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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 5 years ago
- Manuel Rivera 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 5 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 5 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Questions PowerBuilder 2025 R2
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Roland Smith replied 2 hours ago
Hi team,
I have two questions regarding PowerBuilder 2025 R2:
- Release Date: Is there an estimated release date for the next build? We are planning to transition to PB 2025 R2 soon.- PB Commenter (or alternative): Is PB Commenter (or a similar too...
Hello,
Due to environmental restrictions, we cannot use the installable (Evergreen) WebView2 Runtime on every machine. Therefore, we are using the WebView2 Fixed Version Runtime and have deployed the PBWebView2 folder as documented by Appeon. Howeve...
PB2019 R3 build 2803 offline installer appears to be corrupt or incomplete
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- Last updated 10 hours ago
Hi
I recently got a new work laptop and am trying to reinstall PB2019 R3 build 2803. As the PB Installer no longer includes this I have downloaded the offline installer for PB2019 R3 2670 and installed this and am now attempting to download the MR f...
Error updating table with trigger that affects rows in other tables
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi,
After migrating to 2025 R2, we have strange error in some datawindows when updating a field that triggers actions in the underlying update trigger. The trigger affects rows on other tables not included in datawindow's sql.
Database is SQL 202...
Can .NET application reuse a database connection string from a PowerServer application?
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- mike S replied 1 day ago
Hi,
We have an existing PowerServer (2025R2 Build 6430) application that already connects to the database. We are now developing a .NET API as part of the same solution and would like to avoid maintaining duplicate database connection settings.
Wha...
I remember long ago getting truncation error messages if a column size was increased but the datawindows using that column weren't changed.
We are making a column larger and I am helping QA put together the test plan.
I ran a simple test and it tru...
SQL Sort with computed field 'dec' very slow
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Michael Kaczmarczyk replied 1 day ago
HI,
a customer of us is complaining about performance issues after upgrading from an old version of our program ( PB2019R3 ) to the current version ( PB2022R2 ). We do data retrieval in our application and sort/filter on the clients side.
We coul...
PowerBuilder build takes over 5 hours
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
I updated PowerBuilder 2025 R2 to version 6464. However, when I open the solution, change it to 6464, and run the build, it takes an excessively long time. I started it at 6 PM, but the build still hadn't finished by past 11:40 PM. Previously, a full...
The latest Maintenance Release (MR) for PowerBuilder 2025 R2 is now available!
Many thanks and deep appreciation to the entire Appeon Engineering team for their efforts!
Here is a link that will display the list of (nearly 50!) bug fixes included i...
Buenos das,
Estoy necesitando acceder a una respuesta del objero httpClient, es un json y lo intento acceder mediante el objeto jsonpackage pero la app en android se cierra sin mostrar error alguno.
El codigo que utilizo es el siguiente:
string ...
Affected versions: Reproduces identically in PowerBuilder 2023 and PowerBuilder 2025 (both the IDE/painters and compiled 32-bit EXE output).
Summary: CheckBox and RadioButton controls both native window controls and CheckBox/RadioButton DataWindow ...
PB 2025 R2 (6464): Deploy produces a working EXE but zero PBDs - "Failed to link, code = -5"
- Resolved
- New
- Issue
- Last updated 5 days ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 3 days ago
I upgraded from PB 2025 (Build 3726) to PB 2025 R2 (Build 6464) and can no longerproduce a deployable build. The IDE fails at the link step and generates no PBDs atall, and PBAutoBuild fails before it even loads the target.
This blocks us completely...
Issue with SaveDisplayedDataAs (PB 2025R2)
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 days ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 4 days ago
Hi,
I had a go on the new SaveDisplayedDataAs in order to replace our custom Excel export library for exporting reports.
The issue is that in my first even test, it does not behave as it should.
dw_1.SaveDisplayedDataAs ("test.xlsx", XLSX!)
I am ...
PB 2022 R3 build 3487
In our application, there are 10 Windows that can take anywhere from 4 - 8 seconds to open.
To improve performance, is it better to declare autoinstantiated nvo's as an instance on the window, or to declare them in the code th...
Are there any automated test tools still on the market that will work with PB 2022 and higher?
Our QA team has something for our C# web app but not for the PB desktop app.
Not able to generate api endpoints put and delete when generate net data store
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
hello,
Example:
query:
SELECT consultant_master.consultant_id, consultant_master.consultant_name, consultant_master.consultant_email, consultant_master.consultant_phone, consultant_master.manager_name, consultant_master....
PB IDE Closes while creating a new project
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hello,
I'm using PB 2025 R2 build 6430 runtime 6430.
Try to create a new project
The moment you click New menu... [ from File New or Right click (none) and select New) the IDE gets closed with no messages.
In my windows 10 machine this issue is...
"Row changed between retrieve and update" -- when upgrading PB
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Our old datawindow sources say "revision 7" and the new ones (powerbuilder 2021) say "revision 21".I found another posting for this issue here (https://community.appeon.com/qna/q-a/datawindow-update-show-row-changed-between-retrieve-and-update) w...
Deploy not doing anything?
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Richard Hartman replied 1 week ago
My other project shows pbd files being built, and the exe being created:
What might be going on here?
How to stop incremental build in PB 2025 R2 to run the app from IDE
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hello,
Using PB 2025 R2 build 6430
Project is in Solution mode
More than one users are working on the same project.
Each users working on their objects (windows, datawindows, nvo's etc.)
When one user plans to run to check his development, the...
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