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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 4 months 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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How to reach other columns in itemerror
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 months ago
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Hello beautiful PowerBuilder people, When we reach itemerror, failing on some column. Can we get the values of the other columns? I've been struggling for a few days with no success getting the other columns. Thanks
Ross Wood Ross Wood
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ANSWERED: How to dynamically create a column DWOBJECT
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  1. Last updated 8 years ago
  2.  Jim Reese replied 4 months ago
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PB v12.1 Classic I have a need to create a DWOBJECT dynamically. Now, we all know that the standard method is as follows, but it requires that the column name be hardcoded.         dwobject    ldwo         ldwo = this.Object.emr_juris_ind   ...
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Olan Knight Olan Knight
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HTTP CLIENT 2025: Error 307
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hello there, i have been testing HttpClient 2025 on new PB 2025, i have been getting StatusCode 307 HttpClient_Object.GetResponseStatusCode() on my requests to http APIS. i dont have this issue in PB 2022, So its kind of strange, HttpClient_consult...
Samuel Sanchez Avila Samuel Sanchez Avila
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Supported versions of Oracle client in PB 2025
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi, While reading about the database compatibility of PB 2025, I noticed the following: Does this mean that a PB application using the 2025 runtime will not be compatible with Oracle client 12? Thank you.
Carl Bolduc Carl Bolduc
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SQLanywhere connection pooling PowerServer
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  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi, the power server documentation states the below SQL Anywhere (ODBC) 16 (16.0.0.2043 or later) or 17 If SQL Anywhere is on a different machine from PowerBuilder, make sure to enable the connection pooling setting in the ODBC driver. Connect...
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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PBDEBUG, no file is create
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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We just moved from PowerBuilder 2022 to 2025 (3711).The application is compiled but in the runtime we got some crashes.Without any messagebox. In the Windows event we see that pbvm.dll was causing the error. In that situation we use '/pbedug' to see...
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Hans Groeneveld Hans Groeneveld
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PowerServer Enhancements for Deployment
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
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We have problems with objects not downloading to some users machines. It may be related to network/internet issues, but regardless the problems do not prevent all objects at all times, it just is slow and most likely (i'm guessing here) related to ti...
mike S mike S
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powersever 2025 timeout
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi, I hope you can help I have a power server app, the user logs on, some existing data is shown in a datawindows, they click to create an advice note for todays delivery, this in turns opens a datawindow. and inserts a row, they then fill it in....
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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fails to run
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Andrew Davis replied 4 months ago
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Hi, pb2025 latest version I am having some issues getting the runtime to work on a couple of computers. 2 of which just seem to finish downloading the app launcher and then stop and do not run the application - no error message shows just does not...
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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Arrow Icons are missing in Ribbon Bar when Theme is applied
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  kitty he @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi, We are using Power Builder 2022 R3 Build 3391 RunTime 22.2.0.3391 We have implemented themes and Ribbon bar in our application we are unable to see the dropdown arrow for the Ribbon bar buttons (Large and Small buttons both) whenever the Theme...
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  2.  RibbonBar
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Sandeep D Sandeep D
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How to determine if a datawindow contains a group
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  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Im trying to determine if a datawindow contains a group at runtime. All of these scripts don't work. ls_band = dw_1.Describe("Datawindow.band.groupheader.height")ll_groups = Long(dw_1.Describe("Datawindow.Group.Count"))ls_groups = dw_1.Describe("Dat...
Robert Sawyer Robert Sawyer
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Missing expressions option for visible attribute on tabs
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 months ago
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In datawindows and most other objects, you can define an expression based on field data to set the visible or enabled attribute of the object. That option doesn't appear be the case for tabs, tab pages, and datawindows within tabs. I have included s...
Rich Gibson Rich Gibson
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PDFDocument, how to create a line/rectangle
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi PDF gurus, is there a way to create lines and rectangles via PDFDocument based functionalities? Thanks in advance, Bernhard
Bernhard Stoeter Bernhard Stoeter
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PB application crashes during writing to Excel by OLE
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi Everyone! I have a PB app (PB2022 R3) which exports reports from dw objects to excel using an OLE based module. When large reports (over 150 pages) are exported the application crashes. A partial Excel file is created in the process before PB cra...
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  2.  OLE
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Uri Netanel Uri Netanel
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Assima, WizTom, and WizData for PB applications
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 months ago
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Hello, My current client uses Assima, WizTom, and WizData for translating their applications. The Assima application apparently allows the creation of a thesaurus by extracting all the labels from the application. The WizTom application, when launc...
Bertrand Terlat Bertrand Terlat
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DataWindow/DataStore sorting algorithm
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
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Hi together, I' like to know which sorting algorithm datawindow/datastore.Sort() is based on. Thanks in advance, Bernhard
Bernhard Stoeter Bernhard Stoeter
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Pretty form of a JSON file
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 4 months ago
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I would like to show in a pretty form the contain of a JSON file. Is it foreseen to add this option on the JSON Object ?
Gaëtan Peyskens Gaëtan Peyskens
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Single line input events and other event issue.
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  William Hong replied 4 months ago
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Hi everyone, Im trying to build a search filter similar to the Ctrl + F feature in apps like Chrome I created a non-visual object that initializes data such as the DataWindow that i want to search and the parent window.Then, I export the DataWin...
Dim K Dim K
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Creating Fillable PDF and extracting data after data entry
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 4 months ago
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Hello, Currently using PB 2022 R3 with Postgresql database. There is a need 1. To create a fillable PDF, just like a Grid/Tabular datawindow.2. Distribute it. [ to send to their Email, WhatsApp, Manual transfer [eg. pendrive] ]3. Collect it [ Email...
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Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
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how to display all linked records display for each other?
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  ahmed tawfik replied 4 months ago
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Hi All I have imported letters say its numbers are (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,.....) they all in window w_imported_letter (I put these in dw_master which data source is table imported_letter(columns are imoported_no,imported_date,to_dept,subject,.......) th ...
ahmed tawfik ahmed tawfik
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