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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 11 months ago
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...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Hi, I'm having an issue opening the .pbl file in InfoMaker, the Datasource icon is grayed out
What could be the issue?
PowerBuilder IDE Crashing randomly on open or close of window
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 hours ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3397Windows 10 Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045, 4651)I have a contract that I'm deep in the middle of that is for a state federal organization that unfortunately can't release the code to Appeon to look for this bug. Either wa...
PowerServer Console APIs - where are they?
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- How-to
- Last updated 16 hours ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 hours ago
Hi! I'm using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3397.
We created a Cache database that stores all of our connection, application and transaction information. I got the PowerServer Console from CodeXchange and got that running so that we can monitor and con...
Zebra printer label printing through Powerbuilder 9/ windows 7
- How-to
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Shenn Sellers replied 13 hours ago
Hello,
Can someone help me print label through Powerbuilder code?
We are switching from Dymo to Zebra printer on Powerbuilder 9/ Windows 7 platform and I have no idea how to start.
Do I need to learn ZPL language, how do I send text string to the ...
PB2022 - Using Inspect Tool for MSAA and UI Automation Modes
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 14 hours ago
Hello All,In our PB2022 application, we are using 'Inspect' Accessible tool for Test Automation functions.From the documentation, it says with Microsoft UI Automation technology, the UI elements of the PB control can be accessible using various tools...
PB2025 IDE with Postgres 17
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 15 hours ago
Just switching over to PB2025 after 20+ years of coding with PB6.0 using dBase files. I thought it would be good to get in the 2000's
I have successfully converted a few dBase files to Postgres 17 and pbls to PB2025 and they work well, but I'm havin...
Basic Authentication for Web API
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 16 hours ago
Hello,
We are having some questions about security for the basic authentication to secure the web apis while using powerserver. We are leveraging a multi instance and multidatabase environment that would be extremely unwieldy when you are talking ...
Editing test data in the Powerbuilder IDE
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- New
- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Rich Gibson replied 18 hours ago
This is pretty basic but how do you allow data editing in the database painter in the IDE. I have created a test table in the IDE using Postgres DB but I don't seem to be able to add records in the database painter. The "Insert Row" button is grayed ...
.NET DLL importer issue
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 23 hours ago
Hello, i've successfully imported a .NET DLL with the .NET DLL Importer Tool inside powerbuilder IDE.Successfully deployed and compiled and everything working as expected on my machine. Even on other two windows 11 machines working great.
In some ot...
Good Practice using Git with PB2022 R3
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
After reading the PowerBuilder documentation on adding the source code to a Gitlab repository, I wanted to know if it is good or bad practice to add the workspace and target to the repository. I will be one of many users who will work with this code ...
Browser Control Popping up Downloads Window when Navigating a File
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 1 day ago
PB 2025
My application has a Documents tab which utilizes the WebBrowser Control to show files using the Navigate() command. I recently converted to PB 2025 from PB 2022 and have noticed an oddity I cannot seem to fix. When the user clicks on a row ...
Starting powerserver application using URL with commandline parms?
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
In my PowerServer application we send emails to users that have been assigned task. In the email I would like to have a link on it that will allow the user to click on and open the PS application and open the task. I'm not really sure how to complete...
PB 2025 Beta to Power Server migration Error
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi,
We are currently using Power Builder 2022 R3 Classic Application.
Planning to modernize our application for cloud deployment, in order to achieve we have tried following steps,1. Migrated Power Builder 2022 R3 Classic Application to PB 2025 Bet...
Performance issue when PB2022 application is started on a VM
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
I'm using PB2022 R3. The application I built works smoothly with one strange exception:
When I click on a datawindow in a sheet within a mdi frame, the application hangs for 20 seconds up to two minutes showing "not responding". After this period th...
Not working: DisableBind=0 in combination with Identity='SCOPE_IDENTITY()'
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Erwin Anema replied 1 day ago
Hi all,
Context: PowerBuilder 2022R3 Build 3356. MSOLEDBSQL connecting against SQL Server.
I ran into the issue of using DisableBind=0 in combination with Identity='SCOPE_IDENTITY()'.When the application performs an insert, the executed SCOPE_IDENT...
I have a DW where I can perform a maximum zoom of 330%, if the zoom is performed on the centre of the DW or on the left area of the DW it works perfectly.
To do this, the centre is calculated before and after the zoom and then the scroll bar is posi...
Datawindow update properties trashed when Select from view is modified
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- Misc
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hi
Our standard practice is to use views in datawindows for retrieval. This avoids putting complex SQL in datawindows. It also allows to change the view behind the scenes if we decide to use different tables in the view.
We have to specify the u...
Why save as xlsx cannot work for PB2022 on WIN2016 server
- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days ago
Dear Appeon:
We tried the Powerbuilder 2022 R3, and try to use the datawindow saveas function to save data into excel file. we noticed that xlsx format are also supported in the PB2022, but unfortunately, the compiled application works well ...
@col use in a datawindow expression
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- How-to
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days ago
Hello,
I was watching an article about @col expression.
Is it possible to use @col, to get the number or name of the column in a datawindow expression?
I was making some tests with describe in with no success.
Thanks and regards...
Obfuscation of the various method names, variable names, code
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days ago
Hi Appeon, Existing code which generated Binary executables using PB 2022 R3 can be disassembled or decompiled using freely available tools, we understood a malicious user can understand the application logic.
Is there any method or process availabl...
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