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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...
Hi All, All on a sudden my powerbuilder became very slow for development. Since yesterday it worked fine on my same workstation. I am using powebuilder 2017 R3 build #1858 on windows 10. The CPU usage is more than 35% and I have to wait for a long t...
I hope someone can help I need to store the return from my GET statement into a database table This is the format of the return, what method would you recommend. I am currently using 2019 but can easily move to 2021 if the new features help. regar...
Hi team,   we are using powerbuilder 2019R3 version and we are migrating from sybase to mssql.  In which after connecting to sql server we did add sql server in db profile. ;Autocommit defaults to false if no entry here - can be overridden in use...
This is a two parter. Part 1: If NativePDF is the default at the application or DataWindow level, will choosing PDF from the SaveAs function use NativePDF or Ghostscript? If not, I think it should. Part 2: I think that a bunch of the choices on t...
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows how to make PDF files generated by the datawindow SaveAs() method smaller. The following are the settings I'm using: idw_to_save.Object.DataWindow.Export.PDF.NativePDF.UsePrintSpec = 'Yes' idw_to_save.Object....
How do you copy texts from multiple columns in Excel to a datawindow with multiple columns?...
Hi Team,   few our customers are facing an issue related to application crashing. The application is crashing when MModal(a Third party dictation tool) in the same system. The below is the error details details captured from event viewer. I had con...
if a licensed user creates a report what licensing is required for a general user to run   does it need to be saved in the executable package how does the database connection work within an executable? for sql they are in a role...
Working on a POC for a client.  It works on localhost, but when we deploy to a remote MS Server 2019 w IIS, we are getting a session create error.  Followed the instructions in the documentation and we're able to deploy from PB 2021.  The site looks ...
Hi Team,  Good Day!   I am using PB 2017 R3 version and I am trying to connect the Source control as GitHUB. I could able to create the local repository, but I couldn't able to configure my Remote repository URL in PB (while doing the action Push/...
What version of PowerBuilder supports Windows 11?...
We are progressing with our POC and hit an issue with an Oracle RPC call. This issue occurs in the initial screen of our main application processing and this is stalling our POC progression. When we call this particular RPC, we are getting an error ...
Hi. We had an old powerserver (Appeon for Powerbuilder v.2015) installed in a client. They had an web application running. Recently we decided to upgrade to PowerServer 2020. Everything went ok. We then redeployed the application using Powerbuilder...
Hi I use the theme and have all objects customized with it. Now I have a Datawindow object dw_cust in the Windows w_customer. Here the datawindow should not be customized with the theme. How can I set this in the JSON file? How can I exclude object...
Hi, I have an application in android 10 and when I need to send a mail with an attach works great, but I have the same application in android 11 and when i want to send a mail with an attach there is an error because gmail application have not access...
I have a radio button column in a DW with 3 options. I'd like to add a tooltip that explained each option as you hovered over it, but as far as I can tell there is only one tooltip for the entire column. Explaining all 3 options in one tooltip would ...
We are currently trying to convert all of our code from Sybase to SQL Server database (v19) using MSOLEDBSQL SQL Server database driver v18.5   Our latest critical issue is a datawindow update that is returning a -3 from a datawindow update. We tr...
I am following the PB Tutortials for PB 2017. I am having a problem running the applications cause it does not have the database for the examples. I do not want to use the SQL Anywhere and would like to get the scripts to create the tables and suppor...
SQL Developer can connect successfully but there's an issue in PowerBuilder database profile setup - Oracle 10g when I tried to connect. Appreciate any advise on how to resolve the Oracle error ORA-12170: TNS:Connect timeout occurred?  tnsnames.ora...
Hello,     We had a older version of PB code , Recently we compiled the code in  Appeon version 2019 R3 and deployed the newer version to the production servers.      we are facing very poor performance with our scanning process. Its takes approxim...


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