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This is a compilation of tips you can and should follow to help you get answers to your questions in the Appeon Community QA forum, based on several years of my asking, following and answering posts. Not every tip listed here is applicable to every t...
Retrieve Time Field Gets Error In SQL Server
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Gordon Weil replied 4 weeks ago
We have been deploying our PB app with SQL Anywhere and want to change to Microsoft SQL Server. We have converted our database to SQL Server. There is a Time field in our database. When we use SQL Server Native Client driver for our ODBC DSN the time...
Powerserver internal messages
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi,
While running PowerServer applications, we are encountering the error messages shown in the attached screenshots. These errors appear to be primarily related to database timeouts.
Could you please advise how we can suppress these default error ...
Hi all,
I had my PB 2025R2 Workspace working fine with Git (used to use PowerVCS in the past).
By mistake I closed the Workspace.
When I then went and selected Open Workspace, the git icons next to the objects were gone, the right click git menu o...
Why is my code skipping - can I catch it?
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- John Fauss replied 4 weeks ago
Hi! I'm running PB 2022R3 build 3397.
I've got the following code that works when running in the PB IDE, but it doesn't work with the executable.
In the IDE, importString works just fine and gives me 1 row.
In the EXE, I get the first "Info" messa...
Hi,
While disconnecting the database using `DISCONNECT USING THIS;` inside the transaction object, we are getting the following error:
PowerServer[0]Failed to commit because there is no available database connection or transaction
fail: PowerServe...
Question on shortcuts
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
We are using Appeon PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3542 and recently migrated our application from a traditional menu bar to a Ribbon Bar. We have a question about keyboard shortcut behavior.
Scenario:
A Ribbon button is assigned the keyboard shor...
Calling from .net to Power Builder when PB is down
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 month ago
Dear sirs,
The product implementing the direct calls, wrapped by events, from C# to PB, and that's works as expected, nevertheless there are tools, as .net 64 bit utility (while the PB is still 32 bit application) and another .net WEB API applicatio...
Hello,
I see the above message under Looking Ahead: Next Major Release Roadmap. Would like to make a few suggestions that I prefer to have natively in Powerbuilder. May be there a workaround for one / all of these, but in-built native controls mig...
WebBrowser + XML file
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,PowerBuilder 2022 R3 3397After a recent Windows 11 (or Edge/WebView2) update, opening an XML file with:
wb_1.Navigate("file:///C:\1.xml")
started showing a red warning banner:
"This site uses XSLT; that functionality is being removed from this ...
PB 2025 R2 (25.1.0.6464) SNC: datetime literal with 6 fractional digits breaks DataWindow update (SQLSTATE 22007)
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Hi,
After moving our application from runtime 25.0.0.3726 to 25.1.0.6464, several customer sites report "SQLSTATE = 22007 Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string" on DataWindow updates.
Environment: PowerBuilder 202...
PB Support for Datetime and Datetime2 in SQL Server
- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 month ago
Please forgive me if any of my statements below are not correct! That's one of the reasons I'm writing this post, to get informed about the current status and clear up any misconceptions on my part.
Since Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the Datetime data...
I am trying to connect to Oracle 11.2 from PB 2025 using the ORA Oracle native Driver. While connecting I am getting. I dont want to create any Catalog Tables.I can connect succesfully from PB script by setting the DB Parm setting as below
SQLCA.DBM...
PB2019 R3 build 2803 offline installer appears to be corrupt or incomplete
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Gordon Davidson replied 1 month 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...
Missing objects in deployed environment
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 month ago
PowerBuilder 22R3 3441
When I build and deploy my powerclient application I can see 139 objects in admin.pbd under the local server folder but when I look in the deployed environment only 3 objects are in the deployed admin.pbd folder.
I have tried...
Text Wrapping Issue After Upgrade to PowerBuilder 2022 R3
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
We have upgraded our application from PowerBuilder 2017 to PowerBuilder 2022 R3.
In PowerBuilder 2017, the text in the DataWindow was wrapped within the row as expected. However, after upgrading to PowerBuilder 2022 R3, the text is no longer wr...
Using AI / Claude Code with PowerBuilder 2025 R2 (Solution Mode)
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 1 month ago
Hey all,
I wanted to bring up a topic that I think deserves a real answer from Appeon: how we can use AI tools like Claude Code with PowerBuilder 2025 R2 in solution mode.
I raised this during the R2 beta, and the response at the time was a fairly ...
Issue with SaveDisplayedDataAs (PB 2025R2)
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 1 month 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 ...
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...
PBWebView2 Fixed Runtime Not Working on Services Server
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 1 month ago
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...
Getting "Unresolvable external ... when linking reference"
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hello,We are working with C# through an external C++ proxy that calls Invokefunction.On the PowerBuilder side, creating conventional PB objects works without any issues.However, when we try to create an object that was generated via Import DDL from a...
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