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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Manuel Rivera replied 1 week ago
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
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Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
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Error when creating a datawindow with result set from Oracle
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  1. Last updated 5 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 hours ago
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Hello, I am trying to create a datawindow based of a Stored Procedure Result set using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 build 3397, for an Oracle database using ODBC. Getting the below error in the IDE when creating the datawindow (screenshot attached). Canno...
Amit Gawane Amit Gawane
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Can I put daynamic watermark that contains the user name open PDF file (the user name is the user enter to windows)??
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 7 hours ago
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Hi all My prog used to add,retieve and search doc of my company and save imagea as PDF file for my company that has about 30 thin clients (not PC) and they have no internet connection all these thin clients are in a domain I want to protect ou...
ahmed tawfik ahmed tawfik
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Group trailer height
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  1. Last updated 10 hours ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 7 hours ago
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How can I adjust the height of group trailer dynamically in code?
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Hannu Pikkarainen Hannu Pikkarainen
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Error in opening the response type window
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  1. Last updated 9 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 hours ago
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Hi, "I'm using Powerbuilder 22 and have three response windows in my application. From the first window, I open a search window (also a response window). After the search results appear in the DataWindow, I open another response-type window. The pro...
Venumadhav Pitchika Venumadhav Pitchika
  1. PowerBuilder
Application minimizes when MessageBox is shown from Response Window opened via Non-Visual Object (PB 2019 R3 64-bit, Build 2797)
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 hours ago
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Hi Team, We are observing an intermittent minimize issue in our PowerBuilder 2019 R3 (Build 2797, 64-bit) application. Scenario We have a Non-Visual Object (NVO) that opens a response window using: OpenWithParm(lw_print, ls_parm, ...
himanshi tayal himanshi tayal
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SQL Server Varchar(MAX) fields in WHERE clauses produce an dberror
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  1. Last updated 13 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 hours ago
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Hi. We additionally want to support MS SQL Server as backend db in future. Currently SQL Anywhere is used. During migration of the database shema from SQL Anywhere to SQL Server any field previously was a long varchar was converted to a varchar(MAX...
Georg Zilly Georg Zilly
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UI Corruption After Upgrading from PB2019 to PB2025
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  1. Last updated 20 hours ago
  2.  Dim K replied 9 hours ago
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Hello,After upgrading our application from PowerBuilder 2019 to PowerBuilder 2025, we are experiencing serious UI rendering issues. Several customers have reported that the screen becomes distorted or corrupted randomly during use. Specifically, ic...
Kairos Jeong Kairos Jeong
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Web Service request gets 413 error when request is greater than 49kb.
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 9 hours ago
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Web service request returns 413 error because the size of the request is larger than 49KB using PB 2021 2022 R3. I've updated IIS using IIS configuration manager and web.config. Is there anything I need to specify either in the request header or bod...
Kevin Moore Kevin Moore
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Override Date() function
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Hans Groeneveld replied 11 hours ago
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I like to override the Date(string) function because we had in our code a lot of Date(string) calls with a Dutch format.Now we have customer in different counties with a different date format.I like to override the Date(string) function and call in m...
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  2.  Function
Hans Groeneveld Hans Groeneveld
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PowerBuilder DW Painter not listing Oracle packages/procedures despite full DEV grants
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Naveen Yendamuri replied 1 day ago
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In DataWindow Painter, packages and their procedures are not visible/selectable as data sources. We get only tables/views/some standalone procedures. Our DBA states we have full access in DEV (EXECUTE on packages, etc.). We can run the package proced...
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Naveen Yendamuri Naveen Yendamuri
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Installing PS 2022 R3 applications in Azure
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
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We are currently using PowerServer 2022 R3 and have 5 applications built and in production. We serve these applications via Azure using Cloud Service (extended support) deployment model. We have 4 instances of these cloud service running in various r...
VINOD NAIR VINOD NAIR
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Application Performance issues with PS 2022 R3
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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I'm reaching out to discuss an important issue we're experiencing post our migration from PS 2020 to PS 2022 R3. We've noticed that all our applications are running extremely slow on our office laptops compared to the PS 2020 version. Interestingly, ...
VINOD NAIR VINOD NAIR
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Rebuilding binaries from sources
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Phil Wallingford replied 1 day ago
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I have asked a similar question before, but I need a couple of points clarified.To be clear on my part: when I say "sources" I am talking about the human-readable files with extensions like .srd for data windows and .srw for window windows. Binarie...
  1.  Git
  2.  PowerBuilder
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
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Failed to load library: PBORC.DLL (PB 2019 R3) on Windows 11, preventing the product build from executing.
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Phil Wallingford replied 1 day ago
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I am facing a Failed to load library: PBORC.DLL issue while building the project using PB 2019 R3 orcascr190on Windows 11, even though the DLL exists, the PATH is correctly set, and the build is run from a 32-bit Command Prompt. Open Command Pro...
Vijay V Vijay V
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add Application to workspace -> Powerbuilder crashes
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Version: Powerbuilder 2025 Build 3711 how can I recreate this?1. Open a empty Workspace2. right click on Workspace an then click "New..."3. select Target - Application4. enter the name5. select the library .pbl6. relocate target7. click "Finish" - ...
Stefan Malkwitz Stefan Malkwitz
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PowerBuilder 2025 – Issue with adding Header/Footer to RTF documents
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Dim K replied 1 day ago
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I have some stored RTF documents that were originally saved without headers or footers.Now i want to print them with a header and footer. I tried the following three approaches: 1. Using the RichTextEdit control I attempted something like this:h...
Dim K Dim K
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SSH protocol for PB Git source control
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  John Strano replied 1 day ago
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Currently the only option to use Git in PB17 is to have git server set up for http or https. What about internal ssh accessible server? Is it going to be supported or anyone have tried to make it work through ssh?  
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Boris Krylov Boris Krylov
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C# Datawindow - The method 'Max' is undefined'
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  Piero Salandin replied 1 day ago
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Hi there.I am running into a serious problem when converting PB code into C# using datawindow objects. When assignin the DataObject in C# with a statement like this ids_cpt.DataObject = "d_castcpt_doc_gd" I run into a runtime error "The method 'Ma...
Piero Salandin Piero Salandin
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call to datawindow closes the app on debug-time
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 1 day ago
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good morning all, I am still struggling with the error of debug-time the app crashes without I get a hint where the problem is. in the line : ids_groups.dataobject = 'd_pfcsecurity_applookup' the app crashes without any error message. the...
Manuel Rivera Manuel Rivera
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PB IDE does not respond after closing the app
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 1 day ago
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PC specs CPU Intel i7-1255U (1.70 GHz) memory 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable) Win 11 Pro version 24H2 os build 26100.6584, Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.234.0 PB 2019 R3 build 2803 Run the App from PB IDE close the App PB IDE ...
Tom Mangano Tom Mangano
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