essentially a watcher on the Repository directory that checks for file changes and then restarts the apps you have in order to update them if any changes are made, I think that this only applies to apps and not scripts though.

@Schittli - You could always create a script and schedule to run every x mins for Sync-PSUConfig

I use this command:

Sync-PSUConfiguration -Integrated -File "scripts.ps1"