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A recent post included some PowerScript code, and I thought I would pass along a tip for pasting code snippets that produces a slightly more readable result than simply pasting code into the website's text editor. The toolbar contains a button to as...
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
Why did I receive an EOL notification email (screenshot attached) regarding PowerBuilder 2021?  The Product Availability Matrix indicates that 2021 won't reach EOL until 2024.09.04. Thank, Seth...

PB 2019 R2 EOL

We understand that PowerBuilder 2019 R2 build 2353 has reached EOL. We are in the process of working with a vendor to migrate all our applications to PowerBuilder 2022 R3 but that is going to be a long process for us. In the meantime, we would like t...
We migrated our SVN server from on-premise to a server on cloud. How do you change the Workspace repository to point to the new URL? When I tried to right-click on workspace and select properties, the URL field is disabled and cannot be edited. So, I...
Hi, Please help how to pass retrieval argument to a dddw datawindow? with kind regards....
Hi Team,   How to enable authentication for Powerserver management, license, transation API's i.e. /api/Application/Add , /api/Connection/LoadOne etc Or Restrict the API access to external world   Narayana Bhat P    ...
Hi all, I am having trouble figuring out why an image from a datawindow using NativePDF to create a PDF, looks fine on my local environment but low quality when it is generated in our Citrix environment. This happens for both powerclient and non-pow...
[APPEON WEB] Inquiry about the cause of the warning message1. When running locally, no error or warning message appears. An error occurred in the attached image when distributing APPEON WEB. It is a simple SQL statement, but in APPEON WEB, if the for...
Hi Team, Is there anyway to setup the GraphQl in powerbuilder. Is there any code sample available to check the same. Please advice anyone.   Thanks Rajkumar  ...
I am having trouble logging in to Power Builder IDE. I'm getting an error message saying that this account has already logged in to Power Builder. The problem is that there is no way for me to log it out because I am using the same device that was re...
PB 2022 1900 Our application can run as a service to process print jobs.  When this service first starts up it gets a list of valid printers so when the user schedules it we only show them the printers that are setup on that machine.  All this works...
I am currently developing applications  in PB 2017. I do have PB 2019 available but have yet to migrate over. I am aware that PB 2017 & 2019 have REST support but I have not had a use case for it, until recently. I may need to leverage an API w...
How do I use a table-valued SQL function in PB? If I call it in a script I get an error message.  I then tried to create a datawindow using the function as it's data source and PB brought back a message stating I couldn't do this....
Hello, at the moment I'm a little bit confused:  If there is a typo at a field name of a SELECT statement I will get an error message. But I don't get an error message with an UPDATE or INSERT statement. Until now I was very sure that a message wou...
Hi, I have setup NSSM to invoke my PB application. The issue I am facing is that: I have written code in close query event of my window that opens up from application open event. Code in the close query will trigger the timer event and then go ahea...
Good Morning, My customer is currently working in PB2019 R2 with GIT source control. I was telling them about the features coming in version 2025, the new compiler being one of those. They would like to know if the file structure using ws_objects is...
Powerbuilder 2017 R3 is giving me a "license will expire in 30 days" warning. Powerbuilder 2019 R3 is giving me no such warning.   I'm just wondering if 2017 will continue to work after we get our new license validated. I don't see it on the down...
I am exploring the RibbonBar control. I see that in order to obtain the button's tag, I have to use functions like GetSmallButton(), GetLargeButton() etc.There is the GetItem() which also gets the item but it returns it on a powerObject variable and ...
OpenSheetWithParm when opens a sheet from a menu item,  menu item's Clicked event is not released immediately. instead  all constructors of controls in the sheet are fired next, then open event is fired, after open event the activate event is fired a...
Hi Team,   I am facing issue while opening the pb work space from snap developer, Even though i am having cloud pro license its showing attached error. I tried even opening the snap developer separate and from there i am trying to open the PowerBui...
Hello, Community! Getting error below when adding PB Workspace to SnapDevelop project: This is the info about my current PB installation (it's, indeed, CloudPro Edition): And this, SnapDevelop's info: So, what could go wrong with this? Plea...


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